See how fortune deludes us, and that which we put carefully into her hands, she either breaks or lets it fall from her hands, or causes it to be removed by the violence of another, or suffocates and poisons, or taints with suspicion, fear and jealousy to the great hurt and ruin of the possessor.
My duty is to make probable the improbable. If I tell you how I did it, I will ruin your experience.
Reality continues to ruin my life.
You can’t play a backbeat in Black Sabbath. You can if you want to; it’s going to ruin the song.
Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.
I have a pretty good track record of what I put my name on, so I don’t want to ruin that.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.
My films have a lot of historical context; I’m a huge fan of ruins. You see a lot of ruin work in my movies, I like ruins.
We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward. Extreme party action, if continued in such a time, would ruin the party. Moderation is its only chance. The party out of power gains by all partisan conduct of those in power.
I will not let anyone dig up and ruin the peace of Chandigarh to facilitate movement of people from Mohali and Panchkula.
Guys like Rogan literally want to ruin my career. That’s unbelievably cruel and hurtful, and I never want to be that guy.
What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another.
I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I give you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your fate.
Religion is a very scary thing, because a pastor is in a position of power. And if you use that power badly, you ruin people’s lives, and you ruin your own life.
I am a bit of a lad but don’t tell: it will ruin my image!
We have made drugs an Olympic event. It receives most of the coverage at the Games and even the suspicion of guilt can ruin a reputation for life.
There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.
You need to control the country, and the main thing is not to ruin people’s lives.
I had this project called ‘Ruin’ in my head for six years or so. This really big, really ambitious sci-fi thing. It’s kind of my ‘Star Wars’. I’m trying to achieve what ‘Star Wars’ did for me as a kid.
Imagine a society in which there were neither rich nor poor. What evils, afflictions, sorrows, disorders, catastrophes, disasters, tribulations, misfortunes, agonies, calamities, despair, desolation and ruin would be unknown to man!
I think Ruin and Rising’ is the best written of the three and the most structurally sound, but each book means something different to me.
He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome.
My buddy David Wells is a big motorcycle guy, so when I go visit him in San Diego, he takes me out on his bike. He’s got some antique Indians. I never really rode during my career, because I was afraid I’d fall off and ruin my career.
In spring they lie flat at the first warmth, they ruin my summer and in autumn they smell of women.
Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch.
Obama has created a new world where countries ignore the U.S. without consequence. It’s so bad that Saudi Arabia doesn’t even want to serve on the Security Council with the U.S. because it might ruin their reputation.
There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.
Some people thrive under pressure, but pressure can also ruin your performance, it can push you down angles which you don’t want to go.
The slightest thing can ruin a scene, but you must be willing to take chances.
You show up at high school, there’s all these kids you don’t know, and you’re terrified that people will have some kind of wrong or unpleasant impression of you. You just don’t want anything to ruin your public persona, because you actually have a public persona in high school.
I have suffered my self to be politically sacrificed to save my country from ruin and disgrace and if I am never a gain elected I will have the gratification to know that I have done my duty.
As a leader, you need to care deeply, deeply about your people while not worrying or really even caring about what they think about you. Managing by trying to be liked is the path to ruin.
When elected officials abandon our environment and ruin our natural resources, public health is endangered. I know the importance of providing a clean environment for our children; I have attended more than one funeral for a child who has died from an asthma attack.
I have been in auditions where – because – you’re always scared before, but if you let that scared feeling get the better of you or become too much, it could ruin your audition.
In the Championship you do take tackles where you think, ‘OK, he is putting one on me to prove a point.’ They want to try and get in your head, ruin your performance. It doesn’t bother me.
You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.
Big money is not a good thing for a little soul: it will only ensnare his feet, and he will fall to his ruin. Wealth is safe only for those who have a wealth of wisdom.
People want me to say that I’m sick of playing Leia and that it ruined my life. If my life was that easy to ruin, it deserved to be ruined.
The best way to ruin a comedy is to throw a lot of money at it.
Foreign-language books are sometimes more beautiful when you can’t tell what’s being said. It’s like you ruin it by reading.
I used to work at Cafe Mogador in the East Village. I love Mogador, but I feel like working almost anywhere will kind of ruin it for you. There was a lot of panicking while being a waitress there. I don’t like to think about that. But I love the food.
It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.
People that have integrity violations should be fired, not coached. How many integrity violations does it take to ruin the reputation of your company? Just one. You don’t coach integrity violations. You fire them.
It goes to establish a just and permanent principle of trade which puts an end to all serious fluctuations in prices and consequently, to all the insecurity and ruin which these fluctuations produce; and to build up those who are already ruined.
Higher taxes is the road to ruin. We must and we will shrink our government, and that means making some tough choices, tightening our belts.
I would ruin my credibility if I put my stamp of approval of anything I didn’t do my due diligence on.
That friend a great man’s ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.
There is dissatisfaction in all of us. Some of us take out that dissatisfaction by attempting to ruin whatever you are attempting to do. This is a fact of life.
Industry entirely left to itself, would soon fall to ruin, and a nation letting everything alone would commit suicide.
Millions of Americans have bad credit because of mistakes from credit agencies, and it can ruin lives, stopping people from getting a job or owning a home or car.
Furthermore, the slaves cannot be put into a more wretched situation, ourselves being judges, and the community cannot take a more lively step to escape ruin, and obtain the smiles and protection of Heaven.
Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.
The heroes of our youth grow old – ‘the boys of summer in their ruin’, in Dylan Thomas’s verse – yet we seem the same.
I was very afraid of failure because if you fail at something you love, then you ruin what you love.
It happens to people. People ruin things they love! I’m sure the guy who played Jar Jar Binks loved ‘Star Wars.’
I always wanted to do a very fun, adventurous kind of car chase, and the opening of ‘Ruin’ is essentially like the ‘Star Wars’ trench run.
Any ICO going forward that doesn’t use a ‘Ticketmaster-style’ queueing engine is clearly trying to ruin the ecosystem.
You have undertaken to cheat me. I won’t sue you, for the law is too slow. I’ll ruin you.
There’s no possibility that foresight work will ruin my creativity. It goes to a different area than the creative wellspring of SF.
We always talk about how the first several seasons were faithful to the books, and anybody who wanted to could go onto Wikipedia and learn Ned Stark gets beheaded or about The Red Wedding, and most people don’t want to know – because why ruin a story?
My philosophy, don’t let cancer ruin your life. You get up every day and use what you have and what time you have left.
