There Is A Lot Of Ruin In A Nation Quote Quotes

There is a great deal of ruin in a nation. ~ Adam Smith

I'll ruin everything if you touch me. I'll ruin us. I'll ruin this. I'll ruin you, just like you said. I'll ruin you and I'll ruin your life. And I love you too much to ruin you. So I'm leaving. ~ J.A. Huss

We all stood in the vast theater of ancient Ephesus ... and had our picture taken. ... We add what dignity we can to a stately ruin with our green umbrellas and jackasses, but it is little," Mark Twain reported with his habitual humor. ~ Sabine Arque

I know it's a lot. But she can handle it. I'd rather ruin her with the truth than ruin her with lies. ~ Maria Semple

I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes. ~ Maynard James Keenan

China cannot pull in the best and brightest from all over the world. It's an ethnically defined nation, the opposite of an immigrant nation. You don't see a lot of American engineers trying to be Chinese citizens. ~ Amy Chua

You were born to win. ~ Troy Clark

Serial killers ruin families,' shrugged Bob. 'Corporate and political and religious psychopaths ruin economies. They ruin societies. ~ Jon Ronson

Blind patriotism on the part of its leaders and citizens, far from leading a nation to greatness, will only bring ruin, disgrace and misery to the nation and its people. Self-delusion isn't complementary to greatness. A nation will be great only if it has the courage to face up to its own shortcomings, and not be blind to its own wrongdoings, failings, mistakes, imperfections and impurities. ~ Keat Peng Goh

You can tell a lot about the intellectual and moral progress of a nation's citizens, by the quality and nature of the films they watch. ~ Abhijit Naskar

Failure starts a future success, if you become better. ~ Troy Clark

Without a belief in my programme and without an acceptance of my condition, you will ruin me, ruin yourselves and ruin the cause. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Pride is a great energizer for me. --Titus Ray, Chapter 1. ~ Luana Ehrlich

Every big dream begins with a little nap. ~ Yohann Dafeu

... and they limp and halt, they're all wrinkled, drawn, they squint to the side, can't look you in the eyes, and always bent on duty, trudging after Ruin, maddening, blinding Ruin. But Ruin is strong and swift - She outstrips them all by far, stealing a march, leaping over the whole wide earth to bring mankind to grief. ~ Homer

The pursuit of goodness leads to greatness, but the pursuit of greatness, whether by a man or a nation, leads to ruin…. [G]ood men build; great men destroy. They destroy because they try to control something other than themselves and that always leads to destruction. ~ John Kramer

Of Ruin and Renewal


We are souls
Of ruin and renewal
Sorting through the rubble
Of our painful past.

We are souls
Of ruin and renewal
Waiting for the dust
To settle at last

We are souls
Of ruin and renewal
Searching for eyes that see us
And walk through the debris

We are souls
Of ruin and renewal,
We rebuild, we revive,
We repurpose our own story. ~ Liz Newman

If you want success, then be your own success story. ~ Steven Cuoco

Some people will ruin a movie for you if they enthuse too much. ~ Jim Rash

I'm unfinished business and business hours are over ~ Renee Ruin

You are ruin and chaos to them, but you are lovely to my eye.'
'You're brave or daft, then,' she said, quite rightly. 'Chaos and ruin. Where does that leave me, then? ~ Madeleine Roux

Initially all he dreamed and wished for, eventually it became his bitter lot. Those who live for power are destroyed by power, those who live for money by money; service is the ruin of the servile, pleasure the ruin of the pleasure-seeker. ~ Hermann Hesse

There's a lot of America that's Christian. I would not describe us, though, on the whole, as a Christian nation. ~ John Edwards

Do not have so much fear of this world that it will ruin the next incarnation. ~ Dada Bhagwan

I'm dancing on land mines across your chest.
Hoping high hopes I'll trigger some ~ Renee Ruin

Your Majesty," he whispers, breathless. A note of amusement creeps into his voice. "You'll ruin me. ~ Marie Lu

We waste an awful lot of energy as a Nation through inefficient use of energy. ~ Chris Van Hollen

Nothing in the world matters if you don't matter. ~ Steven Cuoco

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So a failed movie is not going to ruin my career. ~ Vincent D'Onofrio

No nation can truly develop unless fanaticism, primitive superstitions and metaphysical non-sense are eradicated. ~ Abhijit Naskar

Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin. ~ Tacitus

You are beyond the sky; so go there. ~ Steven Cuoco

Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies. ~ S.E. Hinton

When it comes to cyber conflicts between, say, America and China or even a Middle Eastern nation, an African nation, a Latin American nation, a European nation, we have more to lose. ~ Edward Snowden

Every nation's greatest chance comes from the fact that no nation is completely composed of fools ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

We are fast approaching that moment prophesied by Joseph Smith when he said: 'Even this nation will be on the very verge of crumbling to pieces and tumbling to the ground, and when the Constitution is upon the brink of ruin, this people will be on the staff upon which the nation shall lean, and they shall bear the Constitution away from the verge of destruction. ~ Ezra Taft Benson

If you want to conquer the stress,anger and illusion of life, live in the moment, enjoy your breathing, count your blessings. ~ Bhimsen Sapkota

Intuitive knowing can be described as an openness to flashes of insight ~ Laurie Nadel

Industry entirely left to itself, would soon fall to ruin, and a nation letting everything alone would commit suicide. ~ Friedrich List

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities. ~ Theodore Roosevelt

You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense. ~ Aeschylus

With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Confusion worse confounded. ~ John Milton

It takes a lot to laugh, it takes a train to cry ~ Bob Dylan

Someday was the thing he had, because it was a lot harder to ruin than today. ~ Ann Brashares

I don't want to bother them and ruin the party they are preparing so carefully at La Scala. ~ Riccardo Muti

When you had the dream, it looked big. So why quit when it's still small? ~ Emem Uko

Every day is precious as none of us knows when or where our journey will end. ~ Ken Poirot

Coming up with a useful, meaningful quote is getting more and more challenging each day....and you can quote me on that. ~ Bobby Darnell

i want to rip out my heart before you get to it first. ~ Christina Strigas

Satisfaction is ending each day knowing you were kind, honest and treated people well. ~ Karon Waddell

If a nation succeeds in making her people strong in virtues, then the nation is rich already. ~ Sunday Adelaja

When you use your imagination, it is a bit like putting on night-vision goggles to see forms in the shadows of your head, heart, and spirit. ~ Deborah Sandella

Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch. ~ Jon Stewart

You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor. ~ Bill Nighy

The more a customer buys INTO you; the more a customer will buy FROM you. ~ Troy Clark

He is our man's-man of literature. ~ Andrew Barger

You are poison," I tell her. "You're going to ruin me." "So, let me ruin you," she whispers. "It's the only way. ~ A. Zavarelli

No nation ever yet found any inconvenience from too close an inspection into the conduct of its officers, but many have been brought to ruin and reduced to slavery by suffering gradual impositions and abuses. ~ Edward Livingston

People rely on Wikipedia, and a lot of it is wrong. But because there it is on the Internet, they assume it's right. Rumor gets printed as fact. We may have lost our critical facility as a nation. ~ Ben Mezrich

I don't believe America will justifiably make an unprovoked attack on another nation. It would not be consistent with what we have been as a nation or what we should be as a nation. ~ Dick Armey

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. ~ John Adams

Instinct is our guide; a guide that leads to ruin. ~ Raymond Radiguet

I ruin every fucking thing I touch, Aly, and I refuse to ruin you. ~ A.L. Jackson

I have had some bad things happen, but then a lot of a lot of wonderful things happened to me too. An awful thing happened to you...but you mustn't let it ruin the happiness that lies ahead for you, dear. ~ Lynda Cohen Loigman

I think of you, therefore I exist. ~ Ljupka Cvetanova

I once had a leather jacket that got ruined in the rain. Why does moisture ruin leather? Aren't cows outside a lot of the time? When it's raining, do cows go up to the farmhouse, "Let us in! We're all wearing leather! Open the door! We're going to ruin the whole outfit here!" ~ Jerry Seinfeld

A profession that we are a nation "under God" is identical, for Establishment Clause purposes, to a profession that we are a nation "under Jesus," a nation "under Vishnu," a nation "under Zeus," or a nation "under no god," because none of these professions can be neutral with respect to religion. ~ Alfred Goodwin

President Obama is casting his lot in the middle of a debate as old as America itself: Are we rugged individualists pulling ourselves up by the bootstraps? Or are we a nation of community, all connected and counting on one another? ~ Ron Fournier

Words will only ruin you, if you allow them. ~ Anthony Liccione

Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all. ~ Garrett Hardin

You basically get paid according to the amount of time you invest. ~ Yohann Dafeu

Dont take tension, because it loose your dimension. ~ Zahid

Crisis is both danger and opportunity. ~ Chinese Quote

This man was once my salvation. Now, he will be my ruin. ~ K.A. Tucker

More than any single issue, Gil's essential topic was America, how the nation had fallen away from its moral precepts and into ruin, a condition of spiritual malaise that would eventually deliver us the bigotry and psychotic greed of the Bush Era. ~ Steve Almond

There is no such thing as bad weather, only inadequate clothing. ~ Norwegian Quote

Success tempts many to their ruin. ~ Phaedrus

The first thing I am is a person. I am a woman. And I am part of a nation, the Indian nation. But people either relate to you as an Indian or as a woman. They relate to you as a category. A lot of people don't realize that I am not that different from everyone else. ~ Winona LaDuke

Lombardi: [to his assistant] Could you get us some writing paper, please.
Eli: A lot of it. A whole lot of it. ~ Book Of Eli Movie

No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

The secret to selling is to "sell the secret". Your sales presentation should make your product sound like the "best kept secret" in your entire industry. ~ Troy Clark

There's so much excitement around the Phish tours, and if it stopped feeling that way, it would ruin everything we've done for seventeen years. ~ Trey Anastasio

We can't build a nation by keeping the teachers hungry. ~ M.F. Moonzajer

Now I've had two men in my life choose me over the welfare of a nation. First my father, and now my husband.
Never again will I underestimate this man's devotion. He will ruin countries for me. ~ Laura Thalassa

It takes one second to ruin a woman's life. ~ Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Change happens a lot more than you acknowledge ... ~ Cassandra Kemper

You fear no inferno when you are born amidst flames.
It's another flesh wound, another lasting burn.
Carry them with you. ~ Renee Ruin

A poor nation is full of suffering.
A decadent nation is full of sin.
A learned nation is full of scholars.
A righteous nation is full of saints. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Reaching up, reaching out,
and still we take you.
A tree quote from the song 'My Persephone ~ Andrea Koehle Jones

Family is in essence a small nation, and the nation a large family. In treating his own family with dignity, a ruler learns to govern his nation with dignity ~ Gene Luen Yang

You can't lie in a magical forest! It will ruin all the magic! ~ Michael Delaware

Naah, don't ruin what I just said... if it's not possible, leave it as possible. ~ Deyth Banger

Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin. ~ Muammar Al-Gaddafi

Selling is a form of serving the needs of others. ~ Troy Clark

My sister wrote letters to the dead and hid them in her bedroom drawers.
I wrote imaginary letters in my head to living. ~ Renee Ruin

The US is headed for ruin and revolution. The revolution will almost certainly be put down, violently. But the ruin cannot be stopped. ~ Bill Bonner

If a nation and any nation on this earth could raise up the standard of personal responsibility in their society, you will in no time see a nation of virtuous people, developed and civilized. ~ Sunday Adelaja

The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth. ~ James Thurber

Humor is a tool to ease the harsh realities of life. ~ Ken Poirot