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Tuesday, June 11th, 2024
the Week of Proper 5 / Ordinary 10
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Quotations regarding 'Ruin'

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We would fight not for the political future of a distant city, rather for principles whose destruction would ruin the possibility of peace and security for the peoples of the earth.
Neville Chamberlain, British Politician (1869-1940)
If children were brought up to become non-conformists it would only ruin their lives. So parents all over China who loved their children told them to do as Chairman Mao said. It was not possible to tell them anything else.
Jung Chang, British Writer
The minds of men are at last aroused; reason looks out and justifies her own, and malice finds all her work is ruin.
Ralph Chaplin, American Activist
This was all very new to me and I did not want to ruin his film! So we worked hard on that basis of confidence that is needed to collaborate comfortably.
Helena Christensen, Danish Model (1968-  )
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.
Chris Christie, American Politician (1962-  )
In spring they lie flat at the first warmth, they ruin my summer and in autumn they smell of women.
Hugo Claus, Belgian Novelist (1929-  )
The pattern of the prodigal is: rebellion, ruin, repentance, reconciliation, restoration.
Edwin Louis Cole, American Author
Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.
Charles Caleb Colton, English Writer
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.
Davy Crockett, American Explorer (1786-1836)
If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes, a smart reporter could ruin your reputation- unfairly.
Mario Cuomo, American Politician (1932-  )
So a failed movie is not going to ruin my career.
Vincent D'Onofrio, American Actor (1959-  )
No; small timers get into it, and ruin it for everyone.
John Dillinger, American Criminal (1903-1934)
If you have an impulse, not if you're going to ruin someone elses' scene, if you have an impulse of a funny little add-on or taking something in a weird direction, try it.
Rachel Dratch, American Comedian (1966-  )
Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality.
Friedrich Durrenmatt, Swiss Author (1921-1990)
The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history.
Buenaventura Durruti, Spanish Revolutionary (1896-1936)
Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.
Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist (1821-1880)
Young people can get very discouraged and get hooked on drugs or on alcohol because of problems they perceive as insurmountable. It is important that they realize a mistake need not ruin their future, but they must also know that not everything in life is a bed of roses.
Maureen Forrester, Canadian Musician (1930-  )
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.
Benjamin Franklin, American Politician (1706-1790)
Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin.
Muammar al Gaddafi, Libyan Leader (1942-  )
It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.
Charles de Gaulle, Leader (1890-1970)
 
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