Quotes with ruins

Quotes 21 till 31 of 31.

  • Ghose Aurobindo The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.
    Ghose Aurobindo
    Indian philosopher, yogi, guru, poet, and nationalist (1872 - 1950)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Anita Loos The people I'm furious with are the Women's Liberationists. They keep getting up on soapboxes and proclaiming women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept quiet or it ruins the whole racket.
    Anita Loos
    American writer, screenwriter (1889 - 1981)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Mohsin Hamid The ruins proclaim the building was beautiful.
    The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007) 144
    Mohsin Hamid
    British Pakistani novelist, writer (1971 - )
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  • Abdul Kalam This is my belief: that through difficulties and problems God gives us the opportunity to grow. So when your hopes and dreams and goals are dashed, search among the wreckage, you may find a golden opportunity hidden in the ruins.
    Wings of Fire
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • Barbara Cartland To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her.
    Barbara Cartland
    English author of romance novels (1901 - 2000)
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  • Amos Bronson Alcott We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
    Amos Bronson Alcott
    American educator and social reformer (1799 - 1888)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli We moralize among ruins.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Alfred Jarry We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings.
    Alfred Jarry
    French playwright, author (1873 - 1907)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A man is a god in ruins.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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