A Quote by Charles Dudley Warner

We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.

Charles Dudley Warner

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Conformity Half Ruined Should Wholly Without

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Charles Dudley Warner
American - Novelist
September 12, 1829 - October 20, 1900

The story is framed around [avid Petraeus] resignation. So many headlines that followed talked about his ruined career. They completely ignore the fact that my career was ruined, other peoples' careers were ruined. They focus on him as the victim.

Paula Broadwell

Cat, you ruined mom's dress!" "Honey, it was ruined when she bought it.

Dr. Seuss

I must say... that I ruined myself: and that nobody, great or small, can be ruined except by his own hand.

Oscar Wilde

In France a lot of songs were ruined by their associations with commercials. But so far no Apple commercial has ruined a song for me.

Thomas Mars

There are plenty of ruined buildings in the world but no ruined stones.

Hugh MacDiarmid

All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.

Edmund Burke

A sound banker, alas, is not one who foresees danger and avoids it, but one who, when he is ruined, is ruined in a conventional way along with his fellows, so that no one can really blame him.

John Maynard Keynes

I've ruined my eyes, I've ruined my health from my studiousness!

Elizabeth Gilbert

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.

Carrie Fisher

I can't watch shows like 'The X Factor,' for instance. I just squirm for the people involved, for the way they're being used. It's the cruellest, most ridiculous show on television. It's ruined music, ruined everything.

John Simm

The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a "ruined man" is itself a vocation.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I wasn't a happy kid. I felt like my mum ruined our chance of a better life, because when she remarried, we went to live in Bahrain, on a compound with a swimming pool, and she ruined it all.

James Arthur

I was a rabid 'Seinfeld' fan. Then I did the show, and it ruined the show for me. Not that it ruined the quality of the show, but I had seen behind the curtain at Oz.

W. Earl Brown

It is very difficult to be a hero without an audience, although, in a sense, we are each the hero of a peculiar, half-ruined film called our life.

Sebastian Barry

There's a big difference between being privileged and being spoilt. My parents always said, 'Spoilt means ruined, and you're not ruined, just incredibly fortunate.'