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Last updated on November 9, 2024.
Nothing ruins a good thing quite like knowing you share your opinions with mindless little tits.
Most of suburbia will end up in three ways: ruins, slums, salvage yards for materials.
Take me disappearing, through the smoke rings of my mind, down the foggy ruins of time.
I like ruins because what remains is not the total design, but the clarity of thought, the naked structure, the spirit of the thing.
Ruins provide the incentive for restoration, and for a return to origins. There has to be an interim of death or rejection before there can be renewal and reform.
I try not to say exactly what songs are about sometimes, because I feel like it ruins it for people.
A lot of people, they've been saying to me, oh don't get married. It ruins everything. And I'm like, damn.
It is from the graves and ruins and rubbish-heaps of Egypt that writings have been restored to us in great numbers.
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.
All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is not at all a desirable quality in a statesman.
A landscape, torn by mists and clouds, in which I can see ruins of old churches, as well as of Greek temples - that is Brahms.
In the convulsions of the commodity economy, we begin to recognize the monuments of the bourgeoisie as ruins even before they have crumbled.
You are young. No hungry generations tread you down. The past does not mock you with the ruins of a beauty the secret of whose creation you have lost
Spell-check ruins my work. It fixes all my slang and dialect into standard English. So I'm caught in a tangle of technology that feels very foreign to me.
I wish to see this beverage become common instead of the whiskey which kills sone-third of our citizens and ruins their families.
What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions.
Since Love has made ruins of my heart The sun must come and illumine them. Such generosity has broken me with shame.
The Bible's historical accuracy is a reminder that while "the heavens declare the glory of God," there's also plenty of evidence among the rubble and ruins.
A lot of people spend all this time painting their house, picking out rugs, and then they put fluorescent lighting in there. It totally ruins the mood.
Some ruins of ancient times are much more beautiful than the best buildings of modern eras!
I don't think I've ever dared to write down what I see in the ruins of me, or tell in any detail the scars and all their secrets.
Well, there is something beautiful about ruins. I mean, in one sense it's not that different from going to Rome and looking at the Forum. But it's changing. It truly is. I'm optimistic but skeptical.
We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected, not to be victims of intolerance and racism.
But in the end, fighting for a love that was already gone felt like trying to live in the ruins of a lost city.
Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.
For winter's rains and ruins are over... And in Green under wood and cover Blossum by blossom the spring begins.
Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures.
This perpetual hurry of business and company ruins me in soul if not in body. More solitude and earlier hours!
Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum.
When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same time slowly evolved.
Women of forty always fancy they have found the Fountain of Youth, and that they remain young in the midst of the ruins of their day.
Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise.
Look past the garbage over the trains, Under the ruins through the remains, Around the crime and pollution, And tell me where I fit in?..
A money-lender--he serves you in the present tense; he lends you in the conditional mood; keeps you in the conjunctive; and ruins you in the future.
Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.
Years ago, I tried to top everybody, but I don't anymore. I realized it was killing conversation. When you're always trying for a topper you aren't really listening. It ruins communication
I don't do sports, and my idea of hell is being dragged around ruins/museums/famous buildings, so I guess I'm a beach bum.
The Romans spent the next 200 years using their great engineering skill to construct ruins all over Europe.
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.
All things human hang by a slender thread; and that which seemed to stand strong suddenly falls and sinks in ruins.
To savour Istanbul's back streets, to appreciate the vines and trees that endow its ruins with accidental grace, you must, first and foremost, be a stranger to them.
Oh each successive night that comes has something in it of an abandoned ember that is slowly burning out, and it falls swathed in ruins, surrounded by funereal objects.
I hate to think that someday Americans will be looking at the ruins of their cities and saying that this happened because their leaders were afraid of the word unilateral.
As long as the house of The Holy Spirit remains a haven for criminals the reputation of the church will remain in ruins.
I am determined that my children should have no financial security. It ruins people not having to earn money.
I think I’m dying to get to know a particular guy. Then he opens his mouth and ruins it.
I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history.
Love resembles a tree: it bends under its own weight, deeply rooted in our being and sometimes turns green in the ruins of a heart.
Jewish and Palestinian nationalism are virtually contemporaneous, and grew out of the disruptions that created new national movements from the ruins of the old empires / i.
I don't want to see pictures of Hollywood stars in their dressing gowns taking out the rubbish. It ruins the fantasy.
It is we who built these palaces and cities, here in Spain and America and everywhere. We, the workers. We can build others to take their place. And better ones. We are not in the least afraid of ruins.
It was among the ruins of the capitol that I first conceived the idea of a work which has amused and exercised nearly twenty years of my life.
If I'm not writing songs about things I've actually been through, it ruins the idea of making music to me.
From the ruins of the second world war, Labour rebuilt Britain and set it on course for European co-operation and membership of the E.U.
Je sais de quelles petitesses meurent les plus grandes amours. I know how pettiness ruins the greatest loves.
Fortune's unjust; she ruins oft the brave, and him who should be victor, makes the slave.
The walls that fence our fields, as well as modern Rome, and not less the Parthenon itself, are all built of ruins.
He doesn’t anger easily. This is good. (Takeshi) Yes, I’m more of a simmer slowly until it boils over and ruins everything kind of man. (Acheron)
We would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved.
Basically the message is: Steal It! Art, music, culture, the odd book and the slab of cheese... the new will be built upon the ruins of the old.