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I knew that I had turned my world back to cinders, sunk my lovely ship with my own stupid, wicked hands.


Mary Stewart


#nine-coaches-waiting #ruin #self-destruction #love

There are men in the world who derive as stern an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as others from success.


Winston Churchill


#exaltation #ruin #success #men

This tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of knuckled masonry and pointed blasphemously at heaven. At night the owls made of it an echoing throat; by day it stood voiceless and cast its long shadow.


Mervyn Peake


#description #gothic #owl #purple #ruin

Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.


Honore de Balzac


#business #find #hard #houses #rise

What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?


Djuna Barnes


#endurance #itself #ruin #time

What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.


Ambrose Bierce


#country #democrat #democrats #republican #republicans

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.


Oscar Wilde


#demoralizing #expensive #far #how #man

Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.


Jacob Bronowski


#ashamed #even #evolved #human #imaginative

I was worried about being the nut that ruined 40 years of Bond history.


Rick Yune


#being #bond #history #i #nut

Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.


Johann Georg Zimmermann


#been #escaped #fortune #fortunes #great






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