#ruin

That incident ruined my reputation for 10 years. Get one Beatle drunk and look what happens! ↗

— Harry Nilsson

#drunk #get #happens #incident #look

As long as the house of The Holy Spirit remains a haven for criminals the reputation of the church will remain in ruins. ↗

— Sinead O'Connor

#criminals #haven #holy #holy spirit #house

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#best #better #condition #difficult #easy

I think when you dissect a joke too much, you have ruined whatever there is in comedy. ↗

— Bob Saget

#dissect #i #i think #joke #much

The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry. ↗

— Erik Satie

#art #invented #modest #most #musician

If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman... because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#am #another #because #could #first

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear. ↗

— Walter Smith

#disappear #down #gentlest #god #looking

I couldn't stand back and watch the strong economy that my father envisioned go to ruins. ↗

— Park Geun-hye

#economy #envisioned #father #go #i

Hate is able to provoke disorders, to ruin a social organization, to cast a country into a period of bloody revolutions; but it produces nothing. ↗

— Georges Sorel

#bloody #cast #country #disorders #hate

If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators. ↗

— Ben Stein

#charlatans #dictators #engineer #equal #everyone