#ruin

Anyway, so here I was caught between Johnson on the one side, who was my leader, I was his whip, and here was my dear friend, personal friend, Kennedy, and they're going to go into my state and ruin it. What am I going to do? ↗

— George Smathers

#anyway #between #caught #dear #dear friend

I am dead set against free agency. It can ruin baseball. ↗

— George Steinbrenner

#agency #am #baseball #dead #free

If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured. ↗

— Stendhal

#court #eternal #men #paying #power

Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch. ↗

— Jon Stewart

#fatherhood #great #ruin #scratch #someone

Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky. ↗

— Bram Stoker

#against #became #black #broken #came

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. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

#came #civilization #evolved #existence #french

He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome. ↗

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

#bad #becomes #darkness #deep #entangled

But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches' bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living, a Labour government - yes, a Labour government - is deliberately creating a huge expansion of faith schools. ↗

— Polly Toynbee

#choirs #churches #converted #creating #deliberately

You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you. ↗

— Cornelius Vanderbilt

#i #law #me #ruin #slow

Something like Deckard Cain is great; it doesn't ruin your voice. But games that involve violence or battle or mutating and stuff like that really does take a toll on your voice. And I've even had to start to go to a voice guru kind of guy to do exercises to try to save and get back some of what I lost. ↗

— Michael Gough

#battle #cain #does #even #exercises