#ruin

The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things. ↗

— Ernest Dimnet

#catastrophes #destructive #errors #fatal #great

As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through. ↗

— Otto Dix

#after #afterwards #along #badly #could

I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.' ↗

— Daisy Donovan

#child #clever #confident #crying #enough

Are you to give up the fight and let this vast body of our wealth go to ruin? I do not believe it. ↗

— Richard Parks Bland

#body #fight #give #go #i

We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins. ↗

— Edward Bond

#competent #deserts #end #may #new

Overnight stardom can be harmful to your mental health. Yeah. It has ruined a lot of people. ↗

— Clint Eastwood

#health #lot #mental #mental health #overnight

Bad attitudes will ruin your team. ↗

— Terry Bradshaw

#attitudes #bad #ruin #team #will

I would have the Constitution torn in shreds and scattered to the four winds of heaven. Let us destroy the Constitution and build on its ruins the temple of liberty. I have brothers in slavery. I have seen chains placed on their limbs and beheld them captive. ↗

— William Wells Brown

#brothers #build #captive #chains #constitution

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#impatience #ruin #strength #support #weakness

Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore. ↗

— Lord Byron

#control #dark #deep #earth #fleets