#ruin

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

The people of England are never so happy as when you tell them they are ruined. ↗

— Arthur Murphy

#happy #never #people #ruined #tell

The earth is the Lord's. Psalm 24 basically says the earth is God's property. We have been given the privilege and responsibility of living on earth to see it isn't ruined. ↗

— Allen Johnson

#been #earth #given #god #living

Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin. ↗

— Tacitus

#due #generosity #leads #moderation #ruin

There are plenty of ruined buildings in the world but no ruined stones. ↗

— Hugh MacDiarmid

#plenty #ruined #stones #world

I look at the others, simpering courtiers and visiting dignitaries, all unsuspecting of what is to come. A merciful man should spare them, but I had mercy cut out of me at a young age. ↗

— A.F. Stewart

#curse #magic #ruined-city #wizard #age

Some ruins of ancient times are much more beautiful than the best buildings of modern eras! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#beauty