#ruin

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

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports. ↗

— Richard Burton

#decays #embraces #false #friendship #gives

Do we care about these people that are HIV-positive whose lives have been ruined? Those are the people I'm the most concerned about. Every night I think about this. ↗

— Kary Mullis

#been #care #concerned #every #every night

I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#although #brought #censure #god #happiness

Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#always #breeds #danger #delay #great

Most of the films I've done were ruined in the postproduction, not during filming. ↗

— Chevy Chase

#during #filming #films #i #most

This was all very new to me and I did not want to ruin his film! So we worked hard on that basis of confidence that is needed to collaborate comfortably. ↗

— Helena Christensen

#collaborate #comfortably #confidence #did #film

Higher taxes is the road to ruin. We must and we will shrink our government, and that means making some tough choices, tightening our belts. ↗

— Chris Christie

#choices #government #higher #higher taxes #making

The pattern of the prodigal is: rebellion, ruin, repentance, reconciliation, restoration. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#prodigal #rebellion #reconciliation #repentance #restoration

I'll just be sitting down having dinner with girlfriends or something and people come up and ruin the dinner. ↗

— Holly Valance

#dinner #down #girlfriends #having #i