#ruin

After I am dead, the boy will ruin himself in twelve months. ↗

— King George V

#am #boy #dead #himself #i

Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society, for want of cultivation: while two parties have been idly contending who should bestow it. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#benefit #bestow #contending #cultivation #deprived

He built up a situation that was far enough from the truth. It never occurred to him that Helen was to blame. He forgot the intensity of their talk, the charm that had been lent him by sincerity, the magic of Oniton under darkness and of the whispering river. Helen loved the absolute. Leonard had been ruined absolutely, and had appeared to her as a man apart, isolated from the world. A real man, who cared for adventure and beauty, who desired to live decently and pay his way, who could have travelled more gloriously through life than the Juggernaut car that was crushing him. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#intensity #misunderstanding #river #ruination #water

Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me. ↗

— John Lennon

#his #jesus #me #ordinary #right

The best way to ruin a comedy is to throw a lot of money at it. ↗

— Jay Leno

#best way #comedy #lot #money #ruin

Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#civilization #down #everywhere #fall #freedom

Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#civilization #confident #down #everywhere #fall

I used to do drugs, but don't tell anyone or it will ruin my image. ↗

— Courtney Love

#i #image #ruin #tell #used

Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#conquers #demolish #does #error #expect

People find it hard to understand how I can risk ruining my career as a musician by injuring myself on the slopes, but I've always been a tomboy. ↗

— Vanessa Mae

#been #career #find #hard #how