#ruined

When Europeans came upon real ruined cities they refused to believe that they had been built by Africans. Here the past has been distorted and denied. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#believe #built #came #cities #denied

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

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

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization. ↗

— George Orwell

#about #actual #cities #civilization #continuity

I was called fat and ugly in the press almost my entire life. I understand that being judged by others comes with the territory, but it broke my heart and ruined my self-esteem. ↗

— Kelly Osbourne

#being #being judged #broke #called #comes

The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this. ↗

— Rafael Palmeiro

#happened #life #me #my life #ruined

I think it's an amazing quality to be able to roll with the punches and not be totally ruined as a person because life's been rough for you. That's a really admirable way to go through your life. ↗

— Anna Paquin

#admirable #amazing #because #been #go

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism. ↗

— Norman Vincent Peale

#most #praise #rather #ruined #saved

There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair. ↗

— Ted Rall

#blair #honorable #ruined #sources #tradition

The Monkees changed my life but ruined my acting career. ↗

— Davy Jones

#career #changed #life #monkees #my life