#ruined

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

I confess that Roy was a little bit dictatorial in his editing and he ruined quite a number of my pictures, which he stopped doing later. He used to punch a hole through a negative. Some of them were incredibly valuable. He didn't understand at the time. ↗

— Ben Shahn

#confess #dictatorial #doing #editing #his

Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky. ↗

— Bram Stoker

#against #became #black #broken #came

When I did small films like Lily and Buenos Vista, everyone thought my career would be ruined. ↗

— Leslie Caron

#did #everyone #films #i #like

No nation was ever ruined by trade. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#nation #ruined #trade

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

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

Writers who used to show off their erudition no longer sing in the bare ruined choir of the media. ↗

— William Safire

#choir #erudition #longer #media #off

The character of a people may be ruined by charity. ↗