#ruins

Jordan has a strange, haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness. Dotted with the ruins of empires once great, it is the last resort of yesterday in the world of tomorrow. I love every inch of it. ↗

— King Hussein I

#dotted #empires #every #great #haunting

Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

#monarchies #poverty #republics #ruins

We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings. ↗

— Alfred Jarry

#demolish #doing #everything #fine #i

Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised. ↗

— Ben Jonson

#confidence #had #industry #negligence #produces

The Russian drama began at the end of 1991, when the Soviet Union mercifully ended. Russia and 14 other new countries emerged from the ruins of the Soviet Union. Every one of those 15 new states faced a profound historical, economic, financial, social and political challenge. ↗

— Jeffrey Sachs

#challenge #countries #drama #economic #emerged

But aren't all great quests folly? El Dorado and the Fountain of Youth and the search for intelligent life in the cosmos-- we know what's out there. It's what isn't that truly compels us. ↗

— Jess Walter

#jess-walter #quests #beauty

The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism. ↗

— George Santayana

#any #anywhere #evil #existence #optimism

Jewish and Palestinian nationalism are virtually contemporaneous, and grew out of the disruptions that created new national movements from the ruins of the old empires / i. ↗

— Jack Schwartz

#disruptions #empires #grew #i #jewish

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#fall #like #ruins #smash #themselves

When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same time slowly evolved. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

#came #civilization #evolved #existence #french