Ruination Quotes

The purpose of the suit is to harass and discourage rather than win. The law can be used very easily to harass, and enough harassment on somebody who is simply on the thin edge anyway, well knowing that he is not authorized, will generally be sufficient to cause professional decease. If possible, of course, ruin him utterly.

Despair ruins some, presumption many.

My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and gobbled until there was nothing left, and then we died. We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first.

… a better hand at pulling down than building.

There was Virginia Boote, the food and restaurant critic, who had once been a great beauty but was now a grand and magnificent ruin, and who delighted in her ruination.

Politics ruins the character.

We never left a set until we'd trashed it.

Decay is quiet but ghastly, explosion is dramatic and dreadful. There's not much to choose between the two of them in reality, and most of our lives have sufficient of both.

Destroyer of Villages

Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand.

I could die in peace, I think, if the world was beautiful. To know it's being ruined is hard.

Love is the idler's occupation, the warrior's relaxation, and the sovereign's ruination.

But fear no more! I would not take this thing, if it lay by the highway. Not were Minas Tirith falling in ruin and I alone could save her, so, using the weapon of the Dark Lord for her good and my glory. No, I do not wish for such triumphs, Frodo son of Drogo.

…one enemy can do more hurt, than ten friends can do good.

The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it.

As soon as the war ended, we located the one spot on earth that hadn't been touched by the war and blew it to hell.

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

Most publishers, like most writers, are ruined by their successes.

I am defacing nothing. I am destroying.

Every kingdom divided against itself shall be desolated.

I will destroy them.

If it's going to be wrecked, I want to make sure I wreck it.

Postmodernity is the simultaneity of the destruction of earlier values and their reconstruction. It is renovation within ruination.

The nature of catastrophe is, after all, reasonably unvarying in the way it ruins, destroys, wounds and devastates. But if something can be learned from the event - not least something as profound as the theory of plate tectonics - then it somehow puts the ruination into a much more positive light.

I guess I look like a rock quarry that someone has dynamited.