Quotes of Ruin - somelinesforyou

“ What does not destroy me, makes me strong. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ To the victors belong the spoils. ”

- Andrew Jackson

“ When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman. ”

- Joseph Wood Krutch

“ I demolish my bridges behind me… then there is no choice but forward. ”

- Fridtjof Nansen

“ War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity; it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it. ”

- Martin Luther

“ Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy. ”

- Marshall Field

“ Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one. ”

- Pope John XXIII

“ Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil! ”

- Golda Meir

“ Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism. ”

- Andre Malraux

“ Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality. ”

- Jackie Chan

“ I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life. ”

- Muhammad Ali

“ Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction. ”

- Pablo Picasso

“ The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster. ”

- Elizabeth Bishop

“ Self-conceit may lead to self-destruction. ”

- Aesop

“ We didn't need the last caution. It jumped sideways on me. I was doing everything I could at that point not to wreck. ”

- Jeff Gordon

“ Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ I have been to hell and back. I had a very, very bad nervous breakdown. ”

- Andy Gibb

“ He who fears is literally delivered to destruction. ”

- Howard Thurman

“ Whatever does not destroy me makes me stronger. ”

- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“ But after long abstinence Paul stood forth in the midst of them, and said, Sirs, ye should have hearkened unto me, and not have loosed from Crete, and to have gained this harm and loss. ”

- Bible

“ It became necessary to destroy the town to save it. ”

- Unknown

“ The eternal quest of the human being is to shatter his loneliness. ”

- Norman Cousins

“ The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own. ”

- Bill Bradley

“ Today this is a site of devastation,... but we will come together once again as Californians and as neighbors. ”

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

“ The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion. ”

- Edward Bulwer Lytton

“ When man meets an obstacle he can't destroy, he destroys himself. ”

- Ryszard Kapuscinski

“ Rich with the spoils of nature. ”

- Sir Thomas Browne

“ Destruction was effected after visitation, for visitation always precedes. ”

- Emanuel Swedenborg

“ Nor do I take into account a danger of starting a chain reaction of a scope great enough to destroy part or all of the planet? But it is not necessary to imagine the earth being destroyed like a nova by a stellar explosion to understand vividly the growing scope of atomic war and to recognize that unless another war is prevented it is likely to ring destruction on a scale never before held possible, and even now hardly conceived, and that little civilization would survive it. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives. ”

- Rita Rudner
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