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We feel completely vindicated by the sentencing. This is somebody who ruins lives, he ruined my life and ruined many other people?s lives.

John Atkinson

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Amos Bronson Alcott

You can reconstruct the picture from chaos and memory's ruins.

Kay Boyle

Mom does a lot of lake swimming. I do a little bit but it ruins your stroke.

Stephanie Uecker

I'm going to college. I don't care if it ruins my career. I'd rather be smart than a movie star.

Natalie Portman

It's a bit of a trade-off. It's exciting to see the new ruins and get that information, but at the same time, fire can destroy these sites.

Jane Anderson

An artist took that picture and made a painting of Chris carrying the girl. It has the ruins of the Trade Center in the background. It's a great painting. I was lucky to get a lithograph of the painting. That picture has made its way around the country.

Charlie Amoroso

Of dead kingdoms I recall the soul, sitting amid their ruins.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

It was in ruins. It had become a home for pigeons.

Dana Roberts

The war left southern Sudan education in ruins.

Rima Salah

My goal is to goad people into saying something that ruins their life.

Don Imus

In the end the Russians will most likely manage to take Grozny and put the Russian flag on the ruins.

Pavel Felgenhauer

They came at us and Erin made some nice saves in the first 20, but it was a barrage. When you have that many shots, they're bound to make one. And once they make one it kind of ruins it and we open the floodgates for them.

Nathan Drye

I'm one of the ruins that Cromwell knocked about a bit.

Marie Lloyd

I don't want to see pictures of Hollywood stars in their dressing gowns taking out the rubbish. It ruins the fantasy.

Sarah Brightman

We thought that we could predict what the world would be like, there would be wars, plagues. But then drugs happened and drugs have destroyed our society. I don't mean we're all crumbling amidst the ruins but there is no part of our life that is not impacted: culture, media, finance, everything is distorted by this little thing.

Richard Dreyfuss

What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions.

Joseph Roux

There was something about driving to work every day and you go past the ruins of the forum and think, God, you know, these people actually walked the Earth. It really, really brings it home to you, that Rome existed as a place that we're trying to describe in this drama.

Lindsay Duncan

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

Cleaning of defects is a critical and necessary step in generating a zero-defect mask blank, because defects in the substrate become defects in the multilayer, which ruins the mask blank.

David Krick

Landscape with Horse and Cart, Figures, and Ruins.

Thomas Gainsborough

It kind of ruins the rest of your bodily schedule.

Katie Westhoven

Here among the constant ruins and rebuilding of civilizations lies the coexistence of diversity and intolerance.

David K Shipler

Underwear is everything because we all know that if we have on the wrong pair of underwear it ruins your day.

Veronica Webb

Probably until mid-October or maybe a little bit later, depending on the frost. When the frost comes, it kind of ruins the market for us.

Mark Jensen

The ruins were still there and it was still a strategic point. It had a ferry crossing and was adjacent to the English Neighborhood [Edgewater, Fort Lee, Leonia and Englewood] as well as Closter, Tenafly, and Teaneck.

Todd W. Braisted

Low air pressure just ruins a tire.

Jason Ragland

Think about it. The 'Big One' hits San Francisco tomorrow and ruins most of the housing. Oakland is going to be busy, right?

Arthur Sterbcow

Oil addiction can happen to anyone. For too long people have not faced up to their addiction and the consequences are now obvious. Your oil addition not only ruins your life and the life of your families, but the lives of most of the world's inhabitants.

Kathleen Rogers

So tonight you better stop and rebuild all your ruins, because peace and trust can win the day despite all your losing.

Led Zeppelin

One and all, the orthodox creeds are crumbling into ruins everywhere.

John Fiske

I think it just ruins the entire neighborhood.

Chief James Murray

It's a very beautiful country and it has some of the Arab world's most interesting, best preserved, medieval ruins. And it's also got a living culture which is exotic in the true sense of the word.

John Andrews

Some people say that you should go to all the parties, to the nightclubs, the Viper Room, and make contacts. And I look at them and say, 'You don't want to have contacts with those people.' Look at what happened to River Phoenix. If you get caught up in that, it ruins you. Hollywood is garbage.

Paul Walker

Priests roved around the ruins, selecting at random those they believed guilty of heresy and thus to blame for annoying the Divine, who in turn had ordered up the disaster. The priests had them hanged on the spot.

Simon Winchester

A lot of people go for the drugs, and that's a sad situation. It kind of ruins it for the people who want to go for the music.

Jennifer Mitchell

Rescuers are hoping that the majority of people trapped in the ruins can be brought out alive.

Yuri Akimov

It just ruins everything for everyone because he just wasn't himself. We wondered what it was and then we found out.

Elrod Hendricks