Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security.
Edmund Burke
75 quotes about ruined follow in order of popularity. Be sure to bookmark and share your favorites!
When the cat and the mouse agree, the grocer is ruined.
Persian Proverb
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
The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
Hermann Hesse
Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined.
Patrick Henry
The character of a people may be ruined by charity.
Theodor Herzl
He pretty much ruined my name. I no longer have a business. He took me right down with him.
Jason Snyder
I give them credit. They were quick and speedy, and we were out of rhythm all night. We didn't do a good job against them. We had several unforced turnovers, and that ruined things.
Jerome Collins
That incident ruined my reputation for 10 years. Get one Beatle drunk and look what happens!
Harry Nilsson
It's heartbreaking. Losing my mum has ruined his life.
Lauren Bell
I never knew a girl who was ruined by a book.
James Walker
In my unit, what the deployment did to a lot of people is it bankrupted them, it destroyed their families, it ruined their education, and they lost their jobs.
Kelly Dougherty
When they die here naturally, wings get beat up, ants eat off the head or antenna. There's so much damage it'd be a ruined species. It would hurt me more to see that specium ruined and we didn't let more people see it.
Dennis Nelson
Instead of being a slut who ruined her life, she's the heroine who didn't have an abortion.
Richard Lachmann
It's been like that forever. We got spoiled by Joe Louis, by Rocky Marciano. Muhammad ruined us for everybody. He was great outside [the ring]; he was great inside. We got so accustomed to it we thought we deserved it.
Angelo Dundee
It was a long night without sleeping. I was tested at 1:30am. They absolutely ruined the race.
Martin Tauber
The Sheetrock was ruined, and the cypress behind it soaked. With 210-year-old cypress, we have to do it very carefully.
Ted Brennan
People are eligible for disaster assistance if they are not eligible for regular unemployment benefits. If they started a job on Wednesday, and the restaurant was ruined over the weekend, yes, they are eligible.
Geraldine Conrad
We're going to need some serious help to start over. Everything is ruined.
Shun Howell
Allen Clark has ruined a lot of careers through his tactics, and I could see what was going on in my case so I retired at the end of December 2003, ... Once he gained power and notoriety, it went on from there and not many people out here were sorry to see him resign.
Kevin Dean
Basically, they ruined a six- or seven-hundred dollar calf.
Larry Little
The person you have to worry about [not coming back] is a person who has just been living from paycheck to paycheck, and whatever job they had has been ruined.
Nicholas Lemann
Logan called her up just as a courtesy and told her that he was going to have to tell his attorneys and the jury where the money went. she begged him not to. She told him her husband would leave her. Her marriage would be ruined and her life would be ruined.
Philip Shanks
People think apples have to be pretty. Looking for the perfect plastic apple ruined antique apples. Now, there's a resurgence of interest in historical apples. People are getting into taste again.
Judy Stone
We were just so devastated. We saw all the people that were dying and all the homes that were ruined.
Michael Rich
She was one resident, among many, that was told by their insurance company that she didn't need flood insurance since she lived a certain distance from the coast. But, everything in her house was ruined - every piece of clothes, every appliance.
Maggie Winz
It's partially mind-set, but it is mostly who gets involved. When certain citizens get involved and believe strongly in something, they can influence development patterns. It's never too late for whatever has not been ruined.
Tom Hylton
New Orleans is ruined, it will never be what it was again, ... I shed tears when I think about it. It seems hopeless.
Charles Harper
That ruined it for us because we had to give them Saturday off to comply with the PIAA.
Jeff Weachter
He was lobbing along beautifully, but when he put down at that early fence it ruined the race for us.
Tony Dobbin
I still had a lot of cards that didn't get ruined. I had a lot of stuff at home. But cards don't take water very well.
Brad Barber
MONUMENT, n. A structure intended to commemorate something which either needs no commemoration or cannot be commemorated. The bones of Agammemnon are a show, And ruined is his royal monument, but Agammemnon's fame suffers no diminution in consequence. The monument custom has its _reductiones ad absurdum_ in monuments 'to the unknown dead' -- that is to say, monuments to per.
Ambrose Bierce
These peoples' careers have been ruined because someone has some sour grapes.
Howard Taylor
I worshipped money so much that it ruined my life. Money is not my god. I just want to manage His money for Him, for the poor people, the lost kids. I just love everybody.
Brian Welch
Golf is a good walk, ruined.
Mark Twain
For the people of Iraq, their lives are ruined for generations, and for no reason.
Gordon Parsons
He had a four putt on one hole, which ruined his round.
Cassie Desmone
I have mud all along the front of my house. There are inches of dirt inside my window sills, and they're always shut. We can't even open our garage, the dirt is so deep. I rent my house and my carpets are ruined. I'm not going to get my deposit back.
Connie Smith
It wasn't that the store was completely ruined. It could have been repaired and reopened without a great deal of difficulty.
Charles Hodges
What they didn't steal they trashed. They got what they could and ruined what they left.
Margaret Richmond
They absolutely ruined the race. I was already a little bit tired yesterday.
Martin Tauber
Professor Frank Nelson, he teaches ethics for God's sake. These people are pillars in this community. But they don't have the moral fortitude to understand that his musical achievements are completely trumped by the fact that he ruined more than one child's life.
Lawrence Bochkis
Suddenly, two bystanders stuck their heads inside the frame and ruined one of the funniest cartoons ever.
Gary Larson
I should be watching an execution. I shouldn't be watching this. It's a waste of taxpayer money. This is a cold-blooded killer. He ruined two families. (His execution) would be the happiest day in my life.
Richard Hayes
Basically, it just ruined our day. You go to the field early on the morning of Opening Day, and this is not something you expect to find.
Nial Wagner
People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.
Muhammad Iqbal
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow
As happy as I am, ... I'll never get my name back, I'll never get my job back. I'm financially ruined. My physical and emotional health ... has been devastated.
Michael Zucchet
In retrospect, that was good, because had the interior work been done, it would have been ruined, so we won't lose too much time.
Sharon Broussard
As happy as I am, I will never get my name back. I will never get my job back, ... I am financially ruined. My fiscal and emotional health, and the health of my family has been devastated.
Michael Zucchet
This was an embarrassment. To play great the whole season and not bring home a district championship, it's like the season was ruined tonight.
Anthony Campanella
Andy can never undo the damage that his actions have caused. However, he has paid the price - his academic career is ruined, his reputation sullied, and his personal shame unremitting.
Charles Lockwood
I have heard a lot of soldiers say that the military ruined their lives. But it wasn't the military; it was the unresolved problem that exacerbated the situation. Sometimes a simple, unresolved issue can escalate in 18 months.
Michael Izady
A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Passage would bring relief to millions of small-business owners and their families. It would certainly ease Main Street's growing anxiety about being slapped with and ruined by a Mickey Mouse lawsuit.
Dan Danner
He tried to grab them and I said, 'No, you can't. They're all full of mud and you can't take them because they're ruined, ... I told him, 'You can always get another. Christmas is coming up.'
David Thornton
There are faces to each and every one of these dollars that is getting taken away from us. There is a lifetime that may get ruined. Today, we're here to say no to the budget cuts and to say please give us our money back.
Sharo Atmeh
The prosecutor and I have seldom, if at all, experienced an investigation being potentially ruined at such an early stage.
Leif Silbersky
Bhutan - having looked at its neighbor, Nepal, which is overpopulated, has ruined its environment and is very unstable politically - knows what it wants: not to become another Nepal.
George Archibald
It was an unspoken pleasure, that having come together so many years, ruined so much and repaired a little, we had endured.
Lillian Hellman
Everything was gone or ruined, ... There were pine tree limbs going through the top of the kitchen into the bathroom.
Crystal Davis
England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.
Lord Burleigh
It ruined our lives. My golden years are tarnished.
Ann Palmer
The clubhouse is ruined, the maintenance equipment is ruined, and the carts are ruined.
Gordon Digby
This is about the legacy of Seattle and protecting the beauty of its parks. Once you have ruined your parks, it is hard to get them back.
Diane Duthweiler
I am very, very cautious when to comes to energy exploration because I have seen in the past where it has ruined areas or made them unusable to recreation, so I'm concerned about drilling but not totally opposed either.
Adam Shaffer
Your name is all you've got. People can take away a lot of things, but if they take your name away, you're ruined. That's what they tried to do.
Willie Gary
[The attorney says Flores' reputation has been ruined. He adds that he] Can't go anywhere without people pointing at him. ... I want an apology.
Anthony Flores
They had a large hole in the roof of their church and a lot of water damage. Their Bibles, hymnals and carpeting are all ruined. But 14 families from their congregation have lost everything.
Craig Nichoson
The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
Ernest Dimnet
Many a good newspaper story has been ruined by over verification.
James Gordon Bennett
With the ski area that much closer ... it could get so much use that it will be ruined. That's a significantly different trail than it was 15 or 20 years ago.
Eric Mamula
I had one of my good friends kicked out of college for domestic violence. He had his college career ruined.
Eric Turner
Nobody's safe. Health insurance? That didn't protect 1 million Americans who were financially ruined by illness or medical bills last year.
Elizabeth Warren
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