Crying is the refuge of plain women, but the ruin of pretty ones.
Oscar Wilde
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I have suffered my self to be politically sacrificed to save my country from ruin and disgrace and if I am never a gain elected I will have the gratification to know that I have done my duty.
Davy Crockett
We got him up on the beach. He was still in good spirits, joking even. That's just the kind of guy Larry is, already apologizing for ruining our evening. We just had to get him to focus on holding still and taking deep breaths.
Stuart Faris
We're hoping to ruin their debut on their turf.
Aaron Murphy
How does this big piece of property get access points without accessing through the rest of us and ruining our lives?
Robert Weiss
That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.
John Webster
Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex.
Jane Austen
You're ruining my life! I'm spending 90 percent of my time at the pool.
Bob Bowman
I don't want to rip this building apart and ruin the ambience of this landmark.
Mark Spano
In many of the cases, the students left their doors unlocked. Most students are honest, but it only takes one dishonest person to ruin it for everyone. If you don't lock your room that is the chance you are taking.
Vince Decerchio
This guy is way-out. They're trying to ruin reputations, and I'm just not going to let it happen on my watch.
Herb Greenberg
Of course I hate it, ... The changes are likely to ruin the game. They've made a scoring system that doesn't exist.
Thomas Johansson
Now residents are coming forward and saying this is my home. We will not allow you to take this over and ruin life for us and our children.
Billie Spicuzza
A lot of teams would've gone in the tank. We weren't going to let one bad game ruin our season.
Curtis Martin
Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
Edward Abbey
I haven't got the face to look up and tell him what it all means. And then people in here are just ruining people like that. It's unreal.
Bill Mullins
Those who choose not to follow the rules may ruin it for the dog owners that are complying.
Carol Majeske
We can't and won't let this ruin our season.
Clare Phillips
All men are not slimy warthogs. Some men are silly giraffes, some woebegone puppies, some insecure frogs. But if one is not careful, those slimy warthogs can ruin it for all the others.
Cynthia Heimel
Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin.
Muhammar Qaddafi
Right now, the chamber has one apple ruining the tree and that is bad, ... She got my money for the T-shirts, and she knew she wasn't going to give me the business.
John Bates
I believe for most of these kids this is the one way most them of can go to college and further their education. I can't believe that they would take the chance ruining that. He was tearing up and he gave me a hug and he thanked me and he wrote me a letter.
Paul Dwyer
I'll just be sitting down having dinner with girlfriends or something and people come up and ruin the dinner.
Holly Valance
Men who are engaged in public life must necessarily aim at reducing opposition to a minimum, and one of the most obvious means to that end is by misrepresenting, discrediting or ruining their opponents.
Frederick Scott Oliver
Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
Miguel de Cervantes
Would it ruin his career or change the way colleges hire? I don't think so. A guy coaches because he loves coaching so I think he would just do it somewhere else where he could continue to make a positive impact on young men's lives.
Barry Lunney
I think that one of the qualifications of artists should be a vow of celibacy. They should be confined to ruining only their own lives.
Roger Lewis
If they force me to subdivide, they're going to raise hell because it will ruin their views.
Warren Mcmillan
Something like this can ruin my reputation and make me look like I'm a bad person. It's just a lesson I've got to learn ? to watch out for stuff around me and keep my eyes open.
Ramonce Taylor
If the music industry has decided I'm influential, then that's their business, ... They tell me that's the case, but I think it would ruin an innocent mind if I were aware of that.
Michael Parkinson
There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.
Berenice Abbott
I felt as though a rain shower wasn't going to stop us. Relationships go through hard times. I wasn't going to let a cloudy day ruin what we did. We had a plan. It got pushed back a day, but we made it. We started with destruction. We can only go up.
Justin Wininger
These other ones are ruining it for them all, because they are all getting painted with the same brush.
Barbara Hughes
We learned a lot of young people were ruining their credit by age 20.
Benjamin Chavis
I used to do drugs, but don't tell anyone or it will ruin my image.
Courtney Love
One allegation, one allegation was going to ruin ... his life, ... That was another thing we were looking at.
Robert Quiroga
It wasn't that big of a deal, and it didn't ruin my life or anything since it was more of a joke, but it just seems so petty of them.
Noah Skube
It would put us in financial ruin (to abandon the project). We're up to our necks in debt. Our life savings is sitting up there. That piece of land that our house is going on is it.
Paula Carico
Yes, there is need for the pipeline, but in a different location — far from Baikal's watershed ... otherwise we will ruin it.
Gennady Chegasov
Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products.
Scott Mcnealy
We would fight not for the political future of a distant city, rather for principles whose destruction would ruin the possibility of peace and security for the peoples of the earth.
Neville Chamberlain
It's always a concern when something like this happens. It's unfortunate, I guess it's safe to say, a few ignorant people can ruin (the fun).
Josh Hemmelman
It was a great race, but they've managed to ruin it.
Kevin Kalkhoven
We started a little streak. That's what we wanted to do. But I think mainly we are having fun out there and we are playing with confidence. We are not getting down on ourselves. We're not letting one bad thing ruin the game.
Kevin Kruger
If other attorney generals or tort lawyers follow the example of Rhode Island, it could ruin a whole industry.
Lawrence Horan
Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.
John Tillotson
I am a recovering alcoholic. I work in the field of substance abuse counseling and I see, first- hand, how drugs not only ruin the abuser's lives, but also the lives of children in our communities.
Dennis Dorman
To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun.
Mary Russell Mitford
Two sports, cross country skiing and this sport, are two lifetime sports that are not going to kill you. They're not going to ruin your legs or anything. You can do it anywhere, anytime, any set of circumstances. On a track, ice, indoor or outdoor. It's kind of liberating in a way.
Bob Berkley
It's pretty hard to make me laugh, and sometimes they wouldn't pitch me a joke, they would do the joke. And if it wasn't funny, I wouldn't put it in. But more often than not, when they really thought it was enough to ruin a take, it was a good joke. And Eric is a great writer, so he was always giving other people jokes, too. You want that. There was a great camaraderie on the set.
Troy Miller
Bethlehem was built without casinos and all the things we have here were developed without gambling money. They will absolutely ruin our city and they will run it to their advantage because they have all the money.
Bob Fuller
There are more people who fit into the class of elderly. The more people in the group, the more cases you'll have. The problem is a lot of bad age-discrimination cases ruin it for the rest of them. You do see a number of people claiming age discrimination with little merit. It sours the courts on age-discrimination cases.
Scott Moss
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
[*] Memoirs of Hadrian ... Catastrophe and ruin will come; disorder will triumph, but order will too, from time to time.
Marguerite Yourcenar
They were all crying and angry and saying `Think of the children. You're ruining the book for everyone,'.
Jimmy Baron
We had to hang on at the end, but I don't want that to ruin a good win.
Gordie Kerkman
He had a certain frankness and generosity, qualities indeed which turn to a man's ruin, unless tempered with discretion.
Cornelius Tacitus
Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
Cornelius Tacitus
I'm not going to ruin it for them. I understand that it is important.
Rich Gordon
An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.
Mark Twain
Any concession in the acute standoff with the US imperialists invites a ruin. A concession will result in a hundred concessions and finally invite death and national ruin.
Rodong Sinmun
Your single biggest investment is your home. If you want to buy a place like ours, you wouldn't pick one next to a feedlot. And, if you did, it would have to be awfully cheap. We don't want this ruining what we've worked for 30 years.
Patrick Bruggeman
Reality continues to ruin my life.
Bill Watterson
He that cannot decidedly say, ''No,'' when tempted to evil, is on the highway to ruin. He loses the respect even of those who would tempt him, and becomes but the pliant tool and victim of their evil designs.
Joel Hawes
User education is paramount. They need to learn to look at the Internet as a city. You can move into the wrong neighborhood and it can ruin your life. You need to learn where to park or walk and where not to park or walk.
David Michael Perry
Frightening the public with tales of a drug so seductive it instantly turns masses of upstanding citizens into addicts who ruin their health, their lives and their families.
John Tierney
I try not to cut the sheep, or ruin the fleece.
Sharon Allen
I see the boys of summer in their ruin.
Roger Kahn
If you don't know your algebra, you'll blow the lights and ruin the scene.
Greg Hauptner
With families, it's a bigger dynamic. One family member can ruin it for everyone.
Dale Burshtein
Industry entirely left to itself, would soon fall to ruin, and a nation letting everything alone would commit suicide.
Friedrich List
He has now paid his debt to society. He has confessed. He has been punished and his family has been brought to financial ruin and as he tries to pick himself up off his knees, the office of independent counsel comes around and tries to prosecute him again.
John Nields
There are good HMOs that promote quality care and lower cost and there are bad HMOs that make bad care decisions for bad reasons. When you've got 650 HMOs, what you need to do is eliminate the bad ones without ruining the economics of the good ones.
Robert Hoehn
And thank God it is decent weather so people can walk. It's not raining, and we're not ruining people's shoes.
Bob Bedard
A license can ruin a perfectly good piece of software.
Greg Stein
I'm concerned that if the property was sold it could be turned into trucking or construction company and ruin the atmosphere of the neighborhood.
Richard Kerr
It was just kids being up to no good. There was no reason to do it other than to ruin someone's senior tradition.
Ramon Gutierrez
It's a very disabling condition, and it's perhaps not surprising that people come to see us desperately looking for a quick fix for a problem that is ruining their lives.
Dr Sarah Jarvis
It's going to ruin this campground. If nothing else, they'll shut (the campground) down.
Carol Campbell
You can't ruin Chrismukkah. It's got twice the resistance of any normal holiday.
Adam Brody
Worm or beetle -- drought or tempest -- on a farmer's land may fall,Each is loaded full o' ruin, but a mortgage beats 'em all.
Will Carleton
Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.
Henry Cabot Lodge
Opinion is the main thing which does harm or good in the world. It is our false opinions that ruin us.
Marcus Aurelius
A lot of this is just people he'd hang around with, he'd tell them about how this woman is ruining his life and what a difficult situation it is, and he said some of these guys would make comments to him like, 'Why don't you kill the bitch' or something like that.
Harland Braun
Dean's political aspirations and his desire to prevent anything from ruining them are not sound arguments for secreting such an enormous quantity of government documents from the public.
Tom Fitton
Come on in, and try not to ruin everything by being you!
Helen Hunt
It didn't get high enough to ruin any files.
Tom Gilbert
It's a minority at the prison, ... You're only talking about that small amount of people who abuse it and ruin it for everybody.
John Walton
If it was a big conspiracy, don't you think he would have bet more than $18? And won? There was no million-dollar pool. It was just a kid ruining his reputation and his livelihood.
Gary Piontkowski
As it stands in Maine now, a property owner can do whatever they want - the common enemy rule - and ruin their neighbors.
Audrey Miller
If I deny a promotion they can always try again next year. It doesn't ruin their career.
John Mahon
I am myself a failed cartoonist, There are a million reasons to ruin things.
Dave Eggers
I've played basketball my whole life and I'm not going to give up and ruin my life by using steroids.
Bethany Mcghee
If we kicked people out, it would ruin the good we did. We put in too much work to make it a sad ending.
Roger Larson
The Beijing conference is where things are going to happen. We need to focus on human health and containment. If we don't focus on avian flu it's going to ruin these countries, materially and economically, and move to Europe and Africa.
Patrick Deboyser
Otherwise the German media market will become an object of speculation for foreign financial sharks who will ruin the German media system.
Michael Konken
I think it would be a good thing. This way you can know your paycheck will be the same from week to week. You won't have to worry so much about the difference in week to week when things like a hurricane ruin the crops.
Jose Luis Rodriguez
You better be sure. Because you are ruining someone's life if you are wrong. So you better be right.
Jim Bergenn
But the Champions League cannot be our only objective because as we have seen in the past, it only takes one bad 45 minutes to ruin a year's work.
Roberto Bettega
But since then, there has just been no investment in the street - it has been left to go to rack and ruin. Rose Street has become a poor sister. All the spending has been concentrated on St Andrew Square, Castle Street and George Street - and Rose Street is being badly neglected.
George Street
If moisture gets in under the glass (covering), it can completely ruin the painting. They also do fade like a watercolor on paper.
Julie Aronson
It's the oil that can ruin a French fry, The State Fair just ended. I don't think anybody's thinking about that right now.
Mark Girouard
The sure foundations of the state are laid in knowledge, not in ignorance; and every sneer at education, at culture, at book learning, which is the recorded wisdom of the experience of mankind, is the demagogue's sneer at intelligent liberty, inviting national degeneracy and ruin.
George William Curtis
Remember that even if you haven't been audited in the past, it doesn't mean you won't be in the future. And it only takes one audit to ruin your day.
Kathy Burlison
I can't die. It would ruin my image.
Jack Lalanne
If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes, a smart reporter could ruin your reputation- unfairly.
Mario Cuomo
His roadmap toward democracy has led to ruin. He has shown his stubbornness and arrogance with a medieval state of mind.
Kapil Shrestha
It's really tough for those inexperienced referees to control the game if they have parents yelling at them. The parents need to be positive and stop ruining the game.
Susan Loyd
Keep your sense of humor. There's enough stress in the rest of your life to let bad shots ruin a game you're supposed to enjoy.
Amy Alcott
They said skating would ruin my ballet form. It wasn't hard for me to choose. I'm very creative and in skating I can make up my own stuff.
Tugba Karademir
If the hurricane comes across the forecast path, it's going to hit a lot of the citrus industry in southwest Florida. It's going to ruin their crop for this year, which will totally change the forecast for orange juice, ... The vegetable growers are going to have an awful lot in the ground that would be picked this year and could be destroyed.
Charles Bronson
I can't be in a relationship, I ruin them all. I think I'm a lesbian.
Rosanne Barr
Science has already proven the dangers of smoking, alcohol, and Chinese food, but I can still ruin soft drinks for everyone!
Yeardley Smith
We're ruining ourselves around the world by using inappropriate verbiage and symbols.
Gloria Starr
It would ruin the Sweet 16.
Stan Hardin
Don't slather it with butter or margarine and ruin it. It's a good idea to use marmalade or something or just to toast it.
Elizabeth Hiser
The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts --the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria --are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy.
Edward Dahlberg
The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry.
Erik Satie
I don't think a player can ruin the image of a team.
Eric Desjardins
Our goal is not to ruin anyone's foliage. Our goal is to be responsible and civic-minded and considerate of the neighbors.
Erik Gordon
Tests. Tests always ruin the karma of game day. You're thinking more about the game than the test and it drops grades sometimes.
Eric Womack
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