Pastoral Resources

Success tempts many to their ruin.

There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.

Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.

He who overcomes himself is divine. Most see their ruin before their eyes; but they go on into it.

Drugs ruin peoples lives, break up families and have disastrous effects on our communities.

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

I do not let a bad score ruin my enjoyment for golf.

Squabbling in public will eventually ruin football; there's no doubt it's hurting us already. Polls taken by Louis Harris - polls as valid as any political polls - indicate that very clearly.

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.

If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman... because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.

Anyway, so here I was caught between Johnson on the one side, who was my leader, I was his whip, and here was my dear friend, personal friend, Kennedy, and they're going to go into my state and ruin it. What am I going to do?

Hate is able to provoke disorders, to ruin a social organization, to cast a country into a period of bloody revolutions; but it produces nothing.

I am dead set against free agency. It can ruin baseball.

If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.

Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.

He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome.

The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin,' in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the same.

Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.

We have made drugs an Olympic event. It receives most of the coverage at the Games and even the suspicion of guilt can ruin a reputation for life.

I'll just be sitting down having dinner with girlfriends or something and people come up and ruin the dinner.