#ruin

The only thing that counts is if you know how to prepare your ingredients. Even if with the best and freshest ingredients in the world, if your dish is tasteless or burnt, it's ruined. ↗

— Martin Yan

#burnt #counts #dish #even #how

There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends. ↗

— Boris Yeltsin

#discussed #first #friends #generally #i

A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs. ↗

— Edward Young

#like #pile #reflection #ruin #runs

When I was a teenager, if anyone recognized me for anything I did, it would ruin my day. I couldn't handle it. It was some sort of neurotic phobia. I guess I was paranoid that people would treat me differently, or in an unfair way, because of my job. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#anything #because #day #did #differently

Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons. ↗

— Garrett Hardin

#best #commons #destination #each #freedom

Let every man, every corporation, and especially let every village, town, and city, every county and State, get out of debt and keep out of debt. It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times. ↗

— Rutherford B. Hayes

#corporation #county #debt #debtor #especially

We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward. Extreme party action, if continued in such a time, would ruin the party. Moderation is its only chance. The party out of power gains by all partisan conduct of those in power. ↗

— Rutherford B. Hayes

#brought #chance #conduct #continued #extreme

Being the object of Alfred Hitchcock's obsession was horrific, but while he ruined my career, he could never ruin my life. ↗

— Tippi Hedren

#being #career #could #hitchcock #horrific

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 inevitably ruined. ↗

— Patrick Henry

#approaches #attention #downright #everyone #force

Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin. ↗

— Hesiod

#basely #equal #gain #ruin