#ruined

But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches' bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living, a Labour government - yes, a Labour government - is deliberately creating a huge expansion of faith schools. ↗

— Polly Toynbee

#choirs #churches #converted #creating #deliberately

The character of a people may be ruined by charity. ↗

— Theodor Herzl

#charity #may #people #ruined

Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate. ↗

— Margaret Mead

#co-operate #having #ruined #two

I love you so much, so incredibly much," he went on, "and I forget when you're close to me, I forget who you are. I forget that you're Jem's. I'd have to be the worst sort of person to think what I'm thinking right now. But I am thinking it. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#but-this-book-ruined-them #clockwork-princess #cp #love

I cried for all of those things that should have just been for us... ↗

— Kate Chisman

#crying #fear #fright #frightened #ghost

Who fixes broken people? Is it only other broken people, ones who've already been ruined? And do we need to be fixed? It was the messiness and hurt in our pasts that drove us, and that same hurt connected us at a subdermal level, the kind of scars written so deeply in your cells that you can't even see them anymore, only recognize them in someone else. ↗

— Leah Raeder

#love #ruined #love

Life is like defusing a bomb, once you cut the wrong wire your whole life is ruined. ↗

— Mohamed Zahy Hussain

#defusing #examples #inspirational #life #moral

The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us. ↗

— Josiah Warren

#almost #bankruptcy #brought #check #consumes

Another man whose social life has ruined him. ↗

— Dashiell Hammett

#another man #him #life #man #ruined

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#genius #himself #man #ruined #seldom