Ruined Life Quotes

• Life is a blast when you know what you're doin', Best to know what you're doin' 'fore your life get ruined. Life is a thrill when your skill is developed, If you ain't got a skill or trade, then shut the hell up.

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  Del tha Funkee Homosapien

  Rap   Skills   Hip Hop  

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• It's amazing how coke encompasses everything in your life. Addicts cannot confront life because they only think of their next hit. I ruined life for my parents, my sister and all my friends.

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  Kirstie Alley

  Thinking   Parent   Coke  

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• Youth, hope, and love: To build a new life on a ruined life, To make the future fairer than the past, And make the past appear a troubled dream.

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  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Dream   Past   And Love  

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.895, Delphi Classics

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• Some would assert that Providence was at work shaking out its pockets in Humanity's lap. Other would argue for that mindless choreographer, Chance. Either way it was a simple thing: a lost diary fell into the hands of a soul-sick war hero on a train from Bombay to Jaipur just when he'd grown tired of the scenery and needed something to keep his thoughts from the minefield of his wretched thoughts. In such mild ways is the groundwork laid for first kisses and ruined lives.

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  Laini Taylor

  War   Hero   Tired  

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• There is nothing so costly to the state as a ruined life

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  Catherine Helen Spence

  Wisdom   Australia   States  

  Catherine Helen Spence (1907). “State Children in Australia: A History of Boarding Out and Its Developments”

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• Stories and cigarettes ruined lives of lesser girls.

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  Pete Yorn

  Girl   Stories   Cigarette  

  Song: Strange Condition, Album: Musicforthemorningafter

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• Gossip and slander are not victimless crimes. Words do not just dissipate into midair. . . . Words can injure and damage, maim and destroy - forcefully, painfully, lastingly. . . . Plans have been disrupted, deals have been lost, companies have fallen, because of idle gossip or malicious slander. Reputations have been sullied, careers have been ruined, lives have been devastated, because of cruel lies or vicious rumors. . . . Your words have such power to do good or evil that they must be chosen carefully, wisely, and well.

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  Wayne D. Dosick

  Life   Lying   Careers  

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• There is no such thing as an acceptable level of unemployment, because hunger is not acceptable, poverty is not acceptable, poor health is not acceptable, and a ruined life is not acceptable.

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  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Wisdom   Unemployment   Levels  

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• He was there beside her, yet she was far away from him, aone with her outraged love and her ruined life.

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  Edith Hamilton

  Far Away   Ruined   Ruined Life  

  Edith Hamilton (1969). “Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes”

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• What else remains for me? Youth, hope and love; To build a new life on a ruined life.

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  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  And Love   New Life   Youth  

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.821, Jazzybee Verlag

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