{"quotes":[{"text":"What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousand books. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.","author":"Edward Abbey","tags":["action","books","deeds","heroes","ruin","sentiment","soul"],"id":6724,"author_id":"Edward+Abbey"},{"text":"This man was once my salvation. Now, he will be my ruin.","author":"K.A. Tucker","tags":["ruin","salvation"],"id":20771,"author_id":"K.A.+Tucker"},{"text":"The fleeting systems lapse like foam,'' he mumbled what was evidently a quotation. 'That's it—foam, and fleeting. All man's toil upon the planet was just so much foam. He domesticated the serviceable animals, destroyed the hostile ones, and cleared the land of its wild vegetation. And then he passed, and the flood of primordial life rolled back again, sweeping his handiwork away—the weeds and the forest inundated his fields, the beasts of prey swept over his flocks, and now there are wolves on the Cliff House beach.' He was appalled by the thought. 'Where four million people disported themselves, the wild wolves roam to-day, and the savage progeny of our loins, with prehistoric weapons, defend themselves against the fanged despoilers. Think of it! And all because of the Scarlet Death—.","author":"Jack London","tags":["civilization","plague","ruin","savages","wolves"],"id":21946,"author_id":"Jack+London"},{"text":"Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways - women  gambling and farming. My family chose the slowest one.","author":"Pope John","tags":["ruin"],"id":25333,"author_id":"Pope+John"},{"text":"If you always want to have whatever you want any time you want it with no delays, and denial of self, you would end up ruining your life.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["delay","denial","ruin"],"id":30674,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"I never was ruined but twice - once when I lost a lawsuit  and once when I gained one.","author":"Voltaire","tags":["ruin"],"id":32864,"author_id":"Voltaire"},{"text":"Nations have passed away and left no traces  And history gives the naked cause of it - One single simple reason in all cases  They fell because their peoples were not fit.","author":"Rudyard Kipling","tags":["ruin"],"id":33950,"author_id":"Rudyard+Kipling"},{"text":"Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.","author":"Edward Abbey","tags":["action","deeds","ruin","sentiment","soul"],"id":34704,"author_id":"Edward+Abbey"},{"text":"So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle  stricken with a dart  Said  when he saw the fashion of the shaft  'With our own feathers  not by others' hands  Are we now smitten.'.","author":"Aeschylus","tags":["ruin"],"id":74294,"author_id":"Aeschylus"},{"text":"She was supposed to be my salvation, and though she wouldn’t be my ruin, the loss was going to thrust my life right back to what started my downward spiral in the first place.","author":"Kelly Moran","tags":["fated-love","romance-novels","ruin"],"id":108079,"author_id":"Kelly+Moran"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":72,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}