Ruing Quotes & Sayings

I was working at the 'New York Times,' ruing every second of my life, thinking how was I ever going to get out of here, and thinking that one could only do it the way newspaper people have always done it. I needed a scoop, and I would go out and I would dream upon coming upon fires or the sky falling in front of me or anything. — Michael Wolf

Dismiss the old horse in good time, lest he fail in the lists and the spectators laugh. — Horace

No doing without some ruing. — Sigrid Undset

One repressive state after another has had to face the dilemma of wanting abundant Internet for economic advancement, while ruing the ways in which its citizens can become empowered to express themselves fearlessly. — Jonathan Zittrain

Callie was ruing the moment that afternoon when she had suggested a small, intimate dinner. Tonight, even the ancestors watching from the portraits lining the sitting-room walls seemed to be mocking her. — Sarah MacLean

The mad King, the bad King, the sad King. Ring-a-ding-ding, all hail the King! — Stephen King

Art is fire plus algebra. — Jorge Luis Borges

I want to be in the best band in the world again. — Liam Gallagher

The great owners, striking at the immediate thing, the widening government, the growing labor unity; striking at new taxes, at plans; not knowing these things are results, not causes. Results, not causes; results, not causes. — John Steinbeck

Sun always finds a way to give its light; truth always finds a way to show its face! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I felt the water rising enough to touch my Vans. She was worth ruing a pair of shoes over. — Nyrae Dawn

My purpose is to entertain and please myself. I feel that if I am entertained, then there will be enough other readers who will be entertained, too. — Elmore Leonard

We all end up ruing everything. It's the nature of this thing we call 'our condition.' Could, but didn't ... Wanted to, but stopped myself ... All the damn statements of regret we can never dodge. — Douglas Kennedy

But apparently yoiu don't need dot-com wealth to ruin an area for its low-income residents. The Pioneer Press quotes Secretary of HUD Andrew Cuomo ruing the "cruel irony" that prosperity is shrinking the stock of affordable housing nationwide: "The stronger the economy, the stronger the upward pressure on rents. — Barbara Ehrenreich

Allah gives us gifts, but then we often become dependent on those gifts, instead of Him. when He gives us money, we depend on the money - not Him. when He gives us people, we depend on people - not Him. when He gives us status or power, we depend on, and become distracted by these things. when Allah gives us health, we become deceived. e think we will never die. — Yasmin Mogahed

Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday. — Marcus Aurelius

By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Americans every day against abuse of power by those in authority. — John Roberts

Why should I seek for love or study it?
It is of God and passes human wit;
I study hatred with great diligence,
For that's a passion in my own control,
A sort of besom that can clear the soul
Of everything that is not mind or sense. — William Butler Yeats

I always joke deep down I'm really a teenage girl on the inside. — John Searles