Wrecks Quotes

It is only what is written upon the soul of man that will survive the wreck of time.

We would do well to ask why governments seem to find it so easy to raise the money required to wreck the biosphere, and so difficult to raise the money required to save it.

And in the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives.

Such was the wreck of the Hesperus, In the midnight and the snow! Christ save us all from a death like this, On the reef of Norman's Woe!

I don't think of the New Urbanism as an economic or political train wreck. I think of it as one of these great generational upheavals that's coming.

I did a film once that I was killed in. It was a painful, horrifying day. It was a wonderful day from the standpoint of acting, but I was a wreck otherwise.

I was already a wreck when I went in, and prison nearly destroyed what little was left of me. I was worse when I came out than I was when I went in, and was not positively changed in any way.

The world's great age begins anew, The golden years return, The earth doth like a snake renew Her winter weeds outworn; Heaven smiles, and faiths and empires gleam, Like wrecks of a dissolving dream.

You are now In London, that great sea, whose ebb and flow At once is deaf and loud, and on the shore Vomits its wrecks, and still howls on for more. Yet in its depth what treasures!

To hope till hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates.

Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.

As a part owner, I'm going to be not only an admirer... but a nervous wreck.

Too often, the person who wrecks our work is us.

Pass the pub that wrecks your body And the church, all they want is your money

Rather than saying, 'My checking account is a wreck,' change it to 'I will learn how to track my spending and balance my checkbook.'

I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.

Anti-social behaviour still blights lives, wrecks communities and provides a pathway to criminality.

Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.

The wrecks of slavery are fast growing a fungus crop of sentiment.

Train wreck, extremely fast train, but usually ends up derailed somehow.

If it's wrong to wreck the planet, it's wrong to profit from the wreckage.

In the cross of Christ I glory,Towering o'er the wrecks of time;All the light of sacred storyGathers round its head sublime.

Between being able to and actually doing something lies an ocean, and on its bottom rests all too often the wreck of willpower.

I'm attracted to creative people and train wrecks, and there's no shortage of that in Los Angeles.

The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion.

I'm a total wreck. Afraid to let anyone near. Afraid they'll see the real me.

There's conflict on every continent, the poverty rate is increasing, the environment's a wreck, and I'm not supposed to be affected?

If they had wanted to punish me, they should have kept me in a communal apartment. Then I would have become a wreck.

It was a train wreck happening right in front of me and I couldn't do anything about it, except that not only was I watching, I was also the train.

I am a Rambling Wreck from Georgia Tech.

I have found the best way to avoid ending your life as a bitter wreck is to start out as one.

Everyone's life is a train wreck. Your life happens to be a high-class train wreck.

Tory plans to cut 'further and faster' would wreck recovery and roll back Labour's many successes.

He was getting that look he gets, oh boy, like Here comes Moses tromping down off of Mount Syanide with ten fresh ways to wreck your life.

God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man's dearer than to himself.

I dont think we're the type of band people look at and say, 'I want to grow up to be just like that'. We're like a train wreck.

My lifes a wreck, and I love it.

The smartest move I ever made in showbusiness was to start off looking like the kind of wreck I would end up as. I was already aged in the wood.

I just do my thing and try each show to be more honest about why I am and who I am. It's quite tricky and actually nerve-racking to do that. It's kind of a happy train wreck.

A pseudo-event ... comes about because someone has planned it, planted, or incited it. Typically, it is not a train wreck or an earthquake, but an interview.

Well, I've been in a few car wrecks.

Once a Altman's film has been in a town, it kind of wrecks the town. It doesn't even matter what the film is because, suddenly, everybody's hip and stores start doubling prices or whatever.

[Ted] Cruz is going down. He looks like a nervous wreck.

People love to watch a train wreck, I suppose.

You know, we have a fiscal train wreck before us. And unless we act, and act deliberately, we're not going to enable our kids to have what we have. It's plain and simple as that.

I'm a nervous wreck. If it's a 20-day shoot, at lunchtime on the first day, I'm thinking "Only 19 and a half days to go... I can make it!"

I'm not great about putting on make-up, I look like a wreck half the time.

It rolls in grandeur lone-- The stream of Time; And on its shores lie strown The wrecks of every clime.

The sea, vast and wild as it is, bears thus the waste and wrecks of human art to its remotest shore. There is no telling what it may not vomit up.

Implacable I, the implacable Sea; Implacable most when most I smile serene- Pleased, not appeased, by myriad wrecks in me.