Quotes and Sayings About Wrecks
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I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
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You possess only whatever will not be lost in a ship wreck.
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Tory plans to cut 'further and faster' would wreck recovery and roll back Labour's many successes.
-- Alistair DarlingSource : "Electing the Conservatives is a risk we must not take" by Alistair Darling, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2009.
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Bowman turned his back on her and began to search the place methodically and exhaustively. When one searches any place, be it a gypsy caravan or a baronial mansion, methodically and exhaustively, one has to wreck it completely in the process.So, in a orderly and systematic fashion, Bowman set about reducing Czerda's caravan to a total ruin.
-- Alistair MacleanSource : Alistair MacLean (1974). “Caravan to Vaccarès”
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money-making is like a god possessing a priest. He never will leave you, until he has occupied you, wholly changed the order of your being, and seared you through and up and down. Then only would he eventually leave you, but nothing of you except an exhausted wreck, lying prone and wondering who are you.
-- Ama Ata AidooSource : Ama Ata Aidoo (1987). “The Dilemma of a Ghost ; Anowa: Two Plays”, Prentice Hall
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Values will be adjusted, and enterprising people will pick up the wrecks from less competent people.
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Follow your passion. Be yourself, but check yourself before you wreck yourself.
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There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl's complexion.
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Sometimes when you're with somebody, and all their stuff is at your house, it's so hard to break up with them. You don't know what they're going to wreck and destroy.
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If it's wrong to wreck the planet, it's wrong to profit from the wreckage.
-- Bill McKibben -
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If you were a pretty boy pop singer, it would wreck you, growing older
-- Bob Geldof -
Other bands wanted to wreck hotel rooms; Roxy Music wanted to redecorate them.
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We grew up with all the Fat Wreck Records and all the Epitaph bands, that era. We mixed it up together. We were never purists of being just pop or just pop-punk. We always wanted to blend everything that we love.
-- Chuck ComeauSource : "Simple Plan Reveal New Album Plans, Talk 5sos & Warped Tour". Interview with Maria Sherman, www.fuse.tv. July 22, 2015.
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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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Train wreck, extremely fast train, but usually ends up derailed somehow,
-- Clint Bowyer -
I'm a worthless check, a total wreck, a flop But if baby I'm the bottom, you're the top.
-- Cole PorterSource : 1936 'You're theTop', from the showAnything Goes.
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I started on the downers which were a hell of a lot better than the uppers because I was a nervous wreck.
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The psychologist, Paul Rozin, an expert on disgust, observed that a single cockroach will completely wreck the appeal of a bowl of cherries, but a cherry will do nothing at all for a bowl of cockroaches.
-- Daniel KahnemanSource : Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.342, Macmillan
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It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it.
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Do not sit next to my mother when she is watching one of her children compete because you will have fingernails down your back. She is a nervous wreck.
-- Diana Lopez -
You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil Lay down the wreck of power to rest . . .
-- Edward EverettSource : "The Dirge of Alaric, the Visigoth". The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, Volume V, No. 25, January-June 1823.
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When anyone asks me how I can best describe my experiences of nearly forty years at sea, I merely say uneventful. I have never been in an accident of any sort worth speaking about....I never saw a wreck and have never been wrecked, nor was I ever in any predicament that threatened to end in disaster of any sort.
-- Edward Smith -
People love to watch a train wreck, I suppose.
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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.
-- Eric Cantor -
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Circumstances may appear to wreck our lives and God’s plans, but God is not helpless among the ruins.
-- Eric Liddell -
It is only what is written upon the soul of man that will survive the wreck of time.
-- Francis James GrimkeSource : Francis James Grimké (1942). “The Works of Francis J. Grimke,̀: Edited by Carter G. Woodson...”