Wreck Quotes

272 Wreck quotes by 239 unique authors

Itâ€™s a pity if someoneâ€¦ has to console himself for the wreck of his days with the notion that somehow his voice, his work embodies… — Leonard Cohen
Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every… — Thomas Jefferson
At last, the answer why. The lesson that had been so hard to find, so difficult to learn, came quick and clear and simple. The… — Richard Bach
He warned Mother not to flout God's Will by expecting too much of us. "Sending a girl to college is like pouring water in your… — Barbara Kingsolver
I was lingering out on the pavement. There was a missing person inside of myself and I needed to find him . . . I… — Bob Dylan
and when they pulled her from the wreck, you know, she still had on her shades — Tom Waits
His mouth opens. From inside him comes a slow stream, without breath, without interruption. It flows up through his body and out upon me; it… — J M Coetzee
I talk about going to [George W. Bush's] Inauguration and crying when he took the oath, 'cause I was so afraid he was going to… — Sarah Vowell
And my haunting instinct that somehow good was not merely a tool to be used, but a relic to be guarded, like the goods from… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Writing turns you into somebody who's always wrong. the illusion that you may get it right someday is the perversity that draws you on. What… — Philip Roth
Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea. — Iris Murdoch
There was nothing I hated worse than clumps of whispering girls who got quiet when I passed. I started picking scabs off my body and,… — Sue Monk Kidd
She forgot to be shy at the moment, in honestly warning him away from the sunken wreck he had a dream of raising; and looked… — Charles Dickens
The last trumpet ever to be sounded shall blow even algebra to wreck. — Charles Dickens
You can serve or you can sing, and wreck your heart in prayer, working the world's hard work. — Annie Dillard
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… — Barbara Kingsolver
To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy Power, which seems omnipotent; To love, and bear;… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Enoch...why are you here? Why has my spirit been incarnated into a physical bodi in this world generally? Or specifically, why am I here in… — Neal Stephenson
Abby: I could be a slave to your darkest desires. I can do things. Anything you want. Tommy: Well, that's terrific, because we have a… — Christopher Moore
As Cole left school that day with Peter, they stopped beside the bulldog statue. "You two are wrecking our school!" shouted one of the jocks… — Ben Mikaelsen

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