Wreckage Quotes

62 quotes by 56 authors

.. every step of the upward way is strewn with wreckage of body, mind, and morals. — G. Stanley Hall
But the people of the disaster area fundamentally needed to understand that the rest of Australia had noticed their misery and their stoicism and their… — Peter Cosgrove
An Armageddon is approaching at the beginning of the third millennium. But it is not the cosmic war and fiery collapse of mankind foretold in… — E. O. Wilson
The true wisdom of the philosopher ought to insist in enjoying everything. Yet we apply ourselves to dissecting and destroying everything that is good in… — Eugene Delacroix
The individual woman is required . . . a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed role and thereby rescue her… — Jeannette Rankin
A man's house burns down. The smoking wreckage represents only a ruined home that was dear through years of use and pleasant associations. By and… — Mark Twain
In the arms of the angel, fly away from here....you are pulled from the wreckage, of your silent reverie, you're in the arms of the… — Sarah McLachlan
There's no theme, no moral to be learned, except for the knowledge that lightning can strike from a clear blue sky one morning and take… — Damon Galgut
Once I witnessed a windstorm so severe two 100-year-old trees were uprooted on the spot. The next day, walking among the wreckage, I found the… — Mary Ruefle
What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization… — Margaret Mitchell
In mindful grief, we become the landing strip that allows any feelings to arrive. Some crash, some land softly. Some harm us, but none harm… — David Richo
I wonder what my father saw in his most secret sight of the right life. It's my guess he wanted to live out his life… — William Kittredge
Our old pilgrims believed stories in which the West was a promise, a place where decent people could escape the wreckage of failed lives and… — William Kittredge
The face of the angel of history is turned toward the past. Where we perceived a chain of events, he sees a single catastrophe which… — Walter Benjamin
The stench of human wreckage in which the Nazi regime finally sank down to defeat has been the most shocking fact of modern times. — Janet Flanner
Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of… — Norman Borlaug
When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken. — Victoria Woodhull
After spending most of her life scanning the horizon for slights and threats, genuine and imagined, she knew the real threat to her happiness came… — Louise Penny
My sudden, unforeseen capitulation had knocked me backward, and I had nothing to hold on to. My internal weather was eerily calm, as if in… — Kate Christensen
If it's wrong to wreck the planet, it's wrong to profit from the wreckage. — Bill McKibben

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