Wreckage Quotes
62 quotes by 56 authors
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.. every step of the upward way is strewn with wreckage of body, mind, and morals.
— G. Stanley Hall
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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
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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
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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
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The individual woman is required . . . a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed role and thereby rescue her…
— Jeannette Rankin
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken.
— Victoria Woodhull
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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
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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
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If it's wrong to wreck the planet, it's wrong to profit from the wreckage.
— Bill McKibben
Who Wrote These Wreckage Quotes
56 authors contributed a total of 62 Wreckage Quotes, led by these top contributors: