Wrecked Quotes

79 Wrecked quotes by 73 unique authors

And here we encounter the seeds of government disaster and collapse - the kind that wrecked ancient Rome and every other civilization that allowed a… — Barry Goldwater
We must ask whether our machine technology makes us proof against all those destructive forces which plagued Roman society and ultimately wrecked Roman civilization. Our… — Robert Strausz-Hupe
Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman. — Robertson Davies
Too often in recent history liberal governments have been wrecked on rocks of loose fiscal policy. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Hamburg totally wrecked us. I remember getting home to England and my dad thought I was half-dead. I looked like a skeleton, I hadn't noticed… — Paul McCartney
I got wrecked by a dirty driver. There's no other way of putting it. He's cool with that. I have raced him really cool over… — Brad Keselowski
All these guys picking on smart kids and calling them geeks and dweebs are going to grow up and want to know why they don't… — Bruce Coville
I've wrecked and ravaged half my life in the pursuit of women, and I suffer the pangs of about seventeen regrets -- the seventeen who… — Edward Abbey
It is impossible to read the daily press without being diverted from reality. You are full of enthusiasm for the eternal verities - life is… — Patrick Kavanagh
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… — Edward Smith
Those in the community who defy authority and 'break the law' seem to enjoy the good life and have everything in the way of material… — Huey Newton
Farm policy, although it's complex, can be explained. What it can't be is believed. No cheating spouse, no teen with a wrecked family car, no… — P.J. O'Rourke
The corporations that profit from permanent war need us to be afraid. Fear stops us from objecting to government spending on a bloated military. Fear… — Chris Hedges
We are all passengers aboard one ship, the Earth, and we must not allow it to be wrecked. There will be no second Noah's Ark. — Mikhail Gorbachev
Anxiety and Ennui are the Scylla and Charybdis on which the bark of human happiness is most often wrecked. — William Edward Hartpole Lecky
The secularists have not wrecked divine things; but the secularists have wrecked secular things, if that is any comfort to them. The Titans did not… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
We've spent half the expenditures, we've wrecked our budget on all these other domestic programs, and the only justification for it, in my opinion, to… — John F. Kennedy
Debt is a task master to be feared almost as much as the dictators themselves. It has enslaved thousands in its meshes. It has wrecked… — Stephen L. Richards
To embarrass justice by multiplicity of laws, or to hazard it by confidence in judges, seem to be the opposite rocks on which all civil… — Samuel Johnson
I was not great behind the counter. I had a week off without asking for it. Another time, we had a cart go up in… — Mike Weir
My mind's sunk so low, Claudia, because of you, wrecked itself on your account so bad already, that I couldn't like you if you were… — Catullus
Women and God are the two rocks on which a man must either anchor or be wrecked. — Frederick William Robertson
Millions of people have wrecked their lives in angry turmoil, because they refused to accept the worst; refused to try to improve upon it; refused… — Dale Carnegie
After going to war against the U.N.'s expressed wishes, the U.S. is now admitting it needs the U.N.'s help. It's the geopolitical equivalent of the… — Jon Stewart
One time I semi-wrecked my uncle's truck. He told me to back it up into a ditch, but my foot slipped and I gunned it… — RJ Mitte

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