Wrecks Quotes - Page 14

• 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, Where man can boast that he has trod On him that was "the scourge of God."

  Edward Everett Hale

  Power, Men, Toil

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• 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 to salvage what they could from the wreck. Instead of trying to reconstruct their fortunes, they engaged in a bitter and "violent contest with experience"- and ended up victims of that brooding fixation known as melancholia.

  Dale Carnegie

  Acceptance, People, Trying

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to stop worrying & start living”, p.27, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• 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 Everett

  Toil, Soil, Common

  "The Dirge of Alaric, the Visigoth". The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, Volume V, No. 25, January-June 1823.

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• It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure.

  Oscar Wilde

  Successful, Men, Vanity

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.29, Wordsworth Editions

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• Waking or sleeping, I see a wreck,
  And hear a cry from a reeling deck!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Sleep, Waking, Cry

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.226

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• You can wreck your future running from your past.

  T. D. Jakes

  Running, Past, Your Future

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• Perchance the time will come when we shall not be content to go back and forth upon a raft to some huge Homeric or Shakespearean Indiaman that lies upon the reef, but build a bark out of that wreck and others that are buried in the sands of this desolate island, and such new timber as may be required, in which to sail away to whole new worlds of light and life, where our friends are.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Lying, Islands, Light

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.365, Penguin

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• Lightning will wreck its displeasures not only upon pillars, trees, and sheep, but upon altars and temples, and let the sacrilegious go free.

  Seneca the Younger

  Sheep, Tree, Lightning

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• Horizontal hostility may be expressed in sibling rivalry or in competitive dueling which wrecks not only office tranquility or suburban domesticity but also some radical political groups and, it must be sadly said, some women's liberation groups. ... [it is] misdirected anger that rightly should be focused on the external causes of oppression.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Sibling, Office, Political

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• A pseudo-event ... comes about because someone has planned it, planted, or incited it. Typically, it is not a train wreck or an earthquake, but an interview.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Train Wrecks, Earthquakes, Events

  The Image ch. 1 (1962)

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• Everybody needs to understand that policies are going to change to make it unprofitable if you wreck the planet, those companies that continue exploring and developing fossil fuel resources for which there is no safe use are going to pay a very heavy cost for that.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Change, Needs, Cost

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• Such is your cold coquette, who can't say "No," And won't say "Yes," and keeps you on and off-ing On a lee-shore, till it begins to blow, Then sees your heart wreck'd, with an inward scoffing.

  Lord Byron

  Heart, Blow, Coquette

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.297, Simon and Schuster

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• Before the acorn can bring forth the oak, it must become itself a wreck. No plant ever came from any but a wrecked seed.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Acorns, Plant, Seeds

  Hannah Whitall Smith (2011). “God of All Comfort”, p.121, Anamchara Books

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• Lost! Lost! Lost! Better a whole world on fire than a soul lost! Better every star quenched and the skies a wreck than a single soul to be lost!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Stars, Fire, Sky

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

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• Molly was committing dinner by that time, aided and abetted by Sanya, who seemed to take some kind of grim Russian delight in watching train wrecks in progress.

  Jim Butcher

  Train Wrecks, Progress, Delight

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.2310, Penguin

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• And I add my own love to the history of people who have loved beautiful things, and looked out for them, and pulled them from the fire, and sought them when they were lost, and tried to preserve them and save them while passing them along literally from hand to hand, singing out brilliantly from the wreck of time to the next generation of lovers, and the next.

  Donna Tartt

  Beautiful, Fire, Hands

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• It rolls in grandeur lone--
  The stream of Time;
  And on its shores lie strown
  The wrecks of every clime.

  Harvey Rice

  Time, Lying, Streams

  Harvey Rice (1864). “Mount Vernon, and other poems ... Second edition”, p.21

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• It is the business of future to be dangerous.... The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Future, Civilization, Progress

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• To hope till hope creates
  From its own wreck the thing it contemplates.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Hope, Unbound, Prometheus

  'Prometheus Unbound' (1820) act 4, l. 570

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• A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track-an inch between wreck and smooth-rolling prosperity.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Forgiveness, Hope, Helping Others

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• My 20s was a sea of worry. I worried about benefit forms, about being thrown out of my flat. I never went on holiday because I thought: 'What if an audition comes up?' I was a nervous wreck.

  David Nicholls

  Holiday, Sea, Worry

  "David Nicholls, the man who made a nation cry" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. August 6, 2011.

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• Life may not always be a bed of roses. All of us are aware of this fact. There are numerous times in life when we have to face disappointments. These quotes and sayings surely do inspire and help us to look forward and enjoy the new pathways coming our way. These quotes also lend a different perspective to life, which makes moving forward not a very difficult task.I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Disappointment, Moving

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• Every thing in human character goes to wreck, under the reign of procrastination, while prompt action gives to all things a corresponding and proportional life and energy.

  William Alcott

  Procrastination, Character, Giving

  William Andrus ALCOTT (1846). “The Young Woman's Guide to Excellence ... Tenth Stereotype Edition”, p.127

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• Between being able to and actually doing something lies an ocean, and on its bottom rests all too often the wreck of willpower.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Lying, Ocean, Able

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1994). “Aphorisms”, Ariadne Press (CA)

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• Weak leadership can wreck the soundest strategy; forceful execution of even a poor plan can often bring victory.

  Sun Tzu

  Victory, Execution, Strategy

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