Wrecks Quotes - Page 9

• What if airplane pilots said, 'my first three years were a wreck'? We worry about the safety of people at the hands of these other professions. Why don't we worry about children being at the hands of an adult, even a well-meaning adult, who doesn't know what he or she is doing?

  Deborah

  Children, Airplane, Hands

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• Check thyself before thy wreck thyself.

  Tyler Oakley

  Checks, Thyself

  "What Tyler Oakley Taught Me About Being a ‘Man’" by Jackson Barnett, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 4, 2014.

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• Oh! weep not that our beauty wears Beneath the wings of Time; That age o'erclouds the brow with cares That once was raised sublime... But mourn the inward wreck we feel As hoary years depart, And Time's effacing fingers steal Young feelings from the heart!

  Robert Montgomery

  Heart, Years, Wings

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• The times in my life when I've been my thinnest, I've been a walking psycho wreck. Forget the fact that I was basically starving myself; skinny was usually due to some kind of loss. Death. Rejection. Divorce.

  Stephanie Klein

  Divorce, Loss, Rejection

  "Moose: A Memoir". Book by Stephanie Klein, www.today.com. 2008.

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• Fear is like a little garden spider that makes us jump back or the poor lost bee on the steering wheel that we blame for our automobile wreck. The problem in fear is our response - the way we treat animals or insects that frighten us. . . . Fear is also the universal scapegoat we blame when we take flight from intimacy or shrink up inside ourselves in a thousand little ways.

  Dan Millman

  Fear, Animal, Garden

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• The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Passion, Mind, Profit

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• The weathercocks on spires and housetops were mysterious with hints of stormy wind, and pointed, like so many ghostly fingers, out to dangerous seas, where fragments of great wrecks were drifting, perhaps, and helpless men were rocked upon them into a sleep as deep as the unfathomable waters.

  Charles Dickens

  Sleep, Men, Wind

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.202

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• People think that I'm tough and strong and that I kicked my way through everything. But they are wrong. The truth is that when I was young I was adorable and a trembling wreck.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Strong, Thinking, Adorable

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• And in the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Noble, Immortality, Stills

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.188

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• Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

  June Jordan

  Children, Motherhood, Thinking

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• You know, we have a fiscal train wreck before us. And unless we act, and act deliberately, we're not going to enable our kids to have what we have. It's plain and simple as that.

  Eric Cantor

  Kids, Simple, Train Wrecks

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• I had already developed inherited back problems. I had degenerative disk disease, a form of scoliosis, arthritis. And I truly believe that if it weren't for the use of steroids - I'm not saying steroids is for everyone, but in my case in general, if I have not used steroids, I mean, physically right now I'd probably be a wreck.

  Jose Canseco

  Believe, Mean, Use

  "Canseco: No Qualms About Using Steroids". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. February 22, 2005.

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• Tory plans to cut 'further and faster' would wreck recovery and roll back Labour's many successes.

  Alistair Darling

  Recovery, Cutting, Faster

  "Electing the Conservatives is a risk we must not take" by Alistair Darling, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2009.

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• When you've got the Daytona 500 out there at stake and everything riding on the line, guys go for it, and the guys that go for it are the ones that are either going to win or they're going to wreck.

  Jeff Gordon

  Winning, Guy, Riding

  "Daytona Duel: Race two winner's press conference". www.motorsport.com. February 16, 2007.

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• Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Country, Stupid, Power

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.230, 谷月社

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• My whole body is a wreck. I've injured myself so many times with jujitsu, skateboarding, football. I guess I like to live hard.

  Scott Caan

  Football, Skateboarding, Body

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• I just do my thing and try each show to be more honest about why I am and who I am. It's quite tricky and actually nerve-racking to do that. It's kind of a happy train wreck.

  Craig Ferguson

  Train Wrecks, Who I Am, Trying

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• Whenever we feel stressed out, that's a signal that our brain is pumping out stress hormones. If sustained over months and years, those hormones can ruin our health and make us a nervous wreck.

  Daniel Goleman

  Stress, Years, Brain

  "How to Manage Holiday Stress" by Daniel Goleman, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 2, 2013.

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• You don't have to be a wreck. You don't have to be sick. One's aim in life should be to die in good health. Just like a candle that burns out.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Sick, Good Health, Should

  "Jeanne Moreau: 'Living is risking'". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2001.

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• And on the pedestal these words appear:
 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
 Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' 
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
 Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
 The lone and level sands stretch far away.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Kings, Names, Despair

  "Ozymandias" l. 9 (1819)

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• Because there's no way on earth she's going to make it through college unless she grows some serious ovaries and turns this train wreck around

  Lisa McMann

  College, Train Wrecks, Ovaries

  Lisa McMann (2010). “Wake”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

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• Lights! Lights would be very good right now! (Amanda) Since they hurt my eyes to the point I can barely see, no they wouldn't. Trust me. (Kyrian) Trust you, my left foot! I'm not immortal over here! (Amanda) Yeah, well, in a bad enough car wreck, neither am I. (Kyrian) I really hate your sense of humor. (Amanda)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hurt, Hate, Eye

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• When you need to borrow money the Mob seems like a better deal I think. 'You don't pay me back I break both yer legs.' Is that all? You won't take my house or wreck my credit rating? Fine where do I sign. Legs? Fine. You don't even have to sign anything.

  Craig Ferguson

  Thinking, House, Needs

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• The wrecks of slavery are fast growing a fungus crop of sentiment.

  William Dean Howells

  Growing, Slavery, Crops

  William Dean Howells (1872). “Their Wedding Journey”, p.154

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• In the cross of Christ I glory,Towering o'er the wrecks of time;All the light of sacred storyGathers round its head sublime.

  John Bowring

  Light, Sublime, Sacred

  John Bowring, “The Cross Of Christ”

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