Wreck Quotes

Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country. (Ambrose Bierce)
The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
And in the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Dad was just an emotional wreck. He was drinking a lot of the time; he was smoking a lot of pot. And because he takes certain medications, the drinking were making him... you know, he wasn't even present, really. View quote
Jack Osbourne
Follow your passion. Be yourself, but check yourself before you wreck yourself. View quote
Andy Cohen
Love is the great test of the human. The human is tested by our ability to withstand love. Love is so difficult, it is so challenging, it demands of us that we wreck it with ourselves. It demands of us an honesty that few of us could sustain. View quote
Junot Diaz
You win some, lose some, and wreck some. View quote
Dale Earnhardt
It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it. View quote
David R. Brower
As a part owner, I'm going to be not only an admirer... but a nervous wreck. View quote
Roger Staubach
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. View quote
Jeanne Moreau
The spirit of sarcasm lives and thrives in the midst of universal wreck; its balls are enchanted and itself invulnerable, and it braves retaliations and reprisals because itself is a mere flash, a bodiless and magical nothing. (Henri-Frédéric Amiel)
I've been playing the CNN Drinking Game, have you ever played that? Where you do a shot every time George Bush says the word "evil"? Oh, I'm a wreck! You gotta do a double shot every time he says "evildoers". Chug the bottle for "axis of evil." View quote
Doug Stanhope
Such was the wreck of the Hesperus, In the midnight and the snow! Christ save us all from a death like this, On the reef of Norman's Woe! View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sail forth into the sea of life, O gentle, loving, trusting wife, And safe from all adversity Upon the bosom of that sea Thy comings and thy goings be! For gentleness and love and trust Prevail o'er angry wave and gust; And in the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I am only about half alive-a large part of my strength is consumed in sitting up or walking. My nervous system is a shattered wreck, and I am absolutely bored & listless save when I come upon something which peculiarly interests me. However-so many things do interest me, & interest me intensely, in science, history, philosophy, & literature; that I have never actually desired to die, or entertained any suicidal designs, as might be expected of one with so little kinship to the ordinary features of life. View quote
H. P. Lovecraft
Writing can wreck your body. You sit there on the chair hour after hour and sweat your guts out to get a few words. View quote
Norman Mailer
I wanna be strong, I wanna laugh along, I wanna belong to the living. Alive, alive, I wanna get up and jive, Wanna wreck my stockings in some jukebox dive. View quote
Joni Mitchell
I recorded a song called, I Fall to Pieces, and I was in a car wreck. Now I'm worried because I have a brand-new record, and it's called Crazy! View quote
Patsy Cline
Girl, you better check yourself before you wreck yourself! View quote
Glenn Beck
... after all, who isn't a survivor from the wreck of childhood? View quote
Nicole Krauss
The drama's done. Why then here does any one step forth? - Because one did survive the wreck. (Herman Melville)
Why did the generals who have been so ready to term me a complaisant and incompetent yes-man fail to secure my removal? Was that all that difficult? No, that wasn't it; the truth was that nobody would have been ready to replace me, because each one knew that he would end up just as much a wreck as I. View quote
Wilhelm Keitel
To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than Death or Night; To defy Power, which seems Omnipotent; To love, and bear; to hope, till Hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates; Neither to change nor falter nor repent; This, like thy glory, Titan! is to be Good, great and joyous, beautiful and free; This is alone Life; Joy, Empire, and Victory! View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wreck and ruin without fail. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty. View quote
Albert Einstein
Some people are little Chernobyls, shimmering with silent, spreading poison: get anywhere near them and every breath you take will wreck you from the inside out. View quote
Tana French