Rubble Quotes

• If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

  Winston Churchill

  Fun, Humorous, Race

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• The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Trying, Communism, Building

  "How We Must Rebuild Russia". Komsomolskaya Pravda, September 18, 1990.

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• We often have need of a profound philosophy to restore to our feelings their original state of innocence, to find our way out of the rubble of things alien to us, to begin to feel for ourselves and to speak ourselves, and I might almost say to exist ourselves.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Philosophy, Science, Profound

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook B 49, 1799.

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• Civilization - a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Civilization, Lit, Vulture

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• You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.

  Prince Charles

  Giving, Architecture, Offensive

  Speech at Mansion House, London, 1 Dec. 1987

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• I became comfortable with what I knew would be the process of trying to pick up the pieces of brain that were in the rubble and tried to make some mosaic out of the pieces and that that would be the trajectory.

  Art Spiegelman

  Brain, Trying, Pieces

  "Art Spiegelman: The Sky Is Falling". Interview with Steven Heller, www.aiga.org. October 01, 2004.

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• As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of their suffering, we feel deeply and profoundly that we should be there, in Haiti, with them, trying our best to prevent death.

  Jean-Bertrand Aristide

  Thinking, People, Waiting

  "Actor, Activist Danny Glover: Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide “Mystified” at US Resistance to His Return". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. February 10, 2010.

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• The towers are gone now, reduced to bloody rubble, along with all hopes for Peace in Our Time, in the United States or any other country. Make no mistake about it: We are At War now & with somebody & and we will stay At War with that mysterious Enemy for the rest of our lives.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Country, War, Mistake

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

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• He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton

  Bill Vaughan

  Writing, Firsts, Temples

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• He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Writing, Poetry, Temples

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• Belief and order give strength. Have to clear rubble before you can build.

  Robert Jordan

  Order, Giving, Belief

  Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson (2009). “The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time”, p.240, Macmillan

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• Some great minds become great by turning the rubble of an exploded paradigm into something consistent and meaningful. Others become great by laying the gunpowder, grain by grain. Every important revolution needs both kinds of minds to complete itself.

  Steven Johnson

  Meaningful, Mind, Important

  Steven Johnson (2008). “The Invention of Air: A Story Of Science, Faith, Revolution, And The Birth Of America”, p.132, Penguin

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• Did you weep for the children who lost their dear loved ones and pray for the ones who don't know? Did you rejoice for the people who walked from the rubble, and sob for the ones left below?

  Alan Jackson

  Children, People, Politics

  Song: Where Were You, Album: Drive, 2002

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• Tragedy blows through your life like a tornado, uprooting everything, creating chaos. You wait for the dust to settle, and then you choose. You can live in the wreckage and pretend it's still the mansion you remember. Or you can crawl from the rubble and slowly rebuild. Because after disaster strikes, the important thing is that you move on. But if you're like me, you just keep chasing the storm.

  Rob Thomas

  Life, Moving, Blow

  Rob Thomas (2007). “Neptune Noir: Unauthorized Investigations into Veronica Mars”, p.46, BenBella Books, Inc.

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• God is always working to make His children aware of a dream that remains alive beneath the rubble of every shattered dream, a new dream that when realized will release a new song, sung with tears, till God wipes them away and we sing with nothing but joy in our hearts.

  Larry Crabb

  Dream, Song, Children

  Larry Crabb (2012). “Shattered Dreams: God's Unexpected Path to Joy”, p.82, WaterBrook

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• The miracle is that some have stepped out of the rags of the Republic's definition to assume the great burden and glory of their humanity and their responsibility for one another. It is an extraordinary achievement to be trapped in the dungeon of color and to dare to shake down its walls and to step out of it leaving the jailkeeper in the rubble.

  James A. Baldwin

  Wall, Responsibility, Color

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• I, 100 percent don't think that's where the American people at, because when there's viral pictures as a baby is in Aleppo with, you know, rubble all over them going viral, and then there are celebrities tweeting why haven't we done nothing about this? And like, oh, there are actually many people for years who've been trying to send aid then and this president won't let us.

  John McCain

  Baby, Thinking, Years

  "Clinton, Trump square off in commander-in-chief forum". "Special Report" with Bret Baier, www.foxnews.com. September 8, 2016.

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• You write something and there’s no reality to it. You can’t inject it with any kind of reality. You have to be patient and keep going, and then, one day, you can feel something signaling to you from the innermost recesses. Like a little person trapped under the rubble of an earthquake. And very, very, very slowly you find your way toward the little bit of living impulse.

  Deborah Eisenberg

  Writing, Reality, Earthquakes

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• Anyway, maybe there weren't any solutions. Human society, corpses and rubble. It never learned, it made the same cretinous mistakes over and over, trading short-term gain for long-term pain.

  Margaret Atwood

  Pain, Mistake, Long

  Margaret Atwood (2004). “Oryx and Crake”, p.243, Anchor

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• When your laboratory explodes, lacing your body with a supercharged elixir, what do you do? You don't just lie there. You crawl out of the rubble, hideously scarred, and swear vengeance on the world. You keep going. You keep trying to take over the world.

  Austin Grossman

  Lying, Trying, World

  Austin Grossman (2007). “Soon I Will Be Invincible: A Novel”, p.261, Vintage

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• Recurrent floods of sadness and anger gradually wash away the rubble of the defunct relationship, leaving only the bits of treasure: the remembered moments of real communion, a new understanding of your own mistakes, a clear picture of the dysfunctions you will never tolerate again.

  Martha Beck

  Real, Mistake, Sadness

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• In every defeat, there develops a silent embryo of victory; in every failure, under the rubbles, there appears a divine key to success.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Success, Keys, Victory

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• I don't know about you, but moderation and restraint is not what I felt when I watched the twin towers crumble to the ground, a side of the Pentagon destroyed, and almost 3,000 of our fellow citizens perish in flames and rubble.

  Karl Rove

  Flames, Towers, Citizens

  Speech at a Fund-raiser in Midtown for the Conservative Party of New York State, www.nytimes.com. June 23, 2005.

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• I think the destiny of all men is not to sit in the rubble of their own making but to reach out for an ultimate perfection which is to be had. At the moment, it is a dream. But as of the moment we clasp hands with our neighbor, we build the first span to bridge the gap between the young and the old. At this hour, it’s a wish. But we have it within our power to make it a reality. If you want to prove that God is not dead, first prove that man is alive.

  Rod Serling

  Dream, Reality, Destiny

  Rod Serling's speech at Moorpark College in Moorpark, California, December 3, 1968.

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• Yes, I know it. In the darkness of my dark beating heart, I know. He'd have loved it alright. You see? Even Death Has A Heart.

  Markus Zusak

  Heart, Dark, Alright

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.242, RH Childrens Books

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