Wrecks Quotes

• We are all wonderful, beautiful wrecks. That's what connects us-that we're all broken, all beautifully imperfect.

  Emilio Estevez

  Beauty, Beautiful, Broken

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• I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Giving, Earth Day, Environmental

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• The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.

  Simone Weil

  Inspirational, Beauty, Beautiful

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.43, Routledge

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• If we do nothing, the ensuing climate catastrophe will wreck our economy - including wreaking havoc on our food production systems. All credible scientists agree on this point.

  Van Jones

  Climate, Scientist, Economy

  Source: rooseveltinstitute.org

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• Nor deem the irrevocable Past
  As wholly wasted, wholly vain,
  If, rising on its wrecks, at last
  To something nobler we attain.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Past, Rising, Lasts

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.326, Library of America

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• 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.

  Tana French

  People, Poison, Littles

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• You win some, lose some, and wreck some.

  Dale Earnhardt

  Sports, Winning, Nascar Racing

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• I came to explore the wreck.

  Adrienne Rich

  "Diving into the Wreck" l. 51 (1973)

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• The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.

  Joseph Addison

  Birthday, Crush, Easter

  Joseph Addison (1811). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.288

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• I am absolutely enraptured by the atmosphere of a wreck. A dead ship is the house of a tremendous amount of life-fish and plants. The mixture of life and death is mysterious, even religious. There is the same sense of peace and mood that you feel on entering a cathedral.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Life, Religious, Ocean Exploration

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• This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.

  Thomas Moore

  Heaven, Brain, Glimpse

  Thomas Moore (1842). “Lalla Rookh: An Oriental Romance”, p.90

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• Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.

  Richard Bach

  Nature, Civilization, Environment

  "One". Book by Richard Bach, 1989.

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• A rusted nail, placed near the faithful compass, Will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.

  Walter Scott

  Faithful, Nails, Association

  "The Talisman".

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• Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

  Immanuel Kant

  Philosophy, Ocean, Philosophical

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• The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.

  Ayn Rand

  Leadership, Men, Atlas

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.105, Penguin

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• Sometimes people say I should see a therapist, but I don't want any therapist wrecking my weirdness.

  Peter Wolf

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, People

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• Novel writing wrecks homes.

  C. S. Forester

  Home, Writing, Novel

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• Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.

  William Allen White

  Men, World, Reason

  William Allen White (1937). “Forty Years on Main Street”

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• 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 another.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Book, Writing, Lucky

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.305, Simon and Schuster

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• People are beautiful wrecks.

  Emilio Estevez

  Beautiful, People

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• I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.

  Taylor Dane

  Train Wrecks, Issues, Dating

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• 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

  Hope, Country, Causes

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.24, Wildside Press LLC

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• Cancer has changed, and so have I. Life goes on, even becomes normal again. I refused to let cancer wreck my party. There are just too many cool things to do and plan and live for.

  Kris Carr

  Cancer, Party, Goes On

  Kris Carr (2007). “Crazy Sexy Cancer Tips”, p.25, Rowman & Littlefield

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  Nietzsche was the one who did the job for me. At a certain moment in his life, the idea came to him of what he called "the love of your fate." Whatever your fate is, whatever the hell happens, you say, "This is what I need." It may look like a wreck, but go at it as though it were an opportunity, a challenge. If you bring love to that moment-not discouragement-you will find the strength is there. Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life. What a privilege! This is when the spontaneity of your own nature will have a chance to flow.

  Joseph Campbell

  Success, Jobs, Character

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• Implacable I, the implacable Sea; Implacable most when most I smile serene- Pleased, not appeased, by myriad wrecks in me.

  Herman Melville

  Sea, I Smile, Serene

  Herman Melville (1991). “Selected Poems of Herman Melville”, p.121, Fordham Univ Press

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