Quotes About Shambles

#1. Students of history are horror-struck at the massacres of old; but in the shambles, men are being murdered to-day.

Herman Melville

#2. The bed of a tortured soul is always in shambles by morning.

Elizabeth Mckenzie

#3. The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact. Our civilization is founded on the shambles, and every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.

William James

#4. I applied for a job at Starbucks. One of the questions was, 'Why do you want to work at Starbucks?' Uh, because my life is in shambles.

Hannibal Buress

#5. The instinctive preference was to read rather than to act. No wonder our actual lives were more or less a shambles

Joseph Brodsky

#6. Teenagers can spot hypocrisy a mile away and here I was telling them how to cope when they witnessed the shambles of my own life and how I was living.

David W. Earle

#7. I'M SAD, because another young life was lost from his family, the racial divide has widened, a community is in shambles, accusations, insensitivity hurt and hatred are boiling over, and we may never know the truth about what happened that day.

Benjamin Watson

#8. Those we love, we can grow to hate. And life ... life can be perfect one minute and in shambles the next.

Gena Showalter

#9. My life has been in shambles, like my personal relationships, my laundry, paying bills now I have someone who pays my bills and it's always been a challenge because it overwhelms me.

Adam Rapp

#10. I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.

Zig Ziglar

#11. The second half was easy to sum up - and absolute shambles!
(on England losing to Denmark 4-1)

Alan Hansen

#12. God is British to the bone, and every fellow here knows it. You can't exploit him to save yourself, you blaspheming cadaverous-prig; you disgusting shambles of porcelain-skin, unwholesome-fat and puny-bones. Your blatant disregard for God's word shan't earn you any favours here!

Joss Sheldon

#13. The present system of protecting NHS patients was a bit of a shambles.

Frank Dobson

#14. Believing that a crisis is a useful thing to create, the Obama administration - which understands that, for liberalism, worse is better - has deliberately aggravated the fiscal shambles that the Great Recession accelerated.

George Will

#15. Recovery is an acceptance that your life is in shambles and you have to change it.

Jamie Lee Curtis

#16. Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#17. Zimbabwe is a lost country. There is no money in Zimbabwe, everything stands still. The economy of the country is in shambles, the inflation is the highest in this world.

Thomas Mapfumo

#18. You don't want to get so distracted, focusing on what the opposition is putting forth that you forget to remind America that the real issue is 8.3 percent unemployment, virtually no growth at all in an economy that has been in shambles for the last four years under Obama.

John Sununu

#19. It's important for me to have hope because that's my job as a parent, to have hope, for my kids, that we're not going to leave them in a world that's in shambles, that's a chaotic place, that's a dangerous place.

James Cameron

#20. In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition. So nobody really thought much about quality. Why should they? The world bought everything America produced. It was a prescription for disaster.

W. Edwards Deming

#21. The American punctuation rule sticks in the craw of every computer scientist, logician, and linguist, because any ordering of typographical delimiters that fails to reflect the logical nesting of the content makes a shambles of their work.

Steven Pinker

#22. My life is in shambles. It is crazy. It couldn't get any crazier. I'm just trying to stay sane.

Barry Bonds

#23. What's any artist, but the dregs of his work? the human shambles that follows it around. What's left of the man when the work's done but a shambles of apology.

William Gaddis

#24. What is it they want from the man that they didn't get from the work? What do they expect? What is there left when he's done with his work, what's any artist but the dregs of his work, the human shambles that follows it around?

William Gaddis

#25. My life might fall to shambles because of you." "Well, I'll be there to help you pick up the pieces.

Katie Kaleski

#26. Gardeners do first, read later. Why not? Plants are very gracious in accepting an apology.

Janet Macunovich

#27. If you ask: What is the good of education? The answer is easy: Education makes good men and good men act nobly.

Plato

#28. Our actions are the ground we walk on.

Mandy Patinkin

#29. Answering questions is a major part of sex education. Two rules cover the ground. First, always give a truthful answer to a question; secondly, regard sex knowledge as exactly like any other knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

#30. Marx therefore suggests that the way to abolish the 'problem' of Judaism is to reorganize society so as to abolish bargaining.

Anonymous

#31. Americans are just about the worst at dealing with long-term problems, down there with Uzbekistan, but they respond to a market signal better than almost anyone. They roll the dice bigger and quicker than most.

Jeremy Grantham

#32. Actually, I was rock climbing on this film at 7 in the morning. It was quite unique! But in any event, the colour of the leaves disturbed me so we had to work on that. On the other hand, I didn't want to drench it in a kind of depressing tone.

Martin Scorsese

#33. You don't know what kind of girl I am." "I know precisely the kind of woman you are, Daisy. And if you don't understand it, then it'll be up to me to show it to you.

Kristen Ashley