Top 100 Quotes About Wrecks
#2. Between being able to and actually doing something lies an ocean, and on its bottom rests all too often the wreck of willpower.
Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
#3. I'm attracted to creative people and train wrecks, and there's no shortage of that in Los Angeles.
Pete Wentz
#5. God, would you just come here, Kate? I'll behave, I promise. It wrecks me to see you cry and not be able to hold you. Or if you can't do that, go to him and let him hold you. I'm making a bloody mess of everything.
Rysa Walker
#6. I get it," said Link. "Even if it wrecks everything, even if you know you're gonna get busted, sometimes you gotta do it anyway."
"Something like that.
Kami Garcia
#7. Look round, the wrecks of play behold; Estates dismember'd, mortgaged, sold! Their owners now to jails confin'd, Show equal poverty of mind.
John Gay
#8. As a boy, it occurred to me, all people over 40 had seemed to me just worn-out old wrecks, so old that there was hardly any difference between them. A man of 45 had seemed to me older than this old dodderer of 65 seemed now. I was 45 myself. It frightened me.
George Orwell
#9. Too often, the person who wrecks our work is us.
Seth Godin
#10. Values will be adjusted, and enterprising people will pick up the wrecks from less competent people.
Andrew Mellon
#11. It rolls in grandeur lone
The stream of Time;
And on its shores lie strown
The wrecks of every clime.
Harvey Rice
#12. The spiritual path wrecks the body And afterwards restores it to health. It destroys the house to unearth the treasure, And with that treasure builds it better than before.
Rumi
#13. I love movies. And I dig a great love story: the kind that wrecks me, then builds me back up and leaves me inspired. I write what I want to see.
Gina Prince-Bythewood
#14. 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
#15. Did you really think I'd ceased to care? Kitten, I care so much it wrecks me.
Jeaniene Frost
#16. Most people are one car wreck away from needing somebody's help. So, I don't take anything for granted much anymore.
Lindsey Graham
#17. If they had wanted to punish me, they should have kept me in a communal apartment. Then I would have become a wreck.
Joseph Brodsky
#18. The floor of Christendom and elsewhere is littered with wrecks made by old prophets. God won't stand nonsense from any man. Every man has to choose between Christ and Barabbas, and every Christian between God and some old prophet.
Charles Studd
#19. Oh my God, this can't be happening!" I cried.
"What?"
"Mopeds? Those are the wheels Pete gives us? I knew he was pissed off at me! It was all that time I spent in the hospital wasn't it? Or was it the wrecks? But I only tore up one car last time! And that wasn't my fault!
Jennifer Rardin
#20. The smartest move I ever made in showbusiness was to start off looking like the kind of wreck I would end up as. I was already aged in the wood.
Clive James
#21. Darling," she said, "we're a train wreck."
"Sweetheart," I said, "train wrecks always make the front page.
Raziel Reid
#23. Before the acorn can bring forth the oak, it must become itself a wreck. No plant ever came from any but a wrecked seed.
Hannah Whitall Smith
#24. I don't care if half the league strikes. Those who do will encounter quick retribution. All will be suspended, and I don't care if it wrecks the league for 10 years. This is the United States of America, and one citizen has as much right to play as another.
Ford Frick
#25. I was already a wreck when I went in, and prison nearly destroyed what little was left of me. I was worse when I came out than I was when I went in, and was not positively changed in any way.
Patricia McConnell
#26. I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.
Taylor Dayne
#27. Being together ... it will never be right. Thought it sure as hell feels like it could. We'd result to train wrecks. We'd cause whirlwinds. We'd start wildfires.
Nessie Q.
#28. You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil Lay down the wreck of power to rest, Where man can boast that he has trod On him that was "the scourge of God."
Edward Everett Hale
#29. It's a compulsive need to wreck everything. You might notice there's a pattern of stripping down and building back up again throughout my life. But I guess that's how some of us conduct our lives.
David Bowie
#30. I just always wanted to sit in a casting session and see all of the train wrecks that come in.
Holland Roden
#31. Depressed people tended to end things on special occasions and party goers drank too much and then got behind the wheels of vehicles. But Valentine's Day wasn't too bad as far as suicides and car wrecks were concerned.
Abbi Glines
#32. I'm not going to just stop doing it because I got hurt once. People get hurt in car wrecks every day, and they don't stop driving the car the rest of their life to work. It's my passion. It's what I want to do with my life. It's a part of what I do.
Tony Stewart
#33. People always slow down for a train wreck. It's like junk food. If you don't feel good about yourself, you want to read crap about other people, like gossip in high school. You don't understand why it's there, but somehow it makes a lot of people feel better.
Angelina Jolie
#34. People have only two or three adjectives to describe people in the public eye. And that's okay. As long as those adjectives aren't train wreck, mess, terrible.
Taylor Swift
#35. Everyone's life is a train wreck. Your life happens to be a high-class train wreck.
Tyne Daly
#36. Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.
William Allen White
#37. Train wreck, extremely fast train, but usually ends up derailed somehow,
Clint Bowyer
#38. It was a train wreck happening right in front of me and I couldn't do anything about it, except that not only was I watching, I was also the train.
Lisa Kleypas
#39. If it's wrong to wreck the planet, it's wrong to profit from the wreckage.
Bill McKibben
#40. If you grow up in the suburbs, you hear of people dying of old age, car wrecks, cancer. In the city, it's always people dying of violence or stray bullets.
Suge Knight
#41. But the earth turns, and old ways are reexamined. The insurance companies say there are so many deer, so many wrecks. They have algorithms on their side. Kill more deer. Let all the predators live.
Matthew Neill Null
#42. I can't afford to die. It would wreck my image.
Jack LaLanne
#43. Certain shades of limelight wreck a girl's complexion.
Holly Golightly
#44. Yes, it is worse than thrown away, because every fair minded man must admit that the expenditure of this sum of money in the county for intoxicating liquor creates lawlessness, makes criminals, wrecks homes and brings trouble to innocent women and children.
Thomas Jordan Jarvis
#45. We are all wonderful, beautiful wrecks. That's what connects us
that we're all broken, all beautifully imperfect.
Emilio Estevez
#46. Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd.
John Milton
#47. Molly was committing dinner by that time, aided and abetted by Sanya, who seemed to take some kind of grim Russian delight in watching train wrecks in progress.
Jim Butcher
#48. History," Bagehot wrote, "is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world gave a chance for it.
Roger Kimball
#49. It is because God loves the world he has made, and especially his human creatures, that he hates everything that spoils, wrecks, or defaces it.
N. T. Wright
#50. Anti-social behaviour still blights lives, wrecks communities and provides a pathway to criminality.
Theresa May
#51. I'm tired of the whole anti gun thing. Saying that Guns cause Murders is like saying Steering Wheels cause car wrecks
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#52. [Ted] Cruz is going down. He looks like a nervous wreck.
Donald Trump
#53. 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
#54. You may often have to watch Jesus Christ wreck a life before He saves it.
Oswald Chambers
#55. That's what I want to be when I grow up, just a peaceful wreck holding hands with other peaceful wrecks ...
Tillie Olsen
#56. If it doesn't work, at least it will be an interesting train wreck.
Craig Ferguson
#57. 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
#58. We would do well to ask why governments seem to find it so easy to raise the money required to wreck the biosphere, and so difficult to raise the money required to save it.
George Monbiot
#59. I earned my share same as everybody. Well, I coulda got killed same as everybody. And I'm wanted by the law same as everybody. I'm a nervous wreck, and that's the truth. I have to take sass from Miss Bonnie Parker all the time. I deserve mine.
Estelle Parsons
#60. P.S. Please don't call me Isabella. That name belongs to a really pretty girl who never wrecks her clothes and who never gets dirt under her fingernails. That's definitely not me. My name is Izzy.
Jenny Lundquist
#61. Implacable I, the implacable Sea; Implacable most when most I smile serene- Pleased, not appeased, by myriad wrecks in me.
Herman Melville
#62. In this Puritan sinkhole of a culture, we don't teach children the uses of pleasure, and so they decide we are fools and go their own way, blindly. If we learned to drive as badly as we learn to make love, the roads would be nothing but wrecks.
Paul Monette
#63. I'm a worthless check, a total wreck, a flop But if baby I'm the bottom, you're the top.
Cole Porter
#64. The world's great age begins anew, The golden years return, The earth doth like a snake renew Her winter weeds outworn; Heaven smiles, and faiths and empires gleam, Like wrecks of a dissolving dream.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#65. That's the funny thing about music. Part of the magic, I quess. Sometimes it replenishes me, like I'm feeding off its energy and it fills me. And other times, it pulls at my pain, weaves its way through the strands of my soul and wrecks it.
Caisey Quinn
#66. A process of accretion. Barnacles growing on a wreck or a rock. I'd rather have a wreck than a ship that sails. Things attach themselves to wrecks. Strange fish find your wreck or rock to be a good feeding ground; after a while you've got a situation with possibilities.
Donald Barthelme
#67. A pseudo-event ... comes about because someone has planned it, planted, or incited it. Typically, it is not a train wreck or an earthquake, but an interview.
Daniel J. Boorstin
#69. I have always felt a little strange about it being so unique that I'm not a train wreck. Like, this weird fluke that I'm not - partying all the time.
Taylor Swift
#72. Before I got in the car, I was puking all over the place and on the grid. I was just a shaking wreck.
James Hunt
#73. Having been a lobbyist myself you can't overstate how easy it is to get things done your way. It's a complicated policy and many lobbyists are trying to wreck amendments as we speak.
Bryony Worthington, Baroness Worthington
#74. Education is like pruning ; it wrecks the natural growth of the tree in favour of a form that is useful to commercial society
Tom Hodgkinson
#75. I just see a huge train wreck coming down. You and I have discussed this many times, and I don't see any results yet.
Max Baucus
#76. It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure.
Oscar Wilde
#77. Other bands wanted to wreck hotel rooms; Roxy Music wanted to redecorate them.
Bryan Ferry
#78. But beauty is set apart,
beauty is cast by the sea,
a barren rock,
beauty is set about
with wrecks of ships ...
Hilda Doolittle
#79. Lord God ... use me as Your instrument
but do not forsake me, for if ever I should be on my own, I would easily wreck it all.
Martin Luther
#81. I'm always really worried about ruining their lives. Especially with people that aren't famous. It's such a massive change. I'm kind of a paranoid wreck. I've eaten a lot of room service.
Robert Pattinson
#82. Sometimes you've gotta wreck the truck to get the insurance money to make the payment on the truck.
Larry The Cable Guy
#83. Wrecks are going to happen in this business, that's just a risk of the sport. If you can't keep from worrying about it, then you're in the wrong line of work.
Coo Coo Marlin
#84. And we want car wrecks. We say we don't. But we love them. To look is to love. A thousand people drive past the statue of David. Two hundred look. A thousand people drive past a car wreck. A thousand look.
Jess Walter
#85. Son, how easily an open heart can be poisoned, how quickly love becomes the seeds of rage. Life wrecks the living.
Sunil Yapa
#86. Civilization ... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.
Richard Bach
#87. Screw the dialogue, let's wreck some cars.
Hal Needham
#88. God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man's dearer than to himself.
Ben Jonson
#90. Nothing wrecks your nails like a lethal pandemic plague,
Margaret Atwood
#92. It is the business of future to be dangerous ... The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur.
Alfred North Whitehead
#94. On golfer Rory McIlroy's collapse in the final round of the 2011 Masters: We had hoped to compare the young Northern Irishman to the great Masters champions but instead had to reach for the compendium of great golfing train wrecks.
Matt Dickinson
#95. I seem to walk on a transparent surface and see beneath me all the bones and wrecks and tentacles that will eventually claim me: in other words, old age, incapacity, loneliness, death of others & myself ...
Philip Larkin
#96. I dont think we're the type of band people look at and say, 'I want to grow up to be just like that'. We're like a train wreck.
Billy Corgan
#97. There's conflict on every continent, the poverty rate is increasing, the environment's a wreck, and I'm not supposed to be affected?
Janet Tashjian
#98. 'The Notebook' wrecks me! I cry like a 6-year-old girl at the end.
Matt Barr
#100. 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!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
