Wracked Quotes

#1. Strenuous occasions where (jumpy, un-opiated, wracked to the last synapse),

Donna Tartt

#2. Why was Barack Obama attractive to people in 2008? If you think about Barack Obama, there's all this anxiety about society, just kind of wracked by centripetal forces - the idea that the center's not holding, no one can talk to each other, the idea of a political system that's broken.

Rick Perlstein

#3. In a world wracked by hatred, economic crisis, and political tension, America remains mankind's best hope.

Ronald Reagan

#4. My dad didn't often bring me to the set, being an actor himself, so my infancy as an actor was wracked with a lot of giggles and nervousness.

Josh Brolin

#5. I was wracked with insecurity.

Ray Romano

#6. I hate when the major event of a show I watch is spoiled for me. And I'm wracked with guilt when/if I spoil something for someone else.

Bryan Cogman

#7. A month is excruciatingly long when all you think of and all that you feel is pain. I have been so wracked with pain that it has become a part of me; it has become who I am.

S.J. Davis

#8. Major cities wracked by the drug war, as many as 80 percent of young African American men now have criminal records and are thus subject to legalized discrimination for the rest of their lives.

Michelle Alexander

#9. And the shining strengthened me against the fright
whose agony had wracked the lake of my heart
through all the terrors of that piteous night.

Dante Alighieri

#10. Are you saying a society wracked by plague is preferable to one wracked by indifference?

Bernard Beckett

#11. Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is likely, and dancers know it.

Shana Alexander

#12. Though the cross of Christ has been beautified by the poet and the artist, the avid seeker after God is likely to find it the same savage implement of destruction it was in the days of old. The way of the cross is still the pain-wracked path to spiritual power and fruitfulness.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#13. To live in a realm wracked with chaos is to live with pain, anguishing memories, and trolls. But it is also means living with unicorns.

C. Gockel

#14. Desperate, lonely, cut off from the human community which in many cases has ceased to exist, under the sentence of violent death, wracked by desires for intimacy they do not know how to fulfil, at the same time tormented by the presence of women, men turn to logic.

Andrea Nye

#15. Television's escapist programming naturally continues to endorse living beyond one's means as the time-tested American Way and rarely depicts families or individuals wracked by the pressures and miseries that come with excess.

Tom Shales

#16. So far I haven't really been prominent enough to get critical attention focused on me. So, of course, I fully expect bad reviews, but I will be wracked with misery as a result.

Emily Mortimer

#17. A lot of people have gotten into comedy because of certain influences in their lives or events that were painful, and I really have wracked my brain to figure it out. I pretty much have had a normal childhood. Maybe it was too normal.

Will Ferrell

#18. Chris wracked his brain for the right solution.
Leadership.
Strength.
Loyalty-
A show of loyalty.

Ellen Connor

#19. The truth is, I've always been wracked with self-loathing and terrible, paralysing depression.

Shirley Manson

#20. I did 12 years with nuns, you know. So I came out of it going, like, 'I think Jesus is all right.' The rest of it I think stinks to the high heavens.

Denis Leary

#21. Biologically, I'm 10. Chronologically, I'm 33. In hockey years, I'm 66.

Mark Messier

#22. I think Nesta feels everything - sees too much; sees and feels it all. And she burns with it. Keeping that wall up helps from being overwhelmed, from caring too greatly.

Sarah J. Maas

#23. What a lopsided stumpy mess people made of a family tree these days. The last thing any of them needed was some new little sprig grafted on.

Jean Thompson

#24. Samantha, you're in my world now. We have standards here.
-Jesse

Wendy Ely

#25. When the imitation of Christ does not mean to live a life like Christ, but to live your life as authentically as Christ lived his, then there are many ways and forms in which a man can be a Christian.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#26. Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space.

Diane Black

#27. My speed is something that has made a difference to my whole career. When I've felt quick and I'm moving well, it makes a huge difference to my entire game. When I feel a bit slower, I end up doing a lot more defending. When I'm a bit quicker to the ball, I feel I can attack a lot more.

Andy Murray

#28. No one is truly dead until they are no longer loved.

Theophile Gautier

#29. Clinton's pet Labrador, Buddy, is getting neutered. The dog will never have sex again. Overnight, they've turned Buddy from a Democrat into a Republican.

Jay Leno

#30. So who was she? (Vane)
Why do you assume it was a female? (Fang)
Didn't know you were fond of men. I'll file that under my special Fang folder. (Vane)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#31. Being a mother must be the saddest yet the most hopeful thing in the world, falling into a love that, once started, would never end.

Yiyun Li

#32. Poor bastard. Wait 'till he sees the bats.

Hunter S. Thompson

#33. If we fulfill our responsibility to the Constitution, the Supreme Court will be filled with superior legal minds who will pursue the one agenda that our founding fathers intended in writing the Constitution: justice, rather than political or personal goals.

Chuck Grassley