“ For those whom God to ruin has designed He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind. ”
- John Dryden- Copy
“ When man meets an obstacle he can't destroy, he destroys himself. ”
- Ryszard Kapuscinski- Copy
“ Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through… whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it. ”
- Vernon Howard- Copy
“ Once a disease like AIDS reaches the kind of proportions we see in sub-Saharan Africa it is no longer a disease, it is a disaster. Such a widespread disease destroys the work force and shatters the economy. ”
- Peter Walker- Copy
“ Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run. ”
- Bliss Carman- Copy
“ Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
“ The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap. ”
- Ayn Rand- Copy
“ We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings. ”
- Alfred Jarry- Copy
“ Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall. ”
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca- Copy
“ Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you? Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition. ”
- Florida Scott Maxwell- Copy
“ Temper is a funny thing; it spoils children, ruins adults, and strengthens steel. ”
- Julia Moss Seton- Copy
“ Its okay to get jacked up and head out onto the highway, but I've been there and I can tell you that the fast lane is littered with countless smoldering wrecks. ”
- H.S. Thompson- Copy
“ Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck. ”
- Immanuel Kant- Copy
“ Vote: The instrument and symbol of a free man's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
“ A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track an inch between wreck and smooth, rolling prosperity. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
“ A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy. ”
- Sir Walter Scott- Copy
“ I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours. ”
- Kurt Vonnegut- Copy
“ 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- Copy
“ Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world. ”
- William Allen White- Copy
“ 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 the other. ”
- Ernest Hemingway- Copy
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