Wrecks Quotes

Circumstances may appear to wreck our lives and God’s plans, but God is not helpless among the ruins.

Check thyself before thy wreck thyself.

Check yourself before you wreck yourself.

The strips are nearly effortless unless I am really emotionally upset, a wreck.

There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl's complexion.

Usury once in control will wreck the nation.

Girl, you better check yourself before you wreck yourself!

Before I got in the car, I was puking all over the place and on the grid. I was just a shaking wreck.

Follow your passion. Be yourself, but check yourself before you wreck yourself.

The psychologist, Paul Rozin, an expert on disgust, observed that a single cockroach will completely wreck the appeal of a bowl of cherries, but a cherry will do nothing at all for a bowl of cockroaches.

Weak leadership can wreck the soundest strategy

Sometimes you've gotta wreck the truck to get the insurance money to make the payment on the truck.

To the lack of incentive to effort, which is the awful shadow under which we live, may be traced the wreck and ruin of scores of colored youth.

Why did the generals who have been so ready to term me a complaisant and incompetent yes-man fail to secure my removal? Was that all that difficult? No, that wasn't it; the truth was that nobody would have been ready to replace me, because each one knew that he would end up just as much a wreck as I.

Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I see American policy written on the walls of oppression everywhere.

Weak leadership can wreck the soundest strategy; forceful execution of even a poor plan can often bring victory.

I'm a worthless check, a total wreck, a flop But if baby I'm the bottom, you're the top.

Other bands wanted to wreck hotel rooms; Roxy Music wanted to redecorate them.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

I look a hundred and weigh 110 - you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.

The Wreck of the Hesperus But the father answered never a word, A frozen corpse was he.

History 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 have a chance for it.

Novel writing wrecks homes.

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

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.

Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.

money-making is like a god possessing a priest. He never will leave you, until he has occupied you, wholly changed the order of your being, and seared you through and up and down. Then only would he eventually leave you, but nothing of you except an exhausted wreck, lying prone and wondering who are you.

You can wreck your future running from your past.

Africa's a wreck and it's not because it was hit by an asteroid. It's a wreck largely because it was hit by Europe.

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

Values will be adjusted, and enterprising people will pick up the wrecks from less competent people.

It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it.

I saw the wreck on TV in the hauler when I was getting dressed to leave. I thought, 'Oh, he'll be fine.' It didn't look like that type of an accident. I remember walking to the bus lot, seeing Teresa walk by. She definitely had a look on her face that I had not seen on her face before.

Before the acorn can bring forth the oak, it must become itself a wreck. No plant ever came from any but a wrecked seed.

When his rolls royce was mobbed by fans the chauffeur said: ''do you want me to get them off the car?'' and Lennon replied: ''No - they paid for it, they can wreck it

Certain shades of limelight wreck a girl's complexion.

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.

Sometimes when you're with somebody, and all their stuff is at your house, it's so hard to break up with them. You don't know what they're going to wreck and destroy.

Don’t wreck my reputation / Let me wreck my own

I'm just going to crumble like a wreck. I'll go home, become an alcoholic and maybe! jump of a bridge.

I came to explore the wreck.

There is no harmony between religion and science. When science was a child, religion sought to strangle it in the cradle. Now that science has attained its youth, and superstition is in its dotage, the trembling, palsied wreck says to the athlete: "Let us be friends."

I was a scared kid... I think I was born a nervous wreck, and I think movies were one way to find a way transferring my own private horrors to everyone else's lives. It was less of an escape and more of an exorcism.

Rhyme is the rock on which thou art to wreck.

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.

You don't have to be a wreck. You don't have to be sick. One's aim in life should be to die in good health. Just like a candle that burns out.

When I was 18 I was an emotional wreck and I couldn't imagine having to deal with some kind of fame.

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!

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.

Too often, the person who wrecks our work is us.