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

Antiquities are history defaced or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.

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.

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.

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck and ask anyone the house is never burgled and the ship never goes down.

Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.

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

I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.

Dad was just an emotional wreck. He was drinking a lot of the time he was smoking a lot of pot. And because he takes certain medications the drinking was making him... you know he wasn't even present really.

Rather than saying 'My checking account is a wreck ' change it to 'I will learn how to track my spending and balance my checkbook.'