Quotes with wreck

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• A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.

  ― Sir Walter Scott
  British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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• I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

  ― Abraham Lincoln
  American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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• 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
  Canadian poet (1861 - 1929)
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• 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
  American writer (1899 - 1961)
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• The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.

  ― Ayn Rand
  Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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• When I had my wreck, it really just put everything into perspective and really opened my eyes. I've always been one of those guys that thought 'it will never happen to me.'

  ― Brantley Gilbert
  American country music singer, songwriter (1985 - )
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• You know, when Michael Jackson does the moonwalk, he's showing off! When Prince or Hendrix do a guitar solo, it's confidence! I would hate to be at a show and some nervous wreck is sweating up there and doesn't feel like he deserves to be there.

  ― Bruno Mars
  American singer, songwriter, record producer and dancer (1985 - )
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• Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

  ― Ambrose Bierce
  American writer (1842 - 1914)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• indifference
• perspective
• confidence
• instrument
• sweating
• deserves

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