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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