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I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.
The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
The wreckage of stars - I built a world from this wreckage.
I think I’ll dismember the world and then I’ll dance in the wreckage.
This universe is the wreckage of the infinite on the shores of the finite.
If it's wrong to wreck the planet, it's wrong to profit from the wreckage.
.. every step of the upward way is strewn with wreckage of body, mind, and morals.
The roads of life are strewn with the wreckage of run-down and half-finished loves.
All of my novels are seeded in real life events, and 'The Wreckage' is no different.
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.
When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken.
A defensive investor can always prosper by looking patiently and calmly through the wreckage of a bear market.
With vision only, you get no follow-through. With enforcers only, the vision is realized but leaves a lot of wreckage.
We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer's wreckage. We will welcome summer's ghost.
When I get old and slow down I want to look behind me and see all the fire and the wreckage and no stone left unturned.
The stench of human wreckage in which the Nazi regime finally sank down to defeat has been the most shocking fact of modern times.
In modern warfare, journalists are among the first responders, seeking out truth in the turmoil and wreckage, wherever it takes them.
Nightly you retrace your steps again to return to the scene of the crime. It's uncanny how you hover in the air of the wreckage that you left behind.
I think my head's a minefield strewn with triggers, and maybe if I survive each explosion, what emerges from the wreckage will be me, really, truly me.
If you can create even the illusion of high profitability for a few years, then when the thing collapses you can walk out of the wreckage a very rich man.
What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.
Look at the things you've done and ask for forgiveness. After clearing out that wreckage from the past, you can move forward, in a way, to keep your finger on the pulse.
It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
Wouldn't it help Americans more, in the long run, if we were forced to accept some responsibility for the environmental wreckage we prefer to assume is totally out of our control?
Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of the famine, as he has so often done in the past.
When historians look at the Obama presidency, they're likely to credit him especially for doing the politically unpopular things that were needed in 2009 to salvage the financial wreckage.
In the periods of crisis, the bigger firms absorb the smaller ones,and when the industrial monsters eventually go down, the wreckage is far greater than when the little enterprises buckle.
In the midst of the heartbreak and wreckage of 9-11, the world also witnessed what is America's greatest strength. Firefighters, nurses, police officers, first responders and local residents worked around the clock to rescue and care for those injured.
Sound public finances are the essential foundation on which to construct a better-balanced economy from the wreckage of Labour's boom and bust. But it is economic growth that will create the jobs and the prosperity for the future and enable us to pay down Labour's debt.
For every moment of triumph, there is an unequal and opposite feeling of despair. Take that iconic photograph of Muhammad Ali standing triumphantly over the prostrate, semiconscious wreckage of Sonny Liston. Great photo. Now think of Liston. Do the pleasure/pain calculus.
I got quite annoyed after the Haiti earthquake. A baby was taken from the wreckage and people said it was a miracle. It would have been a miracle had God stopped the earthquake. More wonderful was that a load of evolved monkeys got together to save the life of a child that wasn't theirs.
This was not the old Chichikov. This was some wreckage of the old Chichikov. The inner state of his soul might be compared to a demolished building, which has been demolished so that from it a new one could be built; but the new one has not been started yet, because the infinitive plan has not yet come from the architect and the workers are left in perplexity.
