Audrey Hepburn
Actress, Humanitarian
"There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl's complexion."
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Wrecks
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William Lyon Mackenzie King
Politician
"Usury once in control will wreck the nation."
Andy Cohen
Television Producer
"Follow your passion. Be yourself, but check yourself before you wreck yourself."
Daniel Kahneman
Psychologist, Nobel Laureate
"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."
Sun Tzu
Military Strategist
"Weak leadership can wreck the soundest strategy"
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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."
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"I'm a worthless check, a total wreck, a flop But if baby I'm the bottom, you're the top."
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"Weak leadership can wreck the soundest strategy; forceful execution of even a poor plan can often bring victory."
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"The Wreck of the Hesperus But the father answered never a word, A frozen corpse was he."
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"Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, rising on its wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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"
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"I came to explore the wreck."
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"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."
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"To hope till hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates."
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"Do not sit next to my mother when she is watching one of her children compete because you will have fingernails down your back. She is a nervous wreck."
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"Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere."
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"Too often, the person who wrecks our work is us."
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"Pass the pub that wrecks your body And the church, all they want is your money"
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"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!"
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"And in the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives."
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"Writing turns you into somebody who's always wrong. the illusion that you may get it right someday is the perversity that draws you on. What else could? As pathological phenomena go, it doesn't completely wreck your life."
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"The last trumpet ever to be sounded shall blow even algebra to wreck."
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"I have found the best way to avoid ending your life as a bitter wreck is to start out as one."
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