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Letter "W" » wreck
«You win some, lose some, and wreck some.»
«To believe that consciousness can survive the wreck of the brain is like believing that 70 mph can survive the wreck of the car»
«To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy power which seems omnipotent; To love, and bear; to hope till Hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
(Poet)
| About:
Forgiveness,
Hope,
Love,
Suffering
| Keywords:
contemplated, contemplates, creates, darker, defied, defy, infinite, omnipotent, the Wrecks, till, woes, wreck, wrecking, wrongs
«This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven»
Author: Thomas More
(Chancellor, Humanist, Statesman)
| Keywords:
at random, glimpse, random, wreck, wretched
«The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Leadership
| Keywords:
heap, lets, prescribe, prescribes, scrap, scraps, the Wrecks, tow, towed, wreck, wrecking
«Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Voting
| Keywords:
freeman, freemen, His country, wreck
«To hope till Hope creates from its own wreck the thing it contemplates.»
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