I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice. Not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason I believe in God. I am a Christian because of Owen Meany.
The only relationships I haven't wrecked right away were the ones that wrecked me later.
Culture had worked in her own case, but during the last few weeks she had doubted whether it humanized the majority, so wide and so widening is the gulf that stretches between the natural and the philosophic man, so many the good chaps who are wrecked in trying to cross it.
Wrecked on the lee shore of age.
Women and God are the two rocks on which a man must either anchor or be wrecked.
When anyone asks me how I can best describe my experiences of nearly forty years at sea, I merely say uneventful. I have never been in an accident of any sort worth speaking about. . . . I never saw a wreck and have never been wrecked, nor was I ever in any predicament that threatened to end in disaster of any sort.
But it seemed to me that this was the way we all lived: full to the brim with gratitude and joy one day, wrecked on the rocks the next. Finding the balance between the two was the art and the salvation.
Your system was liable to periodical convulsions. . . business crises at intervals of five to ten years, which wrecked the industries of the nation.
Farm policy, although it's complex, can be explained. What it can't be is believed. No cheating spouse, no teen with a wrecked family car, no mayor of Washington, D. C. , videotaped in flagrante delicto has ever come up with anything as farfetched as U. S. farm policy.
Guys don't adapt as well as women do to getting their heart broken for the first time. It's tragic. I really wanted to be in love, get married, have kids and buy a wood-paneled station wagon for the family. But it didn't work out, and, boy, it wrecked it!
Debt is a task master to be feared almost as much as the dictators themselves. It has enslaved thousands in its meshes. It has wrecked happy homes.
What is it about childhood that never lets you go, even when you're so wrecked it's hard to believe you ever were a child?
If you've wrecked one train, you've wrecked them all.
At the time I was first writing the storiesessays that appear in Oedipus Wrecked, I was still under the impression that people would be delighted to see their name in print. I overlooked the fact that I was writing about intimate matters, and people are a bit touchy about airing their private lives in such a public fashion. Especially when it's done without their consent.
Anxiety and Ennui are the Scylla and Charybdis on which the bark of human happiness is most often wrecked.
Jesus wrecked my life, shattered it to pieces, and put it back together more beautifully.
It was one of the occasions when Lymond asleep wrecked the peace of mind of more people than Lymond awake.
We are all passengers aboard one ship, the Earth, and we must not allow it to be wrecked. There will be no second Noah's Ark.
I've wrecked my fair share of cars. I've had my fair share of injuries. If you put too much focus on it or you really worry about it, it's going to consume you. That's never good.
If it's going to be wrecked, I want to make sure I wreck it.
