#wreck

It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion or more people - without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#better #better quality #billion #bring #century

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. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#artist #beyond #excessively #him #literature

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#literature #men #minded #opinions #others

Victoria was just as much in love with me as I was with her. We could not bear to be apart for a single second. We were like two lovers shipwrecked on a desert island. There was no world outside our love. ↗

— Andy Gibb

#bear #could #desert #desert island #her

It is only what is written upon the soul of man that will survive the wreck of time. ↗

— Francis J. Grimke

#only #soul #survive #time #upon

I started on the downers which were a hell of a lot better than the uppers because I was a nervous wreck. ↗

— Corey Haim

#better #downers #hell #i #lot

Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety. ↗

— Ben Hecht

#onto #prejudice #raft #safety #shipwrecked

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

#damn #enough #good #good parts #his

There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl's complexion. ↗

— Audrey Hepburn

#complexion #girl #limelight #shades #wreck

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#escaped #history #remnants #shipwreck #some