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You win some, lose some, and wreck some.

Dale Earnhardt

I didn't hear Jeff and didn't see his nose, so I just kept going. Actually, I think I did try a little bit too hard and could have got caught up in a wreck, but I didn't. Everything went our way. It was our night.

Donnie Schick

I feel terrible for those people. They're still trying to get their lives back together. I see it and I just can't stop watching it. Like a train wreck.

Lisa Pierce

We're already jotting down notes. We're thinking of searching for a wreck off the coast of East Africa.

Cam Mcleay

Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run.

Bliss Carman

The cries of the sufferers on the remaining part of the wreck were heard during the night.

Grace Darling

Everybody knows this kid is on a train, and they can see the train coming. They know it's going to hit. What we're doing now is just waiting for the train wreck.

Chris Mcneil

You want to put together a load so you can go 15 miles down the trail without having a wreck. You can turn packing into an art form just like anything else.

Jeff Brandt

It keeps us from entertaining, and makes me a wreck. I hate the lack of control.

Pam Walters

If it doesn't work, at least it will be an interesting train wreck.

Craig Ferguson

There's still a bit of a tech wreck going on in the wake of the Nasdaq weakness. The other problem is that we haven't had good sector rotation and we've seen a bit of a sell-off in the banks. The results for the banks have not been too good - they are facing margin pressures.

Gary Dugan

He was a wreck. ... He had taken care of the baby all night long. He was brave.

Cindy Johnson

I wasn't trying to wreck him, I just wanted to rattle his cage.

Dale Earnhardt

You don't want to wreck somebody to get back at him, ... I just wanted to find him after the race so I could punch him, to be honest with you. I was so mad. I thought I just wanted to hit him and that would make me feel better.

Jamie Mcmurray

I believe the girl had an alcohol-related wreck the day she made the allegations and I think there's some real credibility problems, unfortunately, for this young girl. I don't believe that what is alleged is what has happened.

Brian Carney

A train wreck in slow motion.

Senator Patrick Leahy

I was like, 'Cam, can you hear me?' ... He mumbled, 'Yeah,' but he wasn't there. You could tell he wasn't right. ... I couldn't imagine being a paramedic going to the scene of a wreck. That's what that was, pretty much, a wreck.

Marlon Anderson

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

Gordon Lightfoot

I was a wreck, I couldn't run and this was a pretty easy decision.

Alan Webb

This case, what is left of it, is a limping wreck.

Jeffrey Lichtman

[Hendrick's son, Ricky, killed in a plane wreck last year, had worked closely with Busch.] Ricky had so much confidence in Kyle and the structure of the two teams, and to see the two cars run like that, and Kyle to win, and become the youngest guy.... ... Kyle has done a super job. He got a lot of criticism early on that he was too young. But I'm just really proud.

Rick Hendrick

Mayor Wynn is not alone in his silence and backroom dealings as this irreversible train-wreck happens. This silence from City Hall is deafening.

Bill Bunch

It has gone into a blocking pattern, areas of high pressure that get locked into place. There is one locked into place over the North Pacific. It's like a train wreck; nothing goes anywhere. It causes the whole circulation to stay in place. The whole hemisphere is tied into it; it explains why it is still dry in Texas.

Andy Nash

I told the kids going into the sixth, ' You got to wreck it here. She's got a perfect game right now. There hasn't been any to reach [base].

Donovan Nelson

I had just got my license, and my dad was real proud of me for it, so he let me drive his pure stock car, ... I was kind of nervous, having not driven before . . . and I ended up wrecking the car. Needless to say, I had to buy my own race cars and stuff like that afterwards.

Duane Campbell

It takes a toll on your body, there's no question. It's like getting in a car wreck every day.

Mark Schlereth

They all got a chance to play, so that was a real positive. The younger girls got a chance to see what it was like. They were a nervous wreck.

Michele Cooke

Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet, ... I'm always in Africa . . . And when I go to these places I see American policy written on the walls of oppression everywhere.

Harry Belafonte

That's to protect the lives of our young people. Unfortunately, teenagers are more likely to die in a wreck than any other age group.

Master Sgtrick Hector

That last thing we needed was a train wreck, which is potentially what could have happened.

Don Snyder

There are too many political factors that can wreck a currency. You have to do what lets you sleep at night.

James Turk

If there were a problem with that, we'd wreck the golden goose of e-commerce.

John Ryan

I was a nervous wreck until she said it was the real thing.

Dave Morris

Almost all these classes are where the people teaching them love the program. We built them up ourselves, we know they're important and are committed to them. (The school district) has us in a bad position, you don't want to wreck what you helped make.

Janet Hansen

You're teetering on the edge and you hear nothing but the sound of air and the loudest train wreck possible.

Pavle Jovanovic

This is exactly the train wreck that we knew would occur.

Deane Beebe

Is a position that, if held on to, will certainly wreck the peace process.

Albert Reynolds

When the first wreck happened, we were able to get them moved into Apple Lane Farms, ... Just as we were about to clear up, we heard a thud from a wreck at the (RaceWay convenience store).

Kevin Hunter

It's hard not to be a nervous wreck right now. It really is a special thing. It's hard for people at Dowling because we have been there 11 times in a row, and I think there are a lot of students and fans and people who don't quite understand how special it is.

Juliann Van Liew

We've never played against each other. Mom's a nervous wreck. It adds something to the game for me and him. They're having a great season. Once you start winning, it's easy to keep winning.

Brett Howell

One thing that you're scared about in casting a child actor is that you don't want to wreck their lives. Most of them end up robbing banks or getting in some kind of trouble. You hope that the kid you cast isn't destroyed by the experience.

Chris Weitz

[The tragedy and its remembrance, fueled by the ballad] The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald ... We are holding our own.

Gordon Lightfoot

I was in dire straits financially, emotionally I was a wreck, and spiritually I was bankrupt. And today I'm happy to be who I am. It's good. Life is good.

Gary Chamberlain

It's a binary thing, if you will. You either get back on the horse or not. (My wreck) really didn't bother me. The reaction from other people bothered me a lot more.

Derek Ingalls

I'm going to be sorry to see it go. I'm going to chain myself to the wrecking ball, but they're going to do it anyway.

Jim Mcnulty

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.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

As far as anyone knows, and officials have checked, there was no wreck and Junior was not dead.

James Gallagher

I didn't know where she had gone or if she was safe. I was a wreck. Now I feel like I can live again.

Jean Mcdonald

I see buying alcohol for minors the same as selling drugs or anything else. It's the same thing. You're wrecking young people's lives, whether it's a legal item that you purchase and give to somebody or not, it's destroying people.

Mike Huckfeldt

To believe that consciousness can survive the wreck of the brain is like believing that 70 mph can survive the wreck of the car.

Frank Zindler

The three of them are the quietest guys on the team. You would never guess that they fly around the field like a bunch of wrecking balls.

Roger Mazzarella

In layman terms, you have a train wreck waiting to happen.

Bobby Bowers

My boss was nice enough to give me another car. The funny thing was, he gave that car (the Camry) to me, too. It was a wreck. It was an old recovered stolen vehicle.

Patrick Rice

It was at the very top, the tip top of a slow murder. Do you think after the beating he took that day in Manila he went home happy and had chocolate ice cream? He goddamn near died. It's the reason he's a shambling, neurological wreck.

Ferdie Pacheco

This discovery provides historians with the first look at an actual wreck from a key era of trade in the Black Sea known previously only through written records.

Bob Ballard

In the radio industry, people that heard it just thought it was a train wreck.

Paul Heine

I'm really happy with the level of cooperation we've gotten from Butte-Silver Bow agencies (and other entities). If we get 6,000 people in here, I'll be a nervous wreck. But that's what we're hoping for.

Bill Melvin

I heard what sounded like a train wreck. I looked up and saw the tree falling on top of the car. I thought she saw it and had stopped, but she kept driving.

Billy Jackson

The train wreck is coming, and they're not addressing the issue.

Dan Wilson

She felt like something was going to happen and told me that more than once. If she would've gotten killed in a car wreck or died from a disease, I might could accept it. But not what he did.

Shelby Steen's

She said tell the boys I love them in case I'll be in a wreck.

Linda Sellers

Danny was a sportsman and that kept me or both of us from wrecking. I squeezed him a little bit and took away some of the track, and he elected to go for it next week.

Mark Wertz

VOTE, n. The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

Ambrose Bierce

Quite a wreck as far as I'm concerned. Wonder just how much damage was done. There are a lot of boxes, a lot of cargo here.

George Frye

Some people think that we're kind of headed toward a train wreck when it comes to baby boomers' saving. They're saving, but not enough. Their money could retire before they're done retiring, which could cause a strain on our national fabric.

Don Blandin

I hope it doesn't come down to a decisive fifth match and that we win the tie before I play on Sunday. I've been in this type of situation a in the past and it's very difficult and nerve wrecking, I hope it will turn out for the best.

Noam Okun

SAFETY-CLUTCH, n. A mechanical device acting automatically to prevent the fall of an elevator, or cage, in case of an accident to the hoisting apparatus. Once I seen a human ruin In an elevator-well, And his members was bestrewin' All the place where he had fell. And I says, apostrophisin' That uncommon woful wreck: 'Your position's so surprisin'.

Ambrose Bierce

I wish I had a crystal ball to tell me what would happen, because I was such a nervous wreck today. I'm happy with my day, I'm happy with my times and I'm happy to have had the great competition.

Dan Koenig

Then we basically wreck it and then we put it back together, ... And we have a nice environmental message in the thing.

Pauly Shore

The DA that prosecuted our case back in '91 did everything he could do in the case. He got a conviction in a wreck where there weren't any witnesses-- no witnesses to the actual wreck.

Branny Vickory

Everything that had any monetary value at the time of wrecking was carted away and sold for scrap, Salvage anything you can because this is history here and we're going to lose it.

Frank G. Winiarski

I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.

Kurt Vonnegut

I'm just amazed that they'd try to salvage this political train wreck and make a campaign issue out of it.

Fred Felleman

A train wreck is coming. It's not about the science. It's how people see their food.

Carol Tucker Foreman

Don't get yourself arrested and make your day worse! If you need to vent, just smash something that's already broken! You can't get in trouble for wrecking the unsalvageable!

R. Stevens

I don't know what Jamie was thinking or doing. He was driving kind of aggressive all night. I think I had less to do with affecting the outcome of the Chase than he did. We'd been struggling with the brakes, and he checked up in front of me. I had no intention of wrecking him.

Tony Raines

As a part owner, I'm going to be not only an admirer, ... but a nervous wreck.

Roger Staubach

I think it will prevent a lot of wrecks. I found out that people on cell phones were just as likely to get into a wreck as drunk drivers.

Natalie Nida

To wreck all the gains of the last few months.

Alistair Graham

My life's a wreck, and I love it.

Bo Bice

I think we got more beat up during the game than we did in the wreck.

Tim Ryland

It's unbelievably freakish. It's an absolute tragedy. You're always worried about getting into a bike wreck, about getting hit by a car, but nobody would think about a tree falling on you. That's the last thing you would think of.

Colin Cooper

I was a nervous wreck all day and tried to be positive to the guys by not showing my skepticism. I love these guys and we've been through too much together. They've hated me at times because of the yelling and screaming. But now with the championship, they'll realize what I was trying to do for them.

Kelly Smith

We have no incentive to wreck the global system established by the United States. The reason is, simply, that it is a game we can win.

Wang Xiaodong

It's simply too late to overhaul the system at this point. It would be a train wreck.

Bo Lipari

All you can do is all you can do. I feel like I've done what I can. Whatever happens, it's going to be in the best interest of the team. My ultimate goal is winning a World Series. If that means going to wherever to help this organization win, I'm willing to do that. I've done that for years. It is a little nerve-wrecking.

Ryan Theriot

Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

Immanuel Kant

It was horrible but explain-able. The whole place was a wreck.

Jim Morton

It sounds like we could have a train wreck.

Kweisi Mfume

He made me a nervous wreck but he was fired up and got the job done. He wanted the ball and that's what you like in a situation like that.

Denny Butler

It's a straightaway, it's the middle of the night, and people just wreck. There's no obvious reason for it. Generally in an accident like that someone either had a heart attack or fell asleep.

Paul Chapman

Everybody can run good there. The secret is you just have to stay out of trouble ... there is a lot more wrecking. You have to go full-throttle but you have to know when to do it. You have to stay off the bottom (of the track) ... you have to ride the wall.

Jamie Yannone

A late-model Chevrolet truck discharged a firearm into the truck, striking (Morales), forcing (Morales) to lose control of his vehicle and wreck.

Brian Evans

I'm concerned about misapplication of certain feed by-products. We have a lot of options available. Many have tremendous feeding value, but most also come with special considerations…By their nature, feed co-products are variable. You can run into a wreck in a hurry if you don't do a nutrient analysis.

Jason Sawyer

That was a big wreck to watch.

Reed Sorenson

It's highly unusual. ... It's unusual for us to see a car wreck be classified as a murder.

Daniel Russo

The Juno was an unknown wreck. Fishing boats were getting caught on it, ripping up pieces of it, coins washing ashore. How can they argue that somehow it was protected in the state that it was in is just ridiculous.

Peter Hess

If you live here and you see wreck after wreck after wreck, you think about that every time you're in that intersection.

Denise Miller

When we came to see what happened we assumed it was the car that was being pursued was in the wreck in these apartments we were very surprised to see the police car parked in that apartment right there.

Jennifer Monger

It's like a car wreck -- you can't take your eyes off it.

Dillon Foley

The carrot on the stick works well. The employer is avoiding the train wreck when these people are out of control.

Gregg Lehman

We were pretty good all day, ... That's fun racing. We all know that we have to take care of each other. Nobody's out there to wreck each other.

Dennis Setzer

Our biggest concern is that this project is going to wreck the quality of life up here as we know it.

Paul Sutphen

If we wouldn't have had the time penalty or we wouldn't have had the wreck, we would have won that division.

Clay Peterson

Drilling multiple oil and gas (wells) would not only wreck the solitude of these remote areas, but would leave man-made scars on the landscape for centuries.

Erik Molvar

It looks like it could be a real train wreck. It's a basic clash over who's in charge: Is it the General Assembly or is it the secretary general?

Edward Luck

You shall not pile, with servile toil,/ Your monuments upon my breast,/ Nor yet within the common soil/ Lay down the wreck of power to rest . . .

Edward Everett Hale

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.

Edward O. Wilson

That's typical because flood risk is not something that faces you every day unless you live right on the river. You know your house could catch fire. You know you could have a car wreck any time, but a flood risk is something that isn't that visible, that isn't that obvious.

Ed Pasterick