Terry Pratchett

I got quite annoyed after the Haiti earthquake. A baby was taken from the wreckage and people said it was a miracle. It would have been a miracle had God stopped the earthquake. More wonderful was that a load of evolved monkeys got together to save the life of a child that wasn't theirs.

English Author

Philip Hammond

Sound public finances are the essential foundation on which to construct a better-balanced economy from the wreckage of Labour's boom and bust. But it is economic growth that will create the jobs and the prosperity for the future and enable us to pay down Labour's debt.

British Politician

David Ignatius

When historians look at the Obama presidency, they're likely to credit him especially for doing the politically unpopular things that were needed in 2009 to salvage the financial wreckage.

American Journalist

Jane Velez-Mitchell

Wouldn't it help Americans more, in the long run, if we were forced to accept some responsibility for the environmental wreckage we prefer to assume is totally out of our control?

Virginia Woolf

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.

British Author

Molly Bloom

Look at the things you've done and ask for forgiveness. After clearing out that wreckage from the past, you can move forward, in a way, to keep your finger on the pulse.

American Author

Margaret Mitchell

What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.

American Novelist

Nancy Gibbs

In modern warfare, journalists are among the first responders, seeking out truth in the turmoil and wreckage, wherever it takes them.

Aisha Tyler

When I get old and slow down I want to look behind me and see all the fire and the wreckage and no stone left unturned.

American Actress

Henry Rollins

We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer's wreckage. We will welcome summer's ghost.

American Musician

Refers to leftover parts of something tangible that's been destroyed.

Physical Remains

Commonly used to describe remains after events like crashes, collapses, or natural disasters.

After Disasters

Can be used metaphorically to describe the aftermath of a very negative situation.

Not Always Literal

'Wreckage' can symbolize the ruin of non-physical entities, like plans or relationships.

Beyond Physical

Often used to describe the aftermath of conflict such as wars, arguments, or business failures.

Result of Conflict

Metaphorically, it expresses the emotional fallout from a distressing experience.

Emotional Repercussions

 the sole survivor amid the wreckage, closes his eyes and has this realization, which is that in his mind's eye, he can see where each of the guests at the banquet had been sitting. And he takes the relatives by the hand, and guides them each to their loved ones amid the wreckage.

Feats of memory anyone...

 Cyber espionage is spiriting away advanced designs to parts unknown, and in that environment, it is very likely that a successful drone design will be knocked off in contract factories, proliferate in the gray market. And in that situation, sifting through the wreckage

Daniel Suarez: The kill...

 You've forgotten me forever. But what if you had learned more about me? Let's say you learned four things about me. Now imagine you have Alzheimer's, and three of those synapses are damaged or destroyed. You still have a way to detour the wreckage.

What You Can Do to...

 how bad is it, how worried should we be? Well, I think you could look at this like a tsunami that's hit -- the virus itself and the social distancing. And then what are the consequences in terms of the wreckage, when you look at it?

What coronavirus means...

 and so God had ordained the crash, but now, he said, he was religious, and God was pleased. It was then that God news on the TV of a car wreck that hours before had killed three people up north. We looked up at the wreckage.

In search for the man...

 I'd been diagnosed, drugged and discarded, and was by now so tormented by the voices that I attempted to drill a hole in my head in order to get them out. Now looking back on the wreckage and despair of those years,

The voices in my head PIPE...

 realization which is that in his mind's eye he can see each of the guests at the banquet had been sitting and he takes the relatives by the hand and guides them each to their loved ones amid the wreckage what

 once a conflict is over to help them heal. Local humanitarians have the courage to persist, to dust themselves off from the wreckage and to start again, risking their lives to save others.

The doctors, nurses and...

 for and around the ship creates deep connections I do recall very as think to blame when I first encountered the wreckage of the South Susanna being in the water for me

These Divers Search For...

 idealism in all of that wreckage. And perhaps also, there's a lesson about how to deal with our screwed-up, fragmenting and dangerous world of the 21st century.