Quotes About Salvage

Gray Lady Down

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.

As autom, Ehrsul had neither rights nor tasks, but so far as it was understood an owner, a settler of some previous generation, had died intestate, and she'd never become anyone else's property. There were variants of salvage laws by which someone might theoretically have tried to claim her, but by now it would have seemed abominable.

Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage.

Even though marriage is doomed, if you turned it into a job you like and really work at it - it can be salvaged.

I should probably get a stone. A stone would be good. A stone would save me, would salvage all the damage we had already done, all the things we had given up or lost.

Or like just another manipulative pseudopomo Bullshit artist who's trying to salvage a fiasco by dropping back to a metadimention and commenting on the fiasco itself. (p. 158)

Ross stared a moment at the piece of flotsam he had brought home and hoped to salvage. She was standing there in her ragged shirt and three-quarter-length breeches, her matted hair over her face and the dirty half-starved puppy at her feet. She stood with one toe turned in and both hands loosely behind her back, staring across at the library. He hardened his heart. Tomorrow would not do.

Some struggling marriages can be salvaged with hard work and counseling; others should be dismantled and stripped for parts.

The barge anchors were unrecognisable as such, more like crustaceans, specimens of some giant type long since discarded by Nature, but still clinging to their old habitat, sunk in the deep pits they had made in the foreshore. But under the ground they were half rusted away. Dreadnought's anchor had come up easily enough when the salvage tug came to dispose of her. The mud which held so tenaciously could also give way in a moment, if conditions altered.

Fat, pondering and writing and doing research and receiving dribs and drabs of messages from Zebra during hypnagogic states and in dreams, and attempting to salvage something from the wreck of his life, had decided to go in search of the Savior. He would find him wherever he was.

When I look back all is flux, without beginning and flowing towards no end, or none that I shall experience, except as a final full stop. The items of flotsam that I choose to salvage from the general wreckage—and what is a life but a gradual shipwreck?—may take on an aspect of inevitability when I put them on display in their glass showcases, but they are random; representative, perhaps, perhaps compellingly so, but random nonetheless.

Ah! Si pudiese llegar y echarme a las rodillas de doña Mencía —me digo a mí mismo—, si pudiera ponerme bajo la salvaguardia de mi respetable madre, fantasmas, monstruos que os habéis ensañado conmigo, ¿os atreveréis a violar ese asilo? Allí volveré a encontrar, junto con los sentimientos de la naturaleza, los principios saludables de los que me he apartado; ellos serán mi escudo frente a vosotros.

The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters... and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult.

Through preparation. We salvage what we have. Through preparation. We can start a new. A commitment to time.

Sometimes it is the only worthwhile product you can salvage from a day: what you make to eat. With writing, I find, you can have all the right ingredients, give plenty of time and care, and still get nothing. Also true of love.

The notion of characters, as the traditional form of the novel, is only one of the compromises by which the writer, drawn out of himself by literature in search of its essence, tries to salvage his relations with the world and himself.

There is no end to the work of salvageIn the drowning high seas of ChristmasWhen loneliness, in the name of Christ(That longing!), attacks the world.

All his life Rob J., struggling to salvage people from the afflictions that bring about physical and mental failures, was surprised at how much it hurt him when the patient was someone he loved.

Ühel õhtul, kui tõime terrassilt sisse tühjad teetassid ja torditaldrikud, ütles Marta, et inimese kõige tähtsam ülesanne on päästa seda, mis on lagunemas, aga mitte uute asjade loomine.