#rubble

The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#building #clock #come #communism #concrete

I became comfortable with what I knew would be the process of trying to pick up the pieces of brain that were in the rubble and tried to make some mosaic out of the pieces and that that would be the trajectory. ↗

— Art Spiegelman

#brain #comfortable #i #knew #make

They were just kind of simultaneous - the film ending and the sets being destroyed. I was struck the first time I saw the Great Hall become a big pile of burning rubble and getting scattered around. It's really quite shocking for the fans. ↗

— Rupert Grint

#become #being #big #burning #destroyed

You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that. ↗

— Prince Charles

#buildings #did #down #give #knocked

Bin Laden, who was in his country, attacked and damaged our Pentagon, and killed our soldiers right out here at the Pentagon. But his pentagon no longer exists. It is rubble. ↗

— Jeff Sessions

#bin #country #damaged #exists #here

As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of their suffering, we feel deeply and profoundly that we should be there, in Haiti, with them, trying our best to prevent death. ↗

— Jean-Bertrand Aristide

#buried #death #debris #deeply #feel

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#arms race #bounce #go #going #make

In all these sights I achieve solace only in bringing forth trees, picturing them blooming like smoke from the roofs of gutted buildings, dreaming of what a fine and picturesque pile of rubble this city will someday make. ↗

— Tod Wodicka

#destruction #picturesque #prague #rubble #solace