Steers Quotes - Page 9

• Praise and Prayer PRAISE is devotion fit for mighty minds, The diff'ring world's agreeing sacrifice; Where Heaven divided faiths united finds: But Prayer in various discord upward flies. For Prayer the ocean is where diversely Men steer their course, each to a sev'ral coast; Where all our interests so discordant be That half beg winds by which the rest are lost. By Penitence when we ourselves forsake, 'Tis but in wise design on piteous Heaven; In Praise we nobly give what God may take, And are, without a beggar's blush, forgiven.

  William Davenant

  Wise, Prayer, Ocean

  William Davenant, “Praise And Prayer”

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• The lessons of the past should steer us towards ensuring lasting legacies for generations yet to be born.

  Hun Sen

  Past, Legacy, Generations

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• God says to me with a kind of smile, "Hey how would you like to be God awhile And steer the world?" . . . . "How much do I get? What time is lunch?" . . . . "Gimme back that wheel," says God. "I don't think you're quite ready yet."

  Shel Silverstein

  Time, Thinking, Lunch

  Shel Silverstein, “God's Wheel”

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• The cowboys have a way of trussing up a steer or a pugnacious bronco which fixes the brute so that it can neither move nor think. This is the hog-tie, and it is what Euclid did to geometry.

  Eric Bell

  Moving, Math, Cowboy

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• Any fool can steer a ship, sir. Its just knowing where to take it.

  Philip Martin Brown

  Knowing, Ships, Fool

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• A silence, the brief Sabbath of an hour,
  Reigns o'er the fields; the laborer sits within
  His dwelling; he has left his steers awhile,
  Unyoked, to bite the herbage, and his dog
  Sleeps stretched beside the door-stone in the shade.
  Now the gray marmot, with uplifted paws,
  No more sits listening by his den, but steals
  Abroad, in safety, to the clover-field,
  And crops its juicy-blossoms.

  William C. Bryant

  Dog, Sleep, Doors

  William Cullen Bryant, “Noon”

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• The emphasis on practice is because it is the only time in your life you can steer your karmic situation.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Practice, Emphasis, Situation

  Chogyam Trungpa (2015). “The Teacup and the Skullcup: Where Zen and Tantra Meet”, p.134, Shambhala Publications

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• I always want to set myself a challenge by doing something no-one would expect me to do! But, having said that, I don't feel as a musician you can steer too far away from what you normally do.

  Akon

  Challenges, Musician, Want

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• But another thing I know is this — we can’t steer ourselves out of this crisis by heading in the same, disastrous direction. We can’t change direction with a new driver who wants to follow the same old map. And that’s what this election is all about.

  Barack Obama

  Maps, Want, Election

  "Obama's Remarks in Espanola, New Mexico". www.realclearpolitics.com. September 18, 2008.

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• For the political world, I have come to believe, is fundamentally beyond anyone's control, yet we all go on as though it were a kind of vehicle that only needs a change of drivers in order to steer it away from its frequent hair-raising visits to the edge of the cliff.

  Arthur Miller

  Believe, Hair, Order

  Arthur Miller (2012). “Timebends: A Life”, p.560, A&C Black

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• Where's the hope that can abate
  The grief of hearts thus desolate
  That can Youth's keenest pangs assuage,
  And mitigate the gloom of Age?
  Religion bids the tempest cease,
  And, leads her to a port of peace;
  And on, the lonely pilot steers
  Through the lapse of future years.

  Thomas Haynes Bayly

  Hope, Lonely, Grief

  Thomas Haynes Bayly (1844). “Songs, Ballads, and Other Poems”, p.103

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• My feet, they haul me Round the House, They hoist me up the Stairs; I only have to steer them, and They Ride me Everywheres.

  Gelett Burgess

  Feet, House, Stairs

  Gelett Burgess (1901). “The Burgess Nonsense Book: Being a Complete Collection of the Humorous Masterpieces of Gelett Burgess ...”

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• Thus, if there is anyone who is confident that he can advise me as to the best advantage of the state in this campaign which I am about to conduct, let him not refuse his services to the state, but come with me into Macedonia. I will furnish him with his sea-passage, with a horse, a tent, and even travel-funds. If anyone is reluctant to do this and prefers the leisure of the city to the hardships of campaigning, let him not steer the ship from on shore.

  Livy

  Horse, Sea, Cities

  Book 44, chapter 22. Reported in "Livy" by Alfred C. Schlesinger, vol. 13, p. 161, 1951.

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• Most sailing ships take what they call trainees, who pay to be part of the crew. The Picton Castle takes people who are absolutely raw recruits. But you can't just ride along. You're learning to steer the ship, navigation; you're pulling lines, keeping a lookout; in the galley you're cooking.

  Billy Campbell

  People, Cooking, Sailing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You can’t keep yourself from falling in love, but you can steer yourself away from the wrong people.

  Jodi Picoult

  Falling In Love, Fall, People

  Jodi Picoult (2002). “Songs of the Humpback Whale: A Novel in Five Voices”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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• One must steer, not talk.

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophical

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We gallop through our lives like circus performers balancing on two speeding side-by-side horses--one foot is on the horse called "fate," the other on the horse called "free will." And the question you have to ask every day is--which horse is which? Which horse do I need to stop worrying about because it's not under my control, and which do I need to steer with concentrated effort?

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Horse, Fate, Two

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.186, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I think the musicians I play with solo do a certain thing that the musicians we play with with the Indigo Girls don't do. It's just a different thing. And it sort of steers my writing in some ways.

  Amy Ray

  Girl, Writing, Thinking

  "Another side of Amy Ray" by Todd Leopold, edition.cnn.com. August 6, 2008.

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• Rules help govern and steer a relationship along, so they're good things. But they become bad things when they become the narrow gate though which the relationship must always pass. When this happens, the rules become the basis for the relationship and, in a sense, become a substitute for the relationship.

  Miroslav Volf

  Helping, Good Things, Substitutes

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• Government should steer, not row.

  Joe Lhota

  Government, Should

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• Happy Tuesday! Get your light and life back! Steer your energy in the right direction. Let go of any anger you have for others and prepare to be the best you!

  Tracey Edmonds

  Letting Go, Light, Tuesday

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• When I am in charge of a vessel, I always command; nobody commands but me. I take all the responsibility, all the risks, all the hardships that my office would call upon me to take. I do not steer by any man's compass but my own.

  Michael A. Healy

  Military, Responsibility, Men

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• Just as Americans have discovered the hidden energy costs in a multitude of products-in refrigerating a steak, for example, on its way to the butcher-they are about to discover the hidden water costs. Beginning with the water that irrigated the corn that was fed to the steer, the steak may have accounted for 3,500 gallons. The water that goes into a 1,000-pound steer would float a destroyer. It takes 14,935 gallons of water to grow a bushel of wheat, 60,000 gallons to produce a ton of steel, 120 gallons to put a single egg on the breakfast table.

  Jerry Adler

  Science, Eggs, Water

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• Perhaps most important, judges will have goals. And because this is so, judges will often try to mold and steer the law in order to promote certain ethical values and achieve certain social ends. Such activity is not necessarily wrong or invalid.

  Elena Kagan

  Order, Law, Goal

  "Kagan's thesis hints at her views" by Josh Gerstein, www.politico.com. May 18, 2010.

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• To survive, you had to steer your course midstream, where the water was deepest and ran fastest, that you had to paddle fast, as fast as you could to stay there to stay still in the rushing current because the price of failure was to be washed up on the beach or dashed to pieces on the wharves.

  Melanie McGrath

  Beach, Failure, Rushing

  Melanie McGrath (2009). “Hopping”, p.23, HarperCollins UK

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