Boat Quotes - Page 13

• As Einstein himself pointed out. He said we’re like people in a boat without oars drifting along a winding river. Around us we see only the present. We can’t see the past, back in the bends and curves behind us. But it’s there.

  Jack Finney

  Past, Rivers, Curves

  Jack Finney (2014). “Time and Again”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• We Slovenians are even better misers than you Scottish. You know how Scotland began? One of us Slovenians was spending too much money, so we put him on a boat and he landed in Scotland.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Scotland, Too Much, Scottish

  "Joker apart" by James Harkin, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2005.

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• There’s no denying the benefits of the Internet. But electronic immersion, without a force to balance it, creates the hole in the boat — draining our ability to pay attention, to think clearly, to be productive and creative.

  Richard Louv

  Thinking, Creative, Balance

  Richard Louv (2012). “The Nature Principle: Reconnecting with Life in a Virtual Age”, p.24, Algonquin Books

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• Had it been published by a voice from heaven, that twelve poor men, taken out of boats and creeks, without any help of learning, should conquer the world to the cross, it might have been thought an illusion against all reason of men; yet we know it was undertaken and accomplished by them.

  Stephen Charnock

  Taken, Men, Voice

  Stephen Charnock (2013). “The Existence and Attributes of God”, p.678, Ravenio Books

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• A person should go out on the water on a fine day to a small distance from a beautiful coast, if he would see Nature really smile. Never does she look so delightful, as when the sun is brightly reflected by the water, while the waves are gently rippling, and the prospect receives life and animation from the glancing transit of an occasional row-boat, and the quieter motion of a few small vessels. But the land must be well in sight; not only for its own sake, but because the immensity and awfulness of a mere sea-view would ill accord with the other parts of the glittering and joyous scene.

  Augustus William Hare

  Beautiful, Distance, Sight

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”, p.8

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• When you crash into the living God, the encounter is certain to renovate every square inch of your life's boat.

  Eric Ludy

  Squares, Encounters, Crash

  Eric Ludy, Leslie Ludy (2009). “When God Writes Your Love Story (Expanded Edition): The Ultimate Guide to Guy/Girl Relationships”, p.33, Multnomah

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• I mean, I'm a writer, actor, AND director. Not to rock the boat or anything, but compare that to a carpenter and, in the end, who is the better man?

  Zach Braff

  Mean, Men, Rocks

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• Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery element were made for wise men to contemplate, and fools to pass by without consideration.

  Izaak Walton

  Wise, Men, Lakes

  "The Compleat Angler".

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• Brody cannot believe the size of the creature, and with a classic, practical understatement tells Quint his assessment: You're gonna need a bigger boat. Awestruck, they all view the full-sized, massive shark circling the boat. Quint estimates it is 25 feet long: Three tons of him.

  Roy Scheider

  Believe, Assessment, Views

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• You have city centre pubs where men go to meet girls, not realising that all girls in city centre pubs have thighs like tug boats and morals that would surprise a zoo animal.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Girl, Zoos, Animal

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• What I do know about physics is that to a man standing on the shore, time passes quicker than to a man on a boat - especially if the man on the boat is with his wife.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Time, Men

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• You've got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket - you might have caught a fish

  Darrell Royal

  Fall, Thinking, Lakes

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• Get out of the boat. Face your fears. Fail. Learn. Adjust. Try again. And watch God do more than you can imagine.

  Craig Groeschel

  Trying, Watches, Faces

  "It: How Churches and Leaders Can Get It and Keep It". Book by Craig Groeschel, 2008.

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• I was just a boy on a boat in the universe.

  Joseph O'Neill

  Boys, Universe

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• We might compare each day's decisions with the work of steering a boat. Our efforts will result in nebulous confusion if we make a wrong move at any point, even if it's only a small tack to the side. We absolutely cannot afford carelessness, lest we risk becoming lost ourselves.

  Hideo Kojima

  Moving, Confusion, Effort

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• When did Noah build the boat? - Before the rain.

  Robert Redford

  Love, Rain

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• Yo I'm seventeen, already sniffin blow. I tell my friends its asthmary time I itch my throat, I got a new show for MTV, Pimp My Boat.

  Tyler, The Creator

  Blow, Mtv, Pimp

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• The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

  Vladimir Mayakovsky

  Love, Everyday, Love Boat

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• Retirement, it seems, is the final fling. The love boat, the trip-around-the-world.

  Klaus H. Carl

  Retirement, Finals, World

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• Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Lakes, Sea

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• Falling in love for the first time, and then the heartbreak of having it end, is difficult, but I don't think it would ever hurt as much as when my mother was killed in the boating accident. I feel a part of my heart has already been broken, and that place is reserved for mother.

  Natasha Gregson Wagner

  Mother, Falling In Love, Hurt

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• I love being a woman. You can cry. You get to wear pants now. If you're on a boat and it's going to sink, you get to go on the rescue boat first. You get to wear cute clothes. It must be a great thing, or so many men wouldn't be wanting to do it.

  Gilda Radner

  Cute, Women, Love Is

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• If you were aboard a lifeboat with a baby and a dog, and the boat capsized, would you rescue the baby or the dog?" Regan, "If it were a retarded baby and a bright dog, I'd save the dog.

  Tom Regan

  Dog, Baby, Animal

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• On every commercial flight, the traveler is told, "Your seat cushion can be used as a flotation device". The question is, why doesn't the plane just become a boat?

  Sam Ewing

  Stupidity, Flight, Used

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• Where is your ancient courage? You were used to say extremities was the trier of spirits; That common chances common men could bear; That when the sea was calm all boats alike showed mastership in floating.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Sea, Floating

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1809). “The plays of William Shakespeare: With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators”, p.123

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