Boat Quotes - Page 31

• There are so many traps. There are so many opportunities. Life is a river and we take our boat and we go down it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Opportunity

  4 Copy quote

• The gospel is for lifeboats, not showboats, and a man must make up his mind which boat he is going to operate.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Men, Mind

  Vance Havner (1973). “Three-Score & Ten”, Fleming H. Revell Company

  54 Copy quote

  Show source

• Take advantage of this human boat;
  Free yourself from sorrow's mighty stream!
  This vessel will be later hard to find.
  The time that you have now, you fool, is not for sleep!

  Shantideva

  Wisdom, Sleep, Sorrow

  Shantideva (2007). “The Way of the Bodhisattva”, p.99, Shambhala Publications

  28 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm on my boat, training, rehearsing; I spend all my energy on the job that's coming up, and I found that's the way that works for me. The more energy you have on set, the better you'll be; it's all about being alive in that moment and listening.

  Rory McCann

  Jobs, Training, Listening

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• The first dolly track was somebody who had the idea to put the camera on a boat on a canal. So the boat would move very slowly but steadily. So they would see all that surrounds you and you'd see the landscape changing slowly. So that was the first time.

  Michel Gondry

  Moving, Ideas, Track

  4 Copy quote

• My father was a sailor and our summer vacations were always on a sailboat. I had a little boat before I had a moped.

  Ernesto Bertarelli

  Summer, Father, Vacation

  4 Copy quote

• It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, Are you scared, too? You bet your sweet life I am. Aha, so that's the way it is for you, too. We were all in the same boat. That's probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, Who else feels like this? the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way.

  Stan Dale

  Sweet, Fear, Hands

  7 Copy quote

• [It is hard to know what is good luck and what isn't and therefore whether we should be happy or sad about it. Only time will tell. For example...] The Talmud relates a story about two people who wanted to travel by boat. One broke his foot and was unable to make the trip, while his friend got on the boat. The one who missed the boat cursed his misfortune. A few days later, however, he heard that the boat sank and all the passengers drowned.

  Zelig Pliskin

  Good Luck, Two, Feet

  10 Copy quote

• How strange! You seek guidance, yet you do not tread its path, surely a boat does not sail on land.

  Al-Shafi‘i

  Islamic, Land, Doe

  430 Copy quote

• Show me a man who fishes in winter, and I'll show you a fanatic. Actually, I'll get the better of the deal, because for sheer spectacle a fanatic doesn't hold a candle to a man who fishes in winter

  Patrick F. McManus

  Winter, Men, Lakes

  Patrick F. McManus (1982). “They Shoot Canoes, Don't They?”, p.26, Macmillan

  23 Copy quote

  Show source

• My wife wonders why all women do not seek anglers for husbands. She has come in contact with many in her life with me and she claims that they all have a sweetness in their nature which others lack.

  Ray Bergman

  Husband, Lakes, Sea

  7 Copy quote

• I think of the old slavery, and of the way The Economy has now improved upon it. The new slavery has improved upon the old by giving the new slaves the illusion that they are free. The Economy does not take people's freedom by force, which would be against its principles, for it is very humane. It buys their freedom, pays for it, and then persuades its money back again with shoddy goods and the promise of freedom. "Buy a car," it says, "and be free. Buy a boat and be free." Is this not the raw material of bad dreams? Or is it maybe the very nightmare itself?

  Wendell Berry

  Dream, Thinking, People

  Wendell Berry (2000). “Jayber Crow: A Novel”, Counterpoint LLC

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• From the time I was a kid, I had a wanderlust. I always wanted to travel, in any form - plane, train, boat, car, motorcycle. So I think that if I ever do have a mid-life crisis, I have all the toys to refer to quickly.

  John Travolta

  Kids, Thinking, Car

  "Wild Hogs - John Travolta interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.

  Horace

  Rivers, Lakes, Sea

  "Epistles", I. 16. 50, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 771-72, 1922.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Water its living strength first shows, When obstacles its course oppose.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Edgar Alfred BOWRING (1853). “The Poems of Goethe, Translated in the Original Metres, with a Sketch of Goethe's Life. By E. A. Bowring”, p.331

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• The small force that it takes to launch a boat into the stream should not be confused with the force of the stream that carries it along: but this confusion appears in nearly all biographies.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Confused, Confusion, Biographies

  9 Copy quote

• He who holds the hook is aware in what waters many fish are swimming.

  Ovid

  Swimming, Lakes, Sea

  Ovid, John Henry Mozley (1979). “Ovid”, Loeb Classical Library

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• A collection of short stories is generally thought to be a horrendous clinker; an enforced courtesy for the elderly writer who wants to display the trophies of his youth, along with his trout flies.

  John Cheever

  Elderly, Sea, Fishing

  14 Copy quote

• There are more fish taken out of a stream than ever were in it.

  Oliver Herford

  Taken, Lakes, Sea

  Oliver Herford (2014). “The Complete Cynic”, p.36, BookRix

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• Make the most of whatever it is that floats your boat.

  Ken Robinson

  Floats

  "Ideas for modern living: passion" by Ken Robinson, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Plato, Men, Sea

  "De Senectute", XIII. 44, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 600-02,

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• God is in everyone. God is in you and you are God. Strengthen this fundamental truth. When you propagate this truth, that is the real service. It is the service that will take you to closer proximity, a boat. In this ocean of life, take the help of this boat and gain the proximity.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Real, Ocean, Fundamentals

  24 Copy quote

• We can't really waste our time; we have to see that we are all in the same boat and that different religious traditions point in the same direction, and now let's get moving together, doing something for peace.

  David Steindl-Rast

  Religious, Moving, Together

  9 Copy quote

• And connected I had been. When the fish changed directions, I felt it. when it slowed or sped up, I felt that too. It's such a raw thing, this shared existence with a piece of bucking biomass.

  Jessica Maxwell

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

  16 Copy quote

• The boats came, and they were only taking a few people at a time, so what happened was they took a boat and said, 'We can have two more children', so the boys went.

  Anna Lee

  Children, Boys, Two

  4 Copy quote