Lifeboats Quotes

• Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder.

  Rumi

  Lamps, Ladders

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• ‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

  Voltaire

  Positive, Funny Inspirational, Short Life

  Elizabeth Cooney Leister, Voltaire (1985). “Voltaire's Candide”, Barrons Educational Series Incorporated

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• Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.

  Rumi

  House, Soul, Shepherds

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• I will love you as the iceberg loves the ship, and the passengers love the lifeboat and the lifeboat loves the teeth of the sperm whale, and the sperm whale loves the flavor of naval uniforms.

  Daniel Handler

  Love You, Whales, Teeth

  "The Beatrice Letters". Book by Daniel Handler, 2006.

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• The Church used to be a lifeboat rescuing the perishing. Now she is a cruise ship recruiting the promising.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Church, Ships, Cruise

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• Age is something that doesn't matter unless you're a cheese

  Luis Bunuel

  Funny, Cheese Sandwiches, 50th Birthday

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• The only reason that they say, 'Women and children first' is to test the strength of the lifeboats.

  Jean Kerr

  Children, Tests, Firsts

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• Man the lifeboats. The idiots are winning.

  Charlie Brooker

  Winning, Men, Idiot

  Charlie Brooker (2009). “The Hell of it All”, p.161, Faber & Faber

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• How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order—willed, faked, and so brought into being; it is a peace and a haven set into the wreck of time; it is a lifeboat on which you find yourself, decades later, still living.

  Annie Dillard

  Motivational, Hands, Order

  "The Writing Life". Book by Annie Dillard, 1989.

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  Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Inspirational, Funny, Letting Go

  FaceBook post by Natalie Goldberg from Jul 25, 2011

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• Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life.

  Yann Martel

  Life Of Pi Book

  Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.312, Canongate Books

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  It's not the will to win that matters-everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters.

  Bear Bryant

  Inspirational, Sports, Meaningful

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• Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

  Voltaire

  Funny, Witty, Philosophy

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• Many who would not take the last cookie would take the last lifeboat.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Cookies, Lasts, Manners

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• There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn your parents into whatever it takes to keep you afloat.

  Anna Quindlen

  Parent, Literature, Rooms

  Anna Quindlen (2003). “Object Lessons: One True Thing; Black and Blue”

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• Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces. The elements couldn’t be more simple, nor the stakes higher.

  Yann Martel

  Simple, Games, Elements

  Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.312, Canongate Books

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• If no one can do that, yeah, Donald Trump better man the lifeboats, because there's some significant chance he'll win the nomination.

  Dalia Mogahed

  Winning, Men, Nominations

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• The last three books are much more a case of a moment of history, what happened almost by accident or coincidence, like being in the same elevator or lifeboat.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Book, Three, Lasts

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• We have been shark to one another, but also lifeboat.

  Margaret Atwood

  Sharks, Has Beens

  Margaret Atwood (1989). “Cat's Eye”, Bantam

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• The euro Titanic has now hit the iceberg - and there simply aren't enough lifeboats to go round.

  Nigel Farage

  Enough, Iceberg, Euro

  YouTube Chanel "europarl"/ "The Genius of Mutual Indebtedness - Nigel Farage", www.youtube.com. June 13, 2012.

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• Puns are little "plays on words" that a certain breed of person loves to spring on you and then look at you in a certain self-satisfied way to indicate that he thinks that you must think that he is by far the cleverest person on Earth now that Benjamin Franklin is dead, when in fact what you are thinking is that if this person ever ends up in a lifeboat, the other passengers will hurl him overboard by the end of the first day even if they have plenty of food and water.

  Dave Barry

  Spring, Thinking, Self

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, p.2, Ballantine Books

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• ‎"I look upon this world as a wrecked vessel. God has given me a lifeboat and said, 'Moody, save all you can.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Looks, World, Said

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• We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Positive

  Lady Windermere's Fan act 3 (1892)

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• Humanism or atheism is a wonderful philosophy of life as long as you are big, strong, and between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five. But watch out if you are in a lifeboat and there are others who are younger, bigger, or smarter.

  William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

  Strong, Atheist, Philosophy

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• 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

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