A Quotes
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“A ship in dock, surrounded by quays and the walls of warehouses, has the appearance of a prisoner meditating upon freedom in the sadness of a free spirit put under restraint.”
Source: Under Western Eyes (Unabridged Deluxe Edition): An Intriguing Tale of Espionage and Betrayal in Czarist Russia From the Renowned Author of Heart of Darkness, Nostromo & The Secret Agent (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)
“A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for”
Source: The First to Die at the End
“A ship in harbour is safe, but it's not fulfilling its potential”
“A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.”
“A ship in the harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. Intelligence is like underwear, everyone has it, but you don't have to show it off. The expression a woman wears on her face is more important than the clothes she wears on her back.”
“A ship is a bit of terra firma cut off from the main; it is a state in itself; and the captain is its king.”
Source: White-jacket: or, The world in a man-of-war
“A ship is always referred to as 'she' because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.”
“A ship is always safe at the shore - but that is NOT what it is built for.”
“A ship is safe at shore but it's not built for that.”
“A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.”
“A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not why ships were built.”
“A ship is worse than a gaol. There is, in a gaol, better air, better company, better conveniency of every kind; and a ship has the additional disadvantage of of being in danger.”
Source: The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals
“A ship on the port always waits for you to sail to the oceans!”
“A ship's captain was her master and the right hand of God in Heaven Himself, and concerned with matters of such grave importance that minor issues like food for the mortals in his command were entirely beneath him.
"I'll get someone else to take this duty, sir," Creedy said stoutly.
"The nonessential personnel are already on leave, XO," Grimm replied. "All the remaining hands are fully engaged in installing the new systems and making repairs. You know that."
"But, sir," Creedy said. "What will the crew say?"
"What they won't say, Byron, is anything like 'my captain allowed me to go hungry while demanding that I work without cease,'" Grimm said.”
Source: The Aeronaut's Windlass
“A ship's strength is not in its size, but in its ability to sail against the tides.”
“A ship should not be held by a single anchor; neither should life depend upon a single hope.”
“A ship that does not miss any of the ports it has left means that it only loved the sea!”
“A ship that sails without a compass will get lost at sea.”
“A ship under sail and a big-bellied woman, Are the handsomest two things that can be seen common.”
“A ship which looms large in the river seems tiny when on the ocean.”
Source: Letters from a Stoic
“A ship with a hole underneath is doomed to sink! And ignorance is also a hole in the brain, a big hole!”
“A ship without Marines is like a garment without buttons.”
“A ship's a fool to fight a fort.”
“A ship's engine far away on the water expands the summer-night horizon. Both joy and sorrow swell in the dew's magnifying glass. Without really knowing, we divine; our life has a sister ship, following quietly another route. While the sun blazes behind the islands.”
“A ship, an isle, a sickle moon With few but with how splendid stars The mirrors of the sea are strewn Between their silver bars!”
“A shippe and a woman are ever repairing.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“A shit on a plate is just a shit on a plate. It’s foul. It’s rank. It’s rancid. It’s disgusting. Until I tell you it’s art, that is. Then it’s authentic, bold, evocative, challenging, and abstruse,” he exclaimed. “Art is what I say it is, and when I say it. Until then, it’s just a shit on a plate. It’s how these wretched drug addicts, indigents, and sycophants pass their time. It’s the plank of rotting wood they cling to as they drift aimlessly through an ocean of misery and woe. It’s what keeps them from killing themselves until eventually, swollen with rejection and failure, it becomes the reason they do.”
Source: eN
“A shiver runs down your spine when you realize it is not our imagination. Something is watching us out there.”
Source: A Book of Angels: Reflections on Angels Past and Present, and True Stories of How They Touch Our L ives
“A shivery, delicious Southern Gothic with feuding families, dark spirits, ancient curses and caught up in the middle, a young girl learning to live and love for the first time. Atmospheric and suspenseful, Compulsion will draw you in and hold you until the very last page.”
“A shoat squealing under a fence just attracts the fox, when it should be trying to run.”
Source: The Wheel of Time Companion: The People, Places and History of the Bestselling Series
“A shock of light. Unbelievable light. Blood orange swallowing the Albuquerque evening. A pulling in, taking back, reclaiming something stolen. Halfway home from her Saturday-morning lecture, Calliope Santiago drove across the river toward West Mesa and the Sleeping Sisters, ancient cinder-cone volcanoes in the distance marking the stretch of desert where she lived. Only now she could see no farther than two feet ahead of her from the blinding light, the splotches in her eyes bursting like bulbs in an antique camera. She blinked, not sure what she was seeing. She meant to cover her eyes. Meant to shield her sight.”
Source: Trinity Sight
“A shocked sense of justice has to be removed and justice restored.”
“A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.”
Source: The Histories
“A shoe has so much more to offer than just to walk.”
“A shoe is not only a design, but it's a part of your body language, the way you walk. The way you're going to move is quite dictated by your shoes.”
“A shoe that fits one person pinches another.”
Source: Cloaked
“A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.”
“A shooting star. Make a wish, lo—ahem. Wendy,” Peter whispered.
Wendy laid her head on Peter’s chest and breathed deeply. “I have everything I could ever wish for.”
Source: The Rescue
“A shop bought card saying Get Well Soon. Didn't seem to fit the bill. This hand made card hopes that pretty soon... ...You'll be galloping up that hill.”
“A shop had opened and folded out one of its horizontally shuttered windows, locking it so it formed a shelf. On top of this, a baker set out pies to cool- caramel black thistle and ginger worm- along with tiny square seedcakes that smelled amazing. Not that Alice had ever smelled a seedcake before or known beforehand what a good-smelling one smelled like; perhaps time in the bird town was changing her. EAT ME was spelled out in pine nuts upon the top of each cake.
"Let me just try one of these. Perhaps I shall shut up like a telescope," she said, taking one and nibbling at it. The baker's wingy hand slapped ineffectually at her, but there were no other ramifications. The cake was nutty and buttery with a distinct taste of grasshopper.”
Source: Unbirthday
“A shop-keeper in good business is quite as well off as a pedlar that travels the country with his wares on his back. Commercial jealousy is, after all, nothing but prejudice: it is a wild fruit, that will drop of itself when it has arrived at maturity.”
Source: A Treatise on Political Economy; Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth
“A shopkeeper had an assistant whose eyes were crossed and thus saw everything double. One day, the shopkeeper asked his assistant to grab a one-of-a-kind, expensive jar of rose water from the storeroom for a special customer. The assistant ran to the storeroom, only to return moments later and ask, “I see two jars, which one would you like me to bring?” The shopkeeper impatiently sighed, as he had grown accustomed to such questions. The shopkeeper decided to try a new tactic with his assistant so he said, “Break one of the jars and bring me the one that’s left!” The assistant apprehensively followed the shopkeeper’s orders and broke one of the jars, which of course caused “the other” jar to break too.”
Source: Secrets of Divine Love Journal: Insightful Reflections that Inspire Hope and Revive Faith
“A short absence is the safest.”
“A Short Alternative Medical Dictionary
Definitions courtesy of Dr Lemuel Pillmeister (also known as Lemmy)
Addiction - When you can give up something any time, as long as it's next Tuesday.
Cocaine - Peruvian Marching Powder. A stimulant that has the extraordinary effect that the more you do, the more you laugh out of context.
Depression - When everything you laugh at is miserable and you can't seem to stop.
Heroin - A drug that helps you to escape reality, while making it much harder to cope when you are recaptured.
Psychosis - When everybody turns into tiny dolls and they have needles in their mouths and they hate you and you don't care because you have THE KNIFE! AHAHAHAHAHAHA!”
Source: The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star
“A short attention span makes all of your perceptions and relationships shallow and unsatisfying.”
Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“a short cut to matrimonial unhappiness is not to have the same taste in jokes!”
“A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.”
“A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.”
“A short distance away is the Tidal Basin, ringed by cherry trees that every year produce flowers, an event to which Washingtonians react as though it were the Second Coming of Christ.”
Source: Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway
“A short film is just another storytelling medium like TV, Features, and Webisodes. I am just thrilled that Silent Cargo is getting out there for people to see.”