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“If the gospel was of a nature to be propagated or maintained by the power of the world, God would not have intrusted it to fishermen. To defend the gospel appertains not to the princes and pontiffs of this world.”

Ifs World This World Conscience Fisherman

Author:Martin Luther

“The whole world knows that His glory has not been spread by force and weapons, but by poor fishermen.”

Knows World Whole Force Poor Weapons Glory Spread Whole World Fisherman

Author:Girolamo Savonarola

“A fisherman is always hopeful -- nearly always more hopeful than he has any right to be.”

Sea Rivers Fishes Boat Hopeful Lakes Fishing Fisherman

Author:Roderick Haig-Brown

“I have found more inspiration in the cottages of fishermen than in the palaces of the rich.”

Inspiration Found Rich Palaces Fisherman Cottages

Author:Wilfred Grenfell

“When you fall in a river, you're no longer a fisherman; you're a swimmer.”

Fall Rivers Divorce Fisherman Swimmer

Author:Gene Hill

“It is the job of artists to open doors and invite in prophesies, the unknown, the unfamiliar; it’s where their work comes from, although its arrival signals the beginning of the long disciplined process of making it their own. Scientists too, as J. Robert Oppenheimer once remarked, ‘live always at the ‘edge of mystery’—the boundary of the unknown.’ But they transform the unknown into the known, haul it in like fishermen; artists get you out into that dark sea.”

Long Jobs Artist Process Dark Known Doors Mystery Sea Scientist Edges Boundaries Invites Signals Arrivals Unfamiliar Fisherman Haul

Book:A Field Guide to Getting Lost

Source: A Field Guide to Getting Lost

“We as songwriters are in the same position as a professional fisherman. Our fishing grounds are kind of fished out.”

Kind Position Fishing Songwriters Fisherman

Author:Jimmy Webb

“The fisherman fishes as the urchin eats cream buns, from lust.”

Fishes Lust Cream Fisherman Buns

Author:T. H. White

“There are all kinds of letters and protests that come from, not surprisingly, Japanese fishermen, the fishermen's wives; there are student groups, all different types of people; the protest against the Americans' use of the Pacific for nuclear testing.”

People Kind Different Use Wife Groups Students Type Letters Nuclear All Kinds Protest Testing Pacific Fisherman Nuclear Testing

Author:Martha Smith

“We do not know what is on the other side of the storm.”

Knows Sides Storm Fishing Art Of War Adjustment Fisherman Total War Fly Fishing Angling Great Fishing Second Guessing Funny Fishing Romance Movie Funny Fish

Author:Brian Francis

“A street thug and a paid killer are professionals - beasts of prey, if you will, who have dissociated themselves from the rest of humanity and can now see human beings in the same way that trout fishermen see trout.”

Ifs Way Humans Humanity Human Beings Streets Paid Beast Killers Prey Fisherman Thug Trout

Book:The Killing of Bonnie Garland: A Question of Justice

Source: The Killing of Bonnie Garland: A Question of Justice

“The fisherman of the Colombian coast must be learned doctors of ethics and morality, for they invented the word sentipensante, or ‘feeling-thinking’ to define language that speaks the truth. Eduardo Galeano”

Thinking Feelings Speak Language Morality Ethics Doctors Coast Speak The Truth Fisherman

Book:Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings

Source: Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings

“I fish because I love to . . . because I love the environs where trout are found . . . because I suspect that men are going along this way for the last time, and I for one don’t want to waste the trip . . . and, finally, not because I regard fishing as being so terribly important but because I suspect that so many of the other concerns of men are equally unimportant––and not nearly so much fun.”

Men Way Want Important Lasts Found Fun Waste Concern Regard Fishes Fishing Suspects Last Time Unimportant Fisherman Trout Fly Fishing Trout Fishing

Author:John D. Voelker

“A fisherman does not bait his hook with food he likes. He uses food the fish likes. So with boys.”

Doe Use Wisdom Boys Fishes Likes Hook Fisherman Bait Scouting Boy Scout

Author:Baden Powell de Aquino

“There are always new places to go fishing. For any fisherman, there's always a new place, always a new horizon”

Sea Rivers Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Horizon Fisherman Places To Go New Places New Horizons

Author:Jack Nicklaus

“I don't know what's on the other side.”

Knows Sides Curiosity Fishing Adjustment Fisherman Fly Fishing Angling Great Fishing Funny Fishing Romance Movie Funny Fish

Author:Patrick Swayze

“In this quiet, peaceful time of twilight there is, in this great circle of life, an awful lot of hunting and fishing and catching and killing and dying and eating going on all around me. As the old fisherman said, 'That's the way with life. Sometimes you eat well; sometimes you are well-eaten.'”

Way Wells Said Sometimes Dying Quiet Eating Killing Circles Peaceful Awful Fishing Hunting Twilight Catching Fisherman Circle Of Life Hunting And Fishing

Author:Paul G. Quinnett

“There is indeed, perhaps, no better way to hold communion with the sea than sitting in the sun on the veranda of a fishermen's café”

Way Sun Sea Sitting Beach Communion Better Ways Fisherman Ocean Sea Sailors And The Sea

Book:Meek Americans: & Other European Trifles

Source: Meek Americans: & Other European Trifles

“The inhabitants are numerous and happy... Throuhout the country the people do not kill any living creature, nor drink intoxicating liquor, they do not keep pigs and fowl, and do not sell live cattle; in the markets there are no butcher shops and no dealers in intoxicating drink... Only the Chandalas (lowest cast) are fisherman and hunters and sell flesh meat.”

People Country Drink Creatures Sells Casts Flesh Meat Shops Vegetarian Pigs Lowest Hunters Vegetarianism Liquor Dealer Cattle Fisherman Living Creatures Butchers Fowl

Author:Faxian

“When the snipe and the mussel struggle, the fisherman gets the benefit. Ancient Chinese saying”

Struggle Benefits Ancient Chinese Fisherman

Author:Robert Greene

“Just as a fisherman must watch the ebb and flow of the tides, an investor and businessperson must be keenly aware of the subtle shifts in cash flow.”

Watches Flow Subtle Investors Cash Tides Fisherman Ebb And Flow Cash Flow

Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“I should never make anything of a fisherman. I had not got sufficient imagination”

Should Imagination Sea Rivers Fishes Boat Sufficient Lakes Fishing Fisherman

Book:Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog

Source: Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog

“Good things come to those who hustle”

“A positive attitude and an open mind are true characteristics of all good fishermen”

Mind Attitude Positive Attitude Characteristics Open Mind Fisherman True Character

Author:Kevin VanDam

“I am a woman. I am a fisherman. As I have said, I am not a fisherwoman, fisherlady, or fishergirl.”

Said Fisherman

Book:The Hungry Ocean: A Swordboat Captain's Journey

Source: The Hungry Ocean: A Swordboat Captain's Journey

“I'd like to own my own garage and my own fishery. I'd also like to be a professional fisherman. But I'll take whatever happens.”

Happens My Own Garage Whatever Happens Fisherman Fisheries

Author:Tom Felton

“All goes back to the earth, and so I do not desire pride of excess or power, but the contentments made by men who have had little: the fisherman's silence receiving the river's grace, the gardener's musing on rows.”

Men Littles Made Earth Desire Silence Grace Pride Rivers Simplicity Contentment Excess Receiving Gardener Fisherman Musings

Book:The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry

Source: The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry

“In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.”

Source: Karl Marx: A Reader

“In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.”

Funny Law Water Humorous Crosses Lawyer Fishing Examination Fisherman

Author:Louis Nizer

“However far I gaze Neither cherry blossoms nor Crimson leaves are in sight. Only a fisherman's hut on the shore In the autumnal evening.”

Sight Evening Shore Cherries Fisherman Huts Crimson Cherry Blossom

Author:Fujiwara no Teika

“I have seen one shrike occupy himself for hours in sticking up on thorns, a number of small fishes that the fishermen had thrown on the shore. The fishes dried up and decayed.”

Hours Numbers Fishes Thrown Shore Thorns Fisherman

Author:John Bachman

“Bought the Vegematic and Pocket Fisherman, too, illuminated illustrated history of Life, and Boxcar Willie.”

Musical Pockets Fisherman History Of Life

Author:Steve Goodman

“The disaster in the Gulf was no accident. It was the result of years of oil money buying off politicians to lead to an unregulated and ill focused addiction to oil and drilling. The doomed fate of the local fisherman and the environment were foretold in the infamous chants of 'Drill, Baby, Drill.”

Years Results Environment Fate Baby Politician Addiction Ill Focused Oil Accidents Disaster Locals Buying Doomed Fisherman Drills Infamous Drilling

Author:Robert Greenwald

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