Amelia Barr Quotes
The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.
Quotes to Explore
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One's ships come in over a calm sea.
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Don't tell me how rocky the sea is, just bring the ship in.
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As ships meet at sea a moment together, when words of greeting must be spoken, and then away upon the deep, so men meet in this world; and I think we should cross no man's path without hailing him, and if he needs giving him supplies.
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Hang in there, all of you out on the front lines in Iraq and Afghanistan or on aboard ships in the middle of the ocean.
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When the sea was calm all ships alike showed mastership in floating.
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Of whatsoever number a fleet of ships of war is composed, it is usually divided into three squadrons; and these, if numerous, are again separated into divisions.
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Great people are not affected by each puff of wind that blows ill. Like great ships, they sail serenely on, in a calm sea or a great tempest.
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Tall ships and tall kings Three times three, What brought they from the foundered land Over the flowing sea? Seven stars and seven stones And one white tree.
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We were wavering around like a ship without a sail.
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You wouldn't abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn't control the winds.
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Ships are a strange kind of commodity because they're very lumpy, very big individual units, but they're commodities.
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It's getting late. I must return to my ship or my men will think I've drowned and be celebrating.
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Spaceflight is nothing less than the exterior metaphor for the shamanic voyage. In other words, in our terms, the hallucinogenic experience. This is the way engineers get high. They go to the moon!
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My pawing over the ancients and semi-ancients has been one struggle to find out what has been done, once and for all, better than it can ever be done again, and to find out what remains for us to do, and plenty does remain, for if we still feel the same emotions as those who launched a thousand ships, it is quite certain that we came on these feelings differently, through different nuances, by different intellectual gradations. Each age has its own abounding gifts yet only some ages transmute them into matters of duration.
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Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.
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If love would die along with death, this life wouldn't be so hard.
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The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during election of members of parliament; as soon as the members are elected, the people is enslaved; it is nothing. In the brief moment of its freedom, the English people makes such a use of that freedom that it deserves to lose it.
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It's come at last", she thought, "the time when you can no longer stand between your children and heartache.
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My Real Children starts quietly, then suddenly takes you on two roller-coaster rides at once, swooping dizzily through a double panorama and ending in a sort of super Sophie's Choice. A daring tour de force.
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People are whupped. I'm whupped. My wife is whupped. Unless it's your job to be curious, who really has the time to sit and ask questions and explore issues?
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The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.
