Amelia Barr Quotes

The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.

Amelia Barr

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• One's ships come in over a calm sea.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Sea
  • Calm
  • Come

• Don't tell me how rocky the sea is, just bring the ship in.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Sports
  • inspirational
  • Sea

• 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.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Sea
  • Meet
  • Ships

• 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.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Ocean
  • Lines
  • Iraq

• When the sea was calm all ships alike showed mastership in floating.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Leadership
  • Sea
  • Calm

• 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.

  

  William Falconer
  • War
  • Numbers
  • Division

• 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.

  

  George Washington
  • People
  • Sea
  • Wind

• 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.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Land
  • Kings
  • Stones

• We were wavering around like a ship without a sail.

  

  Judy Holliday
  • Ships
  • Sail
  • Wavering

• You wouldn't abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn't control the winds.

  

  Thomas More
  • Wind
  • Storm
  • Abandon

• Ships are a strange kind of commodity because they're very lumpy, very big individual units, but they're commodities.

  

  Wilbur Ross
  • Individual
  • Commodity
  • Ships

• It's getting late. I must return to my ship or my men will think I've drowned and be celebrating.

  

  Michael Moorcock
  • Return
  • Celebrate
  • Late

• 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!

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Way
  • Moon
  • Term

• If a ship has been sunk, I can't bring it up. If it is going to be sunk, I can't stop it. I can use my time much better working on tomorrow's problem than by fretting about yesterday's. Besides, if I let those things get me, I wouldn't last long.

  

  Ernest King
  • Problem
  • Lasts
  • Yesterday

• 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.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Emotions
  • Remains
  • Ships

• Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.

  

  Hannah More
  • Men
  • Children
  • Evil

• If love would die along with death, this life wouldn't be so hard.

  

  Andrew Vachss
  • Life
  • Death
  • Die

• 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.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • People
  • Believe
  • Free

• 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.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Children
  • Real

• By consequence, or train of thoughts, I understand that succession of one thought to another which is called, to distinguish it from discourse in words, mental discourse. When a man thinketh on anything whatsoever, his next thought after is not altogether so casual as it seems to be. Not every thought to every thought succeeds indifferently.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Consequence
  • Discourse
  • Succeeds

• If thou wouldst rule well, thou must rule for God, and to do that, thou must be ruled by him. Those who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.

  

  William Penn
  • Independent
  • Wells
  • Tyrants

• The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.

  

  Amelia Barr
  • Ships
  • Voyages