Anchors Quotes - Page 5

• My identity shifted when I got into recovery. That's who I am now, and it actually gives me greater pleasure to have that identity than to be a musician or anything else, because it keeps me in a manageable size. When I'm down on the ground with my disease-which I'm happy to have-it gets me in tune. It gives me a spiritual anchor. Don't ask me to explain.

  Eric Clapton

  Spiritual, Recovery, Who I Am

  "What I've Learned: Eric Clapton" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. October 6, 2014.

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• The anchors now made are contrived so as to sink into the ground as soon as they reach it, and to hold a great strain before they can be loosened or dislodged from their station.

  William Falconer

  Made, Strain, Stations

  William Falconer (2012). “Falconers Marine Dictionary (1780)”, p.8, BoD – Books on Demand

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• It's best to not confuse optimism with hope. Optimism is a psychological attitude toward life. Hope goes further. It is an anchor that one hurls toward the future, it's what lets you pull on the line and reach what you're aiming for and head in the right direction. Hope is also theological: God is there, too.

  Pope Francis

  Attitude, Optimism, Lines

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• Home is like the ship at sea, Sailing on eternally; Oft the anchor forth we cast, But can never make it fast.

  Charles Dickens

  Home, Sea, Sailing

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• Feeling is deep and still; and the word that floats on the surface Is as the tossing buoy, that betrays where the anchor is hidden.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Feelings, Buoys, Surface

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Evangeline and Other Poems”, p.40, Courier Corporation

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• The essence of conservative ideology is its being anchored in the divine order of things.

  Franz von Papen

  Divine Order, Essence, Conservative

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• We are off! The courses and topsails are set: the coral-hung anchor swings from the bow: and together, the three royals are given to the breeze, that follows us out to sea like the baying of a hound.

  Herman Melville

  Swings, Sea, Sailing

  Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.536, Delphi Classics

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• The best advice I got from my aunt, the great singer Rosemary Clooney, and from my dad, who was a game show host and news anchor, was: don't wake up at seventy years old sighing over what you should have tried. Just do it, be willing to fail, and at least you gave it a shot. That's echoed for me all through the last few years.

  George Clooney

  Motivational, Dad, Aunt

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• Your poverty today is because of who you are. Want wealth? Let go of your anchors and inhibitions and change yourself.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Change, Letting Go, Want

  Twitter post from Sep 20, 2013

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• The countdown reached ten seconds and I could almost hear an invisible crescendo of stirring background music. 'Anchors aweigh!' Five, four, three, two, one... and we had ignition!

  Gene Cernan

  Two, Three, Four

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• The director, Antoine Fuqua, relies on small details, which anchor the vigilante-as-saint myth in at least a minimal degree of reality.

  David Denby

  Reality, Small Details, Directors

  "The Equalizer" by David Denby, www.newyorker.com.

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• In the pale light of daybreak the gravestones looked like so many white sails of boats anchored in a busy harbor. They were sails that would never again be filled with wind, sails that, too long unused and heavily drooping, had been turned into stone just as they were. The boats' anchors had been thrust so deeply into the dark earth that they could never again be raised.

  Yukio Mishima

  Dark, Light, Wind

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• Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa. If Nigeria succeeds at democratic governance it will be an anchor for all of West Africa. Africa needs a strong Nigeria.

  Ed Royce

  Country, Strong, Needs

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• Their function is to anchor the frequency of the new consciousness on this planet. I call them the frequency-holders. They are here to generate consciousness through the activities of daily life, through their interactions with others as well as through "just being."

  Eckhart Tolle

  Life, Interaction With Others, Just Being

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.223, Penguin

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• That is where homeland is. In that shifting space, kinfolk know one another by secret signs; and wherever kinfolk meet, homeland soil coalesces about their feet in the mysterious way that coral cays, like seabirds pausing in flight, anchor themselves to the Barrier Reef.

  Janette Turner Hospital

  Feet, Space, Bird

  Janette Turner Hospital (2015). “Collected Stories”, p.277, Univ. of Queensland Press

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• Some of my colleagues want to be The Anchorman on the Mount. Others see themselves as the Ace Reporter. Because of 60 Minutes, there's a whole herd of them determined to be The Grand Inquisitor and a heady number want only to be The Friendliest Anchor on the Block. At least one wants to be Jesus.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Anchorman, Jesus, Block

  Linda Ellerbee (1987). “"And so it goes": adventures in television”, Berkley Pub Group

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• I walk up a dune to a beach and look out to sea, but it's 100km away. The ships lie askew in their dry beds, at anchor for ever. Today is my son's birthday. Thousands of miles from here, his healthy lungs are blowing out candles. I should be there but I'm here with another boy, who puts his face close to mine and laughs. I smile back but realise he can't see it, because I'm wearing an antiseptic muzzles to protect me from his breath.

  A. A. Gill

  Funny, Beach, Lying

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• If you hold onto the beauty and inspiration and the clarity that is music, you will have an anchor, you will not be too far swayed by what the world is

  Van Cliburn

  Inspiration, World, Clarity

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• Your body, the only one you will ever have, is the foundation of your life. And it’s either an anchor limiting your freedom and potential or a source of radiant energy, vitality and joy, elevating your life and the lives of those around you. It’s your choice… will yours be a source of strength, from which you will impact the world, or an obstacle, preventing you from your dreams and desires? … As my friend, NFL Hall of Fame quarterback John Elway is fond of saying,'If you’re going to bother setting a goal, aim high!'… My advice to you, aim high; aim for strength.

  Shawn Phillips

  Dream, Impact, Nfl

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• And more than once in the course of time, the same theme reappears: among the mystics of the fifteenth century, it has become the motif of the soul as a skiff, abandoned on the infinite sea of desires, in the sterile field of cares and ignorance, among the mirages of knowledge, amid the unreason of the world - a craft at the mercy of the sea's great madness, unless it throws out a solid anchor, faith, or raises its spiritual sails so that the breath of God may bring it to port.

  Michel Foucault

  Spiritual, Ignorance, Sea

  Michel Foucault (2013). “Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason”, p.12, Vintage

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• A man does a lot of praying in an enemy prison. Prayer, even more than sheer thought, is the firmest anchor.

  Jeremiah Denton

  Prayer, Men, Enemy

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• In college, I was a weather anchor for the local news. I would 'borrow' my forecast from The Weather Channel.

  Emily Procter

  College, Weather, News

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• A journal is more than a memory goad. It's therapeutic. The simple act of opening a notebook to put words down stills the crosscurrents of worry, drawing to focus the essential though patterms that best defines us, intersecting those thoughts with the condition of our life at that exact moment. A journal is one of the few anchors the human condition allows us.

  Randy Wayne White

  Notebook, Memories, Simple

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• Alfredo Di Stéfano was the greatest footballer of all time - far better even than Pelé. He was, simultaneously, the anchor in defence, the playmaker in midfield, and the most dangerous marksman in attack.

  Helenio Herrera

  Dangerous, All Time, Defence

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