Buoys Quotes

• 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

  Anchors, Feelings, Surface

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

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• I appreciate the boldness of gratitude in the quiet, unspoken depths and its ability to buoy another by being articulated.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Gratitude, Appreciate, Depth

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• I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied up.

  Barney Ross

  Blue, Standing Alone, All Alone

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• The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people... have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty.

  William Cobbett

  Media, Long, People

  "The Last Ten Years". Political Register, January 4, 1812.

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• Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her.

  Jack Adams

  Couple, Chicago, Yards

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• The ground swell is what’s going to sink you as well as being what buoys you up. These are clichés also, of course, and I’m sometimes interested in how much one can get away with.

  Paul Muldoon

  Sometimes, Cliche, Get Away

  Interview with Paul Muldoon, www.poetrymagazines.org.uk. 1996.

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• There is no better way to quickly buoy hard-pressed homeowners than helping them take advantage of the currently record low fixed mortgage rates and significantly reduce their monthly mortgage payments.

  Mark Zandi

  Records, Way, Helping

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• Why were there no buoys in life to show you the way?

  Nora Roberts

  Way, Shows

  Nora Roberts (2011). “Treasures Lost, Treasures Found”, p.129, Silhouette

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• I just think music is such a beautiful thing. It lifts the heart and buoys up your spirits - all kinds of music.

  Amy Grant

  Beautiful, Heart, Thinking

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• Art is the suitcase of history, carrying the essentials. Art is the life buoy of history. Art is seed, art is memory, art is vaccine.

  Yann Martel

  Art, Memories, Vaccines

  Yann Martel (2010). “Beatrice and Virgil”, p.16, Canongate Books

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• Forget what you learned about poetry in school. (That it's complex, opaque, a problem to be solved in 1500 words by tomorrow.) Poetry is the last preserve of honest speech and the outspoken heart. It holds the cadence of common life. It has a passion for truth and justice and liberty; it is a buoy to people in ordinary trouble: to a friend whose life has gone skidding into the meridian, who has been struck by bad news, who is frying eggs and hash browns and has whiny child clinging to his pant leg.

  Garrison Keillor

  Children, Heart, School

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• Instead of experiencing through the physical senses, I was now bobbing behind the body like a buoy at sea, cut loose from sensory solidity, separated from and witnessing the body from a vast distance.

  Suzanne Segal

  Distance, Cutting, Sea

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• Knowledge and imagination are the life buoy and the extra lung for breathing outside the walls of a tainted reality.

  Hassan Blasim

  Wall, Reality, Breathing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• "Hope, you see, Wal'r," said the Captain, sagely, "Hope. It's that as animates you. Hope is a buoy, for which you overhaul your Little Warbler, sentimental diwision, but Lord, my lad, like any other buoy, it only floats; it can't be steered nowhere. Along with the figure-head of Hope,' said the Captain, 'there's a anchor; but what's the good of my having a anchor, if I can't find no bottom to let it go in?"

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Anchors, Let It Go

  Charles Dickens (1872). “The Works of Charles Dickens”, p.284

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• Once more their weird laughter of the loons comes to my ear, the distance lends it a musical, melancholy sound. For a dangerous ledge off the lighthouse island floats in on the still air the gentle trolling of a warning bell as it swings on the rocking buoy; it might be tolling for the passing of summer and sweet weather with that persistent, pensive chime.

  Celia Thaxter

  Summer, Sweet, Laughter

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• I love narcissists-even more than they love themselves. You don't have to buoy them up. They are their own razzle-dazzle show and you are the blessed, favored with a front-row seat.

  Patricia Marx

  Blessed, Dazzle, Narcissist

  Patricia Marx (2008). “Him Her Him Again The End of Him”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• Children, only animals live entirely in the Here and Now. Only nature knows neither memory nor history. But man - let me offer you a definition - is the storytelling animal. Wherever he goes he wants to leave behind not a chaotic wake, not an empty space, but the comforting marker-buoys and trail-signs of stories. He has to go on telling stories. He has to keep on making them up. As long as there's a story, it's all right. Even in his last moments, it's said, in the split second of a fatal fall - or when he's about to drown - he sees, passing rapidly before him, the story of his whole life.

  Graham Swift

  Children, Memories, Fall

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• It's not nuclear physics. You always remember that. But if you write about sports long enough, you're constantly coming back to the point that something buoys people; something makes you feel better for having been there. Something of value is at work there...Something is hallowed here. I think that something is excellence.

  Tom Callahan

  Sports, Writing, Feel Better

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• Anything we can do in the near future that begins to stimulate the interest of people - seeing somebody down the street have an opportunity to go into space - buoys up the whole neighborhood.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Opportunity, Space, People

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• Ours is the one ever-present voice in our lives. Therefore, it is crucial that our self-talk instill confidence within us and is supportive, not submerging, and that our attitudes toward ourselves help keep our spirits afloat through acceptance and trust. We are our own most important and influential buoy.

  Sue Thoele

  Confidence, Attitude, Acceptance

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• Often poetry, especially the sort of poetry I write, is concerned with looking at the borders between the sensual and the spiritual and seeing them as divided, equivocal, that mystery somehow can break in to the ordinary. And we read poetry I think in part, to gain a sense of that intimacy with things that we can't understand that are unable to be understood but that buoy up our lives.

  Kevin Hart

  Spiritual, Writing, Thinking

  "The Poetry and Prayers of Kevin Hart". "Encounter" with Carmel Howard, www.abc.net.au. June 5, 2011.

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• You need a string of successes behind you to buoy that self-image; otherwise, you have a terribly negative attitude about yourself and it is very unlikely you are going to succeed at anything.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Attitude, Buddhism

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• So, is there an afterlife, and if so, what will it be like? I don't have a clue. But I am confident that the one who has buoyed us up in life will also buoy us up through death. We die into God. What more that means, I do not know. But that is all I need to know.

  Marcus Borg

  Mean, Afterlife, Needs

  Marcus Borg (2012). “Speaking Christian: Recovering the lost meaning of Christian words”, p.107, SPCK

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• As the lightness buoys me, I wonder if maybe she was right. Maybe it's not about looking hot for guys, but about feeling like a place acknowledged you, winked at you, accepted you. It's strange because, of all the people in all the cities, I'd have thought that to Parisians I'd be invisible, but apparently I'm not. Apparently in Paris, not only can I skate, but I practically qualify for the Olympics!

  Gayle Forman

  Cities, Paris, People

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• In all places where there is a Summer and a Winter, and where your Gardens of pleasure are sometimes clothed with their verdant garments, and bespangled with variety of Flowers, and at other times wholly dismantled of all these; here to recompense the loss of past pleasures, and to buoy up their hopes of another Spring, many have placed in their Gardens, Statues, and Figures of several Animals, and great variety of other curious pieces of Workmanship, that their walks might be pleasant at any time in those places of never dying pleasures.

  John Worlidge

  Summer, Hope, Art

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