Harbour Quotes - Page 2

On December 7, 1941, an event took place that had nothing to do with me or my family and yet which had devastating consequences for all of us - Japan bombed Pearl Harbour in a surprise attack. With that event began one of the shoddiest chapters in the tortuous history of democracy in North America.

David Suzuki

Japan, America, Democracy

David Suzuki (1987). “Metamorphosis: Stages in a Life”, Stoddart Pub

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...If I continued to harbour any hope for music it lay in the expectation that a musician might come who was sufficiently bold, subtle, malicious, southerly, superhealthy to confront that music and in an immortal fashion take revenge on it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Fashion, Revenge, Expectations

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In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls. Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools

Alan Paton

Fall, Dark, White

Alan Paton (1950). “Cry, the beloved country”, Charles Scribner's Sons

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Man is not a ship in harbour; Earth is not a ship in harbour; even Universe is not a ship in harbour! No safe harbour for anything exists!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Men, Ships, Earth

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One flesh. Or if you prefer, one ship. The starboard engine has gone. I, the port engine, must chug along somehow till we make harbour. Or rather, till the journey ends.

C. S. Lewis

Journey, Wife, Gone

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We all harbour a great sadness in our soul

Paulo Coelho

Life, Inspiration, Sadness

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Crossing at a ford occurs often in a man's lifetime. It means setting sail even though your friends stay in harbour, knowing the route, knowing the soundness of your ship and the favour of the day.

Miyamoto Musashi

War, Mean, Men

Miyamoto Musashi (2013). “The Book of Five Rings: A Text on Kenjutsu and the Martial Arts in General, Written by the Swordsman Miyamoto Musashi”, p.51, Lulu Press, Inc

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The Lady with the Lamp, the Statue of Liberty, stands in New York Harbour. Her back is squarely turned on the USA. It’s no wonder, considering what she would have to look upon. She would weep, if she had to face this way.

Claudia Jones

New York, Usa, Liberty

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I always look forward to going for a walk in Rushcutters Bay Park, right down to the bottom where you can look in the clear water of the harbour. I use that time to clear my head and really focus my thoughts.

Catherine Martin

Water, Focus, Looks

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In History, stagnant waters, whether they be the stagnant waters of custom or those of despotism, harbour no life; life is dependent on the ripples created by a few eccentric individuals. In homage to that life & vitality, the community has to brave certain perils and must countenance a measure of heresy. One must live dangerously if one wants to live at all.

Herbert Read

Peace, Ubuntu, Water

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No matter how safe and lovely your harbour is, leave it to see the insecure and the ugly one; only then you can reach the truth!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Insecure, Lovely, Matter

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Our ex-wifes always harbour secrets about us that make them irresistable. Until, of course, we remember who we are and what we did and why we are not married anymore.

Richard Ford

Secret, Who We Are, Remember

FaceBook post by Richard Ford from Oct 23, 2016

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As for the imperialist countries, we should unite with their peoples and strive to coexist peacefully with those countries, do business with them and prevent any possible war, but under no circumstances should we harbour any unrealistic notions about them.

Mao Zedong

Country, Peace, War

Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.40, Lulu.com

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Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolesence.

Carrie Fisher

Quality, Acting, Way

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It is that dream we carry that something miraculous will happen that it must happen - that time will open that the heart will open that doors will open and that the rock face will open that springs will gush forth - that the dream will open and that one morning we'll glide in to a harbour we didn't know was there.

Olav H. Hauge

Dream, Morning, Spring

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She is a woman of honour and smartness whose wild leaves out luck, always taking risks, and there is something in her brow now, that only she can recognize in a mirror. Ideal and idealistic in that shiny dark hair! People fall in love with her. She is a woman I don’t know well enough to hold in my wing, if writers have wings, to harbour for the rest of my life.

Michael Ondaatje

Falling In Love, Dark, Wings

FaceBook post by Michael Ondaatje from Mar 08, 2015

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Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives.

Alfred North Whitehead

Extravagance, Certain, Civilised Society

Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.288, Simon and Schuster

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It is indeed paradoxical that an industry which epitomizes all that is new and up-to-date at the same time harbours some of the oldest and least desirable attributes of work in manufacturing industry.

Peter Dicken

Attributes, Paradoxical, Desirable

Peter Dicken (1998). “Global Shift: Transforming the World Economy”, SAGE Publications Limited

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There is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavour and then leave it half done. This is what the West has done with its colonial system. It shook all the societies in the world loose from their old moorings. But it seems indifferent whether or not they reach safe harbour in the end.

Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

Important, West, Done

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There's that old cliché which has a lot of basis in truth, that all music journalists are failed rock stars. They all harbour the inner feeling they should be up under the spotlight and the microphone is there for them.

Sylvie Simmons

Stars, Rocks, Feelings

Source: www.elsewhere.co.nz

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The most amazing thing to me about the sea is the tide. A harbour like St. Ives is totally transformed in a very short space of time by the arrival or departure of the sea.

John Dyer

Space, Sea, Departure

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I would rather drown myself in the waters of the Sabarmati than harbour hate or animosity in my heart.

Mahatma Gandhi

Hate, Heart, Water

Gandhi (Mahatma) (1924). “Collected works”

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Khadi has been conceived as the foundation and the image of ahimsa. A real khadi-wearer will not utter an untruth. A real khadi-wearer will harbour no violence, no deceit, no impurity.

Mahatma Gandhi

Real, Foundation, Deceit

Gandhi (Mahatma) (1938). “Cent per cent Swadeshi: or, The economics of village industries”

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In political activity, then, men sail a boundless and bottomless sea; there is neither harbour for shelter nor floor for anchorage, neither starting-place nor appointed destination. The enterprise is to keep afloat on an even keel.

Michael Joseph Oakeshott

Men, Sea, Political

"Political Education". Essay by Michael Joseph Oakeshott, 1951.

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Of course I know that the twins are only words on a page, and I'm certainly not the sort of writer who talks to his characters or harbours any illusions about the creative process. But at the same time, I think it's juvenile and arrogant when literary writers compulsively remind their readers that the characters aren't real. People know that already. The challenge is to make an intelligent reader suspend disbelief, to seduce them into the reality of a narrative.

Michel Faber

Real, Character, Writing

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