Vessel Quotes - Page 2

• As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.

  Demosthenes

  Wise, Stupid, Men

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Compiled by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Kate Louise Roberts, 1922.

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• Love Gratefully. This love expands your heart into a greater vessel which can hold yet more love.

  Harold Klemp

  Heart, Greater

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• A woman is essentially a vessel made to be filled.

  Jose Saramago

  Women, Made, Filled

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• We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.

  Ray Bradbury

  Inspirational, Motivational, Friendship

  FaceBook post by Ray Bradbury from Dec 09, 2015

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• Clay is moulded to make a vessel, but the utility of the vessel lies in the space where there is nothing. . . . Thus, taking advantage of what is, we recognize the utility of what is not.

  Laozi

  Lying, Space, Clay

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• In proportion to the size of the vessel of faith, brought by us to the Lord, is the measure we draw out of His overflowing grace.

  Cyprian

  Faith, Grace, Size

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• If we let go of our likes and dislikes, we will become fit vessels to receive the God's ever flowing grace.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Letting Go, Spiritual, Likes And Dislikes

  Twitter post from Feb 04, 2014

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• Just as water will conform to the shape of the vessel that contains it, so will a man follow the good and evil of his companions.

  Imagawa Sadayo

  Men, Evil, Water

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• God, please use me" is the most powerful affirmation we can say for an abundant career. It is the miracle-worker's prayer. Everybody wants a great job. Accept that it's already been given you. The fact that you're alive means a function has been assigned to you: open your heart to everyone and everything. That way you're a vessel of God. Don't worry about what to say or what to do. He'll let you know.

  Marianne Williamson

  Jobs, Prayer, Powerful

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel.

  John Lyly

  Ignorance, Empty Vessels, Sound

  John Lyly, Leah Scragg (2003). “John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition”, p.42, Manchester University Press

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• I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Spiritual, Inspiration, Energy

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• The water vessel, taken as a vessel only, raises the question, "Why does it exist at all?" Through its fitness of construction, it offers the apology for its existence. But where it is a work of beauty it has no question to answer; it has nothing to do, but to be.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Taken, Apology, Water

  Rabindranath Tagore (2015). “Creative Unity”, p.6, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• A long sea implies an uniform and steady motion of long and extensive waves; on the contrary, a short sea is when they run irregularly, broken, and interrupted; so as frequently to burst over a vessel's side or quarter.

  William Falconer

  Running, Sea, Long

  William Falconer (1784). “An Universal Dictionary of the Marine: Or, A Copious Explanation of the Technical Terms and Phrases Employed in the Construction, Equipment, Furniture, Machinery, Movements, and Military Operations of a Ship”, p.201

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• Load the ship and set out. No one knows for certain whether the vessel will sink or reach the harbor. Cautious people say, 'I'll do nothing until I can be sure.' Merchants know better. If you do nothing, you lose. Don't be one of those merchants who wont risk the ocean.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Ocean, People

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• O captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done. The ship has weather'd every wrack The prize we sought is won The port is near, the bells I hear The people all exulting While follow eyes, the steady keel The vessel grim and daring But Heart! Heart! Heart! O the bleeding drops of red Where on the deck my captain lies Fallen cold and dead.

  Walt Whitman

  Lying, Eye, Heart

  Walt Whitman (2015). “Drum-Taps: The Complete 1865 Edition”, p.101, New York Review of Books

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• I am so honored to be the vessel into which you pour this story of pain and strength.

  Anita Diament

  Pain, Stories, Honored

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• At the heart of leadership is the leader's relationship with followers. People will entrust their hopes and dreams to another person only if they think the other is a reliable vessel.

  David Gergen

  Leadership, Dream, Heart

  David Gergen (2001). “Eyewitness To Power: The Essence of Leadership Nixon to Clinton”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

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• There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Love, Men, Royal

  Saint Francis de Sales, Aeterna Press (2015). “The Spiritual Maxims of Saint Francis de Sales”, p.8, Aeterna Press

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• The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle; the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true!

  Danny Kaye

  Poison, Palaces, Court Jester

  "Fictional character: Hubert Hawkins". "The Court Jester", www.imdb.com. January 27, 1956.

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• The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Truth, Dark

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.416, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• All I ever wanted since I arrived here on earth are the same things I needed as a baby, to go from cold to warm, lonely to held, the vessel to the giver, empty to full.

  Anne Lamott

  Baby, Lonely, Earth

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• Lord, my life is but a mist (James 4:14), yet through Your power, the things I give myself to can have an eternal impact. I am Your vessel

  Paige Omartian

  Impact, Giving, Life Is

  Stormie Omartian, Paige Omartian (2013). “A Book of Prayers for Young Women”, p.19, Harvest House Publishers

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• I am a simple vessel with complex overtones, opinionated on occasions but willing to listen. Comfortable with reclusiveness and devoted to privacy and family. Patriotic to a fault and allergic to cruelty, ignorance and bad music.

  Bernie Taupin

  Ignorance, Patriotic, Simple

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• A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.

  James Reston, Jr.

  Government, Leaks

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• If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.

  Aeschylus

  Oil, Vinegar, Opponents

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