Vessel Quotes - Page 5

• Empty vessels make the most sound.

  John Lydgate

  Wise, Wisdom, Empty Vessels

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• Roads are the blood vessels of the economy.

  Jakaya Kikwete

  Blood, Blood Vessels, Economy

  Daily News, April 4, 2011.

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• I'm just a vessel of information.

  Steven Cojocaru

  Information

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• If we can stay with the tension of
  opposites long enough —sustain it,
  be true to it—we can sometimes
  become vessels within which the
  divine opposites come together and
  give birth to a new reality.

  Marie-Louise von Franz

  Reality, Opposites, Long

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• I have already transmitted to Congress the report of the naval court of inquiry on the destruction of the battleship Maine in the harbor of Havana during the night of the fifteenth of February. The destruction of that noble vessel has filled the national heart with inexpressible horror. Two hundred and fifty-eight brave sailors and marines and two officers of our Navy, reposing in the fancied security of a friendly harbor, have been hurled to death, grief and want brought to their homes and sorrow to the nation.

  William McKinley

  Grief, Home, Heart

  Harry Joseph Sievers, William McKinley (1970). “William McKinley, 1843-1901: Chronology, Documents, Bibliographical Aids”, Oceana Publications

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• The seas and the weathers are what is; your vessels adapt to them or sink.

  Tim Powers

  Sea, Weather

  Tim Powers (2011). “On Stranger Tides”, p.65, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Whimpering never kept a leaking vessel from foundering. Vigorously manning the pumps has. Get busy with your head and hands, not your chin.

  B. C. Forbes

  Work, Hands, Pumps

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• You, O Books, are the golden vessels of the temple, the arms of the clerical militia with which the missiles of the most wicked are destroyed; fruitful olives, vines of Engaddi, fig-trees knowing no sterility; burning lamps to be ever held in the hand.

  Richard de Bury

  Book, Knowing, Hands

  Richard de Bury (2013). “Philobiblon: A Treatise on the Love of Books”, p.12, Cambridge University Press

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• It is highly unlikely that an airplane, or fleet of them, could ever sink a fleet of Navy vessels under battle conditions.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Airplane, Navy, Battle

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• I've been planted here to be a vessel for acting... That's why I'm really taking any part, regardless of how complicated it's going to be.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Acting, Complicated

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• Glorious is the tumult of the waves that crash against a vessel, preparing it for the seas of life.

  Don Williams

  Sea, Wave, Crash

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• The revolution is like a vessel filled with the pulsating heartbeat of millions of working people.

  Ernst Toller

  People, Revolution, Heartbeat

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• Is it a surprise that into the vessel, in which the mercury has no inclination and no repugnance, not even the slightest, to being there, it should enter and should rise in a column high enough to make equilibrium with the weight of the external air which forces it up?

  Evangelista Torricelli

  Air, Weight, Mercury

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• What struck me most was the silence. It was a great silence, unlike any I have encountered on Earth, so vast and deep that I began to hear my own body: my heart beating, my blood vessels pulsing, even the rustle of my muscles moving over each other seemed audible. There were more stars in the sky than I had expected. The sky was deep black, yet at the same time bright with sunlight.

  Alexey Leonov

  Stars, Moving, Heart

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• We are all born as empty vessels which can be shaped by moral values.

  Jerry Springer

  Empty Vessels, Moral, Born

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• With that gentleness I can be bold; with that economy I can be liberal; shrinking from taking precedence of others, I can become a vessel of the highest honour.

  Laozi

  Shrinking, Economy, Honour

  Laozi (2015). “Tao Te Ching”, p.67, Booklassic

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• Now entertain conjecture of a time When creeping murmur and the poring dark Fills the wide vessel of the universe.

  William Shakespeare

  Dark, Pouring, Henry V

  "Complete Works".

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• ignition! blast off!!! the vessel needs a new name! something more appropriate to a starship. apollo? gemini? enterprise. already taken. millennium falcon. trademarked. all rights reserved. no! wait, i have it! dragin star! thats it! dragon star!

  Margaret Weis

  Stars, Taken, Rights

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• We are all, Esme decides, just vessels through which identities pass: we are lent features, gestures, habits, then we hand them on. Nothing is our own. We begin in the world as anagrams of our antecedents.

  Maggie O'Farrell

  Hands, Identity, World

  Maggie O'Farrell (2008). “The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox”, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Shall we for ever make new books, as apothecaries make new mixtures, by pouring only out of one vessel into another?

  Laurence Sterne

  Book, Pouring, Mixtures

  Laurence Sterne (1767). “The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman”, p.3

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• ...and the vessel was not full, his intellect was not satisfied, his soul was not at peace, his heart was not still.

  Hermann Hesse

  Heart, Soul, Intellect

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.8, Om Books International

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• To course across more kindly waters now my talent's little vessel lifts her sails, leaving behind herself a sea so cruel; and what I sing will be that second kingdom, in which the human soul is cleansed of sin, becoming worthy of ascent to Heaven.

  Dante Alighieri

  Sea, Water, Heaven

  Dante Alighieri (1982). “Purgatorio: Introduction, Italian test & translation, and thirty-four drawings”, p.2, Univ of California Press

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• Well met, Mistress Lirael. This ragamuffin, as your servant so aptly described him, is His Highness Prince Sameth, the Abhorsen-in-Waiting. Hence the bells. But on to more serious matters. Could you please rescue us? Prince Sameth's personal vessel is not quite what I'm used to, and he is eager to catch me a fish before my morning nap.

  Garth Nix

  Morning, Naps, Waiting

  Garth Nix (2014). “Lirael”, p.249, Hot Key Books

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• I take this for myself, and you take up the thread of my life between your teeth, tin thread and tarnished with abuse, you shall still hear as long as the beast in me maintains its taciturn power to close my lids in tears, and my loins move yet in the ennobling pursuit of all the worlds you have left me alone in, and would be the dolorous distraction from, while you summon your army of anguishes which is a million hooting blood vessels on the eyes and in the ears at that instant before death.

  Frank O'Hara

  Moving, Eye, Army

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• Neither said anything while they embraced. Sometimes words didn't go far enough, the vessels of letters and the ladles of grammar incapable of holding the heart's sentiments.

  J.R. Ward

  Heart, Letters, Sometimes

  J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 5-8”, p.1421, Penguin

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