Captain Ahab drowned, he reminded himself; it was the trimmer, Ishmael, who survived. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
As Herman Melville wrote of that seagoing monster of a man Captain Ahab, “All mortal greatness is but disease. — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
“She felt like Captain Ahab, for the first time sighting his great white whale.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The whale without Ahab is just a whale. A whale with no problems. A stress-free whale." - Julian Blackthorn” — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Satan turned Eve's eye to the apple, Achan's eye to the wedge of gold, Ahab's eye to Naboth's vineyard, and then what… — Joseph Alleine Copy Share Image
“Ahab is for ever Ahab, man. This whole act's immutably decreed. 'Twas rehearsed by thee and me a billion years before this… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“To accomplish his object Ahab must use tools; and of all tools used in the shadow of the moon, men are most… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Those whom God calls to such a ministry - and a call is essential - must be prepared for a pathway of… — Arthur Wallis Copy Share Image
“one captain, seizing the line-knife from his broken prow, had dashed at the whale, as an Arkansas duelist at his foe, blindly… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Ahab cast a covetous eye at Naboth's vineyard, David a lustful eye at Bathsheba. The eye is the pulse of the soul;… — Thomas Adams Copy Share Image
Captain Ahab was a man possessed with an obsessional drive to pursue the white whale which had harmed him - which had… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
“I leave a white and turbid wake; pale waters, paler cheeks, where'er I sail. The envious billows sidelong swell to whelm my… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“It was a black and hooded head; and hanging there in the midst of so intense a calm, it seemed the Sphynx’s… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he cast himself… — Bible Copy Share Image
“Speak, thou vast and venerable head,” muttered Ahab, “which, though ungarnished with a beard, yet here and there lookest hoary with mosses;… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Sleep and I do not have a good relationship. We have never been good friends. I am constantly chasing sleep and then… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
“Yet intact Ahab, back from his first voyage, once said of just such a changeable breeze, This contrast is the way of… — Sena Jeter Naslund Copy Share Image
Is Ahab, Ahab? Is it I, God, or who, that lifts this arm? But if the great sun move not of himself;… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Prophet just means intellectual. They were people giving geopolitical analysis, moral lessons, that sort of thing. We call them intellectuals today. There… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The people we call the prophets I think are the earliest dissident intellectuals, and they're treated like most dissident intellectuals - very… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
His [Elijah] heart was beginning to give signs of alarm; he was enjoying being at this woman's side. Love could be a… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
![“His [Elijah] heart was beginning to give signs of alarm; he was enjoying being at this woman's side. Love could be a more frightening experience than standing before Ahab's soldier with an arrow aimed at his heart; if the arrow had struck him, he would be dead -and the rest was up to God. But if…” quote by Paulo Coelho](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/b1b/paulo-coelho-10_ahab_his-elijah-heart-was-beginning-to-give-s_844521.jpg)
