But oars alone can ne'er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
The masses do not see the Sirens. They do not hear songs in the air. Blind, deaf, stooping, they pull at their… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
All in the golden afternoon Full leisurely we glide; For both our oars, with little skill, By little arms are plied, While… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
To follow the drops sliding from a lifting oar, Head up, while the rower breathes, and the small boat drifts quietly shoreward... — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
Never rest on your oars as a boss. If you do, the whole company starts sinking. — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
The Greek in me wanted to know what it felt like to pull an oar. The intellectual wondered about how to get… — Barry S. Strauss Copy Share Image
In any case, his religious teaching consisted mostly in more or less vague ethical remarks, an obscure mixture of ideals of English… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
He knows enough, the mariner, who knows Where lurk the shelves, and where the whirlpools boil, What signs portend the storm: to… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
Low stir of leaves and dip of oars And lapsing waves on quiet shores. — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
The judgment is an utensil proper for all subjects, and will have an oar in everything. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Mental purity will come through constant chanting of the divine name. This is the simplest way. You are trying to cross the… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
Quorum and group leaders should provide the leading voice and laboring oar in every ward and branch council regarding retention of converts. — D. Todd Christofferson Copy Share Image
If any pale student, glued to his desk, here seek an apology for a way of life whose natural fruits is that… — Francis Parkman Copy Share Image
Oh swiftly glides the bonnie boat, Just parted from the shore, And to the fisher's chorus-note Soft moves the dipping oar. — Joanna Baillie Copy Share Image
From the Sun I learned this: when he goes down, overrich; he pours gold into the sea out of inexhaustible riches, so… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To hear the faint sound of oars in the silence as a rowboat comes slowly out and then goes back is truly… — Jack Gilbert Copy Share Image
Consider that you radiate. At all times. Consider that what you’re feeling right now is rippling outward into a field of is-ness… — Danielle LaPorte Copy Share Image
And all the way, to guide their chime, With falling oars they kept their time. — Andrew Marvell Copy Share Image
Karen rowed for what the venerable American shell builder George Pocock called `the symphony of motion.' As dawn breaks over the river,… — Stefan Kieszling Copy Share Image
I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.… — Harold Geneen Copy Share Image
There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is--to teach; the function… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish Cut with her golden oars the silver stream And greedily devour the treacherous bait. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
When I was taking my canoeing lessons I was given this oar to practice with, and I decided to have everyone sign… — Jared Gilman Copy Share Image
You think I love flattery (says Dr. Johnson), and so I do; but a little too much always disgusts me: that fellow… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
