Prayer and praise are the oars by which a man may row his boat into the deep waters of the knowledge of… — Charles Spurgeon 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
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
When the winds of life don't hit your sails, you grab the oars of life and you start pushing. — Greg Plitt Copy Share Image
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
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
And all the way, to guide their chime, With falling oars they kept their time. — Andrew Marvell 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
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
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
I thought when I became a Christian I had nothing to do but just to lay my oars in the bottom of… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
So to the lyre of Orpheus they struck with their oars, The furious water of the sea, and the surge broke into… — Barry S. Strauss 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
I started rowing in December 1995. The place was Association Nautique Faontainbleau in France. A friend of mine from middle school told… — Xeno Muller Copy Share Image
By arts, sails, and oars, ships are rapidly moved; arts move the light chariot, and establish love. [Lat., Arte citae veloque rates… — Ovid Copy Share Image
I can imagine nothing more wonderful than always wanting to keep a man. It's this NOT wanting to keep them, and yet… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
In the city of flesh I travel without maps, a worried tourist: and Ottilie was a very Venice. I stumbled lost in… — John Banville 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
The ship's boards were still sticky with new resin. We leaned over the railing to wave our last farewell, the sun-warm wood… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
He that floats lazily down the stream, in pursuit of something borne along by the same current, will find himself indeed moved… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When your life feels like you are on a sailboat,with no wind to fill your sails,there are still choices.You can drop anchor… — Anonymous 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
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
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
Our human tragedy is that we are unable to comprehend our experience, it slips through our fingers, we can't hold on to… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
A person cannot coast along in old destructive habits year after year and accept whatever comes along. A person must stand up… — Garrison Keillor 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 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
Mankind owns four things that are no good at sea: rudder, anchor, oars and the fear of going down. — Antonio Machado Copy Share Image
The water in music the oar forsakes. The air in music the wing forsakes. All things in move in music and write… — John Muir 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
The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Strangers have crossed the sound, but not the sound of the dark oarsmen Or the golden-haired sons of kings, Strangers whose thought… — Kathleen Raine 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
As Einstein himself pointed out. He said we’re like people in a boat without oars drifting along a winding river. Around us… — Jack Finney Copy Share Image