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
She sent him a warm and gentle wind, and Lord Odysseus was happy as he set his sails to catch the breeze.… — Homer 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
From the sun did I learn this, when it goeth down, the exuberant one: gold doth it then pour into the sea,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes it is really hard to sit in the single and go for a row. I think this is really normal. I,… — Xeno Muller Copy Share Image
Statistically, I'd say comedy writers are perhaps the sanest category of show people. And why not? They make big money, and although… — Dick Cavett 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
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
Certain anthropologists hold that man, having discovered tools, ceased to evolve biologically. Animals, never having discovered them, continue to fashion drills out… — Stuart Chase 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
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
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
The feel of a good row stays with you hours afterward. Your muscles glow, your mind wanders from the papers on you… — Barry S. Strauss Copy Share Image
Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I dream of silent verses where the rhyme glides noiseless as an oar. — Richard Aldington Copy Share Image
Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars. — Richard Halliburton Copy Share Image
What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in! — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
When life takes the wind out of your sails, it is to test you at the oars. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
If you put your soul against the oar with me, the power that made the universe will enter your sinew from a… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Most people are rowing against the current of life. Instead of turning the boat around, all they need to do is let… — Esther Hicks 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 S. Geneen Copy Share Image
Shakespeare is forever coming into our affairs -- putting in his oar, so to speak -- with some pat word or sentence. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
Baccarat is a game whereby the croupier gathers in money with a flexible sculling oar, then rakes it home. If I could… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A straight oar looks bent in the water. It matters not merely that we see a thing, but how we see it. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his… — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
Everything that we want is downstream... And you don't have even have to turn the boat and paddle downstream, just let go… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
There was, it is said, a criminal in Italy who was suffered to make his choice between Guicciardini and the galleys. He… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
I had no need of sails to drive me, nor oars nor wheels to push me, nor rails to give me a… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
When you are rowing well and hard, the rhythm of the stroke takes over. It drives your days and restores your nights.… — Barry S. Strauss Copy Share Image
He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
We should pay as much reverence to youth as we should to age; there are points in which you young folks are… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
If the oarsmen of a fast-moving ship suddenly cease to row, the suspension of the driving force of the oars doesn't prevent… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Mary bring out your umbrella - The sun shines down on this fine, fine day But the ashes raining down forever Are… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
The Master Speed No speed of wind or water rushing by but you have speed far greater. You can climb back up… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Happy he whoe'er, content with the common lot, with safe breeze hugs the shore, and, fearing to trust his skiff to the… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
We cannot be satisfied with things as they are. We cannot be satisfied to drift, to rest on our oars, to glide… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
