When I see a shipwreck, I like to know what caused the disaster...I learned nothing but the glow that wrapped her face… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck on the bottom of the sea of… — Josef Skvorecky Copy Share Image
Laws are not made like lime-twigs or nets, to catch everything that toucheth them; but rather like sea-marks, to guide from shipwreck… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
I didn't lead a very wise life, myself, but it was a full one and a grown-up one. You come of age… — Philip Dunne Copy Share Image
We’ll go.” Her voice is surprisingly deep and forceful. Set in her sunken, shipwreck face, her eyes burn like two smoldering coals.… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Jane Austen can in fact get more drama out of morality than most other writers can get from shipwreck, battle, murder, or… — Ronald Blythe Copy Share Image
Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell Then shriek'd the timid, and stood still the brave, Then some leap'd overboard… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
All I'd ever wanted was to forget. but even when I thought I had, pieces had kept emerging, like bits of wood… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
... overconfidence in one's own ability is the root of much evil. Vanity, egoism, is the deadliest of all characteristics. This vanity,… — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
One can make one's life a complete misery, worrying about burglaries and shipwrecks, but ask anyone, anyone you know ... earth-shattering disasters… — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
It is well known that the man who first made public the theory of irrationals perished in a shipwreck in order that… — Proclus Copy Share Image
In the name of God, Monsieur, let us have greater confidence in Him than we do; let us allow Him to steer… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
Every gazette brings accounts of the untutored freaks of the wind,--shipwrecks and hurricanes which the mariner and planter acceptas special or general… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them.… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with wild imprecations… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Brought up a Presbyterian, indoctrinated from the Catechism, and being naturally of an inquiring mind, I fell a ready prey to the… — Charles Taze Russell Copy Share Image
You’re like a lighthouse shining beside the sea of humanity, motionless: all you can see is your own reflection in the water.… — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
A decade ago, my poems were precious little boxes, small and claustrophobic, completely inward gazing. I didn't possess the command to speak… — Robin Beth Schaer Copy Share Image
I am determined, even if they throw mud in my face, never to show any resentment, nor break with them, nor deviate… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
“There's always a siren, singing you to shipwreck. Some of us may be more susceptible than others are, but there's always a… — Caitlín R. Kiernan Copy Share Image
The only sea I saw Was the seesaw sea With you riding on it. Lie down, lie easy. Let me shipwreck in… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
Some places speak distinctly. Certain dark gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“It was a symposium of horror and heroism, the like of which has not been known in the civilized world since man… — The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters Copy Share Image
Shipwreck in youth is sorrowful enough, but one looks for storms at the spring equinox. Yet it is the September equinox that… — Helen Waddell Copy Share Image
“So exquisitely perfect was the darkness of the heavens above that one would have difficulty believing it was a prison to the… — Micheal Rivers Copy Share Image
Like a shipwreck or a jetty, almost anything that forms a structure in the ocean, whether it is natural or artificial over… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never… — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
I'd always felt like I was going to take part in adventures in my life. That's what led me to diving in… — Phil Keoghan Copy Share Image
But it ain't our feelings we have to steer by through life--no, no, we'd make shipwreck mighty often if we did that.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My daughter," I said blankly. "I see. Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought it took a man, as well… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to the… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
An old man said, We are not condemned because of our thoughts that enter us, but because we use our thoughts badly;… — Poemen Copy Share Image
Well, father, in the shipwreck of life, for life is an eternal shipwreck of our hopes, I cast into the sea my… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Into the nothingness of scorn and noise, Into the living sea of waking dreams, Where there is neither sense of life or… — John Clare Copy Share Image
The sceptic, when he plunges into the depths of infidelity, like the miser who leaps from the shipwreck, will find that the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“Into the nothingness of scorn and noise, Into the living sea of waking dreams, Where there is neither sense of life or… — John Clare Copy Share Image
I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to… — John Donne Copy Share Image
“Edgar Allen Poe wrote a story in 1838 about a shipwreck and how three survivors killed and ate the third man, Richard… — Adam Anderson Copy Share Image
Adventurous men enjoy shipwrecks, mutinies, earthquakes, conflagrations, and all kinds of unpleasant experiences. They say to themselves, for example, 'So this is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
