Or shipwrecked, kindles on the coast False fires, that others may be lost. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“A good swimmer is one who knows how to swim through the river of life without drowning.” — Michael Bassey Johnson 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've been canyoning, snorkelled a shipwreck, and learnt to Irish dance, all in the same week. — Ashley Roberts 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
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
“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
... the passion for popularity brings such injury upon those it masters that it shipwrecks faith itself. Our Lord confirms this when… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
He hazardeth much who depends for his learning on experience. An unhappy master, he that is only made wise by many shipwrecks;… — Roger Ascham 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
He comes to us in the brokenness of our health, in the shipwreck of our family lives, in the loss of all… — Robert Farrar Capon 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
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
Most days I feel like the sole survivor of a shipwreck, rowing my paddleboat across a sea of people on waves made… — Richard M. Nixon 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
If that marvellous microcosm, man, with all the costly cargo of his faculties and powers, were indeed a rich argosy, fitted out… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Plain experience and common sense inform us that no abstract Person can have made us as we are without also wishing to… — Paul F. M. Zahl 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
He who has suffered shipwreck, fears to sail Upon the seas, though with a gentle gale. — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
