Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Often it's just a short swim from the shipwreck of your life to the island paradise of your dreams, assuming you don't… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
I'd heard about a shipwreck that was never found - John Paul Jones' Bonhomme Richard. So I thought, 'Well, I'll go look… — Clive Cussler Copy Share Image
Love is the occupation of the idle man, the amusement of a busy one, and the shipwreck of a sovereign. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I'm very resourceful. I'd be good in prison. I'd be good in a shipwreck. I'd make a great hostage. — David Letterman Copy Share Image
Accordingly, death is a harbor of peace for the just, but is believed a shipwreck for the wicked. — Ambrose 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
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
O, I have suffered With those that I saw suffer! a brave vessel (Who had no doubt some noble creature in her)… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Have you ever considered, beloved other, how invisible we are to each other? We look at each other without seeing. We listen… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“It’s better if I think of my life like that – part miracle, part madness. It’s better if I accept that I… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
It never takes longer than a few minutes, when they get together, for everyone to revert to the state of nature, like… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Sometimes friends do foolish things. My father told me that true friends are like gold coins. Ships are wrecked by storms and… — Michael Robotham 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
“in our civilization there are fearful hours - such are those when the criminal law pronounces shipwreck upon a man. What a… — Victor Hugo 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
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
“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
“Many of those who elected to remain might have escaped. 'Chivalry' is a mild appellation for their conduct. Some of the vaunted… — The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters 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
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
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
“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
I've been canyoning, snorkelled a shipwreck, and learnt to Irish dance, all in the same week. — Ashley Roberts 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
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
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
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
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
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
Reserve some hours daily to examine yourself and fortune; for if you embark yourself in perpetual conversation or recreation, you will certainly… — Anne of Austria 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
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
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
There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the cliffs, where… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez 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
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
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
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
