Anchor Quotes
235 quotes by 206 authors
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The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the wind…
— Joseph Conrad
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Once you accept the power of spine in the creative act, you will become much more efficient in your creativity. You will still get lost…
— Twyla Tharp
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Gauguin says that when sailors have to move a heavy load or raise an anchor, they all sing together to keep them up and give…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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It is observed at sea that men are never so much disposed to grumble and mutiny as when least employed. Hence an old captain, when…
— Samuel Smiles
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Women anchor me. They're there when I need them. They're sensitive to me, and I'm sensitive to them. I'm not saying I've loved that many…
— Ray Charles
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Maternity leave is over for Tina Fey of Saturday Night Live. She'll be back behind the Weekend Update anchor desk for this week's episode, her…
— Tina Fey
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The past is an anchor with suffering written on the rope. I don't live there now. I am cutting myself free.
— Mark Millar
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Worry was my mother's mechanic, her mechanism for engaging with the machinery of living. Worry was an anchor for her, a hook, something to clutch…
— Charles Yu
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It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.
— David Ben-Gurion
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Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.
— Frank Moore Colby
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Stood off and on during the night, determining not to come to anchor till morning, fearing to meet with shoals; continued our course in the…
— Christopher Columbus
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I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety.
— Frederick Douglass
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Do you know that I was the anchor on the 'CBS Morning Show?' And my newsman was Walter Cronkite.
— Dick Van Dyke
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Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.
— Epictetus
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We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.
— Epictetus
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People are looking for stability in a shaky world. They want something they can get hold of that's firm and sure and an anchor in…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
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From the right, you get demagogues shouting about brown-skinned anchor babies and clamoring to deport the undocumented. From the left, you get advocacy for the…
— Eric Liu
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My beliefs will run through everything I do. My beliefs, my values are my anchor and when people try to drag me, as I know…
— Ed Miliband
Who Wrote These Anchor Quotes
206 authors contributed a total of 235 Anchor Quotes, led by these top contributors: