Oar Quotes
63 quotes by 51 authors
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There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.
— Kate Chopin
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Prayer and praise are the oars by which a man may row his boat into the deep waters of the knowledge of Christ.
— Charles Spurgeon
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Mankind owns four things that are no good at sea: rudder, anchor, oars and the fear of going down.
— Antonio Machado
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Baccarat is a game whereby the croupier gathers in money with a flexible sculling oar, then rakes it home. If I could have borrowed his…
— Mark Twain
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The world is like a vast sea: mankind like a vessel sailing on its tempestuous bosom. ... [T]he sciences serve us for oars.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the…
— Samuel Johnson
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I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.
— Harold Geneen
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I thought when I became a Christian I had nothing to do but just to lay my oars in the bottom of the boat and…
— Dwight L. Moody
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Quorum and group leaders should provide the leading voice and laboring oar in every ward and branch council regarding retention of converts.
— D. Todd Christofferson
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As Einstein himself pointed out. He said we’re like people in a boat without oars drifting along a winding river. Around us we see only…
— Jack Finney
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Consider that you radiate. At all times. Consider that what you’re feeling right now is rippling outward into a field of is-ness that anyone can…
— Danielle LaPorte
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He that floats lazily down the stream, in pursuit of something borne along by the same current, will find himself indeed moved forward; but unless…
— Samuel Johnson
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This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never…
— Aristophanes
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In any case, his religious teaching consisted mostly in more or less vague ethical remarks, an obscure mixture of ideals of English gentlemanliness and his…
— Thomas Merton
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Sometimes it is really hard to sit in the single and go for a row. I think this is really normal. I, like probably a…
— Xeno Muller
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I started rowing in December 1995. The place was Association Nautique Faontainbleau in France. A friend of mine from middle school told me that I…
— Xeno Muller
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And all the way, to guide their chime, With falling oars they kept their time.
— Andrew Marvell
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The oars game me power but also taught me humility.
— Barry S. Strauss
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So to the lyre of Orpheus they struck with their oars, The furious water of the sea, and the surge broke into waves. Here and…
— Barry S. Strauss
Who Wrote These Oar Quotes
51 authors contributed a total of 63 Oar Quotes, led by these top contributors: