Oar Quotes

63 quotes by 51 authors

When you are rowing well and hard, the rhythm of the stroke takes over. It drives your days and restores your nights. It imparts cadence… — Barry S. Strauss
The Greek in me wanted to know what it felt like to pull an oar. The intellectual wondered about how to get eight individuals to… — Barry S. Strauss
The feel of a good row stays with you hours afterward. Your muscles glow, your mind wanders from the papers on you desk and goes… — Barry S. Strauss
Karen rowed for what the venerable American shell builder George Pocock called `the symphony of motion.' As dawn breaks over the river, the shell is… — Stefan Kieszling
To follow the drops sliding from a lifting oar, Head up, while the rower breathes, and the small boat drifts quietly shoreward... — Theodore Roethke
You think I love flattery (says Dr. Johnson), and so I do; but a little too much always disgusts me: that fellow Richardson, on the… — Samuel Johnson
Low stir of leaves and dip of oars And lapsing waves on quiet shores. — John Greenleaf Whittier
Everything that we want is downstream... And you don't have even have to turn the boat and paddle downstream, just let go of the oars,… — Esther Hicks
If you put your soul against the oar with me, the power that made the universe will enter your sinew from a source not outside… — Rumi
What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in! — Gustave Flaubert
Oh swiftly glides the bonnie boat, Just parted from the shore, And to the fisher's chorus-note Soft moves the dipping oar. — Joanna Baillie
She sent him a warm and gentle wind, and Lord Odysseus was happy as he set his sails to catch the breeze. He sat beside… — Homer
In the city of flesh I travel without maps, a worried tourist: and Ottilie was a very Venice. I stumbled lost in the blue shade… — John Banville
The judgment is an utensil proper for all subjects, and will have an oar in everything. — Michel de Montaigne
Happy he whoe'er, content with the common lot, with safe breeze hugs the shore, and, fearing to trust his skiff to the wider sea, with… — Seneca the Younger
Let go of the oars... Everything you want is downstream. — Esther Hicks
I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them. My philosophy is… — Harold Geneen
Mental purity will come through constant chanting of the divine name. This is the simplest way. You are trying to cross the ocean of transmigration,… — Mata Amritanandamayi
You don't paddle against the current, you paddle with it. And if you get good at it, you throw away the oars. — Kris Kristofferson
On the ear Drops the light drip of the suspended oar. — Lord Byron

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