Oars Quotes

31 quotes by 23 authors

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
Mankind owns four things that are no good at sea: rudder, anchor, oars and the fear of going down. — Antonio Machado
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
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
As Einstein himself pointed out. He said weâ€™re like people in a boat without oars drifting along a winding river. Around us we see only… — Jack Finney
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
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
And all the way, to guide their chime, With falling oars they kept their time. — Andrew Marvell
The oars game me power but also taught me humility. — Barry S. Strauss
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
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 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
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
Let go of the oars... Everything you want is downstream. — Esther Hicks
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
We cannot be satisfied with things as they are. We cannot be satisfied to drift, to rest on our oars, to glide over a sea… — John F. Kennedy
But oars alone can ne'er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost. — William Cowper
From the Sun I learned this: when he goes down, overrich; he pours gold into the sea out of inexhaustible riches, so that even the… — Friedrich Nietzsche

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