Straits Quotes
33 quotes by 31 authors
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Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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Prayer breaks all bars, dissolves all chains, opens all prisons, and widens all straits by which God's saints have been held.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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Our intention to regard the closing of the Straits as a casus belli was communicated...to the foreign ministers of those states which had supported international…
— Abba Eban
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If a single act of folly was more responsible for this explosion than any other it was the arbitrary and dangerous announced decision that the…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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Yes great people are always subject to persecution and always getting into straits.
— Friedrich Schiller
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Our policy for the last many years has been to deter the Chinese government in Beijing from ever coming into the position where they thought…
— Bob Filner
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If you are wholly perplexed and in straits, have patience, for patience is the key to joy.
— Rumi
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The tempest was terrible and separated me from my [other] vessels that night, putting every one of them in desperate straits, with nothing to look…
— Christopher Columbus
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We have global interests, potential threats from elsewhere, North Korea, Iran, Taiwan Straits and the like. We must be prepared for any future threat. That…
— Ike Skelton
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Dire Straits is a great band. Someone tells you they like ""Brothers in Arms"" and immediately you know they're a stupid annoying git.
— Alexei Sayle
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It is the saint's duty, and should be their care, not only to believe that God is Almighty, but also to strongly believe that His…
— William Gurnall
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Strifes will arise through the period. Watch for them near the Davis Strait in the attempts there for the keeping of the life line to…
— Edgar Cayce
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We are reviled but we do not intend to speak evil in return. We are in desperate straits but do not despair. We are persecuted…
— Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
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Place your army in deadly peril, and it will survive; plunge it into desperate straits, and it will come off in safety.
— Sun Tzu
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Nevertheless if any skillful Servant of Nature shall bring force to bear on matter, and shall vex it and drive it to extremities as if…
— Francis Bacon
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The traveler from Europe edges into it like a tiny Jonah entering an inconceivably large whale, slipping past the straits of Belle Isle into the…
— Northrop Frye
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Jesus refers to the poor over and over again. There are 2,000 verses of Scripture that call upon us to respond to the needs of…
— Tony Campolo
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Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
— Matthew Arnold
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I think what makes me different from the average Joe is that I feel free to be myself and express myself in the way that…
— Paloma Faith
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