Vessel Quotes
322 Vessel quotes by 263 unique authors
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Science is a magnificent force, but it is not a teacher of morals. It can perfect machinery, but it adds no moral restraints to protect…
— William Jennings Bryan
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I believe that the thought that women together can change the world is emerging into the minds and hearts of many of us, and that…
— Jean Shinoda Bolen
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He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear,…
— Samuel Johnson
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Water is patient; it can stagnate and let itself be coated with scum if need be. It is as gentle as the morning's dew. It…
— Huston Smith
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Can a secular artist be used as a vessel to bring souls to Christ? Of course... this is God we are talking about!
— Monica Johnson
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I believe people leave a theater bonding with characters. Story is the vessel that carries character. Comedy is a very important component of expressing character.
— Chris Meledandri
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None of the serious maritime incidents I had to deal with as transport minister off the pristine Queensland or Western Australian coastline involved an Australian…
— Anthony Albanese
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The human voice: mysterious, spontaneous, primal. For me, the human voice is the vessel on which all emotions travel - except perhaps jealousy. And the…
— Claron McFadden
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A family is too frail a vessel to contain the risks of all the warring impulses expressed when such a group meets on common ground.
— Pat Conroy
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Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.
— James Reston
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The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
— James Reston
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For drink, there was beer which was very strong when not mingled with water, but was agreeable to those who were used to it. They…
— Xenophon
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He was using me. When he cast me in Sideways I was nothing but a vessel.
— Thomas Haden Church
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We have made many glass vessels... with tubes two cubits long. These were filled with mercury, the open end was closed with the finger, and…
— Evangelista Torricelli
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Let it them be put into any clean oven vessel of china or stoneware which should be wider at the top than at the bottom.…
— James Lind
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The damage that the human body can survive these days is as awesome as it is horrible: crushing, burning, bombing, a burst blood vessel in…
— Atul Gawande
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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which…
— James Boswell
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A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
— James Reston
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The saying is true, The empty vessel makes the greatest sound
— William Shakespeare
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel
— Socrates
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Of all meat which may be eaten, that on which such water cometh shall be unclean: and all drink that may be drunk in every…
— Bible
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So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, the widow woman was there gathering of…
— Bible
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Extremely foolish advice is likely to be uttered by those who are looking at the laboring vessel from the land.
— Arthur Helps
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As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether thy be wise…
— Demosthenes
Who Wrote These Vessel Quotes
263 authors contributed a total of 322 Vessel Quotes, led by these top contributors: