Life Quote by George Chapman

Give me a spirit that on this life's rough sea Loves t'have his sails filled with a lusty wind, Even till his sail-yards tremble,…

— George Chapman

In the pale light of daybreak the gravestones looked like so many white sails of boats anchored in a busy harbor. They were sails…

— Yukio Mishima

“In the pale light of daybreak the gravestones looked like so many white sails that would never again be filled with wind, sails that,…

— Yukio Mishima

“The surface of the sea in the lee of the island was black, but the offing was stained with dawn. The mountains enclosing the…

— Yukio Mishima

“Guenever began to breathe through her nose. She was feeling as if there were two red thumbs behind her eyeballs, trying to push them…

— T.H. White

What money creates, money preserves: if thy wealth decays, thy honor dies; it is but a slippery happiness which fortunes can give, and frowns…

— Francis Quarles

“A writer need not be bound by flat statement like "It was a rough sea," when verbs like tumble and roil and seethe wait…

— Rebecca McClanahan

“There is, then, a world immune from change. But I am not composed enough, standing on tiptoe on the verge of fire, still scorched…

— Virginia Woolf

I am to be broken. I am to be derided all my life. I am to be cast up and down among these men…

— Virginia Woolf

“It is because of this sea between us. The earth has never, up to now, separated us. But, ever since yesterday, there has been…

— Hélène Cixous

“But even democracy ruins itself by excess—of democracy. Its basic principle is the equal right of all to hold office and determine public policy.…

— Will Durant

“Nothing that can deterrent for a determined.A tenacious person flys against all on odds, sails in a rough sea, and travels in uncharted territory.”

— Ebinezar Gnanasekaran