Barnacles Quote by H. P. Blavatsky Download Open image “Is the scraping off of a barnacle the destruction of a ship?” — H. P. Blavatsky ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Barnacles Change Destruction Exaggeration Scraping Ships
In my experience, whatever happens clings to us like barnacles on the hull of a ship, slowing us slightly, both uglifying and giving us… — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“Huge waves, a mile from crest to crest, roared down upon the pygmies that were to be their prey; sometimes the entire surface of… — Nicholas Monsarrat Copy Share Image
“We’re all just side effects, right?” “‘Barnacles on the container ship of consciousness,” — John Green Copy Share Image
The ship's boards were still sticky with new resin. We leaned over the railing to wave our last farewell, the sun-warm wood pressed against… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
We are like sailors who have to rebuild their ship on the open sea, without ever being able to dismantle it in dry-dock and… — Otto Neurath Copy Share Image
The terrifying physics of going up-mast in heavy seas are inescapable. — Abby Sunderland Copy Share Image
“Only the debris of wreckage, and not much of that, was left behind by the sharks who fed on tragedy: the fishermen, too, mourned… — William Trevor Copy Share Image
I'll tell you a little story called 'The Ugly Barnacle.' There once was an ugly barnacle, he was so ugly, that everyone died. The… — Patrick Star Copy Share Image
We live in an age of prejudice, dissimulation and paradox, wherein, like dry leaves caught in a whirlpool, some of us are tossed helpless… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire - the… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
"True science has no belief," says Dr. Fenwick, in Bulwer-Lytton's 'Strange Story;' "true science knows but three states of mind: denial, conviction, and the… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
The idea of passing one's whole life in moral idleness, and having one's hardest work and duty done by another-whether God or man-is most… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
Be humble, if thou would'st attain to wisdom. Be humbler still, when wisdom thou hast mastered. — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
From Architecture down to the Zodiac, every science worthy of the name was imported by the Greeks — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
Endurance is the free companion of Sorrow, and Patience her master. — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
I speak "with absolute certainty" only so far as my own personal belief is concerned. Those who have not the same warrant for their… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
Nothing of that which is conducive to help man, collectively or individually, to live not "happily" but less unhappily in this world, ought to… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
Whatever plane our consciousness may be acting in, both we and the things belonging to that plane are, for the time being, our only… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
Yet the evil still increased, and, like the parasite of barnacles on a ship, if it did not destroy the structure, it obstructed its… — William Banting Copy Share Image
Her fingers moved among barnacles and mussels, blue-black, sharp-edged. Neon red starfish were limp Dalis on the rocks, surrounded by bouquets of stinging anemones… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
The average vice-president is a form of executive fungus that attaches itself to a desk. On a boat this growth would be called a… — Fred Allen Copy Share Image
Long marriages have ended in ruin over tiny and insignificant grievances that were never properly aired and instead grew into a brittle barnacle of… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
But if we know that the people of God are first a fellowship of sinners, we are freed to hear the unconditional call of… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
To those who have no personal experience of this revolutionary aspect of Christian truth, but who see only the outer crust of dead, human… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I tell people I'm big in the music business like a barnacle is big in shipping. — Vance Gilbert Copy Share Image
Maybe a story will cheer you up... Once there was an ugly barnacle. He was so ugly that everyone died. The End. — Patrick Star Copy Share Image
In my experience, whatever happens clings to us like barnacles on the hull of a ship, slowing us slightly, both uglifying and giving us… — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Love." She looked at me with those blue eyes. "Isn't it astonishing how confused and complicated such a small,simple word is? It attracts so… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
