Floating Coffin Quotes

#1. I do not like to sound discontented neither,' said Pullings, 'nor to crab any ship I belong to; but between you and me, Doctor, between you and me, she is more what we call a floating coffin than a ship.

Patrick O'Brian

#2. Power brings a man many luxuries, but a clean pair of hands is seldom among them.

Robert Harris

#3. Some people are cowards ... I think by and large a third of people are villains, a third are cowards, and a third are heroes. Now, a villain and a coward can choose to be a hero, but they've got to make that choice.

Tom Hanks

#4. Just losing a couple pounds takes so much stress off your joints. Your body feels better.

Larry Fitzgerald

#5. Creating happens in the midst of chaos.

Nityananda Das

#6. I ask God in spirit and in truth 'what are we?'. It's the questions first.

Robert Hood

#7. When I was a child, love to me was what the sea is to a fish: something you swim in while you are going about the important affairs of life.

P.L. Travers

#8. People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God." (p.207)

Aldous Huxley

#9. He looks like a starving man, like he could devour me all at once. "That swimsuit," he begins. "Is small," I conclude.

Nicola Yoon

#10. The only legitimate purpose of government is to serve citizens, and ... the only legitimate purpose of technology is to improve our lives, not to manipulate or enslave us.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#11. However, current research in animal cognition, and on protolanguage, protomorality, ritual, and levels of consciousness, has shown that we may not be as unique as we think we are (cf. Peterson 1999: 283ff.).

J. Wentzel Van Huyssteen

#12. There's no better tonic for other people's bad ideas, than to think for oneself.

Michael R. Burch

#13. Poverty can be brought about by law; it cannot be forbidden by law.

Isabel Paterson

#14. Writing practice brings us back to the uniqueness of our own minds and an acceptance of it. We all have wild dreams, fantasies, and ordinary thoughts. Let us to feel the texture of them and not be afraid of them.Writing is still the wildest thing I know.

Natalie Goldberg