Furled Quotes

#1. The Sea of Faith
Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore
Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled.
But now I only hear
Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,
Retreating, to the breath
Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear
And naked shingles of the world.

Matthew Arnold

#2. How silent lies the world
Within fair twilight furled,
Bringing such sweet relief!
A quiet room resembling,
Where, without fear or trembling,
You sleep away day's grief.

Matthias Claudius

#3. The reason why it is easy to kill another person must be that one's imagination is too sluggish to conceive what his life means to him - the infinite possibilities of a succession of days which are furled in him, & have already been spent.

Virginia Woolf

#4. I am choking in the suffocating foul air of the harbor. I want to hoist my sails in the open sea, even though a tempest may be blowing. Furled sails are always dirty. Those who would deride me are so many furled sails. They can do nothing.

Osamu Dazai

#5. We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing; those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind? ... We make our own destiny.

Swami Vivekananda

#6. My fist is her flag still furled. Take the cannoli and leave the tuxedo - This is my jackleg opera to the world.

B.J. Ward

#7. When I opened my first shop, city gents were still carrying tightly furled umbrellas and wearing bowler hats. It was into this world that I launched my new ideas about fashion.

Mary Quant

#8. What matters Death, if Freedom be not dead?
No flags are fair, if Freedom's flag be furled.
Who fights for Freedom, goes with joyful tread
To meet the fires of Hell against him hurled.

Joyce Kilmer

#9. Oh, that the wise from their bright minds would kindle
Such lamps within the dome of this dim world
That the pale name of priest might shrink and dwindle
Into the Hell from which it first was furled.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#10. Thy Banners gleam a little, and are furled; Against thy turrets surge His phantom tow'rs; Drugged with his Opiates the nations nod, Refusing still the beauty of thine hours; And fragile is thy tenure of this world Still haunted by the monstrous ghost of God.

George Sterling

#11. Rejoice that man is hurled, From change to change unceasingly, His soul's wings never furled!

Robert Browning

#12. And soon a branch, part of a hidden scene,The leafy mind, that long was tightly furled,Will turn its private substance into green,And young shoots spread upon our inner world.

Theodore Roethke

#13. The sail was patched with flour sacks and, furled, it looked like the flag of permanent defeat.

Ernest Hemingway,

#14. The wall is silence, the grass is sleep, Tall trees of peace their vigil keep, And the Fairy of Dreams with moth-wings furled. Plays soft on her flute to the drowsy world.

Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

#15. Never had Safi seen so many furled sails. Or circling sea gulls.
Cursed birds.

Susan Dennard

#16. this midnight my desire will see, shadowed among the embers, furled in flame, the splendor and the sadness of the world

F Scott Fitzgerald

#17. My hands trembled, so I took a deep drag to calm my frayed nerves. I just wanted to forget that terrible sight, but questions multiplied in my mind as the smoke furled.

Katherine McIntyre

#18. I am a geek dad, believe me. I've got my iPad with me; I've got my iPhone 4; I've got my Xbox. I love technology and I want to feel like I'm living in the future, and these devices help me feel that way.

Dee Bradley Baker

#19. I am always incorrigibly interested in the behaviour of the 'human animal', and look forward to perusing divers effusions of your lively pen.

Kingsley Amis

#20. There are things you can't walk away from. Not if you want to live with yourself afterward.

Jim Butcher

#21. Every day you have to abandon your past or accept it and then, if you cannot accept it, you become a sculptor.

Louise Bourgeois

#22. Every good tree shall bear fruits in the sacred season.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#23. Why don't you kids dance? he decided to say, and then said it. "Why don't you dance?

Raymond Carver

#24. I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.

Abraham Cowley