Top 19 Mainmast Quotes
#1. Bosun!" "Aye, skipper?" "Reinforce the mainmast, hang out all the laundry, and warn the witchmen! Let's make the old bitch fly!
Jim Butcher
#2. All the couples therapy and communication seminars in the world won't save you if you aren't prepared to close your eyes and hug the mainmast through a storm.
Ada Calhoun
#3. Sundown. The distressed sloop, its mainmast shattered by lightning, its sails ripped by the winds of the open sea, drifted into the small, quiet beach of a private island in the Lesser Antilles
Robert Ludlum
#4. Men who neglect Christ, and try to win heaven through moralities, are like sailors at sea in a storm, who pull, some at the bowsprit and some at the mainmast, but never touch the helm.
Henry Ward Beecher
#5. Well, one of the things I discovered in the course of looking back and writing about what I saw in my memory is that I was a closely observant person long before I became a reporter.
Alma Guillermoprieto
#6. He was a locked box inside which tempests roiled. He was a man enshadowed by himself.
John Connolly
#7. Lady Astor was also said to have responded to a question from Churchill about what disguise he should wear to a masquerade ball by saying, "Why don't you come sober, Prime Minister?"
(Reported exchange with Winston Churchill)
Nancy Astor The Viscountess Astor
#8. Those who lapse from the Gospel to the Law are no better off than those who lapse from grace into idolatry.
Martin Luther
#9. There is no such thing as a perfect drawing, especially if you're ametur.
Mark Crilley
#10. There is a difference between a challenge and a burden. One is something you can carry on your shoulders easily enough - the other is something, a big sack, that bends you double.
Alexander McCall Smith
#11. I started out modeling at a young age and surrounded myself with different brilliant minds. I have so many people to get educated from, and I've been a sponge.
Kellan Lutz
#12. Men sneered at vivisection, and yet look at its results today! Why not advance science in its most difficult and vital aspect, the knowledge of the brain?
Bram Stoker
#14. It's easy to make money when you have a lot of it.
Max Tegmark
#15. Gaea. The planet is an organism. All of us are cells with different purposes. And yet we are intertwined. Serving each other. Serving the whole.
Dan Brown
#16. It is possible to have the administration of the sacraments and the preaching of the Word of God and to have it be simply a human exercise.
Dallas Willard
#17. Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.
Oscar Hammerstein II
#18. To obey my queen in all things." His voice was like his skin, dark. It made me think of molasses and other thick, sweet things. A voice so deep it could hit notes low enough to make my spine shiver.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#19. Success is becoming in middle adulthood what you dreamed to be in late childhood.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
