Matthew Maury Quotes

#1. It is a custom often practiced by seafaring people to throw a bottle overboard, with a paper, stating the time and place at which it is done. In the absence of other information as to currents, that afforded by these mute little navigators is of great value.

Matthew Fontaine Maury

#2. Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.

Arnold Bennett

#3. Nothing, absolutely nothing, was above corruption so long as human beings were involved.

David Baldacci

#4. People were laughing at me anyway, so I thought I might as well start charging them.

Sarah Millican

#5. To the extent that animals continue to die needlessly, we are morally bound to speak.

Nathan Winograd

#6. I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.

Rachelle Lefevre

#7. We have to make sustainable living convenient, sustainable business profitable & sustainable change fashionable

Wayne Visser

#8. I am afraid if there is anything to be afraid of. A precipice cannot hurt you. Lions and tigers can. The streets of New York I consider more dangerous than the Matterhorn to a thoroughly competent and careful climber.

Annie Smith Peck

#9. God gives people the exact experiences he wants them to have in order to shape the specific destiny he's designed for them.

Steven Furtick

#10. There are no guarantees in life. The simple twists of fate and the breaks of the game are the two maxims that define so much of the success and failure in life.

Bill Walton

#11. There is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts it never fails, and in the mightiest floods it never overflows. Its banks and its bottom are of cold water, while its current is of warm. The Gulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its mouth is in the Arctic Sea. It is the Gulf Stream.

Matthew Fontaine Maury

#12. The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP they have run out of better ideas.

Boris Johnson

#13. Sorry about your bad luck.

David Perry

#14. Pigpen saunters up beside me. He's in his midtwenties and a wall of solid muscle. Most men wet themselves when he looks in their direction. "Eli wants him in.

Katie McGarry

#15. Take this story to great heart; read through its' every word; and I hope and pray that in the end, as you enter the last phases of this story, it will move you, touch you profoundly, and guide you to the meaning of True Love.

C. David Murphy

#16. But even those people, cops, lawyers, doctors, learned what they learned from the aftermath. They weren't there when the killer tore at his victim; they didn't smell the scent of evil; they didn't hear the cries to heaven for something, someone, to intervene.

Anne Rice

#17. The rules of scientific investigation always require us, when we enter the domains of conjecture, to adopt that hypothesis by which the greatest number of known facts and phenomena may be reconciled.

Matthew Fontaine Maury

#18. The Foolish man is one who takes pride in hate and oppression of the unfortunate. He is weak because of such behavior.

Ellen J. Barrier