Queequeg's Quotes

#1. Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are.

Herman Melville

#2. How would he answer the question? No idea. In that moment he realized something inside was very, very dead.

James L. Rubart

#3. Humanity must perforce prey upon itself, like monsters of the deep.

William Shakespeare

#4. What your precious life wants to be or do - it is only up to you.

Debasish Mridha

#5. If you've ever been antique shopping during a big football game, you're either gay, or married.

Jeff Foxworthy

#6. I have popular support.

Saad Hariri

#7. If we remain humble and hungry, we can win.

Dave Allison

#8. If there had been three public editors before me, the body might have absorbed it a little bit better.

Daniel Okrent

#9. And right in among those sharks was Queequeg; who often pushed them aside with his floundering feet. A thing altogether incredible were it not that attracted by such prey as a dead whale, the otherwise miscellaneously carnivorous shark will seldom touch a

Herman Melville

#10. Your former friend Luke " Poseidon corrected. "He once promised things like that. He was Hermes's pride and joy. Just bear that in mind Percy. Even the bravest can fall.

Rick Riordan

#11. Now - either you all give yourselves up now and let us beat you up a bit, though not very much of course because we are firmly opposed to needless violence, or we blow up this entire planet and possibly one or two others we noticed on our way out here!

Douglas Adams

#12. Above all else she mustn't think that using her body will help her attain her goal. Men use women who play seductively, and then they look down on them.

Dacia Maraini

#13. But what is worship? - to do the will of God - that is worship. And what is the will of God? - to do to my fellow man what I would have my fellow man to do to me - that is the will of God. Now, Queequeg is my fellow man.

Herman Melville

#14. Queequeg was George Washington cannibalistically developed.

Herman Melville

#15. We need to be on guard against greed ... above all we need to make sure our lives are centered in Christ and not things.

Billy Graham

#16. Baba's words and actions have lit the lamp of love in the hearts of devotees and they will always remember him for the good things he has done.

Sathya Sai Baba

#17. In one word, Queequeg, said I, rather digressively; hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple-dumpling; and since then perpetuated through the hereditary dyspepsias nurtured by Ramadans.

Herman Melville

#18. Doubt is to me the handmaiden to faith, its cop, the one that keeps faith straight. To doubt is an indication of freedom and a guard against fanaticism.

Nora Gallagher

#19. Morning to ye! Morning to ye!

Herman Melville

#20. The paradox of worship is this: we perform these acts of worship, but they are not actually for us. We do these things for God, and then we are the ones who are changed.

Robert Benson

#21. The thought: A logical inquiry

Gottlob Frege