Running Aground Quotes

#1. Knowing when and how to change course is important to success. Self-doubt is a lighthouse that will keep you from running aground. Don't become shipwrecked on the rocks of time. Be willing to rethink your decisions and change course.

Harley King

#2. Perhaps fate is an answer from God ... or perhaps fate is nothing more than an accident - two ships lost in the dark, running aground on the same windward beach.

Ramona Ausubel

#3. And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!

Henrik Ibsen

#4. I'm so proud to be an Army brat, but it was not an easy life. Moving around so much, skating was that one constant thing I had to hold on to.

Ashley Wagner

#5. There is a universal element in man which he can assert by so acting as if the purpose of the Universe were also his purpose. It is the function of the supreme ordeals of life to develop in men this power, to give to their life this distinction, this height of dignity, these vast horizons.

Felix Adler

#6. A person's words reflect the image of his character and the amount of truth and lies in it is always visible to the human heart than ordinary eyes.

Anuj

#7. and tonight we held each
other, one last time,
like a dance to a
slow song
on an empty
floor,
underneath a single
disco ball
in front of
no one
at all

Phil Volatile

#8. The Navy has a custom-if a ship runs aground, the captain is relieved regardless of who is responsible. That's how Abu Ghraib should be handled.

Rand Beers

#9. Beingness is just joy.

Mooji

#10. Either I've always spoken to her from the heart in times like this, or I never have and I don't know what it means.

Ian McEwan

#11. It's harder to write in the third person but the advantage is you move around better.

Ernest Hemingway,

#12. Never assume malice where stupidity will suffice.

V.A. Jeffrey

#13. Melancholy and remorse form the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality; we run aground sooner than the flat-bottomed pleasure-lovers but we venture out in weather that would sink them and we choose our direction.

Cyril Connolly

#14. People will always be tempted to wipe their feet on anything with 'welcome' written on it.

Andy Partridge

#15. The Graveyard of the Atlantic exhibit reflects the aquarium's proximity to the state's Outer Banks, where thousands of ships have run aground over the centuries. Divers in the exhibit carry on a conversation with visitors outside the tank.

John Grant

#16. Rocks are like wreck magnets and ships run aground today in pretty much the same locations and for the same reasons they did thousands of years ago.

E. Lee Spence

#17. Marriage is rarely bliss But, surely it would be worse As particles to pelt At thousands of miles per sec About a universe In which a lover's kiss Would either not be felt Or break the loved one's neck.

W. H. Auden

#18. Dogmatism grew from the soil of simplistic and frequently wrong concepts. Dogmatism is like a ship that has run aground: the waves run, the ship stays put, but the impression of movement persists

Dmitri Volkogonov

#19. They are a very decent generous lot of people out here and they don't expect you to listen ... It's the secret of social ease in this country. They talk entirely for their own pleasure. Nothing they say is designed to be heard.

Evelyn Waugh

#20. What doesn't kill you not only make you stronger, but also more honest.

Eric Weiner

#21. And love is work. But it's the best kind of work there is.

Sammy Nickalls

#22. I just like being a social experiment sometimes. I really should not be allowed in public. But I just go out into the public just to see people's reaction.

Peter Steele

#23. The winds were blowing from west to east, pushing Abby's boat toward the rocks as Abby struggled with the autopilots below. If Wild Eyes reached those islands, she wouldn't run aground, keel in the sand. She would be smashed into pieces.

Abby Sunderland

#24. Love's just a waste of energy
and life's just a waste of time
so why don't we get together
we could waste everything tonight

Jack Johnson