Sailors Wives Quotes

#1. It is mostly when we are very young that we take the greatest delight in the sad songs; those who have felt the real bitterness of sorrow are glad to bury it deeply away, and do not wish it wakened, as sailors' wives love a place best where they cannot hear the sound of the sea.

Angela Brazil

#2. I should like to know if he has sunk a frigate, alone, with a Fleur-de-Nuit on his back; and as for distinction, my ancestors were scholars in China while his were starving in pits.

Naomi Novik

#3. That which the fascists hate, above all else, is intelligence.

Miguel De Unamuno

#4. While I am alive, not a hair on Jewish heads will be touched.

Habib Bourguiba

#5. Whenever the pulpit is usurped by a formalist, then is the worshipper defrauded and disconsolate.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. You have endless energy only when you are working for the good of the whole - you have to stop working for your little selfish interests. That's the secret of it. In this world you are given as you give.

Peace Pilgrim

#7. The sour smell was not the smell of fungus. It was unlit incense, and cold ashes, and unsaid prayers. I

Mary Stewart

#8. We should set goals within the limits of our resources while working to the limits of our powers.

Richard M. Nixon

#9. The use of quantity of money as a target has not been a success. I'm not sure that I would as of today push it as hard as I once did.

Milton Friedman

#10. It is interesting to me how technology has in many ways facilitated and refined the practice of deception

Suzanne Rindell

#11. I believe my own demons would have caught up with me regardless of my race and regardless of whether I worked at 'The Times.'

Jayson Blair

#12. Think about this. The God of the universe became a wiggling baby in order to get close to you.

Timothy Keller

#13. Love exercised while duty is neglected will make children headstrong, willful, perverse, selfish, and disobedient. If stern duty is left to stand alone without love to soften and win, it will have a similar result. Duty and love must be blended in order that children may be properly disciplined.

Ellen G. White

#14. A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel.

Heywood Broun