Top 100 Sayings About An Anchor
#2. She's starting to feel more and more like
an anchor, like a North Star. Like my North Star.
M. Leighton
#3. Fall for me, as an apple falls, as rain falls, because you must. Use gravity to anchor your desire.
Jeanette Winterson
#4. Expectation is an anchor, a heavy burden every man is to first carry and then overcome if he is to ever reach the shorelines of his dreams.
Peter S. Fogg
#5. Meditation has been an anchor throughout my life - it helps me feel balance, connected and at peace.
Mallika Chopra
#6. Have an anchor so that life doesn't toss you around.
Debby Ryan
#7. The past can be a rudder that guides you or an anchor tha hinders you. Leave your mistakes with God and look to the future by faith.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#8. 19 We have this hope as an anchor for our lives, safe and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain.
Anonymous
#9. I'd been tossing on the seas for twenty-eight years, I was used to flipping around on the waves by myself,
bailing out the water like a mad fool.
How did I get used to an anchor?
What if that anchor broke off?
Kristen Ashley
#10. also may be untrue. One of the gravestones in the cemetery near the earliest church has an anchor on it and an hourglass, and the words In Hope. In Hope. Why did they put that above a dead person? Was it the corpse hoping, or those still alive? Does Luke hope?
Margaret Atwood
#11. They use the M as an anchor to get the doughnut and then there's an escalator to nowhere.
Gemma Burgess
#12. And guilt is heavy, like an anchor holding me in place and hindering any and all advancement.
Kim Holden
#14. A life without God is like a boat without an anchor.
Billy Graham
#15. I knew it in my gut, like an anchor thrown into the ocean. The deeper it sunk, the more I knew. I was in love
Tijan
#16. Find an anchor. Hold on tight. Do this and you'll be alright.
Pepper Winters
#17. You have a God who hears you, the power of love behind you, the Holy Spirit within you, and all of heaven ahead of you. If you have the Shepherd, you have grace for every sin, direction for every turn, a candle for every corner, and an anchor for every storm. You have
Max Lucado
#18. People are either wind in your or an anchor on your tail.
Joe Charboneau
#19. I never wanted to be an anchor for 25 years, and suddenly I wanted to be one.
John Stossel
#20. I guess that's the difference in being loved the right way and the wrong way. You either feel tethered to an anchor ... or you feel like you're flying.
Colleen Hoover
#21. To act is to anchor in an imminent future, so imminent it becomes almost tangible; to act is to feel you are consubstantial with that future.
Emile M. Cioran
#22. Hope gives the heart wings; the
soul, an anchor.
Janet Todd
#23. Practice love, compassion and forgiveness. Anger is nothing but an anchor that keeps you from moving forward.
Abby Fabiaschi
#24. Elena startled both of them by flying up so quickly that Stefan had to grab her by the waist to keep her from shooting toward the ceiling.
I thought you had gravity!"
So did I! What do I do?"
Think heavy thoughts!"
What if it doesn't work?"
We'll buy you an anchor!
L.J.Smith
#25. Work is an anchor; it prevents the undisciplined minds drifting to the past. It keeps them in the present time.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#26. I have been happy ... in believing that ... whatever follies we may be led into as to foreign nations, we shall never give up our Union, the last anchor of our hope, and that alone which is to prevent this heavenly country from becoming an arena of gladiators.
Thomas Jefferson
#27. Hope is not the thing with feathers. Hope is an anchor. What keeps you from floating away. Despair is weightless.
Matt Greene
#28. A landline is an anchor - busy signals, long distance bills, missed connections and all.
Rainbow Rowell
#29. Amidst the confusion of the times, the conflicts of conscience, and the turmoil of daily living, an abiding faith becomes an anchor to our lives.
Thomas S. Monson
#30. I don't think I have the face - may have the voice but not the demeanor for an anchor. And I defied it.
Mike Wallace
#31. I am translucent, aquatic. Drifting, aimless. She is an anchor, sinking in my sea. - BENTON JAMES KESSLER
Colleen Hoover
#32. Sometimes you need an anchor, whatever it might be. You need a space to connect. So often you get into a way of doing things.
Jake Gyllenhaal
#33. The past can hold a weak man down like an anchor. It takes a strong man to remember the past, but forgive. Forgive and forget. Taking the first step forward is difficult. But take it. Save a backward glance for the times when you're uncertain, just to make sure your past is where it belongs,
Scott Hildreth
#34. Next to hot chicken soup, a tattoo of an anchor on your chest, and penicillin, I consider a honeymoon one of the most overrated events in the world.
Erma Bombeck
#35. His calm and gentle tone was like an anchor in a ferocious sea, keeping me from drifting into a current of heartache.
K.M. Golland
#36. Take the anchor, there. The first meaning of that is hope, because hope holds you fast like an anchor so you don't give way.
Philip Pullman
#37. A girl from Pittsburgh was a good thing, like an anchor. Every homesick traveler should have one.
Kelly Link
#38. I am boring, but I'm ok with it. I'm the anchor, the shoulder ... I'm an average man ... with a truly extraordinary wife
Jasper Fforde
#39. Mauricio Pellegrino has the pace of a tricycle with a flat tyre ridden by Luciano Pavarotti, and the turning speed of an oil tanker with its anchor set.
Pete Gill
#40. When life's great storms come, the weak sink, the cowardly jump ship, the strong drop an anchor, the mighty adjust their sails, and the great sail on to their destiny.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#41. Saying sorry too much is an anchor on your upward mobility.
Aimee Cohen
#42. A man does a lot of praying in an enemy prison. Prayer, even more than sheer thought, is the firmest anchor.
Jeremiah Denton
#43. My mother is everything to me. She's my anchor, she's the person I go to when I need to talk to someone. She is an amazing woman.
Demi Lovato
#44. Part of facing the unknown requires dropping an anchor of faith into the depths of God's sovereignty.
James Stuart Bell Jr.
#45. Hope is like an anchor. Our hope in Christ stabilizes us in the storms of life, but unlike an anchor, it does not hold us back.
Charles R. Swindoll
#46. There was an anchor, tied around both of his ankles, and it was taking him deep, into black fathomless depths, drowning him slowly but surely.
I didn't tell him that he was dragging me down with him.
R.K. Lilley
#47. A woman could be the wind beneath a man's sails or a gale to send him into uncharted waters. She could be an anchor in stormy seas, or she could let him drift into the rocks.
Francine Rivers
#48. One of the most important lessons I've recently learned? I have to move forward without that apology. Waiting on it has bound me to an anchor that is pulling me under. What would make the other person apologize for hurting me when they're far too selfish to notice they have?
Paula Heller Garland
#49. A good book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.
Roy Blount Jr.
#50. Your circumstances will lie to you. Your emotions will lie to you. Even other people will lie to you. But not God. And because of this, "We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure" (Hebrews 6:19). Your identity is secure. Nothing going on in your life can change it.
Holley Gerth
#51. The past is an anchor with suffering written on the rope. I don't live there now. I am cutting myself free.
Mark Millar
#52. Hopefully, any character I play has an anchor in reality.
Michael Sheen
#53. She's a sailboat and I'm an anchor, pulling us both down.
Veronica Roth
#55. Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.
Sarah Dessen
#56. Being an anchor is not just a matter of sitting in front of a camera and looking pretty.
David Brinkley
#57. Babyluv: If you need an anchor to hold your place in the world-not Boo'ya Moon but the one we shared, use the african. You know how to get it back. Kisses-at least a thousand, Scott
P.S. Everything the same. I love you.
Stephen King
#58. Your this beautiful ship that will sail a long way, and I'd only be your anchor"
"A ship without an anchor can never be at rest
Dean Koontz
#60. Your house shall be not an anchor but a mast
It shall not be a glistening film that covers a wound, but an eyelid that guards the eye.
Kahlil Gibran
#61. If you hold onto the beauty and inspiration and the clarity that is music, you will have an anchor, you will not be too far swayed by what the world is
Van Cliburn
#62. It is our hope that the AP program can serve as an anchor for increasing rigor in our schools. Rigor can be maintained while increasing student participation.
Gaston Caperton
#63. What's a space elevator? Simply described, it's a thin ribbon, about 3 feet wide and 60 thousand miles long, stretching upwards from the surface of the Earth. The lower end is bolted to a heavy anchor (think of an oil drilling platform), and the top is capped with a counterweight.
Seth Shostak
#64. God doesn't want us to ignore the past; the past should be a rudder to guide us, not an anchor to hold us back.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#65. An anchor should be someone who is personally open and willing to communicate.
Asa Don Brown
#66. Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa. If Nigeria succeeds at democratic governance it will be an anchor for all of West Africa. Africa needs a strong Nigeria.
Ed Royce
#67. One of the gravestones in the cemetery near the earliest church has an anchor on it and an hourglass, and the words In Hope.
In Hope. Why did they put that above a dead person? Was it the corpse hoping, or those still alive?
Margaret Atwood
#68. You do not move ahead by constantly looking in a rear view mirror. The past is a rudder to guide you, not an anchor to drag you. We must learn from the past but not live in the past.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#69. He is an anchor too. Something to hold on to when all other things drag me down.
Sara Raasch
#70. It is an archive ... You probably get rooms like this in even the most modern of offices, like a rusty anchor chained to the past and with no purpose in life.
Jose Saramago
#71. It would seem that, years later, Heath Hextall still had the ability to make her feel safe and valuable and visible, just as he had done as a boy. He was, at this moment, and as he had always been, an anchor in the storms she'd never seen coming.
Kelly Bowen
#72. Allow yourself to be an anchor and anchored by others.
Asa Don Brown
#73. I'm an anchor and he is the sea and I sink into his tenderness as he presses my hand to his heart.
Sarah Noffke
#74. In her crazy, upside down world, she needed someone like that. A rock that would keep her going, an anchor to keep her from drifting away. Instead, she was alone
Kayla Krantz
#76. [Satan] has hundreds of agents writing pornographic literature and producing sex movies to pollute [the mind]. He has intellectuals in high positions teaching a hedonistic and permissive philosophy ... They lack an anchor for their real self.
Billy Graham
#77. This time you've dug yourself an anchor too heavy to move ahead with.
Al Kaline
#78. The fear in my heart was like in one of those dreams where you try to run but you can't do it, you can't run because the fear is an anchor in your chest.
Walter Mosley
#79. A life without vows is like a ship without an anchor or like an edifice that is built on sand instead of a solid rock.
Mahatma Gandhi
#80. We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure.
Paul
#81. People, I guess, generally come to see me do stand-up with a working knowledge of my broad sense of humor on 'The Daily Show' ... I don't think anyone would mistake me as an actual anchor.
John Oliver
#82. Be a woman of Christ. Cherish your esteemed place in the sight of God. He needs you. This church needs you. The world needs you. A woman's abiding trust in God and unfailing devotion to things of the Spirit have always been an anchor when the wind and the waves of life were fiercest.
Jeffrey R. Holland
#83. The real test of an anchor is when there's a very big event. Sept. 11 is the quintessential example of that, and that day it took everything that I knew as an anchor, as a citizen, as a father, as a husband, to get through it.
Tom Brokaw
#84. In my life, I have but one anchor and that anchor is my God. I think if you look closely enough, you can even see it in my eyes, you'll see a strong place, an anchor. That is God.
C. JoyBell C.
#85. I was born imagining myself with an apron on, with pies cooling on the window sill and babies crying upstairs. I thought that all that stuff would somehow anchor me to the planet, that it was the weight I needed to keep from just flying off into space.
Carrie Fisher
#86. The news anchor is exactly that - an anchor, a center, a focus.
Jessica Savitch
#87. When you hang on to your past, you are gripping an anchor that is swiftly moving to the bottom of the ocean. Sure, you have something to hang on to, but you are drowning, too.
Brooks Palmer
#88. But pure, unadulterated feelings are dangerous in their own way. It is no easy feat for a flesh-and-blood human being to go on living with such feelings. That is why it is necessary for you to fasten your feelings to the earth - firmly, like attaching an anchor to a balloon.
Haruki Murakami
#89. It's shame that gets us killed. Shame is the anchor, the heaviest burden to carry from the battlefield. Fortunately shame was an affliction I'd never suffered from.
Mark Lawrence
#90. People who live with OCD drag a mental sea anchor around. Obsession is a brake, a source of drag, not a badge of creativity, a mark of genius or an inconvenient side effect of some greater function.
David Adam
#92. I have never in my life walked with a harness. The weight of the tether, makes it feel like I'm dragging an anchor behind me.
Nik Wallenda
#93. Gaming was "one of the only times when you only have to focus on one thing." But even more than that, "It's like an anchor. As long as I know it's there, it's part of me. It's some form of continuity that in my life I desperately need.
Alexandra Robbins
#94. What made the difference between choosing to die and deciding to live?
Was it the weight of sadness that buckled them over and dragged them away from all sane, rational thoughts with an anchor of hopelessness so intense they just gave up fighting?
Heidi R. Kling
#95. The power of prayer is so profound that it can assuage our emotions. It calms the mind, dilutes all our worries, gives an anchor to fears and endows us with a remarkable peace of mind.
Balroop Singh
#96. Hobie's presence below stairs was an anchor, a friendly weight ...
Donna Tartt
#97. Being with her I feel a pain, like a frozen knife stuck in my chest. An awful pain, but the funny thing is I'm thankful for it. It's like that frozen pain and my very existence are one.
The pain is an anchor, mooring me here.
Haruki Murakami
#98. Expectations is an anchor, a heavy burden every man if the first carry and then overcome if he is to ever to reach the shorelines of his dreams.
Peter S. Fogg
#99. I do think you have to change with the times in a way that renews your core essence, not abandons it. To change for the sake of change - without an anchor - that is mere faddishness. It will only lead you further astray.
Richard C. Morais
#100. What an anchor is to a ship, hope is to the soul. Both ships and souls are kept safe by a firm, secure anchor that keeps holding despite turbulent winds and churning tides.
June Hunt
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