Ship Anchor Quotes

#1. Like mighty eagle soaring light. O'er antelopes on Alpine height. The anchor heaves, the ship swings free, The sails swell full. To sea, to sea!

Thomas Lovell Beddoes

#2. Nothing is so deceptive as human reasoning, - nothing so slippery and reversible as what we have decided to call 'logic.' The truest compass of life is spiritual instinct.

Marie Corelli

#3. As they left the restaurant and mounted the stairs he looped an arm around her shoulders and hugged her to him, willing her to love him as much as he loved her. Even a fraction of the amount would be enough.

Emily Arden

#4. Passion rules reason, for better or for worse
Wizard's Rule #3

Terry Goodkind

#5. Home is like the ship at sea, Sailing on eternally; Oft the anchor forth we cast, But can never make it fast.

Charles Dickens

#6. A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single
hope

Epictetus

#7. 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

#8. Once that ship has sailed don't hold on to the anchor

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#9. The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'

Friedrich Nietzsche

#10. One day there will be a telephone in every major city in the USA

Alexander Graham Bell

#11. Financially, I'm certainly not a rich man. I spent half my savings just to get on this ship, and by the time we drop anchor in Callao I'll have less than $2k to my name. At 31 years of age, that's nothing to boast about. But I can't say I'm all that worried.

Niall Doherty

#12. 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

#13. I walk firmer and more secure uphill than down.

Michel De Montaigne

#14. In treacherous currents, she is kept steady by a moral anchor the size of a ship.

Dean Koontz

#15. 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

#16. Yes," Amanda said. "It is. The looneybins are full of people like me. Our dreams harness us, and they whip us with soft whips - oh, lovely whips - and we run and we run, always in the same place . . . because the ship . . . Lisey, the sails never open and the ship never weighs its anchor . . .

Stephen King

#17. On the 28th the ship's company received two months pay in advance, and on the following morning we worked out to St. Helen's, where we were obliged to anchor.

William Bligh

#18. 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

#19. I'll want you just as much tomorrow," he murmured, stroking her hair. "And a year from tomorrow. I can promise to wait to ask you again, Shelby, but I can't promise to wait until you're ready to answer.

Nora Roberts

#20. Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

Epictetus

#21. A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt fated support them through great actions.

Augustus Hare

#22. To dream alone is fantasy if it doesn't move the heart to act.

Dan B. Allender

#23. Our heart is a port; allow every ship to come to the port; but let only the best one to anchor!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#24. We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.

Epictetus

#25. I thought that the light-house looked lovely as hope,
That star on life's tremulous ocean.

Thomas Moore

#26. When the going gets tough . . . you kick the going in the nuts!

John Box

#27. A ship should not be held by a single anchor; neither should life depend upon a single hope.

Epictetus

#28. Change is the nature of all objective things.

Swami Vivekananda

#29. Finally, this case should serve as yet another reminder of just how dangerous and volatile these police home invasions really are, and why we should stop using them to serve search warrants for nonviolent crimes. They offer no margin for error.

Radley Balko

#30. She did have regrets. Thousands of them, and the weight was too heavy for her to keep moving. She was a ship that could not sail, for its anchor - its thousands of anchors - locked it to the sea floor.

Susan Dennard

#31. I could not conjure up one melancholy fancy upon a mutton chop and a glass of champagne.

Jerome K. Jerome