Top 100 The Anchor Quotes
#1. The only difference between the two groups was that the students conceded that they were influenced by the anchor, while the professionals denied that influence.
Daniel Kahneman
#2. The current wisdom now is that if the three networks are covering the news the same way the difference is the anchor people. I think that won't be true in the future.
Roone Arledge
#5. Isaiah is my rock. The string that holds me together when I'm ready to fall apart. He's the anchor that keeps me from floating away when I go too far. His heart has been the one constant rhythm in my life and I don't want to let it go.
Katie McGarry
#6. The past is the anchor that weighs us down.
Don Trowden
#7. These are the days in which a true leader wants to live. These are days when opportunities to change lives and even destinies are nearly endless. You are running the anchor leg of the relay because you were born to lead. You were born for glory.
Sheri L. Dew
#8. Hang on to the inner body, let it be the anchor, then you're present. If they say something challenging and you lose it again, pause, and anchor again. Practice, practice, continuous practice-becaus e when you're in touch with the inner body, spaciousness arises.
Eckhart Tolle
#9. Am I the only one who thinks Nancy Grace's relentless cheer leading for Jodi Arias' death gross & excessive? The anchor as executioner?!
Geraldo Rivera
#10. Yeah, run if you want to. Time is the anchor, change is the constant, love is the trigger.
Chris Pureka
#11. Consistency: It's the jewel worth wearing; It's the anchor worth weighing; It's the thread worth weaving; It's a battle worth winning.
Charles R. Swindoll
#12. If we are cut loose from the anchor of God's Word, we will not be free. We will be slaves of personal passions and popular trends.
John Piper
#13. Some people may have noticed the new computer shelf at the anchor desk. Rather than phone calls, we want to take real time e-mails, and we'll be starting that very soon.
Catherine Crier
#14. Why the anchor?"
"Because sometimes, it's nice to feel like there's someone who can save you.
L.J. Shen
#15. You gotta know that you're better than anybody, 'cause to me, if you don't go in like that, you're gonna lose! They're gonna punk you out! On any stage, court, business venture, on the anchor desk - whatever. You've got to go in believing, 'I can do this better than anybody.'
Stuart Scott
#16. He's the anchor to my boat and I worry that I will float out to sea, directionless, without him.
Claire Douglas
#17. I don't want to be the anchor around his feet. I want to be the sky. I want to be the colorful weird name.
Pella Grace
#18. The anchor holds in spite of the storm
Ray Boltz
#19. Any person or system exposed to ceaseless novelty and change risks falling into chaos; but one that is too rigid or static ceases to grow and eventually dies. This never-ending dance between change and stability is like the anchor and the waves.
Esther Perel
#20. In order to realize the worth of the anchor we need to feel the stress of the storm.
Corrie Ten Boom
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. Running fills the cup that has to pour out for others. Running feeds the soul that has a responsibility to nourish. Running sets the anchor that limits the drift of the day. Running clears the mind that has a myriad of challenges to solve. Running tends to the self so that selfishness can subside.
Kristin Armstrong
#25. Millions of our race are now supported by lands situated where deep seas once prevailed in earlier ages. In many districts not yet occupied by man, land animals and forests now abound where the anchor once sank into the oozy bottom.
Charles Lyell
#26. When there is silence one finds the anchor of the universe within oneself
Lao-Tzu
#27. I didn't plan this, but her lips shape the welcome I've been waiting for my whole life, her arms are the anchor I need, her body is my home.
Robin York
#28. It was like a trapeze act: How could you really tell at what second the acrobat pushed away, at what moment the anchor let go? You couldn't, and that was that. You and your deductions from the outcomeL a successful landing or a spiraling fall.
Jodi Picoult
#29. Some say that Jesus is the rock, or the anchor. I say that your friends and family are your anchor. And you can really hold their hands, not just sing about it. No disrespect to George Jones.
Gale Harold
#30. I wouldn't say I'm the anchor, I'm the one person who sees everyone at work - I don't get to see a lot of people outside of work too much because I'm there all the time. Everyone asks me "how you doing, have you slept?" so I know I'm working long hours.
David Giuntoli
#32. The anchor man thrown overboard has simply rooted us in history's repeating cycle
Saul Williams
#33. Experience had quickly taught her that she could not survive the storms without the anchor of the constraining love of Christ and what she called the "Rock-counsciousness" of the promise given her, "He goeth before.
Elisabeth Elliot
#34. When we prioritize and focus and that becomes the anchor the relationship becomes the anchor and it trumphs everything else than it's at once freeing and anxiety relieving because the connection itself feeds empowerment and self-worth and self-esteem so it takes away the anxiety of raising a child.
Shefali Tsabary
#35. 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
#36. Once the anchor of reason has been cut, ones craft may go anywhere. One may become a St Francis or equally a Hitler.
Brand Blanshard
#37. The anchor of all my dreams is the collective wisdom of mankind as a whole.
Nelson Mandela
#38. The necklace is the anchor; it's the classification of jewelry that says what the whole idea is about.
Robert Lee Morris
#39. Love is the pillar of the soul, and the anchor of the universe.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#40. Hope is called the anchor of the soul because it gives stability to the Christian life. But hope is not simply a 'wish' I wish that such-and-such would take place rather, it is that which latches on to the certainty of the promises of the future that God has made.
R.C. Sproul
#41. I eventually want to be the anchor of the first trillion-dollar company.
Kanye West
#42. Your love keeps me afloat but will remain the anchor in my soul ... I don't really have words to describe how romantic I find that. Your love is what keeps me going, but it's also the anchor that keeps me close to you. I love it!
Rabindranath Tagore
#43. When you sail, don't
Pull up the anchor weeping.
Be a man, do it laughing ...
Shusaku Endo
#44. Let your heart be the anchor and the beat of your song.
Neil Peart
#45. Most of us are raised to believe we are ordinary. The anchor of the universe is present in every child. A parent only needs to guide and step aside and let them fulfill their dharma. Help children remember that they can do or be anything.
Wayne Dyer
#46. Mr. Tyler, drop the anchor. We are as close
Wilbur Smith
#47. Words can be said but it's the attitude that defines their value. Attitude is the anchor of every word we say or everything we do.
Euginia Herlihy
#48. So this was what being alone was like, she thought. ... It was this wandering in a sea of people with the anchor lifted, and all of it oddly pointless and confusing.
Colm Toibin
#49. Lead yourself or someone else will. People can either be the wind on your sails or the anchor on your tail...you get to figure it out !
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#50. 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
#51. Well blest is he who has a dear one dead; A friend he has whose face will never change- A dear communion that will not grow strange; The anchor of a love is death.
John Boyle O'Reilly
#52. The anchor in our world today is freedom, holding us steady in times of change, a symbol of hope to all the world.
George H. W. Bush
#53. A public debt is a kind of anchor in the storm; but if the anchor be too heavy for the vessel, she will be sunk by that very weight which was intended for her preservation.
Charles Caleb Colton
#54. Having a Christian worldview shapes my decision-making with respect to all aspects of my life. I always respect people in public life who are principled, and those principles have to be connected to something. And my faith is what serves as the anchor and directs my actions.
John Thune
#55. I'm a romanticist in many ways. I never get behind the wheel of my boat and dropping the anchor without saying to myself, secretly giving my orders to the crew "All right, lift the anchor, we're on our way to South Hampton. We're gonna beat them there with this load of tea!"
Walter Cronkite
#57. People adjust less (stay closer to the anchor) when their mental resources are depleted, either because their memory is loaded with digits or because they are slightly drunk.
Daniel Kahneman
#58. Hope is the anchor of our souls. I know of no one who is not in need of hope - young or old, strong or weak, rich or poor.
James E. Faust
#59. Feeling is deep and still; and the word that floats on the surface Is as the tossing buoy, that betrays where the anchor is hidden.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#60. All you need do is forgive. Resentment is an anchor holding you back from that which you desire most. Find the angel within you; cut the anchor line and beat your wings. The winds of forgiveness will stir a hurricane of healing and call up a tide of love that can carry you home.
Emily March
#61. Footnote: 79) The anchor is gigantic and must weigh a hundred tons, and
delightfully
it really is anchor-shaped, i.e. the same shape as anchors in tattoos.
David Foster Wallace
#62. Here is the threshold I do not cross: a sliver of light through the doorway finds his tattoo, the anchor on his forearm tangled in its chain.
Natasha Trethewey
#63. A lot of people look at a basketball team as an anchor tenant for an arena. I look at an arena as the anchor tenant for a much larger program.
Ross Perot Jr.
#64. The promises of God for tomorrow are the anchor for believers today.
R.C. Sproul
#65. She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page.
Jane Hamilton
#66. Home is like the ship at sea, Sailing on eternally; Oft the anchor forth we cast, But can never make it fast.
Charles Dickens
#67. WE STOLE THE EAGLE FROM THE AIR FORCE, THE ANCHOR FROM THE NAVY AND THE ROPE FROM THE ARMY.
ON THE SEVENTH DAY WHILE GOD RESTED, WE OVERRAN HIS PERIMETER, STOLE THE GLOBE AND WE'VE BEEN RUNNING THE WHOLE SHOW EVER SINCE.
U.S. Marine Corps
#68. Knowing love or the hope of knowing love is the anchor that keeps us from falling into that sea of despair.
Bell Hooks
#69. As always, Blay was the anchor who kept him from being swept away.
J.R. Ward
#70. This picnic will soon depart
Real life, I'm sad to see you go
I'll miss you with all my heart
But I'd rather be alone
'Cause I couldn't live without
Sunsets that dazzle in the dusk
So I'll drag the anchor up
And rest assured, 'cause dreams don't turn to dust.
Owl City
#71. I was perfectly calm, I was the anchor of the world.
Per Petterson
#72. The heart is the anchor to all things, be it love to hate, or light to dark.
T.A. Cline
#73. The 'anchor baby' thing needs to be fixed ... Anchor babies are an unconstitutional declaration of citizenship to those born of non-Americans. It's wrong, and it's immoral.
Russell Pearce
#74. Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things.
Ed Bradley
#76. The significance of folklore studies as an academic field comes back to the idea that folklore exists as a form of cultural expression without the anchor of institutional culture.
Lynne S. McNeill
#77. Religion is, in fact, the dominion of the soul; it is the hope, the anchor of safety, the deliverance from evil. What a service has Christianity rendered to humanity!
Napoleon Bonaparte
#78. She took him for granted sometimes. That was the luxury of a long marriage. But she knew that she loved him. She needed him. He was the anchor that kept her from drifting away.
Karin Slaughter
#79. This is not to say that everyone should take psychedelics. As I will make clear below, these drugs pose certain dangers. Undoubtedly, some people cannot afford to give the anchor of sanity even the slightest tug.
Sam Harris
#81. It is observed at sea that men are never so much disposed to grumble and mutiny as when least employed. Hence an old captain, when there was nothing else to do, would issue the order to scour the anchor.
Samuel Smiles
#82. Do you know that I was the anchor on the 'CBS Morning Show?' And my newsman was Walter Cronkite.
Dick Van Dyke
#83. The law is the anchor of our feelings. If the law holds our feelings well, it directs our feelings well. If however, the laws fails to hold our feelings well, our feelings become free enough for us to do what we feel freely
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#84. As a bassist he could never really be a sideman. He was always the anchor. He drove the beat. even if it was behind Miles Davis'a horn.
Michael Connelly
#85. The television was on Florida Cable News. A gray-haired man behind the anchor desk reported near tragedy at a state motor vehicle office, where a man who had failed the eye exam pulled a gun and fired fifteen shots at the staff, hitting nobody.
Tim Dorsey
#86. The people who get into trouble in our company are those who carry around the anchor of the past.
John Welch
#87. Usually, when I walk on a wire, I inspect the anchor point on both sides before crossing.
Philippe Petit
#88. The head's a cloud anchor that the feet must follow. Travel light, he said, or don't travel at all.
Jim Harrison
#89. The secret of the illusoriness is in the necessity of a succession of moods or objects. Gladly we would anchor, but the anchorageis quicksand.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#90. 19 We have this hope as an anchor for our lives, safe and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain.
Anonymous
#91. We don't yet know the state of the naturals. Are they friends or foes? None of us can say. We ought to anchor in the bay, as near as we might come to the shore, and bide our time. The naturals will show themselves, soon or late. They know we are here already, or else I'm a virgin girl.
Libbie Hawker
#92. They use the M as an anchor to get the doughnut and then there's an escalator to nowhere.
Gemma Burgess
#93. So as you are beginning your day anchor yourself in the truth. Know that all is well. Extend this to your friends, colleagues and all that you meet. That life is for YOU! It is never against you.
Michael Beckwith
#94. I firmly believe in prayer. It is possible to reach out and tap the unseen power which gives strength and anchor in time of need.
Ezra Taft Benson
#95. 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
#96. In 1628, French pirates and marauding, escaped slaves plundered Santiago and burned Havana to the ground. Even the Dutch, led by Piet Heyn , sacked the Spanish fleet lying at anchor in Havana harbor. page 83, "The Exciting Story of Cuba
Hank Bracker
#97. Work is an anchor; it prevents the undisciplined minds drifting to the past. It keeps them in the present time.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#98. 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
#99. Hope is not the thing with feathers. Hope is an anchor. What keeps you from floating away. Despair is weightless.
Matt Greene
#100. Planning a few anchor events for a weekend guarantees you pleasure because - even if all goes wrong in the moment - you still will have derived some pleasure from the anticipation.
Laura Vanderkam
