The Boat Alistair Macleod Important Quotes

#1. It is always thus, impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, we make our irrevocable decisions

Marcel Proust

#2. Great are those two gifts, wisdom and continence: wisdom, forsooth, whereby we are formed in the knowledge of God; continence whereby we are not conformed to this world.

Saint Augustine

#3. The way that worms and viruses spread on the Internet is not that different from the way they spread in the real world, and the way you quarantine them is not that different, either.

David Ulevitch

#4. The vast majority of politicians think they are functioning on high principle.

George E. Brown Jr.

#5. There is an extent of riches, as well as an extreme of poverty, which, by harrowing the circles of a man's acquaintance, lessens his opportunities of general knowledge.

Howard Zinn

#6. There's some real dark days where you just feel like the story is falling apart in every one. Just keep moving forward, even when you are bluffing, even when you don't quite know what is going to happen next.

Dan Scanlon

#7. I don't feel I need to come and drive the race of Lewis Hamilton's life. I think I've driven pretty well this year and I plan to drive Lewis Hamilton's best this weekend.

Lewis Hamilton

#8. The quality of artistry is the capacity to assume innocence at will, the quality of experiencing innocence as if for the first time.

Robert Fripp

#9. Sitting there that day, I knew that the only thing I could do was keep putting one foot in front of the other, hoping none of the secrets on my shoulders would make me lose my balance.

Ally Carter

#10. You can't make another person happy: they have to make themselves happy.

Kate Kerrigan

#11. No amount of manifest absurdity ... could deter those who wanted to believe from believing.

Bernard Levin

#12. I answer through chattering teeth. As well as can be expected after a swim in angel-infested waters.

Susan Ee

#13. One has to wait without impatience for what should come, and yet at the same time do everything within one's power as though one were impatient and as though one were solely responsible.

Rodney Collin

#14. I mean, I didn't - I should have demanded attention of the boss maybe, or something like that that might have backfired. This I would just take as it came.

James Stockdale