Top 100 Vessel Quotes
#1. I am so honored to be the vessel into which you pour this story of pain and strength.
Anita Diamant
#2. Load the ship and set out. No one knows for certain whether the vessel will sink or reach the harbor. Cautious people say, 'I'll do nothing until I can be sure.' Merchants know better. If you do nothing, you lose. Don't be one of those merchants who wont risk the ocean.
Rumi
#3. Vessels expose the invisible Zeitgeist, the visible formed by the invisible.
James Hillman
#4. But now I feel like a receptacle -- an empty vessel to be filled at his whim.
E.L. James
#5. Pleasure and thrill are conducive to sadness after the so-called peak has
been reached; for the thrill has been experienced, but the vessel has not
grown.
Erich Fromm
#6. Education is not to be viewed as something like filling a vessel with water but, rather, assisting a flower to grow in its own way
Bertrand Russell
#7. I would be dead now, if not for a vessel of pure belief.
Rick Veitch
#8. Knowledge is an excellent drug; but no drug has virtue enough to preserve itself from corruption and decay, if the vessel be tainted and impure wherein it is put to keep.
Michel De Montaigne
#9. You can make a vessel from any type of clay,but how it will come out depends on the master
Sunday Adelaja
#11. None of the serious maritime incidents I had to deal with as transport minister off the pristine Queensland or Western Australian coastline involved an Australian flagged and crewed vessel.
Anthony Albanese
#12. All I ever wanted since I arrived here on earth are the same things I needed as a baby, to go from cold to warm, lonely to held, the vessel to the giver, empty to full.
Anne Lamott
#13. Now entertain conjecture of a time, When creeping murmur and the pouring dark Fill the wide vessel of the universe ... Chorus Henry V
William Shakespeare
#14. A parcel
taken from one place to another, handed from one owner to another, unwrapped and bundled up at will
is all that I am. A vessel, for the bearing of sons, for one nobleman or another: it hardly matters who.
Philippa Gregory
#15. The water vessel, taken as a vessel only, raises the question, "Why does it exist at all?" Through its fitness of construction, it offers the apology for its existence. But where it is a work of beauty it has no question to answer; it has nothing to do, but to be.
Rabindranath Tagore
#16. Morn on the waters, and purple and bright Bursts on the billows the flushing of light O'er the glad waves, like a child of the sun, See the tall vessel goes gallantly on.
Thomas Kibble Hervey
#17. Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
Socrates
#18. Now I knew why I had been hollowed out, why my insides were chipped away with a chisel and mallet. It was to make room for this new feeling, this love that was so vast, so expansive it could not have fit into the vessel I once was.
Lang Leav
#19. Without wisdom, man is as the wild ass's colt, running hither and thither, wasting strength which might be profitably employed. Wisdom is the compass by which man is to steer across the trackless waste of life; without it he is a derelict vessel, the sport of winds and waves.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#20. We're in high school. If it didn't come from the school cafeteria, we like it.
S.K.N. Hammerstone
#21. Bitterness only consumes the vessel that contains it.
Rubin Carter
#22. I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart: but the saying is true 'The empty vessel makes the greatest sound'.
William Shakespeare
#23. The tomb lies at the end of every path. Only the soul is immortal. Guard this treasure well. Your decaying husk is but a temporary vessel on an endless voyage.
William Hjortsberg
#24. The main reason for the colossal objects is the obvious one, to expand and intensify the presence of the vessel - the object.
Claes Oldenburg
#25. Does it matter if an empty vessel breaks, hollow hath no hate.
Unkown Author
#26. Did you have a ship?" Maya asks. "Yes. It had books on it, and it really was more of a research vessel. We studied a lot." "You're ruining this story." "It's a fact, Maya. There are murdering kinds of pirates and researching kinds of pirates, and your daddy was the latter.
Gabrielle Zevin
#27. He said he didn't even exist without you. That he was an empty vessel and that you filled him and owned him until he didn't know where he ended and you began.
Lynetta Halat
#28. To use the biblical imagery, Christian theology must acknowledge itself an impoverished earthen vessel while daring not to diminish the value of the treasure it confesses.
Kevin Diller
#29. Whimpering never kept a leaking vessel from foundering. Vigorously manning the pumps has. Get busy with your head and hands, not your chin.
B.C. Forbes
#31. The captain of this sailing vessel has requested a private audience with you in his quarters. It seems you've a treasure map hidden on your person, and I mean to explore every inch of you until it is discovered.
Olivia Parker
#32. A dream is like a river ever changing as it flows and a dreamer's just a vessel that must follow where it goes.
Garth Brooks
#33. There is in the American Government ... a want of unity ... The Sailors, the helmsman, the engineer, do not seem to have one purpose or obey one will so that instead of making steady way the vessel may pursue a devious or zigzag course, and sometimes merely turn round and round in the water.
James Bryce
#34. Fatal North was being poisoned to death aboard his own vessel and by someone from his hand-picked crew ... a cold-blooded, calculating, pre-meditated murder by a diabolical killer.
Bruce Henderson
#35. Though some may have more than others, yet every one hath his load, as much as he can carry. Every vessel cannot bear up with the like sail, and therefore God, to keep us from oversetting, puts on so much as will safest bring us to heaven, our desired port.
Ezekiel Hopkins
#36. A good-sized Ptolemaic vessel could carry three hundred tons of wheat down the river. At least two such ships made the trip daily - with wheat, barley, lentils - to feed Alexandria alone.
Stacy Schiff
#37. crashing through the world like a falling stone. It is his color and his light. It is the vessel into which he pours
Arundhati Roy
#38. That is what a book is: a million little things, a thousand feelings, hundreds of experiences, all melted together and sculpted into a book-shaped vessel.
Beth Revis
#39. At the last, it shall be clearly seen that in every chosen vessel of mercy, Jehovah did as He willed with His own; and that in every part of the work of grace - He accomplished His purpose, and glorified His own name!
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#40. Angels only care about what you look like on the inside. A pure heart is the vessel that contains a soul's true beauty.
Molly Friedenfeld
#41. We all have a unique art, our personal passion that serves as a vessel through which our souls can speak. True happiness is found by filling it, and purpose is fulfilled by pouring it out.
Cristen Rodgers
#42. As a captain whose vessel is about to crash on the rocks empties its souls of doubt, so are the hesitant useful for throwing off of an enterprise nearing its end: blame must be cast in failure, profits divided easily in success.
Bauvard
#43. The love of talk distracts all the powers of our soul from God, and fills them with earthly objects and impressions, like a vessel of water that cannot be settled while you are continualy stirring the earthly particles from the bottom.
Elizabeth Ann Seton
#44. Good work in the building of my vessel stood me always in good stead.
Joshua Slocum
#45. I drank that Wine of which the Soul is its vessel.
Its ecstasy has stolen my intellect away.
A Light came and kindled a Flame in the depth of my Soul.
A Light so radiant that the sun orbits around it like a butterfly.
Rumi
#46. The seas and the weathers are what is; your vessels adapt to them or sink.
Tim Powers
#47. For it is better to drink a wholesome draught of truth from the humble vessel, than poison mixed with honey from a golden goblet.
Nennius
#48. The speed of the fleet is not determined by the fastest vessel; rather it is determined by the slowest one.
Wen Jiabao
#49. John Doyle just knows how to feed actors, and what comes out of us, good, bad, right, wrong, doesn't matter. There's no fear or censure. He opens up the creative goo and all of the actor vessel stuff. He knows how to do it. It's just incredible.
Patti LuPone
#50. At such times when we feel the floods are threatening to drown us and the deep is going to swallow up the tossed vessel of our faith, I pray we may always hear amid the storm and the darkness that sweet utterance of the Savior of the world: 'Be of good cheer: it is I; be not afraid' (Matt. 14:27)
Howard W. Hunter
#51. The truth is that over time, the vessel expands as well. You grow. Your life widens.
David Levithan
#52. A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted.
Plutarch
#53. I cannot imagine any condition which would cause a ship to founder. I cannot conceive of any vital disaster happening to this vessel. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that ...
Edward Smith
#54. Consciousness is clear; it reflects colors of the vessel.
Debasish Mridha
#55. He at once resolved to accompany me to that island, ship aboard the same vessel, get into the same watch, the same boat, the same mess with me, in short to share my every hap; with both my hands in his, boldly dip into the Potluck of both worlds.
Herman Melville
#56. The only way to keep a broken vessel full is to keep it always under the tap.
Billy Sunday
#57. A soul carries a vessel of courage. It cannot be refilled. Every thing that takes from it leaves less behind.
Steven Erikson
#58. That was certainly true the first time, when I did Body Heat, the first movie that I directed. I was looking for a vessel to tell a certain kind of story, and I was a huge fan of Film Noir, and what I liked about it was that it was so extreme in style.
Lawrence Kasdan
#59. The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
James Reston
#60. Jenny's absence seems to describe her better than her presence does; she is a looming vessel of her own withholding.
Emily Ruskovich
#61. Our body is a vessel of corruption; it is meant for death and for the worms, nothing more! And yet we devote ourselves to satisfying it, rather than to enriching our soul, which is so great that we can conceive nothing greater - no, nothing, nothing!
John Vianney
#62. The world is like a vast sea: mankind like a vessel sailing on its tempestuous bosom ... [T]he sciences serve us for oars.
Oliver Goldsmith
#63. Empty the vessel of hope and faith and trust and you can fill it with anything you like. They
Rick Yancey
#64. Hero is not the word I would use to describe myself on August 20. The word I would use is vessel.
Antoinette Tuff
#66. Liberals tend to stress how marvelous education is, in and of itself, and also adore it as a vessel for genuine equality. (That's me, by the way: Hell, I think we should be spending $50 billion a year to make college education free).
Rick Perlstein
#67. Perhaps we might, within the anatomy of our imaginations, think once more of the naked body as a vessel of grace, taste and wonder. In the spotted history of art, stranger things have happened.
Robert Genn
#68. The greatest vessel takes long to complete.
Laozi
#69. The divine thoughts comes from God, we are only vessel for its transmission.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#71. Just as water will conform to the shape of the vessel that contains it, so will a man follow the good and evil of his companions.
Imagawa Sadayo
#72. On loof, literally 'on rudder', was a Dutch phrase spoken by the captain of a vessel when he wanted to steer a course away from a hazard such as a reef. It became aloof, a word that extended this idea of avoidance and evasion.
Henry Hitchings
#73. We may produce at will, from a sending station. an electrical effect in any particular region of the globe; we may determine the relative position or course of a moving object, such as a vessel at sea, the distance traversed by the same, or its speed.
Nikola Tesla
#74. Language is surely too small a vessel to contain these emotions of mind and body that have somehow awakened a response in the spirit.
Radclyffe Hall
#77. I'm like a vessel, and God has chosen me to be the voice and the connector.
Kanye West
#78. at the height of the British slave trade, in the 1790s, one large slave vessel left England for Africa every other day.
Bernard Bailyn
#79. There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!
Saint Francis De Sales
#80. Writing is a vessel ... with readers the ocean and authors as its sails ...
William Petersen
#81. The dream is like a river, ever changing as it flows and the dreamer just a vessel that must follow where it goes. We must lean from what's behind us never knowing what's in store keeps each day a contant battle just to stay between the shore
Garth Brooks
#82. I realize that all I can place in the imperfect vessel of writing are imperfect memories and imperfect thoughts.
Haruki Murakami
#83. Because when I read, I don't really read; I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop, or I sip it like a liqueur until the thought dissolves in me like alcohol, infusing brain and heart and coursing on through the veins to the root of each blood vessel.
Bohumil Hrabal
#84. I believe people leave a theater bonding with characters. Story is the vessel that carries character. Comedy is a very important component of expressing character.
Chris Meledandri
#85. Long after you go down
and the vessel rusts apart
your bones sunken
buried in the ocean floor
I wonder if you miss people?
Kristin Elizabeth Clark
#86. It is a mistake to think of the body as a vessel. It is as active as any mind, as any soul. And the more you give yourself to it, the harder your life will be.
David Levithan
#87. A vessel is formed from a lump of clay with care, however, it is the empty space within the vessel that makes it useful.
Laozi
#88. The damage that the human body can survive these days is as awesome as it is horrible: crushing, burning, bombing, a burst blood vessel in the brain, a ruptured colon, a massive heart attack, rampaging infection. These conditions had once been uniformly fatal.
Atul Gawande
#89. Be a vessel of forgiveness and kindness in order to be a fountain of peace.
Debasish Mridha
#90. Each killing steals a bit of humanity until a murderer is nothing more than an animal. A hunger replaces the spirit. A want for what was lost, but as with innocence, the soul can never be replaced. Joy, love, and peace flee such a vessel and in their stead blooms a desire for blood and death.
Michael J. Sullivan
#91. The highest wisdom and truth are like the purest liquid we may wish to imbibe,' he said. 'Can I receive that pure liquid into an impure vessel and judge of its purity? Only by the inner purification of myself can I retain in some degree of purity the liquid I receive.
Leo Tolstoy
#92. Launch your vessel, And crowd your canvas, And, ere it vanishes Over the margin, After it, follow it, FollowThe Gleam.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#93. How I long never to diminish God by loving lesser things. Rather, I want to make much of God by diminishing lesser things. May I make less of me, less of this world, less of the temporary ... so that I may be a vessel more full of God, more full of eternal perspectives, more full of His everlasting!
Lysa TerKeurst
#95. Maybe money couldn't buy happiness, but it could get you a table that looked like the back end of a deep-sea fishing vessel.
Kim Harrison
#96. The grace of the Guru is like an ocean. If one comes with a cup he will only get a cupful. It is no use complaining of the niggardliness of the ocean. The bigger the vessel the more one will be able to carry. It is entirely up to him.
Ramana Maharshi
#97. When you're full of yourself, God can't fill you. But when you empty yourself, God has a useful vessel.
Max Lucado
#98. The Christian world, I discovered, was like the captain and crew of a vessel on the ocean without a compass, and tossed to and fro whithersoever the wind listed to blow them. When the light came to me, I saw that all the so-called Christian world was grovelling in darkness
Brigham Young
#99. She doesn't know about metaphors but she knows that even the smallest human vessel has boundless storage for sorrow.
Amber Sparks
#100. When did we see each other face-to-face? Not until you saw into my cracks and I saw into yours. Before that, we were just looking at ideas of each other, like looking at your window shade but never seeing inside. But once the vessel cracks, the light can get in. The light can get out.
Matthew Quick
