Top 100 Vessel Quotes
#1. Aside from what it teaches you, there is simply the indescribable degree of peace that can be achieved on a sailing vessel at sea. I guess a combination of hard work and the seemingly infinite expanse of the sea - the profound solitude - that does it for me.
Billy Campbell
#2. To save money on gifts, give someone their favorite candy in a beautiful, customized vessel with a personalized tag. It's sweet and always appreciated.
Dylan Lauren
#3. All the fears and doubts surrounding her grief and regrets were swept up into the tempest of the music, poising here in the centre of the moment, a clear vessel of joy.
Alison Croggon
#4. He was sailing over a boundless expanse of sea, with a blood-red sky above, and the angry waters, lashed into fury beneath, boiling and eddying up, on every side. There was another vessel before them, toiling and labouring in the howling storm: her canvas fluttering in ribbons from the mast.
Charles Dickens
#5. He was using me. When he cast me in Sideways I was nothing but a vessel.
Thomas Haden Church
#6. Lacking an articulable defense of the cultural values under siege, he became a vessel of smoldering animosities.
George F. Will
#7. The vague disquietude which prevailed among the spectators had so much affected one of the crowd that he did not await the arrival of the vessel in harbor, but jumping into a small skiff, desired to be pulled alongside the Pharaon, which he reached as she rounded into La Reserve basin.
Alexandre Dumas
#8. If you were a blade of grass or a tiny flower
I will pitch my tent in your shadow.
Only your presence revives my withered heart.
You are the candle that lights the whole world
and I am an empty vessel for your light.
Rumi
#9. God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.
C.S. Lewis
#10. It is misleading in a crucial way to view information as something that can be poured into an empty vessel, like a fluid or even energy.
Anatol Rapoport
#11. We have made many glass vessels ... with tubes two cubits long. These were filled with mercury, the open end was closed with the finger, and the tubes were then inverted in a vessel where there was mercury.
Evangelista Torricelli
#12. The last of the three now said his say, as he put down his empty drinking vessel and smacked his lips.
Charles Dickens
#13. I think that you can't help but bring pieces of who you are. No matter what you do, it comes through you, as a vessel.
Erica Durance
#14. Clay is moulded to make a vessel, but the utility of the vessel lies in the space where there is nothing ... Thus, taking advantage of what is, we recognize the utility of what is not.
Laozi
#17. The vessel dies, but the Spirit lives on.
Katy Tackes
#18. He was looking for a vehicle of purpose, for a vessel to contain his formless ambitions and abilities.
Robert Silverberg
#19. Better to sail alone, and let the battered vessel wander where it will. The only honest course. Assume nothing, trust no one, encumber not and be not encumbered, make your own way, steer your own ship and none other, exactly so.
Brian Doyle
#21. A vessel swift of flight, though say'st? Hast thou
Not heard of the Millenn'um Falcon, Sir?
'Tis but the ship that hath the Kessel run
Accomplish'd in twelve parsecs,
Ian Doescher
#22. life is the vessel we have been given in order to find out what life is really meant to be about.
Joan D. Chittister
#23. The rich have become richer, and the poor have become poorer; and the vessel of the state is driven between the Scylla and Charybdis of anarchy and despotism.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#24. ...explaining men still assume I am, in some sort of obscene impregnation metaphor, an empty vessel to be filled with their wisdom and knowledge.
Rebecca Solnit
#25. If the vessel of our soul is still tossed with winds and storms, let us awake the Lord, who reposes in it, and He will quickly calm the sea.
Brother Lawrence
#26. The big icebergs that drift into warmer water melt much more rapidly under water than on the surface, and sometimes a sharp, low reef extending two or three hundred feet beneath the sea is formed. If a vessel should run on one of these reefs half her bottom might be torn away.
Edward Smith
#27. The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
Plutarch
#28. Pleasure is the rock which most young people split upon: they launch out with crowded sails in quest of it, but without a compass to direct their course, or reason sufficient to steer the vessel; for want of which, pain and shame, instead of pleasure, are the returns of their voyage.
Philip Dormer Stanhope
#29. To course across more kindly waters now my talent's little vessel lifts her sails, leaving behind herself a sea so cruel; and what I sing will be that second kingdom, in which the human soul is cleansed of sin, becoming worthy of ascent to Heaven.
Dante Alighieri
#30. The magnetic needle always points to the north, and hence it is that sailing vessel does not lose her direction. So long as the heart of man is directed towards God, he cannot be lost in the ocean of worldliness.
Ramakrishna
#31. Then the bowsprit got mixed with the rudder sometimes:
A thing, as the Bellman remarked,
That frequently happens in tropical climes,
When a vessel is, so to speak, snarked.
Lewis Carroll
#32. It is the cautious and not the reckless sailor who takes his little vessel to distant shores;
Edward Frederick Knight
#34. I'm making 20 times more with Vessel for doing the same amount of work, if not less, than with YouTube.
Anna Akana
#35. I am a simple vessel with complex overtones, opinionated on occasions but willing to listen. Comfortable with reclusiveness and devoted to privacy and family. Patriotic to a fault and allergic to cruelty, ignorance and bad music.
Bernie Taupin
#36. Giving my love to you was like finding a convenient vessel into which to pour the thing I had no use for, just as you had found a bin in the yard for your unwanted empties.
Rachel Joyce
#37. Rest and self-care are so important. When you take time to replenish your spirit, it allows you to serve others from the overflow. You cannot serve from an empty vessel.
Eleanor Brown
#38. A true encounter with the living God will break the spirit of religiosity, empty man of his pride and conform even the most vile and wicked into a living vessel for His glory.
Robin Bertram
#39. 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
#40. We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.
Ray Bradbury
#41. I like to fill my heart with love so that I can give it away generously without emptying my vessel.
Debasish Mridha
#42. It may be your soul that I love, but I'm pretty keen on its vessel, too.
Laini Taylor
#43. Without good communication, a relationship is merely a hollow vessel carrying you along on a frustrating journey fraught with the perils of confusion, projection, and misunderstanding.
Cherie Carter-Scott
#44. The # zodiac sign on the # Ascendant normally tells us much concerning the dharma of the individual - that is, the central potentiality which the person should seek consciously to actualize as a vessel or lens through which the Divine may act.
Dane Rudhyar
#45. Shiver me clitoris, that's an evil vessel,' Severance says.
Charlie Human
#46. Race and class were a kind of destiny; very little could dent them. Morgan himself had been decanted back into the vessel that had made him.
Damon Galgut
#47. I went back to my cabin and lay down on my berth. Everything trembled as if it had a spring at its very center. I could hear the small waves lap-lapping around the ship. They made an unexpected sound, as if a vessel filled with liquid had been placed on its side and now was slowly emptying out.
Jamaica Kincaid
#48. With that gentleness I can be bold; with that economy I can be liberal; shrinking from taking precedence of others, I can become a vessel of the highest honour.
Laozi
#49. The hand which scoops up the water is the first vessel. The fingers of both hands intertwined are the first basket. [p. 217]
Elias Canetti
#50. I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one.
Dag Hammarskjold
#51. Only a life of prayer and meditation will render a vessel ready for the Master's use.
George Muller
#52. The fractal structure nature has devised works so efficiently that, in most tissue, no cell is ever more than three or four cells away from a blood vessel. Yet the vessels and blood take up little space, no more than about five percent of the body.
James Gleick
#53. Just for today, allow yourself to embrace all that you are every moment. Know that you are a vessel of light. Allow yourself to release all doubts about your ability, the mistakes of the past, the fear of the future.
Iyanla Vanzant
#54. Your body is a vessel for your experience, and you will be trapped until you realize that what the vessel looks like is not as important as what it can do.
Brianna Wiest
#55. And there's no saying what heady potions we won't concoct, what meanings, myths, manias we won't imbibe in order to convince ourselves that reality is not an empty vessel.
Graham Swift
#56. I believe that the thought that women together can change the world is emerging into the minds and hearts of many of us, and that the vessel for personal and planetary evolution is the circle with a spiritual center.
Jean Shinoda Bolen
#57. The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel.
John Lyly
#58. Most enema scenes are intensely sociable ones, with two or more people gathered around a vessel that supports, on its lid, a cup for drinking and a syringe for enemas (e.g., K530, K4605).
Stephen Houston
#59. I guess he was such an open, emotional vessel that I think he tapped into human nature, so it just left people wondering what would have happened. I think James Dean would be 83 today. He could be here, what would he be doing?
Dane DeHaan
#60. Do not fear emptiness. It is the dwelling place of possibility. Nothing can be added to a vessel that is already full.
~Malachi
Stephanie Stamm
#61. The sea and wind can at the same time convey my neighbour's vessel and my own.
Jean-Baptiste Say
#62. Ignition! blast off!!! the vessel needs a new name! something more appropriate to a starship.
apollo? gemini? enterprise. already taken.
millennium falcon. trademarked. all rights reserved.
no! wait, i have it! dragin star! thats it! dragon star!
Margaret Weis
#64. Shall we for ever make new books, as apothecaries make new mixtures, by pouring only out of one vessel into another?
Laurence Sterne
#65. Writing is about allowing yourself to become a vessel of creativity. Writers are avatars of creation. We have tender hearts, and strong emotions. It's hard not to when you have a million different people's personalities playing out in your head.
Sai Marie Johnson
#66. My characters have a mind of their own. I'm just the vessel through which they speak.
Ginny Lynn Peebles
#67. The personal deportment of Captain Perry, throughout the day, was worthy of all praise. He did not quit his own vessel when she became useless, to retire from the battle, but to gain it; an end that was fully obtained, and an effort which resulted in triumph.
Oliver Hazard Perry
#69. Let it them be put into any clean oven vessel of china or stoneware which should be wider at the top than at the bottom. so that there may be the largest surface above to favor the evaporation.
James Lind
#70. A human being is a vessel that God has built for himself and filled with his inspiration so that his works are perfected in it.
Hildegard Of Bingen
#71. Possession and exorcism is something that's in every religion and every culture. It's a real primal fear: Is the body a vessel for our spirits? What happens if something else takes over it? Where does the spirit go?
Eli Roth
#72. Everything that you receive is not measured according to its actual size, but, rather that of the receiving vessel.
Juana Ines De La Cruz
#73. Miraculously, though, the same coral heads that split the ship's sides held the wounded vessel fast, upright as if she were in the jaws of a vise.
Kieran Doherty
#74. Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.
Walter Lippmann
#75. No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.
Van Wyck Brooks
#76. Self love is an ocean
and your heart is a vessel. Make it full,
and any excess will spill over
into the lives of the people
you hold dear. But you must come first.
Beau Taplin
#77. Some say it is best not to go near the center of time. Life is a vessel of sadness, but is noble to live life and without time there is no life. Others disagree. They would rather have an eternity of contentment, even if that eternity were fixed and frozen, like a butterfly mounted in a case.
Alan Lightman
#78. We must not stint
Our necessary actions in the fear
To cope malicious censurers, which ever,
As rav'nous fishes, do a vessel follow
That is new-trimmed, but benefit no further
Than vainly longing.
William Shakespeare
#79. The heart is a vessel not large enough to sustain love. Kneeling is the proper position for discovering love again.
Karen Burton Mains
#80. At time I find the true material of my spirit,
this earthly body is no longer my only vessel.
Toba Beta
#81. Reader, it is time for your tempest-tossed vessel to come to port. What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library? Certainly there is one in the city from which you set out and to which you have returned after circling the world from book to book.
Italo Calvino
#82. A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.
James Reston
#83. A small minority of strokes are hemorrhagic strokes, which are caused by bleeding into the brain when a blood vessel bursts.
Michael Greger
#84. It is a strange thing how quickly the body dies. How fragile a force our presence is. In an instant the soul is gone - leaving an empty, insignificant vessel in its stead.
Seth Grahame-Smith
#85. I think the general anxiety of the 1960s - '70s spawned our interest in the living dead. When people worry about the end of their world, they need a safe vessel for all their fears. Zombies provide that vessel because they're 'safe.'
Max Brooks
#86. Twitter is a vessel that we can use to share #positivity to others through our timeline one tweet at a time.
Germany Kent
#87. Magical properties were attributed to it. Its brew was sipped on the steps of sacrificial temples; its ecstasies were fierce and terrible. Is this what he fears? Corruption by pleasure, the subtle transubstantiation of the flesh into a vessel for debauch?
Joanne Harris
#88. Unless the vessel be pure, everything which is poured into it will turn sour.
Horace
#90. Whether the vessel is a legal document or a rap song, language is often chosen ot exclude. To use a scholarly phrase, "discourse communities" are often gated,so it's the good writer's job to offer readers a set of keys.
Roy Peter Clark
#91. The legislator is like the navigator of a ship on the high seas. He can steer the vessel on which he sails, but he cannot alter its construction, raise the wind, or stop the waves from swelling beneath his feet.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#92. Living things are restrained by chains. The laws of nature, the flow of time, the vessel known as your "body", and the existence called your mind. The one chain that people can wield, words.
CLAMP
#93. I've been planted here to be a vessel for acting ... That's why I'm really taking any part, regardless of how complicated it's going to be.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#94. A worldly Christian is just like a wrecked vessel at sea.
D.L. Moody
#95. I'll never reach my destination, If I never try, So I will sail my vessel, 'Til the river runs dry.
Garth Brooks
#96. After Hymns and tears, they boarded the brig Thaddeus, a vessel so crappy, it made the Mayflower look like the QE2.
Sarah Vowell
#97. There may be troubled waters along the many paths my life shall take, but only I as a man, may keep my vessel afloat, and guide myself straight.
Robert M. Hensel
#98. Obedience is a knife that cuts the cord of bondage.
Silence is a hammer that shatters the walls of speech.
Stillness is strength; pain a soft bed.
Put down your basin; emptiness is the only vessel.
Brian Staveley
#99. Incredibly, the self-starved never appear capable of taking any pleasure in the very vessel for which they've sacrificed.
Lionel Shriver
#100. The world is a sacred vessel that cannot be changed. He who changes it will destroy it. He who seizes it will lose it.
Laozi
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