Viking Ship Quotes

#1. Plato may have denied the existence of ideal forms in this world, but Plato never saw a Viking ship.
(Scientific American, February, 1998)

John Hale

#2. He especially enjoyed watching Mrs. Sen as she chopped things, seated on newspapers on the living room floor. Instead of a knife she used a blade that curved like the prow of a Viking ship, sailing to battle in distant seas. The blade was hinged at one end to a narrow wooden base.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#3. Most of the lyrics are over a year old, and it doesn't feel like it's about me. Time created a distance.

Beth Gibbons

#4. It was not in Raj Lyubov's nature to think, "What can I do?" Character and training disposed him not to interfere in other men's business. His job was to find out what they did, and his inclination was to let them go on doing it.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#5. We all end up dead, it's just a question of how and why.

William Wallace

#6. The peace of God is first and foremost peace with God; it is the state of affairs in which God, instead of being against us, is for us. No account of God's peace which does not start here can do other than mislead.

J.I. Packer

#7. God used it all. He used the hard times to draw her closer. He used the struggle to bring them together.

Chris Fabry

#8. Religion is no test of nationality, but a personal matter between man and his God.

Mahatma Gandhi

#9. I would love to lecture to women on men. I'd tell them everything about men: gay, straight, bi, how we're all the same, how we're all bastards.

John Barrowman

#10. First and foremost, I feel very lucky to have the family I have, so I would like my family to stay happy and healthy.

Victoria Beckham

#11. In the end, the judge ruled that no woman has "the right to copulate with a feeling of security that there will be no resulting conception": if a woman isn't willing to die in childbirth, she shouldn't have sex.

Jill Lepore

#12. You think you know yourself, the world. You believe you've got a bead on everybody else's bullshit, but what about your own?

Sam Lipsyte

#13. We all pretend things sometimes. And sometimes we leave thing too late.

Marianne De Pierres

#14. I wouldn't call myself a shut-in. I have the ability to leave my home; I just choose not to. But because I'm such a homebody, it's important to be surrounded by things I love.

Amy Sedaris