Whaleman's Quotes

#1. Curation is a form of pattern recognition - pieces of information or insight which over time amount to an implicit point of view.

Maria Popova

#2. Perseus, St. George, Hercules, Jonah, and Vishnoo! there's a member-roll for you! What club but the whaleman's can head off like that?

Herman Melville

#3. All politicians find it hard to address with conviction more than one emergency at a time.

Max Hastings

#4. Jesus was the consummate scientist. He knew the omnipresence of Light which we have expressed in radio, radar and television, but all He could say in His day was: "I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now."

Walter Russell

#5. You can't love God without loving the Jewish people.

Corrie Ten Boom

#6. Kip looked up at him and grinned. Don't you know what I am? I'm the fucking turtle-bear.

Brent Weeks

#7. She pans life for gold and finds it daily.

Rosamund Lupton

#8. For style beyond the genius never dares.

Petrarch

#9. I am the me I choose to be.

Sidney Poitier

#10. Do not wade far out into the dangerous sea of this world's comfort. Take the good that God provides you, but say of it, "It passeth away;" for, indeed, it is but a temporary supply for a temporary need. Never suffer your goods to become your God.

Charles Spurgeon

#11. I suspect that some apparently homosexual people are really heterosexuals who deeply phobic about the opposite sex or have other emotional problems.

Marilyn Vos Savant

#12. And what's happened to the Earth?" "Ah. It's been demolished." "Has it," said Arthur levelly. "Yes. It just boiled away into space." "Look," said Arthur, "I'm a bit upset about that.

Douglas Adams

#13. There is nothing worse, is there," she said, "than a past that has never been fully dealt with. One can convince oneself, that it is all safely in the past and forgotten about, but the very fact that we can tell ourselves that it is forgotten proves that it is not.

Mary Balogh

#14. When words can't make it better, hold my hand and don't let go.

Richelle E. Goodrich