Ship Life Quotes

We can't calm waves, but we can steer the ship. ~ Hayley Long

His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship. ~ Edmund Wilson

The afternoon breeze would incite to a weird and flabby activity all that crowded mass of clothing, with its vague suggestions of drowned, mutilated and flattened humanity. Trunks without heads waved at you arms without hands; legs without feet kicked fantastically with collapsible flourishes; and there were long white garments, that taking the wind fairly through their neck openings edged with lace, became for a moment violently distended as by the passage of obese and invisible bodies. On these days you could make out that ship at a great distance by the multi-coloured grotesque riot going on abaft her mizzen-mast. ~ Joseph Conrad

Love contending with friendship, and self with each generous impulse.
To and fro in his breast his thoughts were heaving and dashing,
As in a foundering ship. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

While you live your life aboard the ship of life be aware of the sea of life on which it floats and on which it moves forward; be aware of the prevailing winds and currents that influence your progress as the master of the ship. ~ Ian Gardner

Sometimes in life, we reach a right place by departing from a wrong port with a wrong ship! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Without the men, ships are nothing but empty shells of metal. It's the men who give the ship life, who turn it from a soulless hulk into a
valiant lady. ~ Douglas Mumphrey

We're all the same. We all want the same thing in life. Everybody going around like they know how to sail but there is no captain and we are all only passengers aboard the same sinking ship. ~ Donal O'Callaghan

You sound almost bitter about it."
"I am. Life is a cheat. A tease. If you're born into a happy or comfortable existence, then you grow attached to it and some day it's taken from you for one reason or another. And if you're born into suffering, then things are that much worse. No matter how your life begins or unfolds, as Jim Morrison so poetically put it, 'No one here gets out alive. ~ Zack Love

I nurture very good intentions about you. May you die in peace. ~ Fakeer Ishavardas

My books are about ordinary people, like you, me, people on the street, people who really have an expectation of reasonable happiness in life, want their life to have a sense of security and predictability, who want to belong to something bigger than them, who want love and affection in their life, who want a good future for the children. ~ Khaled Hosseini

There's nothing good or bad, except by comparison" (210) - Bud Selig "Effort is Everything ~ Denzel Washington

...one of the main questions for me is in the genre of dealing with real life: how to deal with it formally. There is a standard set of formal expressions that are used in traditional journalism. And some of them are really necessary, like fact-checking. But my conviction is that, now more than ever, real life is much stranger than any fiction one could imagine. So somehow the forms of reporting have to become crazier and stranger, too. Otherwise they are not going to be "documentary" enough, they are not going to live up to what's happening. ~ Hito Steyerl

Children teach you so much. You take another look at life when you have a child. Everything is new again for you. They ground you. ~ Angelina Jolie

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it. ~ Aldous Huxley

For those searching for something more than just the norm. We lay it all down, including what others call sanity, for just a few moments on waves larger than life. We do this because we know there is still something greater than all of us. Something that inspires us spiritually. We start going down hill, when we stop taking risks. ~ Laird Hamilton

To show that a comedian on stage in India talking about sanitation or in South Africa talking about HIV and AIDS awareness, if you follow the joke into their lives, you can see that, like, oh, these things aren't just contrived in joke books. This is real life. I think the best comedians have that bravery and courage to say, Oh, this is what it is. ~ Hasan Minhaj

In Wright Morris's novel Plains Song, the narrator asks, "Is the past a story we are persuaded to believe, in the teeth of the life we endure in the present?" The question is always open. How we treat our world and each other grows from our vision of how we have come to where we are. Ultimately, of course, the issue is not survival but decency and common sense. Everything passes, the psalmist reminds us. No one escapes. The best we can hope is to learn a little from the speaking dead, to find in our deep past some help in acting wisely in the teeth of life. ~ Elliott West

Life is big business, fornication, and death. Civilisation is ... the sterilising of truth ... Civilisation is world-citizenship and freedom from tradition, based on rootless eternal wandering in the mind that had nothing to lose and everything to gain including the whole world. ~ Henry Williamson

God doesn't expect us to be oblivious to the challenges life brings. But as long as Peter kept his eyes on Jesus the waves couldn't take him under. So look to God, stand on His Word, and recall His goodness. The Bible says, 'We must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away from it' (Hebrews 2:1 NASB). Do whatever it takes to keep your eyes on the Lord. ~ Patience Johnson

I want to tell you that even when you have found your person in this world, the person who you know, deep down in your mitochondrial DNA, is meant to be by your side in this life, it is no guarantee that this person will not also drive you completely batshit insane at some moments along the way. ~ Luisa Weiss

To unfold any number of ideas through all the dimensions of time is the great adventure of the writing life. But I had nowhere to write. ~ Deborah Levy

The master maker of the human body did not create you and then run off and leave you masterless. He stayed on the job as innate, as the fellow within, as nerve transmission controlling every function of life, as spirit from above-down, inside-out, expressing, creating, exploring, directing you in every field and phase of experience so that your home is truly the world and the world is your home. ~ B. J. Palmer

It doesn't really matter how fast you're going if you're heading in the wrong direction. ~ Stephen Covey

Being a dandy is a condition rather than a profession. It is a defense against suffering and a celebration of life. ~ Sebastian Horsley

Happiness
a small-scale, endearing, harmonious happiness
surely dwelt here beneath the low-powered lamps in the tiny rooms of these houses. A small-scale happiness and a modest harmony: let a man cry out, let him rage, let him howl with grief with all the power of which he was capable, what more than these could he ever hope to gain in this life? ~ Fumiko Enchi

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around. ~ Katharine Hepburn

Witchcraft cannot come in any colour other than a deep green, a resistance to this despoilment, this sacrilege. [...] Animism cannot disengage from the struggle of life, shamanism cannot disengage from the struggle of life, neither can a living witchcraft. No-one else is going to do this for us. We are the Witchcraft and we must stand for our land, and with those who fight for their own. ~ Peter Grey

Don't settle, okay? Not for anything. I mean it. You only get this one chance at life, far as I know. Take it. Even if its not with me. ~ Sarah Ockler

In mathematical analysis we call x the undetermined part of line a: the rest we don't call y, as we do in common life, but a-x. Hence mathematical language has great advantages over the common language. ~ Georg C. Lichtenberg

One of the most important rules for me is: Don't ever defend myself. If we could put this one principle into practice, how much more simple life would be. ~ Guy Finley

I'm surrounded by good people. That's the measure of a good life. All the rest is flotsam. ~ Roger Daltrey

Life is but a day:
A fragile dewdrop on its perilious way
From a tree's summit ~ John Keats

ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingratitude ... ~ Ambrose Bierce

I think a lot of people want to, at some point in their life, be someone else, run away and escape, in some way. We [actors] do get to do it. We have a job that allows for that. We have an outlet for it. ~ Emily Blunt

I'd do it a thousand times over for one chance to spend my life with you. ~ Amanda Gray

You had to be willing to fight in order for a love story to last a life time. ~ Cristina Marrero

Worries don't motivate us, they reduce our energy and opportunity to shine. ~ Bamigboye Olurotimi

People told me to give up trying to be special and settle down to a regular life. There ain't nothing wrong with a regular life, and that's the Lord's truth ... But it wasn't for me, because I wanted to be something special ... I knew how easy it was for a dream to die. I seen that all around me. You could let it die by just looking the other way - you know, some of those Asian people say they don't kill nothing, but they'll take a fish out of water and lay it on the ground and then say it just died on its own - you can do that with a dream, too. And sometimes you can get so frustrated, you feel so bad about your dream, that you go on and kill it yourself. When you do that, you're killing a piece of yourself, too.
- Mr. Cephus ~ Walter Dean Myers

It strikes her that, until these last weeks, she has lived in an impossibly small universe, willfully blinded to the vastness of existence outside of her chosen life. And perhaps, she thinks, that is how everyone lives. Perhaps it is exactly these blinders that the complacency and comfort of our days depends upon: we survive by shutting out the endless questions of what else might be. ~ Matthew Flaming

We are within our life and we stay there for as long as possible, that's our home. We need life. There is too much death already, and there is probably more coming our way. ~ Aleksandar Hemon

We tell applicants, 'If you don't intend to be here for life, you needn't apply.' ~ S. Truett Cathy

Talent comes from education you had,
languages you know and finally from
skills you gain in your life. ~ Adriano Corso

We are all seeking the unobtainable. Until we find it, we settle for life. ~ Robert Black

Coyotes move within a landscape of attentiveness. I have seen their eyes in the creosote bushes and among mesquite trees. They have watched me. And all the times that I saw no eyes, that I kept walking and never knew, there were still coyotes. When I have seen them trot away, when I have stepped from the floorboard of my truck, leaned on the door, and watched them as they watched me over their shoulders, I have been aware for that moment of how much more there is. Of how I have only seen only an instant of a broad and rich life. ~ Craig Childs

The ordinary routines of life are never chronicled by the historian, but they make up almost the whole of experience. ~ Peter Ackroyd

Spiritual seekers particularly are on a quest to understand life; we want to examine our own lives and find meaning in what we do and who we are ... We find meaning in the seeking itself. Every step along the way is the Way ... ~ Surya Das

Each person reveals himself by what he says and does, by the way he dresses, by the way he responds to events, by what he reads and watches, and generally by the way he lives life. By observing anyone, you can see what that person is like. ~ Wu Wei