Best 251 quotes in «boat quotes» category

The disciple simply burns his boats and goes ahead. He is called out... The old life is left behind, and completely surrendered. The disciple is dragged out of his relative security into a life of absolute insecurity... out of the realm of the finite...into the realm of infinite possibilities.

The feminists who are aware of the effects of patriarchy realize that we are all in the same boat from the dangers of patriarchy, and that the oppression of women is universal.

The line is "So we beat on, boats against the current, born back ceaselessly into the past." We've interpreted it as the meaning of us [when we] went against the current, against the grain and did what felt natural to us...regardless of what we thought we were supposed to be doing. We threw all of that out the window. We existed how we wanted to.

The hand that rocks the cradle should also rock the boat.

The Israel Palestine thing, there are infinite sides to each side, but if we stick to the main sides, everybody's in the same boat and it's maddening to me for people not to understand what's in both their best interest.

The hardest part of rowing properly: Eyes and Minds in The Boat!

The key to getting out of the boat is hearing the voice of God.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

The Mexicans descend from the Aztecs; the Peruvians descend from the Incas; the Argentineans descend from the boats.

There's a lot of people out there who go through hard times, and they feel alone. They feel like nobody is there. But I'm in the same boat.

The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril.

The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he could have is a very old house.

There are a lot of human beings out there who are very hostile towards anything that rocks their perceptual boat.

There's a price to pay for the speed, and that is danger. And to push that hard on a boat - it does take a lot out of you and is incredibly stressful.

The rising tide lifts all the boats.

The right woman for you wouldn't want you to change anything about your life. She wouldn't rock your boat, she'd jump right in and sail it with you.

These paper boats of mine are meant to dance on the ripples of hours, and not reach any destination.

The sea finds out everything you did wrong.

The small force that it takes to launch a boat into the stream should not be confused with the force of the stream that carries it along: but this confusion appears in nearly all biographies.

They know they’ve won,” Carter guessed. “They’re making a show of it.” “Yes,” Amos said. “Well, let’s blow up the boats or something!” I said. Amos looked at me. “Is that your strategy, honestly?

This is the snobbery of the people on the Mayflower looking down their noses at the people who came over ON THE SECOND BOAT!

To follow the drops sliding from a lifting oar, Head up, while the rower breathes, and the small boat drifts quietly shoreward.

We Slovenians are even better misers than you Scottish. You know how Scotland began? One of us Slovenians was spending too much money, so we put him on a boat and he landed in Scotland.

We are a pivotal part of the European Union. Any destabilization of Greece would totally rock the boat.

We are always making more and more stuff in the world. You know; big buildings, big planes, big boats and that. Will we ever get to a point where all this is too heavy for the world to handle?

We can’t make a portal—” “We’ve got a flying boat,” Carter offered.

We didn't stow away!" Dan protested. "You sunk our boat and pulled us out of the canal!" "Good point," Ian agreed. "Return them to the canal. Roughly, please.

We must continue to insist to our better off brothers and sisters that they are in the same racial boat as their less better off kin. Even elevated class status and superior financial standing cannot ward off the effects and consequences of racism.

To say, my fate is not tied to your fate, is like saying your end of the boat is sinking.

Voyaging begins when one burns one's boats, adventures begin with a shipwreck.

We all love narratives where we're the captain of our boat, and Americans love them more than anybody else.

We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.

What the eye does not see, the stomach does not get upset over

Whatever is stealing your peace and rocking your boat, what ever is taking your smile away, reach down, pick it up, and throw it overboard.

What happened?" he demanded. "I heard an explosion!" "Yeah.That was me. I set the boat alight." "What?" "I set fire to the boat." "But we're on the boat!" "I know.

What's the point? was my attitude. We're all just going to die and then NOT be let on the boat.

What you learn after you are 40 is that it is just about plugging up holes in the boat. You just hope you have enough corks to plug enough of the holes.

When I was younger, I did things with a camera I would not do by myself. I remember going down to the docks in San Francisco and asking a fisherman if he would take me out on his boat. I would never do that without a camera.

When Attenborough asked me to do Gandhi it was almost like stepping off one boat and stepping on to another, even though both boats are going at 60 miles per hour.

When I was on that boat, I realized the only way I would feel creatively challenged was if I totally changed everything about my environment and put myself in a storm, in a sense.

When I did a Love Boat, it would go to so many different countries, and I would travel there and get this incredible response!

Why are we not tasting the bliss of Bhakti? Because we are taking shelter of stone boats. We are sinking and drowning in Maya & still we are further taking shelter of stone boats and this can go on life after life.

When the water is calm, take as much distance as possible with your boat!

When you crash into the living God, the encounter is certain to renovate every square inch of your life's boat.

When you're on a boat, 15 nautical miles off the coast and you're with a bunch of fishermen, they don't give two shits about who you are.

Why do scuba divers fall backwards off a boat? Because if they fell forwards they'd still be in the boat.

Women are much smarter then men and often are much more political creatures, so they can have the ability to manipulate men, particularly on a boat.

Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.

Women are raised to be the nurturers and steadiers of rocked boats, to hold relationships in place as if our lives depended on it. But it shores up your own dignity and integrity if you're able to say, "There are a million things I love about you, and I want our relationship to continue. I forgive you 95 percent, but not this 5 percent.

Women? I love women. Life would have been virtually zero without them. Journalism? I really feel like I am a journalist... And courage? I had a boat named Courageous.