Vessel Quotes - BrainyQuote

If your ego starts out, 'I am important, I am big, I am special,' you're in for some disappointments when you look around at what we've discovered about the universe. No, you're not big. No, you're not. You're small in time and in space. And you have this frail vessel called the human body that's limited on Earth. Neil deGrasse Tyson

Attitude, Time, Space, I Am, Small, Ego

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel. - Augustus Hare

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel. Augustus Hare

Inspirational, Knowledge, Wind, Sail

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound. - William Shakespeare

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound. William Shakespeare

Sound, Loudest, Empty, Makes

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured. Mark Twain

Anger, Anything, More, Harm, Acid, Than

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. - Plutarch

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. Plutarch

Intelligence, Fire, Mind, Filled

I am God's vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live. Kanye West

Life, God, Live, Myself, Pain, I Am

My word will never be as strong as God's word. All I am is just a vessel, doing His work. Kendrick Lamar

Work, God, I Am, Strong, Doing, Never

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

Life, Change, New, Conscience, Radical

There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily! Saint Francis de Sales

Love, Man, Royal, Divine, Every Man, Oar

The damage that the human body can survive these days is as awesome as it is horrible: crushing, burning, bombing, a burst blood vessel in the brain, a ruptured colon, a massive heart attack, rampaging infection. These conditions had once been uniformly fatal. Atul Gawande

Heart, Brain, Body, Survive, Awesome

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

End, Long, Glass, Two, Finger, Open

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

Book, Desert, Three, Judge, Lost, House

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence. Rabindranath Tagore

Sea, Water, Truth, Great, Silence, Words

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils. Plato

Soul, World, Injustice, Worst, Go, Last

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

Work, Hard Work, Sea, Peace, Solitude

The human voice: mysterious, spontaneous, primal. For me, the human voice is the vessel on which all emotions travel - except perhaps jealousy. And the breath, the breath is the captain of that vessel. Claron McFadden

Travel, Jealousy, Voice, Me, Emotions

Your body is a vessel. It doesn't really matter. It's what you leave here and how you influence other people's lives - that's what legacy you'll leave behind. Lauren Wasser

Legacy, People, Influence, Body, You

The idea of a piece of literature as a vessel that could contain your life and lived after you had died and been forgotten struck me as akin to artificial intelligence. Louisa Hall

Life, Intelligence, Me, Literature, You

If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents. Aeschylus

Friends, You, Oil, Same, Call, Opponents

For drink, there was beer which was very strong when not mingled with water, but was agreeable to those who were used to it. They drank this with a reed, out of the vessel that held the beer, upon which they saw the barley swim. Xenophon

Water, Strong, Beer, Drink, Swim, Used

Is it a surprise that into the vessel, in which the mercury has no inclination and no repugnance, not even the slightest, to being there, it should enter and should rise in a column high enough to make equilibrium with the weight of the external air which forces it up? Evangelista Torricelli

Surprise, Enough, Rise, Being There, Air

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

Acting, Why, Complicated, Going, Here

As much as the Democrats try to change the subject, this election will be about Barack Obama, period. Mitt's speech last night hit all the right notes, but this fight is not about him. He's just the vessel. Now the question is, does this guy at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. who thinks the private sector is doing fine get another four years? Howie Carr

Change, Fight, Night, Election, Speech

I'm just a vessel of information. Steven Cojocaru

Information, Just

I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one. Dag Hammarskjold

God, I Am, Draft, Thirsty, Am

You know, I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel you know, like the font and the essence and the source of all divine, creative, unknowable, eternal mystery is just a smidge too much responsibility to put on one fragile, human psyche. It's like asking somebody to swallow the sun. Elizabeth Gilbert

Responsibility, Sun, Think, Creative

Loading...

Load more quotes

Explore Topics

Motivational
Quotes

Positive
Quotes

Leadership
Quotes

Inspirational
Quotes

BrainyQuote

BrainyQuote Desktop

BrainyQuote Mobile

Site

Quote Of The Day

Social

BQ on Pinterest

BQ on Instagram

Apps

iPhone/iPad app

Quote Of The Day Feeds

Javascript and RSS feeds

WordPress plugin

Quote of the Day Email

About

Copyright © 2001 - 2018 BrainyQuote

Please disable your ad blocker

OK