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Vessel Quotes
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
Augustus Hare
Inspirational
,
Knowledge
,
Wind
,
Thought
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
,
I Am
,
Small
,
Look
,
Ego
The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
William Shakespeare
Sound
,
Empty
,
Loudest
,
Makes
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Plutarch
Fire
,
Intelligence
,
Mind
,
Filled
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
,
More
,
Anything
,
Than
,
Acid
,
Harm
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
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
,
Silence
,
Truth
,
Water
,
Great
,
Small
As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.
Demosthenes
Wise
,
Men
,
Sound
,
Foolish
,
Speeches
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
People
,
Legacy
,
You
,
Body
,
Influence
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
,
Myself
,
God
,
Pain
,
I Am
,
Live
I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one.
Dag Hammarskjold
God
,
I Am
,
Thirsty
,
Draft
,
Am
The toilet from time to time imparted to the boat the scent of a cholera hospital and could be flushed only when the U-boat was on the surface or at shallow depths, lest the undersea pressure blow material back into the vessel.
Erik Larson
Time
,
Boat
,
Pressure
,
Back
,
Hospital
Liberals tend to stress how marvelous education is, in and of itself, and also adore it as a vessel for genuine equality. (That's me, by the way: Hell, I think we should be spending $50 billion a year to make college education free).
Rick Perlstein
Education
,
Stress
,
Equality
,
Me
,
Think
A long sea implies an uniform and steady motion of long and extensive waves; on the contrary, a short sea is when they run irregularly, broken, and interrupted; so as frequently to burst over a vessel's side or quarter.
William Falconer
Sea
,
Broken
,
Waves
,
Uniform
,
Long
,
Short
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
,
Worst
,
Go
,
Injustice
,
Like
If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.
Aeschylus
You
,
Friends
,
Oil
,
Same
,
Call
,
Them
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
,
His
,
Every Man
Room 40 knew a U-boat was heading south to Liverpool - knew the boat's history; knew that it was now somewhere in the North Atlantic under orders to sink troop transports and any other British vessel it encountered; and knew as well that the submarine was armed with enough shells and torpedoes to sink a dozen ships.
Erik Larson
History
,
Boat
,
Enough
,
Shells
,
Now
,
Room
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
,
Me
,
You
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
,
Attack
,
Survive
,
Body
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
,
Me
,
Voice
,
Emotions
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
,
Beer
,
Strong
,
Drink
,
Out
,
Swim
To save money on gifts, give someone their favorite candy in a beautiful, customized vessel with a personalized tag. It's sweet and always appreciated.
Dylan Lauren
Beautiful
,
Money
,
Sweet
,
Someone
,
Candy
There is a certain ancient civility about tailors that is welcome - especially in modern London, which is now very much an international city, not an English city. They're still a little vessel of Englishness in what is otherwise a pretty rambunctious place.
Graydon Carter
Welcome
,
City
,
Place
,
London
,
English
Possession and exorcism is something that's in every religion and every culture. It's a real primal fear: Is the body a vessel for our spirits? What happens if something else takes over it? Where does the spirit go?
Eli Roth
Fear
,
Culture
,
Religion
,
Body
,
Go
,
Real
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
,
Air
,
High
,
Up
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