48 Vessel Quotes for You to Enjoy

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 Poured Vessel Than Stored Anything Acid Which Harm

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound. William Shakespeare

Loudest Empty Makes Sound Vessel

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 You Ego Space Important Big Universe Starts Frail Earth Out Some About Small Disappointments Look Around Limited Am Discovered Vessel Human Human Body Body Your Special

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

Mind Fire Vessel Filled

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

Inspirational Knowledge Thought Wind Sail Vessel Mankind

The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. James Reston

State Top Only Leaks Known Ship Vessel

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 Me You Peace Solitude Degree Guess Indescribable Seemingly Simply Combination Does Sailing Expanse Vessel Infinite Achieved Aside Sea Hard Teaches Profound

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 Judge Three Lost Few Spent Has-Been Horn No-One He Until House Dead Sailing Been Years Fit Bumped Vessel Cape Sands Desert Rounded Two

Throughout her career, many women would view Mrs. Clinton as an imperfect vessel for the feminist cause. She was a Yale-educated lawyer who, at the height of the 1970s women's movement, moved to Arkansas to put her own ambitions on hold in furtherance of her husband's career. Amy Chozick

Women Cause Husband Lawyer Ambition Own Would Imperfect Throughout Put Arkansas She Feminist Clinton Vessel Moved Movement Hold Height View Who Many Her Career

I've had relationships with men who are simply not willing to change their lifestyle. That's fine if you're unformed as a woman and you're able to blend yourself into something that's a convenient vessel. It's hard once you become a mother, I'll tell you. Something changes. Catherine Oxenberg

You Change Woman Yourself Mother Men Become Changes Relationships Once Tell Willing Fine Able Something Lifestyle Had Simply Blend Vessel Convenient Hard Who

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

Jealousy Me Travel Emotions Breath Voice Except Mysterious Primal Perhaps Spontaneous Vessel Human Which Captain Human Voice

I like to focus on stories that need to be told and are not told enough. When I get bit by that bug, and the story is saying, 'You must tell me,' I then go through a process which is often painful and arduous, and long - and joyful! - of submitting to the story until I prove a worthy enough vessel to get it out. Danai Gurira

Saying Me You Focus Long Enough Bit Out Tell Must Worthy Arduous Through Like Joyful Until Bug Prove Go Vessel Get Often Stories Process Story Which Then Painful Need

Humility has to do with trying to be a vessel of purposes you're content to understand as not your own. David Milch

You Own Humility Purposes Content Understand Vessel Trying Your

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 Pressure Scent Back Only Shallow Could Hospital Material Surface Vessel Blow From Time To Time Boat Depths Toilet Cholera Lest

The revolution is like a vessel filled with the pulsating heartbeat of millions of working people. Ernst Toller

People Revolution Pulsating Like Heartbeat Vessel Working Working People Filled Millions

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

Made Long Closed Finger Inverted Open Mercury Glass Were End Vessel Tubes Where Then Many Filled Two

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

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

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