Quotes About Anchor

Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away.

It's called a sea anchor,' [Evanlyn] explained. 'It'll stop us drifting too far.' Alyss was impressed. 'And you said you were pig-ignorant when it came to boats.' 'I don't remember saying that,' Evanlyn replied with a frown. Alyss shrugged. 'Oh? Well, it must have been me.

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put on the troubled seas of thought.

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled sea of thought.

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.

Her hand on his arm was like a mooring rope, a promise of harbor.

But there was something out of control about him, something that scared me. At that point in my young life, I was looking for an anchor.

The French say that to part is to die a little. To be forgotten too is to die a little. It is to lose some of the links that anchor us to the rest of humanity.

When talking about Tiny Habits, I use the term Anchor to describe something in your life that is already stable and solid. The concept is pretty simple. If there is a habit you want, find the right Anchor within your current routine to serve as your prompt, your reminder. I selected the term "anchor" because you are attaching your new habit to something solid and reliable.

Other lives are more unpredictable. No matter how haphazard your day might seem, I guarantee that you already have many routines that occur consistently enough to be used as an Anchor.

To find the Trailing Edge, we look at the Anchor under a microscope to see what the end of an action looks like. This is particularly important for Anchors that are rather fuzzy.

I'm pretty sure the last time any anchor could honestly ignore ratings was well before I was born.

I see Jughead as being generally this really rational dude, this anchor of sensibility in a world of boy/girl-crazy friends.

For decades, Barbara Walters has been described as a broadcast pioneer - and with good reason. In 1974, Walters became the first female host of the 'Today' show. In 1976, she became the first woman to serve as a network-news anchor. In 1984, she moderated the first presidential debate between Walter Mondale and Ronald Reagan.

I have my ethics and morals. I have my anchor point of what is right and wrong in real life, but I'm not afraid to entertain any and every aspect of personality in relationship to creating a character.

Books help us anchor our souls, or re-anchor them; particularly for us, the left-handed, given the things we have to do.

It's really important in any historical fiction, I think, to anchor the story in its time. And you do that by weaving in those details, by, believe it or not, by the plumbing.

That from genus to species i.e.emplified in 'Here stands my ship'; for lying at anchor is the 'standing' of a particular kind of thing. That from species to genus in 'Truly ten thousand good deeds has Ulysses wrought', where 'ten thousand', which is a particular large number, is put in place of the generic 'a large number'.

In the midst of the disappointment, we find faith as an anchor!

If we are cut loose from the anchor of God's Word, we will not be free. We will be slaves of personal passions and popular trends.

A cluster of ships rocked and tugged at anchor in the bay, sheltered somewhat by a reef.

On the 28th the ship's company received two months pay in advance, and on the following morning we worked out to St. Helen's, where we were obliged to anchor.

I'm an actor first then an anchor. Had I not been a popular actor, I'd have probably not got the opportunity to host a show. I enjoy the latter because it's me there and I rediscover a lot of things personally.

Stood off and on during the night, determining not to come to anchor till morning, fearing to meet with shoals; continued our course in the morning; and as the island was found to be six or seven leagues distant, and the tide was against us, it was noon when we arrived there.