Quotes About Steer

Every ship sailing the sea of life needs to have the divine Pilot on board; but when storms arise, when tempests threaten, many persons push their Pilot overboard, and commit their bark into the hand of finite man, or try to steer it themselves.

He believed in the people on the ship, believed they could steer clear of what was wrong. That was the evil these days laid bare, surely—this sustained, precious belief that everyone could see it all clearly, the hope that someone would come to stop it, that there would be people who could stop it, doomed them instead.

In my own personal time, horror films freak me out too much, so I tend to steer clear of watching horror films on my own.

The cowboys have a way of trussing up a steer or a pugnacious bronco which fixes the brute so that it can neither move nor think. This is the hog-tie, and it is what Euclid did to geometry.

years. That would give people a pretty good idea of where we were trying to steer the economy,

I would never steer a fellow sufferer from the relief of a blackout.

So your values, happiness and the things the people around you need. Those are the things by which you should steer your life.

I still listen to black metal all the time - that's obviously one of my favorite kinds of music - but I steer from it very strongly.

wind. You can only control the sail.

If a steer is more than four or five months old, he's too big to wrestle.

Down in the kitchen, I open the refrigerator. There is nothing there but the prize steer of the county fair, rearranged in neat and mysterious packages. Daily, the cook pushes her hand into the cold. The result in uncertain. A gristly Ouija. It could be pot roast or brisket, eye of the round or sirloin tip. The steer has invaded their lives. He is everywhere. There is no room for the sisters' diet-cola or for their underwear on sizzling mornings. They have been eating him for weeks.

Most sailing ships take what they call trainees, who pay to be part of the crew. The Picton Castle takes people who are absolutely raw recruits. But you can't just ride along. You're learning to steer the ship, navigation you're pulling lines, keeping a lookout in the galley you're cooking.

To me, writing an ongoing series feels like driving a freight train downhill. All you can do is steer and pray.

I don't steer towards anything. I steer towards character and truth. If it's funny then so be it. If it's dramatic, so be it. I just steer towards characters.

The short, unhappy life of a corn-fed feedlot steer represents the ultimate triumph of industrial thinking over the logic of evolution.

beauty has been known to drive men wild, like the sirens did. Man's challenge is to steer clear from it." - Salvadore about temptation

The first hour is the rudder of the day.

Recommendations can be tricky. I'm happy to steer someone towards something ace and away from something rubbish, but my only tool is my opinion.

When they reached the ranch, Dave parked the truck at the stable. The girls heard laughter coming from the corral and saw Tex Britten perched on the fence. Bess was mounted on a brown quarter horse and holding a coiled lariat. "Watch me!" she called. "I'm learning to rope a steer." Nancy and George walked over and saw Bud Moore put his hands on his head like horns and prance in front of Bess's horse. "Come on and rope me, pardner!" he said.

The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be n hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.

To drift is to be in hell; to be in heaven is to steer.

To create is to boggle the mind and alter the mood. Once the urge has surged, it maintains its own momentum. We may go along for the ride, but when we attempt to steer the course, the momentum dies.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.

Speeches are like steer horns - a point here, a point there, and a lot of bull in between.