Quotes About Vessel

She had never been filled with her love like a calm brimming vessel. She had rather suffered it, as a tree might suffer a cold wind, and the image of a coldness was somehow mingled with her memories of marital love.

I think the general anxiety of the 1960s - '70s spawned our interest in the living dead. When people worry about the end of their world, they need a safe vessel for all their fears. Zombies provide that vessel because they're 'safe.'

I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.

A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into.

country drenched with blood than pay taxes to support the government foisted upon us by the Bogus Legislature. I thought White was going to burst a blood vessel there and then, but instead he just stomped away.

Souls are designed to fit inside a body.

Self love is an oceanand your heart is a vessel. Make it full, and any excess will spill overinto the lives of the peopleyou hold dear. But you must come first.

This body is the house of God.

Eventually, however, the anchor was lashed to the bulwarks, with the ring at the end of its shank secured to a projecting timber known as a cathead.

Mr Hodge, ignorance should be like an empty vessel waiting to be filled at the well of truth – not a cabinet of vulgar curios.

whether imbued with or struggling against conventional Western views of benighted Africa, their protagonists found the continent to be as empty as that collection plate—a vessel waiting for whatever copper and silver imagination was pleased to place there.

turned to gaze seaward at the grounded vessel that had carried them from home to the forlorn beach, the vessel that looked like nothing more than a dying creature, parts of its skeleton already exposed, in the waning day.

Even in the best of times, meals were rough affairs. Once their private stores ran out, not long after the voyage began, Gates and Somers and all the other important men and women on the vessel were forced to eat the same bad food as the lowliest of the deckhands: a hard biscuit and perhaps some cold porridge, washed down by sour beer or foul water.

With Hitler you do not feel that you are with a man. You are with a medicine man, a form of spiritual vessel, a demi-deity, or even better, a myth... He is not a man, but a collective. He is not an individual, but a whole nation.

The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring; But O heart! heart! heart! O the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.

Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?

It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence over us. The same wind that carries one vessel into port may blow another off shore.

The empty vessel makes the greatest sound.

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.

Each of us is a spirit in material form.

Our bodies... are the tabernacles of our spirits.

Missions: The Word of God from the heart of God to the heart of man through a consecrated, dedicated, and pure vessel.

Most people had the impression that slavery had been abolished throughout the world some time ago, but when a king is also an oil magnate he can carry on a semi-secret slave trade across the Gulf of Aden, and his slaves are not automatically set free when they board an American war vessel.

The mind of a fool is like a broken pot. It holds nothing.