Vessel Quotes

It so happened that I was on a German sailing vessel on the way to Australia when the ship was captured, and on the high seas I was made prisoner by the French.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

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.

You know, I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel you know, like the font and the essence and the source of all divine, creative, unknowable, eternal mystery is just a smidge too much responsibility to put on one fragile, human psyche. It's like asking somebody to swallow the sun.

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

The Republican Party is an empty vessel unless we imbue it with values.

I've been planted here to be a vessel for acting... That's why I'm really taking any part, regardless of how complicated it's going to be.

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.

A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.

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.

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.

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

Let it them be put into any clean oven vessel of china or stoneware which should be wider at the top than at the bottom. so that there may be the largest surface above to favor the evaporation.

Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.

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?

I am God's vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

As much as the Democrats try to change the subject, this election will be about Barack Obama, period. Mitt's speech last night hit all the right notes, but this fight is not about him. He's just the vessel. Now the question is, does this guy at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. who thinks the private sector is doing fine get another four years?

Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.

There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!

Skating was the vessel into which I could pour my heart and soul.

He was using me. When he cast me in Sideways I was nothing but a vessel.

That was certainly true the first time, when I did Body Heat, the first movie that I directed. I was looking for a vessel to tell a certain kind of story, and I was a huge fan of Film Noir, and what I liked about it was that it was so extreme in style.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one.

Beck said he didn't believe in the theory of a song coming through you as if you were an open vessel. I agree with him to a certain extent.

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