#sai

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#anchor #drift #lie #must #port

Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#flag #most #mount #people #rudder

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#against #am #deny #end #i

I don't want to be a lobbyist. I want to provide strategic advice to companies. I said both of those things in the course of the interview, and I made clear this is a matter only for after I had become a private citizen and I was no longer a member of parliament. ↗

— Geoff Hoon

#after #become #both #citizen #clear

My dad said, 'The thing that I was told that was really helpful was that I mustn't be afraid of the things I was afraid of when I was five years old'. The shock of his childhood had put him in this defensive crouch against the world, and he needed to know that he had a nice wife and kids and it wasn't the same any more. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#against #any #childhood #crouch #dad

She said she was approaching forty, and I couldn't help wondering from what direction. ↗

— Bob Hope

#direction #forty #help #i #said

Our approach makes it so if you hear a said song of ours in 2003 and then you hear it again in 2009 it's probably evolved and changed a good bit, and hopefully for the better. ↗

— Bruce Hornsby

#approach #better #bit #changed #evolved

A lot of people don't know this, but when 'Dancing with the Stars' first asked me to be on the show, I said no, because I wanted to act and to be taken seriously. ↗

— Julianne Hough

#asked #because #dancing #first #i

Remember that whatever may be said by a lady or her friends, it is not part of conduct of a gallant or generous man to take up arms against a woman. ↗

— Sam Houston

#arms #conduct #friends #gallant #generous

I wanted to be a teacher. I love children, so I wanted to deal with children. Then I wanted to be a veterinarian. But by the age of ten or eleven, when I opened my mouth and said, 'Oh, God, what's this?' I kind of knew teaching and being a veterinarian were gonna have to wait. ↗

— Whitney Houston

#being #children #deal #eleven #god