#sea

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. ↗

— Publilius Syrus

#calm #helm #hold #sea

A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, he said, for he will be going out on a day he shouldn't. But we do be afraid of the sea, and we do only be drownded now and again. ↗

— John Millington Synge

#again #day #drowned #going #man

It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation in this rude canvas canoe of a model that has served primitive races since men first went to sea. ↗

— John Millington Synge

#canoe #canvas #civilisation #exquisite #find

Some remedies are worse than the disease. ↗

— Publilius Syrus

#remedies #some #than #worse

Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#considered #depends #dire #disease #himself

Yet in this global economy, no jobs are safe. High-speed Internet connections and low-cost, skilled labor overseas are an explosive combination. ↗

— Bob Taft

#combination #connections #economy #explosive #global

Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents - but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea. ↗

— William Howard Taft

#correspondents #else #i #newspaper #newspapers

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#merely #sea #standing #staring #water

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. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#dark #great #great silence #great truth #sea

Plays close, movies wrap and TV series eventually get cancelled, and we were cancelled in three season. ↗

— George Takei

#close #eventually #get #movies #plays