Vessel Quotes

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

Fire and water may as well agree in the same vessel, as grace and sin in the same heart.

I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart: but the saying is true 'The empty vessel makes the greatest sound'.

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

I'll never reach my destination, If I never try, So I will sail my vessel, 'Til the river runs dry.

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

Discoveries that are anticipated are seldom the most valuable. ... It's the scientist free to pilot his vessel across hidden shoals into open seas who gives the best value.

A vessel is formed from a lump of clay with care, however, it is the empty space within the vessel that makes it useful.

The world is like a vast sea: mankind like a vessel sailing on its tempestuous bosom. ... [T]he sciences serve us for oars.

Every day brings a ship, Every ship brings a word; Well for those who have no fear, Looking seaward well assured That the word the vessel brings Is the word they wish to hear.

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

There may be troubled waters along the many paths my life shall take, but only I as a man, may keep my vessel afloat, and guide myself straight.

the whole purport of literature...is the notation of the heart. Style is but the faintly contemptible vessel in which the bitter liquid is recommended to the world.

The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way.

The speed of the fleet is not determined by the fastest vessel; rather it is determined by the slowest one.

Natural selection is not the wind which propels the vessel, but the rudder which, by friction, now on this side and now on that, shapes the course.

Launch your vessel, And crowd your canvas, And, ere it vanishes Over the margin, After it, follow it, FollowThe Gleam.

If the vessel of our soul is still tossed with winds and storms, let us awake the Lord, who reposes in it, and He will quickly calm the sea.

A public debt is a kind of anchor in the storm; but if the anchor be too heavy for the vessel, she will be sunk by that very weight which was intended for her preservation.

In order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water before we trust it with wine.

Without good communication, a relationship is merely a hollow vessel carrying you along on a frustrating journey fraught with the perils of confusion, projection, and misunderstanding.

Sarah Palin is an empty vessel ready to be filled by ideology that she doesn't even understand, and that is really scary. Nothing is more frightening than an empty vessel in power.

The revolution is like a vessel filled with the pulsating heartbeat of millions of working people.

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 vessel, though her masts be firm,Beneath her copper bears a worm.

A woman is essentially a vessel made to be filled.

Good work in the building of my vessel stood me always in good stead.

The Great Vessel takes long to complete.

The world is a sacred vessel. It should not be meddled with. It should not be owned. If you try to meddle with it you will ruin it. If you try to own it you will lose it

I feel there is always room for good music. I want to reach people's soul with my lyrics through whatever vessel God chooses.

A small craft in the ocean is, or should be, a benevolent dictatorship. The skipper's brain is the vessel's brain and he must give up his soul to her, regardless of his own feelings or inclinations.

Earth, receive an honored guest; William Yeats is laid to rest. Let the Irish vessel lie Emptied of its poetry.

Every Naval vessel has a contingent of Marines aboard. After all, the Sailors have to have someone to dance with.

Fatal North was being poisoned to death aboard his own vessel and by someone from his hand-picked crew... a cold-blooded, calculating, pre-meditated murder by a diabolical killer.

The purer the golden vessel, the more readily is it bent; the higher worth of woman is sooner lost than that of man.

Attention is like a narrow mouthed vessel; pour into it what you have to say cautiously, and, as it were, drop by drop.

Shall we for ever make new books, as apothecaries make new mixtures, by pouring only out of one vessel into another?

Black is like a broken vessel, which is deprived of the capacity to contain anything.

Your body is just a vessel for who you are as a person. And until you work on what you give back to the world, it doesn't matter what you look like on the outside.

I think of my best poems as vessels that I can or hope to fill with everything I have.

It is misleading in a crucial way to view information as something that can be poured into an empty vessel, like a fluid or even energy.

I am so honored to be the vessel into which you pour this story of pain and strength.

All I ever wanted since I arrived here on earth are the same things I needed as a baby, to go from cold to warm, lonely to held, the vessel to the giver, empty to full.

This relationship is the vessel wherein is nurtured the life force of both individuals, whereby they create the future of the human race in body and thought.

Science is the Noah's Ark very itself! Seek no other vessel!

My rule is: If you meet the weakest vessel, attack. If it is a vessel equal to yours, attack. And if it is stronger than yours, also attack.

The artist is a vessel for creativity. He has the key to the door of a very special place, which he can open at will. He doesn't paint but is painted through.

The seas and the weathers are what is; your vessels adapt to them or sink.

The real truth is that [Harriet Tubman ] spirit is so powerful that it consumes you. I was literally reduced to basic breath and blinks while she inhabited my vessel and told her story through me.

Extremely foolish advice is likely to be uttered by those who are looking at the laboring vessel from the land.