Aweigh Quotes & Sayings

Whatever is genuine in social relations endures, despite of time, error, absence, and destiny; and that which has no inherent vitality had better die at once. A great poet has truly declared that constancy is no virtue, but a fact. — Henry Theodore Tuckerman

In my youth I regarded the Universe as an open book, printed in the language of physical equations, whereas now it appears to me as a text written in invisible ink, of which, in our rare moments of grace, we are able to decipher a small fragment. — Arthur Koestler

The wind is rising and we must make sail. Anchors aweigh! We must be off! — Amitav Ghosh

The countdown reached ten seconds and I could almost hear an invisible crescendo of stirring background music. 'Anchors aweigh!' Five, four, three, two, one ... and we had ignition! — Eugene Cernan

I realized that every moment in all our lives - past, present, future, known, unknown, and unknowable - exist simultaneously, as though outside of what we know as time. I became aware that I already was everything I was trying to attain, and I believe that's true for everyone. All things that we perceive as positive, negative, good, or bad, are simply parts of the perfect, balanced Whole. — Anita Moorjani

People lie so that others will form beliefs that are not true. The more consequential the beliefs - that is, the more a person's well-being demands a correct understanding of the world or of other people's opinions - the more consequential the lie. — Sam Harris

It is people who live by the rules that are always hoping to get them changed. — Robert Harbison

It's always about a character that I become obsessed with and who refuses to leave me alone. — Ruba Nadda

Yet it's not for want of future that I'm here, he thought. It's for want of a present. — John Le Carre

All you require is adore. But just a little chocolate at times will not damage. — Charles M. Schulz

Freedom is not an individual effort.
Yours comes only when you grant others theirs — Sergio Aragones

I haven't really used Loki at all in 'Thor: God of Thunder' or the previous volume of Thor. — Jason Aaron

The recurrence of fundamentals is essential to perpetuity. — Harold B. Lee

It should be borne in mind that the target is always trying to shift responsibility to get out of being the target. There is a constant squirming and moving and strategy ... on the part of the designated target. The forces for change must keep this in mind and pin that target down securely. If an organization permits responsibility to be diffused and distributed in a number of areas, attack becomes impossible. — Saul Alinsky

This gave me a feeling of what seemed wrong with American medicine, that it consisted more and more of specialists. There were fewer and fewer primary care physicians, the base of the pyramid. My father and my two older brothers were all general practitioners, and I found myself feeling not like a super-specialist in migraine but like the general practitioner these patients should have seen to begin with. — Oliver Sacks

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity. — Arthur Schopenhauer