Battening Down The Hatches Quotes & Sayings

He felt great. spa'dassins digladiate; ziffidae and xebecs contend! gol-iard dunking! — Iain M. Banks

For all is like an ocean, all flows and connects; touch it in one place and it echoes at the other end of the world. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Dreams should make you think, 'If I had the guts to do it and I didn't care what anybody thought, this I what I'd really do'. — Cecelia Ahern

Hand me down the shark repellent Bat-Spray! — Adam West

Emulation looks out for merits, that she may exalt herself by a victory; envy spies out blemishes that she may lower another by defeat. — Charles Caleb Colton

I like the flaws best," Sam said. "They make her real. — Carolyn Mackler

The lessons she'd been forced to learn were dry spare things, the facts without the sense of them, given in the simplest of language, as if words might disguise the truth or (worse) bring it to life. — Robin McKinley

Our country doesn't win anymore. We don't win on trade. We don't win on the military. We can't defeat ISIS. We're not taking care of our great people, the veterans. We're not taking care of them. — Donald Trump

As you step out of your comfort zone,
may life embrace you back. — Leta B.

When a child signs up for tennis, he or she is put on a team. I put them in a circle and then I make sure they name their own team. I would have them do their skill drills as a team and their fun drills together as a team, then they have to have a match at the end of every week. They can't just have what they call a lesson today every week. — Billie Jean King

When people we love and trust do not have a map of reality that is wide enough to fit our experiences, they often feel afraid for us. In their efforts to limit perceived harm, they end up instead limiting and inhibiting our personal growth. — Therese Rowley

The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability as opposed to resilience and hard work, we will be brittle in the face of adversity. — Joshua Waitzkin

A person has to keep something to herself or your life is just a layout in a magazine. — Grace Kelly

I enjoy the cleaning up - something about the getting of things in order for winter - making the garden secure - a battening down of hatches perhaps ... It just feels right. — David Hobson

School is so overwhelming - you can get lost in the idea that yes, you are going to be alone. — Tobias Segal