Binnacle Marine Quotes & Sayings

But what if absolute consistency on any issue from the left or the right, religious or secular, is an indication of mediocre intelligence and a lack of intellectual honesty? What if the world is a complex place? What if leadership requires flexibility? What if ideology is a bad substitute for common sense? What if ideological consistency, let alone "purity," is a sign of small-mindedness, maybe even stupidity? — Anonymous

Every time life gives you a million reasons why you should quit, give it a million and one reasons why you never will. — Thurman P. Banks Jr.

Las Vegas is a 24-hour city. It never stops. — Eli Roth

I'd say that the whole 'sitting on the Iron Throne' experience is intended to be a novelty for people who don't have that many encounters with thrones in their day to day lives. — John Bradley-West

It may seem sometimes as if a culture of peace does not stand a chance against the culture of war, the culture of violence and the cultures of impunity and intolerance. Peace may indeed be a complex challenge, dependent on action in many fields and even a bit of luck from time to time. It may be a painfully slow process, and fragile and imperfect when it is achieved. But peace is in our hands. We can do it. — Kofi Annan

I have things to not do, and not a lot of time to not do them in. — Kelly Link

A married woman is a slave whom one must put on a throne. — Honore De Balzac

Nature gropes and blunders and performs the crudest acts. There is no steady advance upward. There is no design. — Oliver Sacks

We all understood why Chelsea was important. In — Stephenie Meyer

Don't educate people; touch them emotionally. Remember that people want to be scared or they want to be made happy or they want to be made sad. — Larry Winget

Protectionism, socialism, all varieties of state favoritism and restrictions on competition, and the growth of bureaucracy and jobbery were the means by which special interests sought to exploit the public, the great mass of consumers and taxpayers. — Ralph Raico

Making art is a rite of initiation. People change their souls. — Julia Cameron

But it must not be thought that I say this out of personal experience: for in the many years that I have been before the public my secret methods have been steadily shielded by the strict integrity of my assistants, most of whom have been with me for years. — Harry Houdini