Capsizes With Over Quotes & Sayings

No matter what other nations may say about the United States, immigration is still the sincerest form of flattery. — Clayton Cramer

What would have become of Hercules do you think if there had been no lion, hydra, stag or boar - and no savage criminals to rid the world of? What would he have done in the absence of such challenges?

Obviously he would have just rolled over in bed and gone back to sleep. So by snoring his life away in luxury and comfort he never would have developed into the mighty Hercules.

And even if he had, what good would it have done him? What would have been the use of those arms, that physique, and that noble soul, without crises or conditions to stir into him action? — Epictetus

What to do, when a ship carrying a hundred passengers suddenly capsizes and there is only one lifeboat? When the lifeboat is full, those who hate life will try to load it with more people and sink the lot. Those who love and respect life will take the ship's axe and sever the extra hands that cling to the sides. — Pentti Linkola

Some of life's most beautiful things grow out of the darkest moments. — Sarah Jio

Deke looked at me anxiously, reminding me very much of a large and handsome dog who needs a stick to fetch. — Jeff Lindsay

They who know how to employ opportunities will often find that they can create them; and what we can achieve depends less on the amount of time we possess than on the use we make of our time. — John Stuart Mill

This is the end. For me the beginning of life. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I got lucky because I never gave up the search. Are you quitting too soon? Or are you willing to pursue luck with a vengeance? — Jill Konrath

Look at the limes in this drink, how they float. That's good news. Next time I'm on a boat, and it capsizes, I will reach for a lime. I'm saved by the buoyancy of citrus. — Mitch Hedberg

What we are shines more brightly than anything we say or do. If we are to fill the world with light, we must first face any tattered remnant of darkness that remains in our own souls. — Jeffrey R. Holland

If wishes were wings, sheep would fly. — Robert Jordan

People find different ways of keeping the ones they loved among the living, he said cautiously. Children. Memories. The names of things. — James Meek

My school reports always used to point out that my concentration levels were appalling. I never listened in class because I was always daydreaming about racing. I never thought for a moment about doing anything else. There was no guarantee that I'd make a career in it but I never had any plan B. — Jenson Button

If you consider, for example, that democracy is much like a religion then 9/11 is akin to finding the body of God. — Larisa Alexandrovna

The worst place to be is in the middle. When elephants fight, the grass
gets trampled. — Andrew Vachss

Without purpose and meaning in our lives, we banish ourselves to wander this plane of existence with self-destructive tendencies until the bell tolls and our breath capsizes in our lungs, snatching our chance to redeem ourselves forever. — A.J. Darkholme