Cute Boating Quotes & Sayings

There is one thing diviner than duty, namely, the bond of obligation transmuted into liberty. — William Rounseville Alger

I can't say that exhaustive research and reporting will guarantee a great story, but I've never been able to pull one off without it. — Deborah Blum

The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains. — Luc De Clapiers

Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil. — Plato

Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us. — Walter Pater

But the loss of any friend takes a long time to heal. — Autumn De Wilde

The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from it. Anything that conflicts with the survival instinct acts sooner or later to eliminate the individual and thereby fails to show up in future generations ... A scientifically verifiable theory of morals must be rooted in the individual's instinct to survive
and nowhere else!
and must correctly describe the hierarchy of survival, note the motivations at each level, and resolve all conflicts.
We have such a theory now; we can solve any moral problem, on any level. Self-interest, love of family, duty to country, responsibility toward the human race ...
The basis of all morality is duty, a concept with the same relation to group that self-interest has to individual. — Robert A. Heinlein

We came to wish you a happy day," Eric said. "And I suppose, as usual, Bill will want to express his undying love that surpasses my love, as he'll tell you - and Pam will want to say something sarcastic and nearly painful, while reminding you that she loves you, too."
Bill and Pam looked decidedly miffed at Eric's preemptive strike, but I wasn't going to let anything dim my mood.
"And what about you, Eric?" I asked on counterattack. "Are you going to tell me that you love me just as much as Bill, but in a practical way, while finding some way to subtly threaten me and simultaneously remind me that you may be leaving with Freyda? — Charlaine Harris

In my opinion, patriotism is liberty. — Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

I want to be singing to everybody, and I want everybody to think that I'm singing to them. Guys, girls and everyone in between. — Joan Jett

You would have imagined her at one moment a maniac, at another a queen. — Victor Hugo

If a mute kid swears, should his mother wash his hands with soap? — Steven Wright