Fastnet Race Quotes & Sayings

I kept ... returning to the (ancient Roman) wall paintings with their veiled melancholy and elegant plasticity. — William Baziotes

Rise up nimbly and go on your strange journey to the ocean of meanings ... Leave and don't look away from the sun as you go, in whose light you're sometimes crescent, sometimes full. — Rumi

The paid-off home mortgage has taken the place of the BMW as the status symbol of choice. — Dave Ramsey

Those that don't know history aren't poisoned by it. — Scott Sigler

Be A Famous Person Is Difficult , But Very Difficult To Be The Intelligent Man. — Jemmy Wiratama

Imbalanced reactions are discreet indicators of previous scars — S.E. Sever

You know how sometimes you see a really sexy baby? Wait that sounds fucked up. — John Green

Mind how you pray. Make real business of it. Let it never be a dead formality ... plead the promise in a truthful, business-like way ... Ask for what you want, because the Lord has promised it. Believe that you have the blessing, and go forth to your work in full assurance of it. Go from your knees singing, because the promise is fulfilled: thus will your prayer be answered ... the strength [not length] of your prayer ... wins ... God; and the strength of prayer lies in your faith in the promise which you pleaded before the Lord. — Charles Spurgeon

Now if democracy will not work for the Russians, a white Christian people, can we assume that it will naturally work with Asians? — Lee Kuan Yew

He [the King of Morocco] spends half his time asleep and the rest of it buried between the legs of the fairer sex. — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

Here's all I know about Dubai: It's one of those somewhere-over-there places where they make sand. — Dan Jenkins

Sometimes John had recorded new compositions, or lines from his new poems. Sometimes he'd just record a busy night in The Green Man. Sometimes sheep, seals, skylarks, the wind turbine. If Liam were home there would be some Liam. The summer fair. The Fastnet Race. I would unfold my map of Clear Island. Those tapes prised the lid off homesickness and rattled out the contents, but always at the bottom was solace. — David Mitchell

Several years later, I received a letter from a young Englishman. He said that his father had died in the race, he knew not how or why. He had come across "Fastnet, Force 10" in a library and now he understood. Now, he wrote, it was time for him to sail his own Fastnet and finish the race that his father had completed. I sympathized; I was on a journey of my own as a student in divinity school. Yet I worried that he might be a little reckless out there, and suggested that there are other ways to honor the dead. I never again heard from him, but I do believe that - as in the Cornish tale about the water calling, "The hour is come, but not the man" - he joined the line of landsmen inevitably rushing down the hills to the sea. — John Rousmaniere