James Brimage Sea Merchants Quotes & Sayings

Bodies feel pain; only the mind can suffer. Indeed, it's possible to be in pain and yet not suffer at all. — Robert S. Rosenthal

No, he thought, when everything you do, you do too long, and do too late, you can't expect to find the people still there. The people all are gone. The party's over and you are with your hostess now.
I'm getting as bored with dying as with everything else, he thought. — Ernest Hemingway,

An infinity with God has always been a circle, not a straight line past all your mistakes. — Shannon L. Alder

I have never written a book that didn't teach me far more than it taught my reader. — Isaac Asimov

My ultimate goal is to create operating systems for myself that allow me to think as little as possible about the silly decisions you can make all day long - like what to eat or where we should meet - so I can focus on making real decisions. Because mental energy is a finite quantity. — Alexa Von Tobel

Let our tribute to the dead be a new resolve: to respect people for what they individually think, rather than respect groups for what they were collectively brought up to believe. — Richard Dawkins

Be careful when power comes to thee also, lest thou too shouldst smite in thine anger or thy jealousy, for unconquerable strength is a sore weapon in the hands of erring man — H. Rider Haggard

A person who knows all the answers, has an opinion on everything, has a certainty backed up by rational argument, has very little possibility of further progress. Such a person is unlikely to walk away from a discussion with anything more than a reaffirmation of how right he or she has been all along. — Edward De Bono

Sometimes life gets ugly before it gets beautiful — J. Sterling