Nautinstruct Quotes & Sayings

Forget the lottery. Bet on yourself instead. — Brian Koslow

Movies make you immortal and ageless. — Kristin Scott Thomas

I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13. — Vernon L. Smith

We dare not forget the power of prayer. — Dillon Burroughs

The heart and soul of a Navy SEAL is somebody who's committed to their country and committed to their teammates. — Howard E. Wasdin

With a combination of proper lighting and climate control he managed to achieve a different ecological niche in each gallery. In the African section, where the imbrications of Augustine, Mafouz and Okri lay decomposing, he grew sorghum and Dioscorea yams. In the Chinese gallery where the Tao Te Ching and countless Confucian annotations moldered, he grew rice, crab apples and barley. Over the poems of Neruda and Borges himself, he grew potatoes. Each plant in this new Eden he lovingly tainted with the virus of civilization

- from the short story "Resurrection — Victor Fernando R. Ocampo

I was played the villain so much because I was bigger and stronger than most, and they cast me as the villain everywhere I went. — Wilt Chamberlain

The paid wealth which hundreds in the community acquire in trade, or by the incessant expansions of our population and arts, enchants the eyes of all the rest; the luck of one is the hope of thousands, and the bribe acts like the neighborhood of a gold mine to impoverish the farm, the school, the church, the house, and the very body and feature of man. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

My wife and I have been together since 1986. I graduated in '86 and she graduated in '88. We began dating when she was 17. Actually she turned 18 when we started kissing and stuff. — Cuba Gooding Jr.

Strength, strength is what the Upanishads speak to me from every page. This is the one great thing to remember, it has been the one great lesson I have been taught in my life; strength, it says, strength, O man, be not weak. Are there no human weaknesses? - says man. There are, say the Upanishads, but will more weakness heal them, would you try to wash dirt with dirt? Will sin cure sin, weakness cure weakness? Strength, O man, strength, say the Upanishads, stand up and be strong. — Swami Vivekananda

When things are investigated, then true knowledge is achieved; when true knowledge is achieved, then the will becomes sincere; when the will is sincere, then the heart is set right ; when the heart is set right, then the personal life is cultivated; when the personal life is cultivated, then the family life is regulated; when the family life is regulated, then the national life is orderly; and when the national life is orderly, then there is peace in this world. — Confucius

When I was 14, I couldn't be bothered to tweeze my eyebrows, so I would shave them in between. One time, my hand slipped, and I had half an eyebrow. — Suki Waterhouse

I'm grown ass man and grown ass men can do whatever they want, got it? — Zach Braff

In a way, our family is our modern identity. — Susanne Bier

My mother and father split up when I was three and my brother was still in the womb. — Susan Straight