Redoubtable Ship Quotes & Sayings

My land, the power of training! Of influence! Of education! It can bring a body up to believe anything. — Mark Twain

Manushya (man) is a being with Manas (mind); and as soon as his thinking power goes, he becomes no better than an animal. — Swami Vivekananda

Women never have young minds. They are born three thousand years old. — Shelagh Delaney

I was watching one of those animal shows on the Discovery Channel. There was a guy inventing a shark bite suit. And there's only one way to test it. All right Jimmy, you got that shark suit on, it looks good ... They want you to jump into this pool of sharks, and you tell us if it hurts when they bite you. Well, all right, but hold my sign. I don't wanna lose it. — Bill Engvall

They accumulated, hour by hour, like sweet and sour dreams, waiting to happen. — Markus Zusak

She was convinced that she was anorexic, because every time she looked in the mirror she did indeed see a fat person. — Terry Pratchett

One of the views of the [actor's] job is that whatever age you are, there's a role that's about who you are and where you are. There are parts for that age that you can bring things to. — Clive Owen

Although the view that, once discovered, ideas can be imitated for free by anybody is pervasive, it is far from the truth. While it may occasionally be the case that an idea is acquired at no cost - ideas are generally difficult to communicate, and the resources for doing so are limited. It is rather ironic that a group of economists, who are also college professors and earn a substantial living teaching old ideas because their transmission is neither simple nor cheap, would argue otherwise in their scientific work. Most of the times imitation requires effort and, what is more important, imitation requires purchasing either some products or some teaching services from the original innovator, meaning that most spillovers are priced. — Michele Boldrin

A visitor to a garden sees the successes, usually. The gardener remembers mistakes and losses, some for a long time, and imagines the garden in a year, and in an unimaginable future. — W.S. Merwin

How could there be different Gods, Lief?"

"I don't believe there are any at all," he says quietly. "But I believe there are men and women whose lives are made easier by believing someone is watching over them. — Melinda Salisbury