Sextants Quotes & Sayings

I don't need more friends. You got friends and all they do is ask you to help them move. Fuck that. I'm old. I'm through moving this shit. — Justin Halpern

Pessimism only describes an attitude, and not facts, and hence is entirely subjective. — Francis Parker Yockey

Teach your children well ... and feed them on your dreams ... Don't ever ask them why. If they told you you would cry. So just look at them and sigh and know they love you. — Graham Nash

Marxism is not only the theory of socialism, it is an integral world outlook, a philosophical system, from which Marx's proletarian socialism logically follows. This philosophical system is called dialectical materialism. — Joseph Stalin

A sheet spread beneath an apple-tree can receive only apples; a sheet spread beneath the stars can receive only star-dust. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

The Yognul people of Australia thought the constellation represented a canoe. But as we move into the southern hemisphere, a marked change in the nature of the constellations becomes apparent. The southern constellations were named by explorers of the 16th and 17th centuries. Instead of great heroes and gods, we have the keels of ships, sextants, telescopes and the like, things that mattered most to the people of this era. What constellations would we put in the night sky today? Indeed, when human beings go out and colonise the stars, what constellations will they put up in their night skies? — Paul Abel

You need to get really clear about whether this is your inner voice or just a desire that you have. — Echo Bodine

Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life. — Jesse Lee Bennett

Sketches of mad skies spilling stars caught in spiraling gyres, diagrams for constructing sextants tall as a man and armillary spheres to mimic the motion of the cosmos. He decides that he must have all of it, that he will cram the little observatory with maps and charts, clocks and compasses, and instruments for bringing the sky nearer. — John Pipkin

This must be
what love is:

a pain so radiant
it cuts through all others. — Sara Eliza Johnson

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. — Soren Kierkegaard

Sextants that divided the sky into angles not found in the usual geometries, microscopes whose hermetically sealed lenses distorted the viewed object into shimmering rainbow images, other instruments whose complexity and manifold adjustments quite overwhelmed my powers of speculation as to their use — K.W. Jeter

I don't want to die without at least trying to understand why I've lived." Beatrice — Michael Goorjian

Everything in me, right down to the pores of my skin, was expressing joy. — Yann Martel

Materialism may do what a foreign invader could never hope to achieve - materialism robs a nation of its spiritual strength. — Billy Graham

If shame had a sound, it would sound like an agonizing scream, but unfortunately it's a silent emotion. One I've been hiding from for years. — B.N. Toler

...celebrating the Eucharist as a remembrance of Christ means practicing God's justice towards neighbors, strangers, and enemies alike. — Patrick T. McCormick

The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible. — Hillary Clinton