Shipwrecked Book Quotes & Sayings

Happiness is a pretty precarious state, Randeep. I'm content. That's more than enough. That's more than most. — Sunjeev Sahota

Tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember a story. — John Wooden

A lot of people ask me if I were shipwrecked, and could have only one book, what would it be? I always say, How to Build a Boat. — Stephen Wright

A book should contain pure discoveries, glimpses of terra firma, though by shipwrecked mariners, and not the art of navigation by those who have never been out of sight of land. — Henry David Thoreau

I could kidnap your mother," he offered. "If you need the phone records explained. — C.E. Murphy

Economic man and the Calvinist Christian sing to each other like voices in a fugue. The Calvinist stands alone before an almost merciless God ; no human agency can help him; his church is a means to political and social organization rather than a bridge to deity , for no priest can have greater knowledge of the divine way than he himself; no friend can console him in fact , he should distrust all men; in the same fashion, Economic Man faces a merciless world alone and unaided, his hand against every other's. — Lionel Trilling

Time
our youth
it never really goes, does it? It is all held in our minds. — Helen Hooven Santmyer