Sloops Of War Quotes & Sayings

Those thin places where truth seeps through, those are the places where Jesus walks
the places we find healing. — Jo Ann Fore

Retrench in everything that is bad and worthless, and improve in everything that is good and beautiful. — Susa Young Gates

There has never been a military operation remotely approaching the scale and the complexity of D-Day. It involved 176,000 troops, more than 12,000 airplanes, almost 10,000 ships, boats, landing craft, frigates, sloops, and other special combat vessels
all involved in a surprise attack on the heavily fortified north coast of France, to secure a beachhead in the heart of enemy-held territory so that the march to Germany and victory could begin. It was daring, risky, confusing, bloody, and ultimately glorious [p.25] — Tom Brokaw

I really don't think you could appear any badder, Ollie." He huffed as he kicked up his legs onto the coffee table.
"At least I know 'badder' isn't a word." Jase smirked.
"That's about all you know. — J. Lynn

I'm reading more than ever. I used to find it tedious, but now it's like my little friend - it takes my mind off things. — Billie Piper

The Almighty has been pleased to grant us a signal victory on Lake Champlain in the capture of one Frigate, one Brig and two sloops of war of the enemy. — Thomas Macdonough

I always loved the style of Jean Seberg, Jane Birkin and Marilyn Monroe. — Helena Christensen

But the two of them together, broke my heart. Olympia and Peter, those scenes ... When they're kissing in their 20s and then kissing in their 70s, that's what it is. And they had never met five minutes before they shot those scenes. — Paul Reiser

It's impossible to say a thing exactly the way it was, because of what you say can never be exact, you always have to leave something out, there are too many parts, sides, crosscurrents, nuances; too many gestures, which could mean this or that, too many shapes which can never be fully described, too many flavors, in the air or on the tongue, half-colors, too many. — Margaret Atwood

The mind is like a trunk: if well-packed, it holds almost every thing; if ill-packed, next to nothing. — Augustus William Hare

To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweetly as when one longs to taste it, and when is the taste refracted into so many hues and savors of ripeness and earth, and when do our senses know any thing so utterly as when we lack it? And here again is a foreshadowing
the world will be made whole. For to wish for a hand on one's hair is all but to feel it. So whatever we may lose, very craving gives it back to us again. — Marilynne Robinson

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness. — Max Eastman

Infinite possibilities exist but we only focus on a small subset, filtering most of it out with our Beliefs. — Debbianne DeRose

No man is an island but every woman is. That's why we build bridges. — Suzy Duffy

So too Plato was, in my view, a very unreliable Platonist. He was too much of a philosopher to think that anything he had said was the last word. — Gilbert Ryle

Now comes the reign of iron - and cased sloops are to take the place of wooden ships. — John Adolphus Bernard Dahlgren

I try to hire people I don't have to motivate. But I do motivate the people working with and for me. — Magic Johnson