Toilers Of The Sea Quotes & Sayings

In the middle of the nineteenth century, the United States embarked on a new relationship with death, entering into a civil war that proved bloodier than any other conflict in American history, a war that would presage the slaughter of World War I's Western Front and the global carnage of the twentieth century. — Drew Gilpin Faust

Don't ever confuse the two, your life and your work. That's what I have to say. The second is only a part of the first. — Anna Quindlen

When champions fail, they get back up and try again. They don't let failure discourage them. — Mary Ellen Clark

Oh, high is the price of parenthood, and daughters may cost you double. You dare not forget, as you thought you could, that youth is a plague and a trouble. — Phyllis McGinley

As we have said, robust souls are sometimes almost, but not entirely, overthrown by strokes of misfortune ... Despair has steps leading upward. From total depression we rise to despondency, from despondency to affliction, from affliction to melancholy. Melancholy is a twilight state in which suffering transmutes into a somber joy ... Melancholy is the enjoyment of being sad. — Victor Hugo

The soul is a temple; and God is silently building it by night and by day. Precious thoughts are building it; disinterested love is building it; all-penetrating faith is building it. — Henry Ward Beecher

Sharing love is personal to us. It begins within us. Then we seek to extend it outwardly. In relationships, what happens longterm is determined by each person's ability to receive and give love. If our love and all of us is accepted and reciprocated, something beautiful happens (if it isn't, deterioration of the relationship begins). I now believe that the "love of your life" is someone that transcends any other love experienced prior and becomes that person you've had the most love and adoration for. It's such a commonly used phrase. But, I finally understand it. The love of your life is the person with which you share real, unconditional love and all its blessings. — Camille Lucy

Sometimes my dreams feel so real it's hard to believe they're just the subconscious's stroll across a whimsical map that has no true north. — Karen Marie Moning

The essential key for writing is to write regularly - like it or not - great ideas come often by writing; releasing the subconscious - waiting for inspiration and ideas will not work, but it does help to have a notebook with you all the time for sudden brainstorms or inspiration. — Robert Marc Friedman

The American classicist Edith Hamilton once described the great works of literature, the strong fortresses of the spirit which men have built through the ages. — Edith Hamilton

Books guided my life from high school, and the greatest, most interesting, most provocative, funniest, smartest people who ever lived in the last 200 or 300 years wrote those books. I would fall in love with Victor Hugo and read not just 'Les Miserables,' but 'Bug-Jargal' and 'The Toilers of the Sea' and so forth. — Robert Loomis

Many people, including Buddhist monks, spend thousands of hours sitting in what they call meditation. In reality, what they're doing is thinking and ruminating upon their problems. — Frederick Lenz

The world is changing ... I don't, as a consumer, want advertising that's not relevant. If we're going to take a side, let's take the side of the consumer. — Charlie Ergen

He who understands you is greater kin to you than your own brother. For even your own kindred neither understand you nor know your true worth. — Khalil Gibran

It appears that Satan had taken a fancy to the Catholics; and sought their company a good deal; a circumstance which has given rise to the belief that the devil is more Catholic than Protestant. — Victor Hugo