Unstaggering Quotes & Sayings

Next morning the not-yet-subsided sea rolled in long slow billows of mighty bulk, and striving in the Pequod's gurgling track, pushed her on like giants' palms outspread. The strong, unstaggering breeze abounded so, that sky and air seemed vast outbellying sails; the whole world boomed before the wind. Muffled in the full morning light, the invisible sun was only known by the spread intensity of his place; where his bayonet rays moved on in stacks. Emblazonings, as of crowned Babylonian kings and queens, reigned over everything. The sea was as a crucible of molten gold, that bubblingly leaps with light and heat. — Herman Melville

Why is the mind incapable of deciding its own subject matter? Why when we desperately want to think of one thing to we invariably think of another? — Jeanette Winterson

I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries. — Malala Yousafzai

While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize. — John Landis Mason

A woman who loves books has a dreamer's soul, with each story she has read woven into her own. — Alyson Richman

In my mid-twenties, I said to myself: 'I can't perform anymore!' I didn't know what I wanted to do. I didn't perform for a while, then ended up doing a one-woman show about Gilda Radner having cancer. It was called 'Gilda Defying Gravity,' and I did it on the Lower East Side. It was great; people really came out and supported me. — Spencer Kayden

Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint. — Robert Frost

Oh, she was a crazy woman, privately. — Elizabeth Strout

And often enough, when we think we are protecting ourselves, we are struggling against our rescuer. — Marilynne Robinson

You're looking at me like you fell in love with me."
"I didn't fall in love with you. I flew. — Colleen Hoover

Chuse not an house neere an lnne (viz. for noise) or in a corner (for filth). — George Herbert

I've learned that every human being, with or without disabilities, needs to strive to do their best, and by striving for happiness you will arrive at happiness. For us, you see, having autism is normal - so we can't know for sure what your "normal" is even like. — Naoki Higashida

The Man of Sorrows is now anointed with the oil of gladness above his fellows. Returned in triumph from the overthrow of all his foes, he offers his own rapturous Te Deum in the temple above, and joys in the power of the Lord. Herein let every subject of King Jesus imitate the King; let us lean upon Jehovah's strength, let us joy in it by unstaggering faith, let us exult in it in our thankful songs. Jesus not only has thus rejoiced but he shall do so as he sees the power of divine grace bringing out from their sinful hiding-places the purchase of his soul's travail; we also shall rejoice more and more as we learn by expeience more and more fully the strength of the arm of our covenant God. Our weakness unstrings our harps, but his strength tunes them anew. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The words in his book wormed off the pages.
Everything glittered like blank paper. — Sylvia Plath

Stand guard at the door of your mind. — Jim Rohn

I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill. — Ileana Ros-Lehtinen