Vessel Quotes

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
Mark Twain

Anger, Harm, Acid

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
William Shakespeare

Makes, Sound, Empty

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Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
Augustus Hare

Knowledge, Thought, Wind

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Plutarch

Mind, Fire, Filled

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.
Plato

Soul, Last, Worst

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.
Rabindranath Tagore

Great, Truth, Silence

Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Anger, Harm, Acid

I am God's vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.
Kanye West

Life, God, Pain

If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.
Aeschylus

Friends, Same, Call

For drink, there was beer which was very strong when not mingled with water, but was agreeable to those who were used to it. They drank this with a reed, out of the vessel that held the beer, upon which they saw the barley swim.
Xenophon

Strong, Beer, Used

The Republican Party is an empty vessel unless we imbue it with values.
Rand Paul

Republican, Values, Party

I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one.
Dag Hammarskjold

God, Thirsty, Draft

There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!
Saint Francis de Sales

Love, Works, Divine

You know, I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel you know, like the font and the essence and the source of all divine, creative, unknowable, eternal mystery is just a smidge too much responsibility to put on one fragile, human psyche. It's like asking somebody to swallow the sun.
Elizabeth Gilbert

Human, Person, Sun

A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.
James Reston

Government, Top, Leaks

Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.
Walter Lippmann

Life, Change, Means

I've been planted here to be a vessel for acting... That's why I'm really taking any part, regardless of how complicated it's going to be.
Leonardo DiCaprio

Why, Acting, Here

That was certainly true the first time, when I did Body Heat, the first movie that I directed. I was looking for a vessel to tell a certain kind of story, and I was a huge fan of Film Noir, and what I liked about it was that it was so extreme in style.
Lawrence Kasdan

Time, True, Tell

A long sea implies an uniform and steady motion of long and extensive waves; on the contrary, a short sea is when they run irregularly, broken, and interrupted; so as frequently to burst over a vessel's side or quarter.
William Falconer

Long, Short, Broken

Beck said he didn't believe in the theory of a song coming through you as if you were an open vessel. I agree with him to a certain extent.
Sheryl Crow

Him, Through, Said

It so happened that I was on a German sailing vessel on the way to Australia when the ship was captured, and on the high seas I was made prisoner by the French.
Fritz Sauckel

Made, High, Happened

As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.
Demosthenes

Men, Wise, Whether

I'm just a vessel of information.
Steven Cojocaru

He was using me. When he cast me in Sideways I was nothing but a vessel.
Thomas Haden Church

Nothing, Using, Cast

Aside from what it teaches you, there is simply the indescribable degree of peace that can be achieved on a sailing vessel at sea. I guess a combination of hard work and the seemingly infinite expanse of the sea - the profound solitude - that does it for me.
Billy Campbell

Work, Peace, Hard

As much as the Democrats try to change the subject, this election will be about Barack Obama, period. Mitt's speech last night hit all the right notes, but this fight is not about him. He's just the vessel. Now the question is, does this guy at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. who thinks the private sector is doing fine get another four years?
Howie Carr

Change, Fight, Him

The revolution is like a vessel filled with the pulsating heartbeat of millions of working people.
Ernst Toller

Revolution, Working, Millions

Skating was the vessel into which I could pour my heart and soul.
Peggy Fleming

Heart, Soul, Skating

No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.
Van Wyck Brooks

Judge, Book, Lost

The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
James Reston

State, Known, Top

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