"All the ingenuity, all the high-tech gear, all the jury-rigging sometimes the sea would rip it all away until there was only you, the Creator, and His mercy."

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Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.17, Thomas Nelson Inc

Abby Sunderland

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“I think that there are many ways in which people look for heroes, messiahs, things like that in society. I think some people are looking for something that maybe they don't possess. To me, ultimately, you are looking for someone who understands you, or at least you think understands you. It all comes down to understanding for who we look to as heroes.”

Source : Interview with Jasper Anson, www.askmen.com.
“I loved cutting together simple commercials about margarine or soft drinks - all kinds of silly products - but I tried to make the commercials different.”
“Life is lived on its ownother's shoulders are used only at the time of funeral.”
“The only way marriage can work is if a man respects the woman and she is a thinking woman and he wants to work on the marriage.”
“The best-run churches and organizations are masters of the midcourse correction. They plan in pencil.”

Source : Larry Osborne (2010). “Sticky Teams: Keeping Your Leadership Team and Staff on the Same Page”, p.83, Harper Collins
“I don't think anyone is free - one creates one's own prison.”
“Free nations of the world cannot allow Taiwan, a beacon of democracy, to be subdued by an authoritarian China.”
“Loneliness is lessened when you're lonely by choice.”

Source : George Jones (2014). “I Lived to Tell It All”, p.296, Dell

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