"The seas and the weathers are what is; your vessels adapt to them or sink."

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Source : Tim Powers (2011). “On Stranger Tides”, p.65, Atlantic Books Ltd

Tim Powers

#Weather Quotes #Sea Quotes #Vessel Quotes

“Having Down syndrome means nothing to me, I'm special like everyone else. I do not let people judge me for having Down syndrome. The important thing is how I feel about myself. On the inside, I feel beautiful.”
“I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.”
“For history, I say again, has this and this only for its own: if a man will start upon it, he must sacrifice to no God but Truth; he must neglect all else; his sole rule and unerring guide is this - to think not of those who are listening to him now, but of the yet unborn who shall seek his converse.”

Source : Lucian of Samosata (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Lucian (Illustrated)”, p.822, Delphi Classics
“What, after all, is the narrative of the American Dream? It was a discourse formulated between the 1880s and the 1920s in the United States during the great waves of migration and expansion and reforms of the Progressive Era.”
“What good is it that Christ was born [2,000] years ago if he is not born now in your heart?”
“I can now shed the child-actor thing, like the fat, and start a new career, because no one sees me as Dudley.”

Source : "Harry Potter's Dudley Dursley is all grown up! Actor Harry Melling shows off weight loss at new movie premiere" by Lara Martin, www.mirror.co.uk. February 19, 2017.
“In the United States, I'm lucky; in Europe, I'm good.”
“The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.”

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