"Walking aft a few feet we stand at the steering gear of the ship. There is no cozy; wheel-house on the bridge for the quartermaster of a sailing ship! He must stand at the very stern, with an unobstructed view of the sails. When sailing "by the wind" his eye is glued to the weather-side of the uppermost sail; he keeps it drawing a trace of wind, but never lets it fill."

-- Paul J. H. Schoemaker

#Ocean Quotes #Eye Quotes #Views Quotes

“The decimation of Lebanon was showing up in Chicago as a series of restaurants and little shops, just as the destruction of Vietnam had been visible here a decade earlier. If you never read the news but ate out a lot you should be able to tell who was getting beaten up around the world.”
“Life on the planet is born of woman.”
“I fight against the gluttony of time with so many very amusing weapons with gestures and with three attitudes and with charming phrases; with tears and with tinsel, and with sugar-coated pills, and with platitudes slightly regilded. Yes, and I fight him also with little mirrors wherein gleam confusedly the corruptions of lust, and ruddy loyalty, and a bit of moonshine, and the pure diamond of the heart's desire, and the opal cloudings of human compromise: but, above all, I fight that ravening dotard with the strength of my own folly.”

Source : James Branch Cabell (1948). “The Witch-woman: A Trilogy about Her”, Amereon Limited
“I do not write, I build.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The testimony of the greatest humans who have ever lived is that the way to make the most of ourselves is by transcending ourselves. We must learn to move beyond self-centeredness to make room within ourselves for others. When you transcend yourself, the fact will be confirmed by the quality of your life. We will attain - even if only momentarily - a transparency and a radiance of being which results from living both within and beyond yourself. This is the promise and the excitement of self-understanding.”

Source : Don Richard Riso, Russ Hudson (2000). “Understanding the Enneagram: The Practical Guide to Personality Types”, p.370, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Drawing and masturbation were the first sacred experiences I remember.”

Source : Carolee Schneemann (2003). “Imaging Her Erotics: Essays, Interviews, Projects”, p.131, MIT Press
“War is Hell you can NOT refine it!”
“Legal land surveyors are few and far between and can find themselves in demand.”

Source : "Career Spotlight: What I Do as a Land Surveyor". Interview with Andy Orin, lifehacker.com. December 10, 2015.

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