"I'm one-hundred-fifty miles off Cape Horn, both autopilots are broken, and my boat is drifting toward one of the nastiest chunks of ocean on the face of the earth."

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Source : "Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas". Book by Abby Sunderland and Lynn Vincent, 2011.

Abby Sunderland

#Ocean Quotes #Broken Quotes #Capes Quotes

“I don't believe in angels and I have trouble with the whole God thing. I don't want to say I don't believe in God, but I don't think I do. But I believe in people who do.”
“India is a land of plenty inhibited by poverty; India has an enthralling, uplifting civilization that sparkles not only in our magnificent art, but also in the enormous creativity and humanity of our daily life in city and village.”
“The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.”
“No one would have picked me out in high school and said, 'This guy is going to be in show business.' I don't have any of the talents you would normally associate with show business.”
“Paradox is the sharpest scalpel in the satchel of science. Nothing concentrates the mind as effectively, regardless of whether it pits two competing theories against each other, or theory against observation, or a compelling mathematical deduction against ordinary common sense.”

Source : Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.204, Harvard University Press
“I do not yet know of a man who became a leader as a result of having undergone a leadership course.”

Source : Lee Kuan Yew (2013). “The Wit & Wisdom of Lee Kuan Yew”, p.54, Editions Didier Millet
“There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.”
“Feminism means to me being comfortable with who you are as a woman and being unapologetic about it.”

Source : Source: www.sheknows.com

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