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It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.
A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.
Artists are the gatekeepers of truth. We are civilization’s anchor. We are the compass for humanity’s conscience.
Politicians, they give the visible aspect of the change, but the change, the root, the anchor are in young people.
I am inspiring and activating others to wake up to their unique selves to anchor the next stage of our unfoldment.
I'm curious when I look across the dial Monday through Friday, you know, where are the other female black anchors?
Do you know what the three most exciting sounds in the world are? Anchor chains, airplane motors and train whistles.
Once the anchor of reason has been cut, ones craft may go anywhere. One may become a St Francis or equally a Hitler.
I recognize the Republican Party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety.
A life without vows is like a ship without an anchor or like an edifice that is built on sand instead of a solid rock.
Your poverty today is because of who you are. Want wealth? Let go of your anchors and inhibitions and change yourself.
I don't want the news to be patriotic. I don't want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don't want any of that.
A toned backside truly anchors your physique and can make the difference between jeans fitting and jeans really fitting.
We can endure almost anything if we are centered, if we have some focus in our life. You can endure if you have an anchor.
In good times, we all want to drop anchor, to stop in time! But man is condemned to move till the far end of the precipice!
Sometimes you need an anchor, whatever it might be. You need a space to connect. So often you get into a way of doing things.
I have never in my life walked with a harness. The weight of the tether, makes it feel like I'm dragging an anchor behind me.
I'm single, footloose and fancy free, I have no responsibilities, no anchors. Work, friendship and self-improvement, that's me.
Hope is like an anchor. Our hope in Christ stabilizes us in the storms of life, but unlike an anchor, it does not hold us back.
Feeling is deep and still; and the word that floats on the surface Is as the tossing buoy, that betrays where the anchor is hidden.
The past can be a rudder that guides you or an anchor tha hinders you. Leave your mistakes with God and look to the future by faith.
Consistency: It's the jewel worth wearing; It's the anchor worth weighing; It's the thread worth weaving; It's a battle worth winning.
Your house shall be not an anchor but a mast It shall not be a glistening film that covers a wound, but an eyelid that guards the eye.
She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page.
The director, Antoine Fuqua, relies on small details, which anchor the vigilante-as-saint myth in at least a minimal degree of reality.
As a bassist he could never really be a sideman. He was always the anchor. He drove the beat. even if it was behind Miles Davis'a horn.
You can anchor the mind into answering a question a certain way by giving them a totally unrelated piece of information dropped before.
Am I the only one who thinks Nancy Grace's relentless cheer leading for Jodi Arias' death gross & excessive? The anchor as executioner?!
The anchors of the Arab consensus have long been Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and both are now weakened forces in Arab politics and diplomacy.
Me, my literary reputation is mostly abroad, but I am anchored here in New York. I can't think of any other place I'd rather die than here.
My testimony has been my anchor and my stay, my satisfaction in times of joy and gladness, my comfort in times of sorrow and discouragement.
Wealth is a weak anchor, and glory cannot support a man; this is the law of God, that virtue only is firm, and cannot be shaken by a tempest.
In what a forge and what a heat were shaped the anchors of thy hope! Fear not each sudden sound and shock; 'Tis of the wave and not the rock.
I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.
The secret of the illusoriness is in the necessity of a succession of moods or objects. Gladly we would anchor, but the anchorageis quicksand.
Women anchor me. They're there when I need them. They're sensitive to me, and I'm sensitive to them. I'm not saying I've loved that many women.
Amidst the confusion of the times, the conflicts of conscience, and the turmoil of daily living, an abiding faith becomes an anchor to our lives.
Next to hot chicken soup, a tattoo of an anchor on your chest, and penicillin, I consider a honeymoon one of the most overrated events in the world.
When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors - old friends, family.
To lose our connection with the body is to become spiritually homeless. Without an anchor we float aimlessly, battered by the winds and waves of life
The older generation grew up on blow-dried anchors, plastic politicians, and an ocean of pretense. Realness seems unvarnished and unpolished to them.
If you hold onto the beauty and inspiration and the clarity that is music, you will have an anchor, you will not be too far swayed by what the world is
The spirits are an age-old theme, a story from darkest history, and therefore a presentational anchor that can be used with many different magic tricks.
Who you are, what your values are, what you stand forthey are your anchor, your north star. You won't find them in a book. You'll find them in your soul.
Happiness is the harvest of a quiet mind. Anchor your thoughts on peace, poise, security and divine guidance and your mind will be productive of happiness.
CBS news anchor Dan Rather has interviewed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. When asked what it was like to talk to a crazy man, Saddam said, 'It's not so bad.'
I have never met with a friend who furnished me sea-room. I have only tacked a few times and come to anchor - not sailed - made no voyage, carried no venture.
It is our hope that the AP program can serve as an anchor for increasing rigor in our schools. Rigor can be maintained while increasing student participation.
On the 28th the ship's company received two months pay in advance, and on the following morning we worked out to St. Helen's, where we were obliged to anchor.
There are great news anchors; they're probably very smart, but they're not talking to the audience like real people. They're just reading from a teleprompter.