Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.
– Iris Murdoch
Related Quotes:
- When you leave a port, ask yourself two questions: What mark you have made on that port and what have you learned from that port? – Mehmet Murat ildan
- Solitude is not a port to drop anchor, but only a port to rest for a while! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- We are all born in a little port but not all of us sail the vast oceans! Majority remains in the port! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- Mercifully one forgets one’s love affairs as one forgets one’s dreams. – Iris Murdoch
- I think being a woman is like being Irish… Everyone says you’re important and nice, but you take second place all the time. – Iris Murdoch
- Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling. – Iris Murdoch
- Artists are indeed unlikely to be good, goodness would silence them. – Iris Murdoch
- there was a feeling as if I carried a small leaden coffin in the place of my heart – Iris Murdoch
- People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us. – Iris Murdoch
- I felt a deep grief that crouched and stayed still as if it was afraid to move. – Iris Murdoch
- Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved – Iris Murdoch
- Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved – Iris Murdoch
- He felt, in a way so familiar as to be almost dreary, the chosen victim of the gods, the self-admitted traitor, the one destined for judgment. – Iris Murdoch
- I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture. – Iris Murdoch
- One forgot, one forgot. What hold had one on the past? The present moment was a little travelling in darkness. – Iris Murdoch
- One forgot, one forgot. What hold had one on the past? The present moment was a little travelling in darkness. – Iris Murdoch
- It is necessary to write, that much is clear, and to write in a way quite unlike any way which I have employed before. – Iris Murdoch
- Violence is born of the desire to escape oneself. – Iris Murdoch
- But it was just luck really if the girls survived. You’re like a man firing a machine gun into a supermarket who happens not to become a murderer. – Iris Murdoch
- Love doesn’t think like that. All right, it’s blind as a bat–”Bats have radar. Yours doesn’t seem to be working. – Iris Murdoch
- Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch. – Jane Austen
- For good health, watch what you eat. For a good head, watch what you watch. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- But remember: what belongs to the sea will always return to the sea.–Nereid – Rick Riordan
- I tossed a stone into the Sea To see what it would do for me And the ripples went out And became ocean waves To return to the Sea inside of me – Mark AY Nunez
- Perhaps they didn’t know they were at sea. Was there a certain percentage of people at sea who lacked the knowledge that they were at sea? – Ben Marcus
- Perhaps they didn’t know they were at sea. Was there a certain percentage of people at sea who lacked the knowledge that they were at sea? – Ben Marcus
- Ships are my arrows, the sea my bow, the world my target. – Robert Thier
- Fish are small, but do not drown in the sea. Ships are big, but sink in the ocean. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- From the port of ideas, not only the most clever ones put out to sea and conquer the world but also the most stupid ones do this! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- Good thoughts without actions are like a ship stuck in a port. – Debasish Mridha
- A personality for the incredibly beautiful can be a pointless cargo… – Russell Brand
- Fear is unnecessary cargo when sailing to success. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- ….I’d rather travel in Cargo-nanoships than a Bullet-train to reach my target. – Farooq A Shiekh
- Jasper!- Casey shouts, startling the young woman. -œMy cargo is talking to me! – Nathan Reese Maher
- Clarity of your thoughts makes your actions precise 🙂 Whenever you feel your actions are not appropriate, watch out your thoughts… 🙂 – Raj Vanjara
- Your mind controls your actions and that means when your mind gives you designed thoughts, your actions too are going to be designed actions! – Israelmore Ayivor
- Your right actions might hurt someone, so if required apologize for your right actions, but don’t stop taking right actions. – Amit Kalantri
- If you give, expecting something in return, it’s not really giving at all.If you love, expecting something in return, it’s not really loving at all. – Donald L Hicks
- The reason for leaving sometimes is to return. Simply to return. – Yrsa DaleyWard
- Spread the good and it will return to you. Spread the bad and it will return to you. Choice is yours what you want to receive. – Ambreen Ali