Rough Seas Quotes:

Give me a spirit that on this life's rough sea Loves t'have his sails filled with a lusty wind, Even till his sail-yards tremble, his masts crack, And his ship run on her side so low That she drinks water, and her keel plows air.

- George Chapman

source: George Chapman (1990). “The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles Duke of Byron”, p.35, Manchester University Press

topic: Life, Running, Wind, Masts, Keel

I am to be broken. I am to be derided all my life. I am to be cast up and down among these men and women, with their twitching faces, with their lying tongues, like a cork on a rough sea. Like a ribbon of weed I am flung far every time the door opens.

- Virginia Woolf

source: Virginia Woolf (2005). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.687, Wordsworth Editions

topic: Weed, Women, Lying, Cork, Rough Seas

Men say their pinnacles point to heaven. Why, so does every tree that buds, and every bird that rises as it sings. Men say their aisles are good for worship. Why, so is every mountain glen and rough sea-shore. But this they have of distinct and indisputable glory,--that their mighty walls were never raised, and never shall be, but by men who love and aid each other in their weakness.

- John Ruskin

topic: Wall, Men, Sea, Rough Seas

The courage to press on regardless--regardless of whether we face calm seas or rough seas, and especially when the market storms howl around us--is the quintessential attribute of the successful investor.

- John C. Bogle

source: "A Tale of Two Markets". Speech at the Trinity University Policymaker Breakfast Series, www.vanguard.com. April 16, 2001.

topic: Successful, Sea, Storm, Quintessential, Calm Seas

He shifted over without comment, lifting the blankets, and I scrambled into the warm sheets beside him. He smelled like soap and sleep and bare skin. He smelled familiar. Not the deja vu familiar of Guy or Mel. Familiar like...the ache in your chest of homesickness, of longing for harbor after weeks of rough seas or craving a fire's warmth after snow--or wanting back something you should never have given away.

- Josh Lanyon

topic: Sleep, Sea, Fire, Deja Vu, Bare Skin

The future of Japan's economic growth depends on us having the willpower and the courage to sail without hesitation onto the rough seas of global competition.

- Shinzo Abe

source: "Japan’s New Leader Takes On Old Order to Jolt Economy" by Martin Fackler, www.nytimes.com. March 6, 2013.

topic: Japan, Sea, Competition, Rough Seas

What money creates, money preserves: if thy wealth decays, thy honor dies; it is but a slippery happiness which fortunes can give, and frowns can take; and not worth the owning which a night's fire can melt, or a rough sea can drown.

- Francis Quarles

topic: Night, Fire, Sea, Rough Seas