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  • Harbour Island in the Bahamas is beautiful, with turquoise water and pink sand.

  • Khadi has been conceived as the foundation and the image of ahimsa. A real khadi-wearer will not utter an untruth. A real khadi-wearer will harbour no violence, no deceit, no impurity.

    Gandhi (Mahatma) (1938). “Cent per cent Swadeshi: or, The economics of village industries”
  • In political activity, then, men sail a boundless and bottomless sea; there is neither harbour for shelter nor floor for anchorage, neither starting-place nor appointed destination. The enterprise is to keep afloat on an even keel.

    Men   Sea   Political  
    "Political Education". Essay by Michael Joseph Oakeshott, 1951.
  • Your good thoughts, good words and good deeds alone will be your intercessors. Nothing more will be wanted. They alone will serve you as a safe pilot to the harbour of Heaven, as a safe guide to the gates of paradise.

  • We all harbour a great sadness in our soul

  • Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives.

  • This is how space begins, with words only, signs traced on the blank page. To describe space: to name it, to trace it, like those portolano-makers who saturated the coastlines with the names of harbours, the names of capes, the names of inlets, until in the end the land was only separated from the sea by a continuous ribbon of text. Is the aleph, that place in Borges from which the entire world is visible simultaneously, anything other than an alphabet?

    Space   Sea   Land  
  • Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives.

    Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.288, Simon and Schuster
  • Now suzanne takes you hand And she leads you to the river She is wearing rags and feathers From salvation army counters And the sun pours down like honey On our lady of the harbour And she shows you where to look Among the garbage and the flowers There are heroes in the seaweed There are children in the morning They are leaning out for love And they will lean that way forever While suzanne holds the mirror And you want to travel with her And you want to travel blind And you know that she will trust you For shes touched your perfect body with her mind.

    Morning   Children   Hero  
    Leonard Cohen, “Suzanne”
  • My great love is my home county of Cornwall, I love to sit and watch people enjoying themselves on the beaches and in the harbour towns of Cornwall.

    Beach   Home   Love Is  
  • I always look forward to going for a walk in Rushcutters Bay Park, right down to the bottom where you can look in the clear water of the harbour. I use that time to clear my head and really focus my thoughts.

    Water   Focus   Looks  
  • No matter how safe and lovely your harbour is, leave it to see the insecure and the ugly one; only then you can reach the truth!

  • The last spectacle of which Christian men are likely to grow tired is a harbour. Centuries hence there may be jumping-off places for the stars, and our children's children's and so forth children may regard a ship as a creeping thing scarcely more adventurous than a worm. Meanwhile, every harbour gives us a sense of being in touch, if not with the ends of the universe, with the ends of the earth.

  • Some people harbour an awkward clash of feelings - homosexual attraction on the one hand and shame or embarrassment about that attraction on the other. It is well known that the mind struggles to sustain conflicting views.

    Struggle   Views   Hands  
    "Glad to be gay, glad to be Tory" by Evan Davis, www.theguardian.com. April 20, 2012.
  • The vigour of civilised societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth while. Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives, so that men wander beyond the safe provision of personal gratifications. All strong interests easily become impersonal, the love of a good job well done. There is a sense of harmony about such an accomplishment, the Peace brought by something worth while. Such personal gratification arises from aim beyond personality.

    Strong   Jobs   Men  
  • Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbor.

    Sacred   Voyages   Spirit  
  • A ship in harbour is safe, but it's not fulfilling its potential

    Safe   Ships   Harbour  
  • I try to jog in every city I visit, and I particularly enjoy harbour-front paths that let me ogle big ships, railroad bridges and the ruins of factories and warehouses.

    Bridges   Cities   Trying  
    "My week" by Steven Pinker, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2007.
  • Does not the discipline of the scientific spirit just commence when one no longer harbours any conviction?

    Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “The Gay Science”, p.156, Courier Corporation
  • If we have reason to believe someone is preparing an attack against the U.S., has developed that capability, harbours those aspirations, then I think the U.S. is justified in dealing with that, if necessary, by military force.

    "Cheney: Saddam Wants Nuclear Weapons", www.foxnews.com. September 9, 2002.
  • Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolesence.

    Quality   Acting   Way  
  • Materia had been just six when they docked in Sydney Harbour and her father said, 'Look. This is the New World. Anything is possible here.' She's been too young to realize that he was talking to her brother.

    Ann-Marie MacDonald (2011). “Fall On Your Knees”, p.22, Simon and Schuster
  • Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in, and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen? I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding-line, and had no way of knowing how near the harbour was.

    Helen Keller (2012). “The Story of My Life”, p.15, Courier Corporation
  • December 7, 1941. A date which will live in infamy.

    Address to joint session of Congress asking for declaration of war on Japan, 8 Dec. 1941
  • How can I even secretly harbour the thought that my neighbour's faith is inferior to mine?

    Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.57, A&C Black
  • Man is not a ship in harbour; Earth is not a ship in harbour; even Universe is not a ship in harbour! No safe harbour for anything exists!

    Men   Ships   Earth  
  • Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.

    Sweet   Harbour  
    Barnabe Barnes (1593). “Parthenophil and Parthenophe: Sonnets, madrigals, elegies, and odes”
  • Harbour Island in the Bahamas is a wonderful little island with beautiful beaches, a great restaurant culture and friendly, welcoming atmosphere.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • Of course I know that the twins are only words on a page, and I'm certainly not the sort of writer who talks to his characters or harbours any illusions about the creative process. But at the same time, I think it's juvenile and arrogant when literary writers compulsively remind their readers that the characters aren't real. People know that already. The challenge is to make an intelligent reader suspend disbelief, to seduce them into the reality of a narrative.

  • It is indeed paradoxical that an industry which epitomizes all that is new and up-to-date at the same time harbours some of the oldest and least desirable attributes of work in manufacturing industry.

    Peter Dicken (1998). “Global Shift: Transforming the World Economy”, SAGE Publications Limited
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