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When I started 'Case Histories,' the characters were all going to Antarctica on a cruise. The first part was called 'Embarkation.' It was supposed to be about everyone preparing to embark on the cruise, but it mushroomed into an entire book. -- Kate Atkinson
Embark on no enterprise which you cannot submit to the test of prayer. -- Hosea Ballou
Embark on the journey of LOVE. It takes you from yourself to yourself. -- Rumi
Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in. Embark, and the romance quits our vessel, and hangs on every other sail in the horizon. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best of life is to embark on an adventure with a woman interested in having an adventure with you. -- Oleg Cassini
Marriage is a risk; I think it's a great and glorious risk, as long as you embark on the adventure in the same spirit. -- Cate Blanchett
Although eBay is a fantastic tool for collectors who want to buy or sell, you really have to have knowledge of items before you embark. -- Judith Miller
The state of emergency and critical nature of the times do not allow me, as they do not allow anyone, to embark on a blame game. -- Nicos Anastasiades
The work with which we embark on this first volume of a series of theological studies is a work with which the philosophical person does not begin, but rather concludes. -- Hans Urs von Balthasar
The Social Security trust fund is in pretty good shape today and we should not embark upon risky, dangerous schemes which will, in fact, undermine Social Security, such as privatization. -- Max Baucus
We are keen to stress that a strong euro zone is good for a strong United Kingdom. It's not for us to write the changes that the euro zone needs to embark on. -- Nick Clegg
With the recent addition of a full soundtrack and the players map, millions of Poptropicans around the globe are now fully immersed in a multimedia gaming experience when they embark on our high quality adventures. -- Jeff Kinney
Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory. -- Alan Alda
We here in the North have for many years had a natural tendency to feel that when our representatives come together at an international meeting, we embark on the quest of mutual understanding and support. -- Hjalmar Branting
The spiritual quest is not some added benefit to our life, something you embark on if you have the time and inclination. We are spiritual beings on an earthly journey. Our spirituality makes up our beingness. -- John Bradshaw
Well, pioneers always suffer. I don't care who is the first to embark upon things. For instance, settlers that settled the West, Western Canada and the U.S... they went though hell doing it, but it had to be done. -- Bobby Hull
Let us not forget, the financial crisis had its roots in the decision by Congress to embark on a course of social justice to get everyone that wanted a home into one, regardless of whether or not they could afford it. -- Ed Royce
I applied for funding to embark on an overseas field trip in Iceland, and spent six weeks there happily holed up in the national archives, museums and libraries, sifting through ministerial and parish records, censuses, maps, microfilm, logs, and local histories. -- Hannah Kent
If George W. Bush is given a second term, and retains a Republican Congress and a compliant federal judiciary, he and his allies are likely to embark on a campaign of political retribution the likes of which we haven't seen since Richard Nixon. -- Paul Begala
Is human nature basically good or evil? No economist can embark upon his profession without considering this question, and yet they all seem to. And they all seem to think human nature is basically good, or they wouldn't be surprised by the effects of deregulation. -- Jane Smiley
Where the despair of loneliness and poverty haunts every hour, the optimism to embark on new projects cannot find a place to alight on the brain's cortex. Poverty itself is an enormous obstacle to an enlightened and enlightening - not to say healthy - old age. -- Sherwin B. Nuland
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A lot of people that embark on spiritual endeavors tended to, especially in the '60s and '70s, they tended to give up what they had before and cut themselves off from their lives, previous life as it were. But, I don't think that one should do that. -- Dave Davies
If a school makes an effort to provide kids the right foods and help them to be more active, this benefits the student and the family's health. If you embark on a program to improve your health with a church or community group, you are more likely to stick with it over time. -- Tom Rath
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are as much every U.S. citizen's wars as they are the veterans' wars. If we don't assume that civilians have just as much ownership and the moral responsibilities that we have as a nation when we embark on something like that, then we're in a very bad situation. -- Phil Klay
At the age of nine, I simultaneously fell in love with two Dutch sisters because they seemed so beautifully strange, and their clothes were mysterious and alluring - added to which, they could not speak a word of English. More than anything, I wanted to connect with them and embark on a vast journey of exploration. -- Michael Leunig
Once you do embark upon the separation or divorce process, it is very important to remember three key things: Be kind, be reasonable, be brief. Remember that this person will no longer be your spouse, but he or she will continue to be your co-parent, family member, and perhaps business partner in certain assets or entities. -- Laura Wasser
To write a novel is to embark on a quest that is very romantic. People have visions, and the next step is to execute them. That's a very romantic project. Like Edvard Munch's strange dreamlike canvases where people are stylized, like 'The Scream.' Munch must have had that vision in a dream, he never saw it. -- Joyce Carol Oates
The more I act, the harder it gets, since I feel like I still have so much to learn. Whenever I embark on a new project, it always feels like the first time. If it were easy to me and I felt like I knew everything, my acting might have been different. I think the feeling of 'newness' keeps me on my toes and concentrated. -- Lee Byung-hun
To-morrow we embark upon the boundless sea. -- Homer
Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. -- Confucius
The sea that calls all things unto her cals me, and I must embark. -- Khalil Gibran
This world is like Noah's Ark. In which few men but many beasts embark. -- Samuel Butler
Such a mysterious business, motherhood. How brave a woman must be to embark on it. -- M.L. Stedman
Procrastinating to embark on your passion is a risky business, because tomorrow may never come! -- Alex Zar
Twilight and evening bell, and after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell when I embark. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
I could never understand how someone would embark on their life without having first confronted and clarified the truly fundamental questions. -- Thomas Metzinger
Such a bad mistake it would be, to embark on marriage and adult life without a nice supply of duct tape. -- Nancy Werlin
I have found awareness to be one of the most rewarding, and yet one of the most painful journeys one can embark on. -- Kierra C.T. Banks
Illuminated emancipation, freedom, unalloyed and untainted bliss await you, but you have to choose to embark on the Inward Journey to discover it -- B.K.S. Iyengar
An anguish of longing would boil up inside me; a hysterical thirst for contradictions and contrasts would appear, and I would embark on dissipations. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
The physical body is not only a temple for our soul, but the means by which we embark on the inward journey toward the core. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
If you embark on a project as magnificent in concept as the brotherhood of man, it is foolish not to anticipate difficulties of proportionate magnificence. -- Margaret Halsey
We need to embark on a human revolution. A revolution where our reality is not replaced by drones but augmented by technology to do better. -- Vishal Sikka
You can embark on new and steeper versions of your old sins, you know, and cry tears while doing it that are genuine as any. -- Leif Enger
So we all embark wondering what lies over the horizon, whatâ??s around the next bend. And isnâ??t that, in the end, what drives us? -- Blake Crouch
If you knowingly and willingly embark on criminal behaviour, the consequences of that should be... that you lose some of your benefits under the current system -- Iain Duncan Smith
Great waves, and blaze with fire like them.In beauty, but do not condemn,The seamen who embark and fail,But only those who will not sail. -- John Piper
Reserve some hours daily to examine yourself and fortune; for if you embark yourself in perpetual conversation or recreation, you will certainly shipwreck your mind and fortune. -- Anne of Austria
To embark on the journey towards your goals and dreams requires bravery. To remain on that path requires courage. The bridge that merges the two is commitment. -- Steve Maraboli
Delusions, errors and lies are like huge, gaudy vessels, the rafters of which are rotten and worm-eaten, and those who embark in them are fated to be shipwrecked. -- Gautama Buddha
To fully embark on the whole Phish experience, it's all about going to the city they built beforehand, with the fans and tent city or whatever it's called. -- Joseph Bruce
We will have to embark on a change so radical, a revolution so quiet and yet so total, that it will go far beyond the programme for a parliament -- Edward Heath
Once you embark on a road of imagination and creating, all bets are off. All preconceptions about what you must do, make, think, assume, and believe are yesterday's news. -- Jon Rappoport
We embark unhesitatingly on the path, in a direction that is absolutely right and urgent, supported by everyone, in the knowledge that this path is but a learning process -- Yehudi Menuhin
Singapore could only be taken after a siege by an army of at least 50,000 men. It is not considered possible that the Japanese would embark on such a mad enterprise. -- Winston Churchill
When I am about to embark on a difficult journey, I comfort myself by reading the accounts of the great nineteenth-century travellers, men like Stanley, Burton, Speke, Burckhardt and Barth. -- Tahir Shah
Before you embark on it you ask the question: Does this path have a heart? If the answer is no, you will know it, and then you must choose another path. -- Carlos Castaneda
I want you to embark on the truth of loving yourself because when you love yourself and when you appreciate yourself, you will make healthy changes in your life for healthy reasons. -- Steve Maraboli
before I embark on any new venture, I ask myself: will the joy of doing this make me lose track of any concern for time? If the answer is yes, I proceed! -- Alice Walker
Keep only those things that speak to your heart. Then take the plunge and discard all the rest. By doing this, you can reset your life and embark on a new lifestyle. -- Marie Kondo
... I have noticed that no sooner do people embark on a course of action which they do not find wholly satisfactory than they muster every argument to persuade others to imitate it ... -- Anne Morice
You can never represent yourself totally .... to seek self -knowledge is to embark on a journey which ... will always be incomplete, cannot be charted on a map, will never halt, cannot be described. -- Douglas Hofstadter
When we decide to embark in the service of God, great things begin to happen in our life and the lives of people around us. We learn of Him. We come unto Him. -- Neill F. Marriott
But it could be that we, as early as spring, will need to embark on a new policy in order to save one of the cornerstones of European politics: personal freedom of movement. -- Paolo Gentiloni
I'm about to embark on what may be as important as an initiative as anything I do as President, trying to nudge the world in the direction of doing something serious about climate change. -- Barack Obama
Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force! You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
You have to embark on your own quest to discover why you are on this planet, what makes you get out of bed in the morning, and what you uniquely contribute to the world. -- Danny Silk
How can a modern anthropologist embark upon a generalization with any hope of arriving at a satisfactory conclusion? By thinking of the organizational ideas that are present in any society as a mathematical pattern. -- Edmund Leach
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We here in the North have for many years had a natural tendency to feel that when our representatives come together at an international meeting, we embark on the quest of mutual understanding and support -- Hjalmar Branting

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