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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound. -- William Shakespeare
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel. -- Augustus Hare
I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one. -- Dag Hammarskjold
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. -- Plutarch
I am God's vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live. -- Kanye West
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured. -- Mark Twain
The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence. -- Rabindranath Tagore
I'm like a vessel, and God has chosen me to be the voice and the connector. -- Kanye West
Love Gratefully. This love expands your heart into a greater vessel which can hold yet more love. -- Harold Klemp
If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents. -- Aeschylus
When you're full of yourself, God can't fill you. But when you empty yourself, God has a useful vessel. -- Max Lucado
For the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting. -- Plutarch
God doesn't seek for golden vessels, and does not ask for silver ones, but He must have clean ones. -- Dwight L. Moody
The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle; the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true! -- Danny Kaye
Just as water will conform to the shape of the vessel that contains it, so will a man follow the good and evil of his companions. -- Imagawa Sadayo
The world was simply and sheerly divided into 'the aware', those who had the experience of being vessels of the divine, and a great mass of 'the unaware', 'the unmusical', 'the unattuned. -- Tom Wolfe
Difficulties and obstacles are God's challenges to faith. When hindrances confront us in the path of duty, we are to recognize them as vessels for faith to fill with the fullness and all-sufficiency of Jesus. -- A. B. Simpson
To the highest leadership among women it is given to hold steadily in one hand the sacred vessels that hold the ancient sanctities of life, and in the other a flaming torch to light the way for oncoming generations. -- Anna Garlin Spencer
Just for today, allow yourself to embrace all that you are every moment. Know that you are a vessel of light. Allow yourself to release all doubts about your ability, the mistakes of the past, the fear of the future. -- Iyanla Vanzant
We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over. -- Ray Bradbury
Israel uses sophisticated attack jets and naval vessels to bomb densely-crowded refugee camps, schools, apartment blocks, mosques, and slums to attack a population that has no air force, no air defense, no navy, no heavy weapons, no artillery units, no mechanized armor, no command in control, no army and calls it a war. -- Noam Chomsky
Because when I read, I don't really read; I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop, or I sip it like a liqeur until the thought dissolves in me like alcohol, infusing brain and heart and coursing on through the veins to the root of each blood vessel. -- Bohumil Hrabal
O captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done. The ship has weather'd every wrack The prize we sought is won The port is near, the bells I hear The people all exulting While follow eyes, the steady keel The vessel grim and daring But Heart! Heart! Heart! O the bleeding drops of red Where on the deck my captain lies Fallen cold and dead. -- Walt Whitman
Awareness Is Not The Same As ThoughtMore Like A Vessel Which Can Hold And Contain Our Thinking -- Jon Kabat-Zinn
A Vessel out at Sea is like a Woman, with out a Navigator it has no sense of Direction. A Navigator with out a Vessel has no Sense of Purpose. -- Rey
There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily! -- Saint Francis de Sales
To save money on gifts, give someone their favorite candy in a beautiful, customized vessel with a personalized tag. It's sweet and always appreciated. -- Dylan Lauren
Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I've been planted here to be a vessel for acting... That's why I'm really taking any part, regardless of how complicated it's going to be. -- Leonardo DiCaprio
To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils. -- Plato
Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience. -- Walter Lippmann
As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish. -- Demosthenes
The human voice: mysterious, spontaneous, primal. For me, the human voice is the vessel on which all emotions travel - except perhaps jealousy. And the breath, the breath is the captain of that vessel. -- Claron McFadden
We have made many glass vessels... with tubes two cubits long. These were filled with mercury, the open end was closed with the finger, and the tubes were then inverted in a vessel where there was mercury. -- Evangelista Torricelli
Possession and exorcism is something that's in every religion and every culture. It's a real primal fear: Is the body a vessel for our spirits? What happens if something else takes over it? Where does the spirit go? -- Eli Roth
A long sea implies an uniform and steady motion of long and extensive waves; on the contrary, a short sea is when they run irregularly, broken, and interrupted; so as frequently to burst over a vessel's side or quarter. -- William Falconer
Liberals tend to stress how marvelous education is, in and of itself, and also adore it as a vessel for genuine equality. (That's me, by the way: Hell, I think we should be spending $50 billion a year to make college education free). -- Rick Perlstein
The damage that the human body can survive these days is as awesome as it is horrible: crushing, burning, bombing, a burst blood vessel in the brain, a ruptured colon, a massive heart attack, rampaging infection. These conditions had once been uniformly fatal. -- Atul Gawande
For drink, there was beer which was very strong when not mingled with water, but was agreeable to those who were used to it. They drank this with a reed, out of the vessel that held the beer, upon which they saw the barley swim. -- Xenophon
Aside from what it teaches you, there is simply the indescribable degree of peace that can be achieved on a sailing vessel at sea. I guess a combination of hard work and the seemingly infinite expanse of the sea - the profound solitude - that does it for me. -- Billy Campbell
That was certainly true the first time, when I did Body Heat, the first movie that I directed. I was looking for a vessel to tell a certain kind of story, and I was a huge fan of Film Noir, and what I liked about it was that it was so extreme in style. -- Lawrence Kasdan
If your ego starts out, 'I am important, I am big, I am special,' you're in for some disappointments when you look around at what we've discovered about the universe. No, you're not big. No, you're not. You're small in time and in space. And you have this frail vessel called the human body that's limited on Earth. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
You know, I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel you know, like the font and the essence and the source of all divine, creative, unknowable, eternal mystery is just a smidge too much responsibility to put on one fragile, human psyche. It's like asking somebody to swallow the sun. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
We found letters at the house we bought from a sailor to his wife who lived in the house. He went down to the Caribbean on this trader vessel, bringing down salted fish. There would be handwritten letters, but also telegrams, saying which ports he was in. And he'd be gone for three months. That was just the way it is. -- Michael Winter
Art is a consciousness-provoking vessel. -- ELLE NICOLAI
I'm just a vessel of information. -- Steven Cojocaru
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Demagogue--a vessel containing beer and other liquids. -- Mark Twain
The greatest vessel takes long to complete. -- Laozi
He who sends the storm steers the vessel. -- Thomas Adams
Bitterness only consumes the vessel that contains it. -- Rubin Carter
The heart itself is only a small vessel, -- Macarius of Egypt
I am a frail vessel full of errors. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
A society without religion is like a vessel without compass. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel. -- Seneca the Younger
A woman is essentially a vessel made to be filled. -- Jose Saramago
The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel. -- John Lyly
Self-care is not selfish. You cannot serve from an empty vessel. -- Eleanor Brown
Science is the Noah's Ark very itself! Seek no other vessel! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top. -- James Reston
A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top. -- James Reston
Margo's beauty was a kind of sealed vessel of perfection--uncracked and uncrackable. -- John Green
Writing is a vessel...with readers the ocean and authors as its sails... -- William Petersen
Skating was the vessel into which I could pour my heart and soul -- Peggy Fleming
Skating was the vessel into which I could pour my heart and soul. -- Peggy Fleming
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel. -- Socrates
The vessel, though her masts be firm,Beneath her copper bears a worm. -- Henry David Thoreau
The divine thoughts comes from God, we are only vessel for its transmission. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
The Republican Party is an empty vessel unless we imbue it with values. -- Rand Paul
Unless the vessel be pure, everything which is poured into it will turn sour. -- Horace
The supreme application of human attention is to be a vessel to carry awe. -- Etsko Schuitema
God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them. -- C. S. Lewis
The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. -- James Reston
Good work in the building of my vessel stood me always in good stead. -- Joshua Slocum
The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side. -- Scott Westerfeld
The purpose of education is not to fill a vessel but to kindle a flame. -- Alfred North Whitehead
Every time you empty your vessel of that energy, fresh new energy comes flooding in. -- Anthony Kiedis
The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled. -- Plutarch
Black is like a broken vessel, which is deprived of the capacity to contain anything. -- Leonardo da Vinci
He was using me. When he cast me in Sideways I was nothing but a vessel. -- Thomas Haden Church
What you have in your head, put down on paper. The head is a fragile vessel. -- Dmitri Shostakovich
The revolution is like a vessel filled with the pulsating heartbeat of millions of working people. -- Ernst Toller
The sea and wind can at the same time convey my neighbour's vessel and my own. -- Jean-Baptiste Say
Only a life of prayer and meditation will render a vessel ready for the Master's use. -- George Muller
If time is my vessel, then learning to love might be my way back to sea -- Paul Banks
Self-care isn't selfish (it is a gift to all concerned). You can't serve from an empty vessel. -- Eleanor Brown
Hatred and bitterness and anger only consume the vessel that contains them. It doesn't hurt another soul. -- Rubin Carter
The vessel of Revolution can arrive at port only on a sea reddened by torrents of blood. -- Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
The only way to keep a broken vessel full is to keep it always under the tap. -- Billy Sunday
I am so honored to be the vessel into which you pour this story of pain and strength. -- Anita Diament
Surely oak and threefold brass surrounded his heart who first trusted a frail vessel to the merciless ocean. -- Horace
At time I find the true material of my spirit,this earthly body is no longer my only vessel. -- Toba Beta
Glorious is the tumult of the waves that crash against a vessel, preparing it for the seas of life. -- Don Williams
As the water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it, so a wise man adapts himself to circumstances. -- Confucius
Everything that you receive is not measured according to its actual size, but, rather that of the receiving vessel. -- Juana InÃ©s de la Cruz
Long after you go downand the vessel rusts apartyour bones sunkenburied in the ocean floorI wonder if you miss people~? -- Kristin Elizabeth Clark
Launch your vessel, And crowd your canvas, And, ere it vanishes Over the margin, After it, follow it, FollowThe Gleam. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Earth, receive an honored guest; William Yeats is laid to rest. Let the Irish vessel lie Emptied of its poetry. -- W. H. Auden
Every Naval vessel has a contingent of Marines aboard. After all, the Sailors have to have someone to dance with. -- Bob Hope
Extremely foolish advice is likely to be uttered by those who are looking at the laboring vessel from the land. -- Arthur Helps
Hero is not the word I would use to describe myself on August 20. The word I would use is vessel. -- Antoinette Tuff
I'll never reach my destination, If I never try, So I will sail my vessel, 'Til the river runs dry. -- Garth Brooks
The speed of the fleet is not determined by the fastest vessel; rather it is determined by the slowest one. -- Wen Jiabao
In order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water before we trust it with wine. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Twitter is a vessel that we can use to share #positivity to others through our timeline one tweet at a time. -- Germany Kent
Shall we for ever make new books, as apothecaries make new mixtures, by pouring only out of one vessel into another? -- Laurence Sterne
Missions: The Word of God from the heart of God to the heart of man through a consecrated, dedicated, and pure vessel. -- Nick Frost
Trash? The only trash I see here are two little boys lost at sea and a pathetic excuse for a seaworthy vessel! -- Davy Jones
...and the vessel was not full, his intellect was not satisfied, his soul was not at peace, his heart was not still. -- Hermann Hesse
The main reason for the colossal objects is the obvious one, to expand and intensify the presence of the vessel - the object. -- Claes Oldenburg
The world is like a vast sea: mankind like a vessel sailing on its tempestuous bosom. ... [T]he sciences serve us for oars. -- Oliver Goldsmith
Attention is like a narrow mouthed vessel; pour into it what you have to say cautiously, and, as it were, drop by drop. -- Joseph Joubert
A dream is like a river ever changing as it flows and a dreamer's just a vessel that must follow where it goes. -- Garth Brooks
Whimpering never kept a leaking vessel from foundering. Vigorously manning the pumps has. Get busy with your head and hands, not your chin. -- B. C. Forbes
Now entertain conjecture of a time, When creeping murmur and the pouring dark Fill the wide vessel of the universe... Chorus Henry V -- William Shakespeare
The purer the golden vessel, the more readily is it bent; the higher worth of woman is sooner lost than that of man. -- Jean Paul
Can a secular artist be used as a vessel to bring souls to Christ? Of course... this is God we are talking about! -- Monica Johnson
I feel there is always room for good music. I want to reach people's soul with my lyrics through whatever vessel God chooses. -- Ne-Yo
The S.S. Sierra was a ten-thousand-ton vessel. Today, lifeboats bigger than the Sierra are found on the Queen Mary and other luxury liners. -- Fred Allen
Thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure. This frail vessel thou emptiest again and again, and fillest it ever with fresh life. -- Rabindranath Tagore

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