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«A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.»
Author: Henrik Ibsen | About: Community | Keywords: helm, helms
«Jesse Helms and Newt Gingrich were shaking hands congratulating themselves on the introduction of an anti-gay bill in Congress. If it passes, they won't be able to shake hands, because it will then be illegal for a prick to touch an asshole.»
«The ship that will not obey the helm will have to obey the rocks.»
Author: English Proverb | Keywords: helm, helms, obey, rocks, ship, The Rocks
«In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes, / Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm; / Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, / That, hushed in grim repose, expects his evening prey.»
Author: Thomas Gray (Poet) | Keywords: gallant, gilded, grim, helm, helms, hush, hushed, prow, sway
«Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth.»
«Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.»
Author: Publilius Syrus | Keywords: helm, helms
«Anyone can hold the helm while the sea is calm»
Author: Publilius Syrus | Keywords: helm, helms
«The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.»
«Now as at all times I can see in the mind's eye, In their stiff, painted clothes, the pale unsatisfied ones Appear and disappear in the blue depth of the sky With all their ancient faces like rain-beaten stones, And all their helms of silver hovering»