Jentezen Franklin
Pastor, Author
"Whatever is stealing your peace and rocking your boat, what ever is taking your smile away, reach down, pick it up, and throw it overboard."
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Boat
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Christie Watson
Author
"We must row in whatever boat we find ourselves in."
Aldous Huxley
Novelist, Essayist
"Don't try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We're all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat - and the boat is perpetually sinking."
Zig Ziglar
Author, Motivational Speaker
"Boats in the harbor are safe but that is not what they are meant for."
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"Light boats sail swift, though greater hulks draw deep."
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"The breeze of grace is always blowing on you. You have to open the sails and your boat will move forward."
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"Your side of the boat is sinking!"
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"I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out"
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"The question is never ‘Are you in a storm?’ The question is ‘Is Jesus in your boat?’"
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"We're all in the same boat and we all are going to catch the same hell from the same man."
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"Go on, my friend, and fear nothing; you carry Caesar and his fortune in your boat."
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"I have to build my own boat this time. It's a big sea out there, and I have a pretty small boat. I have a lot of belief in it."
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"She's got feet like boats, whiskers like an American, and her undies are filthy."
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"I really enjoy writing novels. Its like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off."
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"Time is a river, and books are boats."
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"I've reached a point in my life where my Truman Show boat has hit the painting."
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"I played the British Open in 1937. It took a week to get there and a week to get home. I was the low American; finished fourth or fifth. And what it came down to was, I lost a good part of my summer, won $185, and spent $1,000 on boat fare alone."
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"Burn the boats as you enter the island and you will take the island."
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"These paper boats of mine are meant to dance on the ripples of hours, and not reach any destination."
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"Everything that we want is downstream... And you don't have even have to turn the boat and paddle downstream, just let go of the oars, the current will carry you."
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"For will anyone dare to tell me that business is more entertaining than fooling among boats? He must have never seen a boat, or never seen an office, who says so."
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"On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love Boat!''"
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"Each of us has capacities. The real trick is knowing the machinery of the boat in which you are crossing the channel."
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"We Slovenians are even better misers than you Scottish. You know how Scotland began? One of us Slovenians was spending too much money, so we put him on a boat and he landed in Scotland."
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"We're all in the same boat, and we're all seasick."
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