There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: the way of an eagle in the air; the way of a ser...pent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Dollars! All their cares, hopes, joys, affections, virtues, and associations seemed to be melted down into dollars. Whatever the c...hance contributions that fell into the slow cauldron of their talk, they made the gruel thick and slab with dollars. Men were weighed by their dollars, measures were gauged by their dollars; life was auctioneered, appraised, put up, and knocked down for its dollars. The next respectable thing to dollars was any venture having their attainment for its end. The more of that worthless ballast, honour and fair-dealing, which any man cast overboard from the ship of his Good Nature and Good Intent, the more ample stowage-room he had for dollars. Make commerce one huge lie and mighty theft. Deface the banner of the nation for an idle rag; pollute it star by star; and cut out stripe by stripe as from the arm of a degraded soldier. Do anything for dollars! What is a flag to them!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But Nature is no sentimentalist,--does not cosset or pamper us. We must see the world is rough and surly, and will not mind drowni...ng a man or a woman; but swallows your ship like a grain of dust.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every man beholds his human condition with a degree of melancholy. As a ship aground is battered by the waves, so man, imprisoned ...in mortal life, lies open to the mercy of coming events.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We want some coat woven of elastic steel, stout as the first, and limber as the second. We want a ship in these billows we inhabit.... An angular, dogmatic house would be rent to chips and splinters, in this storm of many elements. No, it must be tight, and fit to the form of man, to live at all; as a shell is the architecture of a house founded on the sea.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The wheels and springs of man are all set to the hypothesis of the permanence of nature. We are not built like a ship to be tossed..., but like a house to stand.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Each man has his own vocation. The talent is the call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him. He has faculties ...silently inviting him thither to endless exertion. He is like a ship in the river; he runs against obstructions on every side but one; on that side all obstruction is taken away, and he sweeps serenely over a deepening channel into an infinite sea.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the ch...ance of being drowned.... A man in a jail has more room, better food and commonly better company.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ship me somewhere east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise ...a thirst.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now look, Winocki. There are two other men on this ship who washed up as pilots. But Martin's a bombardier and Hauser went in for ...navigation. And they're both good. You're a good gunner or you wouldn't have the rating you've got. We need you just like we need the whole gang. It takes all of us to make this ship function. Now get this into your head. We all belong to this airplane. Every man has got to rely on every other man to do the right thing at the right time. You played football, Winocki. You know how one man can gum up the works. You gotta play ball with us and play the game, or I'm gonna have to get rid of you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »