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  • Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.

  • To follow the drops sliding from a lifting oar, Head up, while the rower breathes, and the small boat drifts quietly shoreward.

    Rowing   Boat   Breathe  
    Theodore Roethke, “The Shape Of The Fire”
  • Don't want to slump over the oars.

    Slumps   Want   Oar  
  • Let go of the oars... Everything you want is downstream.

  • There was, it is said, a criminal in Italy who was suffered to make his choice between Guicciardini and the galleys. He chose the history. But the war of Pisa was too much for him; he changed his mind, and went to the oars.

    War   Reading   Choices  
  • A straight oar looks bent in the water. It matters not merely that we see a thing, but how we see it.

    "Selected Essays".
  • The judgment is an utensil proper for all subjects, and will have an oar in everything.

    Utensils   Judgment   Oar  
    Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.536, Delphi Classics
  • Baccarat is a game whereby the croupier gathers in money with a flexible sculling oar, then rakes it home. If I could have borrowed his oar I would have stayed.

    Funny   Home   Gambling  
  • When you are rowing well and hard, the rhythm of the stroke takes over. It drives your days and restores your nights. It imparts cadence and direction. You feel like you and the boats are one, you feel that no obstacle will put up any more resistance than the water does to your oars, you feel that hard work and grit and mental toughness will always win it for you in the end.

  • The world is like a vast sea: mankind like a vessel sailing on its tempestuous bosom. ... [T]he sciences serve us for oars.

    Science   Sea   Sailing  
    Oliver Goldsmith (1824). “Letters from a Citizen of the World to His Friends in the East ...”, p.120
  • The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are true prayers heard throughout nature.

    Weed   Nature   Prayer  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.276, Library of America
  • The feel of a good row stays with you hours afterward. Your muscles glow, your mind wanders from the papers on you desk and goes back, again and again, to that terrific power piece at the end of the workout when it felt as if you and the boat were flying, as if you legs were two cannons and your arms were two oars and the great lateral muscles of your back were pterodactyl wings and the brim of your baseball cap was a harpoon.

  • Prayer and praise are the oars by which a man may row his boat into the deep waters of the knowledge of Christ.

    Prayer   Men   Deep Water  
    Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 32: Sermons 1877-1937”, p.852, Delmarva Publications, Inc.
  • Most people are rowing against the current of life. Instead of turning the boat around, all they need to do is let go of the oars.

    "Be Flexible!" by Mike Robbins, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 27, 2010.
  • Oh swiftly glides the bonnie boat, Just parted from the shore, And to the fisher's chorus-note Soft moves the dipping oar.

    Moving   Justice   Boat  
    Joanna Baillie, Judith Bailey Slagle (1999). “The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie”, p.128, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
  • If any pale student, glued to his desk, here seek an apology for a way of life whose natural fruits is that pallid and emasculate scholarship of which New England has had too many examples, it will be far better that this sketch had not been written. For the student there is, in its season, no better place than the saddle, and no better companion than the rifle or the oar.

    Apology   Way   Fruit  
    Francis Parkman (1960). “Letters of Francis Parkman”
  • Strangers have crossed the sound, but not the sound of the dark oarsmen Or the golden-haired sons of kings, Strangers whose thought is not formed to the cadence of waves, Rhythm of the sickle, oar and milking pail

    Kings   Son   Dark  
    Kathleen Raine (1989). “Selected Poems”, p.74, SteinerBooks
  • You don't paddle against the current, you paddle with it. And if you get good at it, you throw away the oars.

    Currents   Oar   Ifs  
    "Kris Kristofferson: What I've Learned" by Scott Carrier, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.
  • Shakespeare is forever coming into our affairs -- putting in his oar, so to speak -- with some pat word or sentence.

    Forever   Speak   Affair  
    Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1970). “The Works of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Ponkapog papers. A sea turn, and other matters”
  • Statistically, I'd say comedy writers are perhaps the sanest category of show people. And why not? They make big money, and although it's not an easy trade - particularly when you're at your galley oar five days a week - it's easier on the nerves and the psyche than living with the brain-squeezing pressure and cares of being the Star.

    Stars   People   Brain  
    Dick Cavett (2014). “Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks”, p.154, Henry Holt and Company
  • Low stir of leaves and dip of oars And lapsing waves on quiet shores.

    Dip   Quiet   Wave  
    John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.292
  • There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.

    Kate Chopin (2005). “The Awakening - Literary Touchstone”, p.142, Prestwick House Inc
  • 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.

    Letting Go   Want   Boat  
  • Our human tragedy is that we are unable to comprehend our experience, it slips through our fingers, we can't hold on to it, and the more time passes, the harder it gets...My father said that the natural world gave us explanations to compensate for the meanings we could not grasp. The slant of the cold sunlight on a winter pine, the music of water, an oar cutting the lake and the flight of birds, the mountains' nobility , the silence of the silence. We are given life but must accept that it is unattainable and rejoice in what can be held in the eye, the memory, the mind.

    Memories   Father   Eye  
  • But oars alone can ne'er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.

    Heaven   Toil   Lost  
    William Cowper (1822). “The poems of William Cowper”, p.226
  • He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

    Life   Lying   Wind  
  • Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.

    Littles   Gale   Driving  
    Alexander Pope (1776). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Six Volumes Complete. With His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements; Together with All His Notes, as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death: Printed Verbatim from the Octavo Edition of Mr. Warburton”, p.75
  • Certain anthropologists hold that man, having discovered tools, ceased to evolve biologically. Animals, never having discovered them, continue to fashion drills out of their beaks, oars out of their hind feet, wings out of their forefeet, suits of armor out of their hides, levers out of their horns, saws out of their teeth. Whether this be true or not, all authorities agree that man is the tool-using animal. It sets him off from the rest of the animal kingdom as drastically as does speech.

    Fashion   Animal   Men  
  • I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them. My philosophy is to stay as close as possible to what's happening. If I can't solve something, how the hell can I expect my managers to.

    "Harold S. Geneen, 87, Dies; Nurtured ITT" by Kenneth N. Gilpin, www.nytimes.com. November 23, 1997.
  • On the ear Drops the light drip of the suspended oar.

    Light   Ears   Oar  
    Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.111, Cambridge University Press
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