Ahab Quotes
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Ahab Quotes & Sayings
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This is Ahab, that's Jezebel," said Evie, who was one of those who name animals after the less successful characters of Old Testament history.
— E. M. Forster
The best practical advice I can give to the present generation is to practice the virtue which the Christians call love.
— Bertrand Russell
Ahab was neither my first husband nor my last
— Sena Jeter Naslund
I had insecurities and fears like everybody does, and I got over it. But I was interested in the parts of me that struggled with those things.
— Philip Seymour Hoffman
blow your trump - blister your lungs! - Ahab will dam off your blood, as a miller shuts his watergate upon the stream!
— Herman Melville
People who criticize power in the Jewish community are regarded the way Ahab treated Elijah: You're a traitor.
— Noam Chomsky
On a cold and gray Chicago morning another little baby child is born in the ghetto, and his Mama cries.
— Elvis Presley
I have always been convinced that if a woman once made up her mind to marry a man, nothing but instant flight could save him.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Satan turned Eve's eye to the apple, Achan's eye to the wedge of gold, Ahab's eye to Naboth's vineyard, and then what work did he make with them!
— Joseph Alleine
From beneath his slouched hat Ahab dropped a tear into the sea; nor did all the Pacific contain such wealth as that one wee drop.
— Herman Melville
Captain Ahab drowned, he reminded himself; it was the trimmer, Ishmael, who survived.
— Salman Rushdie
No man can be successful, unless he first loves his work.
— David Sarnoff
But Ahab's glance was averted; like a blighted fruit tree he shook, and cast his last, cindered apple to the soil.
— Herman Melville
Ahab still stood like an anvil, receiving every shock, but without the least quivering of his own.
— Herman Melville
Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.
— Francis Atterbury
To be enraged with a dumb thing, Captain Ahab, seems blasphemous.
— Herman Melville
Every time Elvis sings, he makes a bargain with the devil -- just like Captain Ahab in MOBY DICK!
— Greil Marcus
To accomplish his object Ahab must use tools; and of all tools used in the shadow of the moon, men are most apt to get out of order.
— Herman Melville
As Herman Melville wrote of that seagoing monster of a man Captain Ahab, "All mortal greatness is but disease.
— Nathaniel Philbrick
Reality outran apprehension; Captain Ahab stood upon his quarter-deck.
— Herman Melville
Oh, Ahab! what shall be grand in thee, it must needs be plucked at from the skies, and dived for in the deep, and featured in the unbodied air!
— Herman Melville
Ahab and aguish lay stretched together in one hammock.
— Herman Melville