Anchors Quotes

The director, Antoine Fuqua, relies on small details, which anchor the vigilante-as-saint myth in at least a minimal degree of reality. — David Denby

Wealth is a weak anchor, and glory cannot support a man; this is the law of God, that virtue only is firm, and cannot be shaken by a tempest. — Pythagoras

Sometimes ideas hold us down; they become heavy anchors that hold the bark of identity fixated in shallow, dead water. — John O'Donohue

The girl anchors the stage, sucks in the male gaze, and, depending on who she is, throws her own gaze back out into the audience. — Kim Gordon

Ensure that no Marine who honorably wore the eagle, globe and anchor is lost to the Marine Corps family. — James L. Jones

but mostly his work just made him dislike houses. These enormous anchors that people tied to their lives. — Emily St. John Mandel

Self-knowledge is an anchor that makes unpredictability tolerable. — Deepak Chopra

People are either wind in your or an anchor on your tail. — Joe Charboneau

To win respect, the networks seem to feel they have to keep absurdly overstating their anchors' reporting cred. — Tina Brown

The best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle. — Ben Jonson

The people who get into trouble in our company are those who carry around the anchor of the past. — John Welch

They discover that sometimes it is a person rather than a place that anchors you most in the world. — Jennifer E. Smith

I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution. — Thomas Jefferson

Once the anchor of reason has been cut, ones craft may go anywhere. One may become a St Francis or equally a Hitler. — Brand Blanshard

To act is to anchor in the imminent future. — Emile M. Cioran

A babe is a mother's anchor. — Henry Ward Beecher

I eventually want to be the anchor of the first trillion-dollar company. — Kanye West

Faith is the soul riding at anchor. — Josh Billings

Am I the only one who thinks Nancy Grace's relentless cheer leading for Jodi Arias' death gross & excessive? The anchor as executioner?! — Geraldo Rivera

Wealth is the least trustworthy of anchors. — J.G. Holland

Body awareness not only anchors you in the present moment. It is a doorway out of the prison that is the ego. — Eckhart Tolle

Sometimes, God drives us to Prayer and Scripture not for answers to the struggles, but for anchors in the storms. — Todd Stocker

The anchor holds in spite of the storm — Ray Boltz

Feel the Aliveness within your Body. That anchors You in the Now. — Eckhart Tolle

It is well to moor your bark with two anchors. — Publilius Syrus

In order to realize the worth of the anchor we need to feel the stress of the storm. — Corrie Ten Boom

A crisis event often explodes the illusions that anchor our lives. — Robert Veninga

When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors - old friends, family. — Dave Grohl

Family is the only anchor that will hold in a choppy sea. — Karen Hawkins

Though Hope be a small child, she can carry a great anchor! — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

A primary rule of practice is meditation with no objects or anchors. Just concentrate on the breath. — Toshimi A. Kayaki

The past can be a rudder that guides you or an anchor tha hinders you. Leave your mistakes with God and look to the future by faith. — Warren W. Wiersbe

A life without vows is like a ship without an anchor or like an edifice that is built on sand instead of a solid rock. — Mahatma Gandhi

The anchor man thrown overboard has simply rooted us in history's repeating cycle — Saul Williams

Your poverty today is because of who you are. Want wealth? Let go of your anchors and inhibitions and change yourself. — Robert Kiyosaki

The secret of the illusoriness is in the necessity of a succession of moods or objects. Gladly we would anchor, but the anchorageis quicksand. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm single, footloose and fancy free, I have no responsibilities, no anchors. Work, friendship and self-improvement, that's me. — Joel Edgerton

The past is an anchor with suffering written on the rope. I don't live there now. I am cutting myself free. — Mark Millar

Art must anchor in nature, or it is the sport of every breath of folly. — William Hazlitt

In what a forge and what a heat were shaped the anchors of thy hope! Fear not each sudden sound and shock; 'Tis of the wave and not the rock. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The night will close the door & fasten my anchor within the veil and I shall go away to sleep. — Samuel Rutherford

To lose our connection with the body is to become spiritually homeless. Without an anchor we float aimlessly, battered by the winds and waves of life — Anodea Judith

People don't make good Anchors, though, Craig. They change. — Ned Vizzini

The way we do it on the Fox News Channel is the straight news anchors like us give a hard time to both sides. — Megyn Kelly

She was the light of our lives, our anchor, compass and vision. — Ralph Nader

A ship should not be held by a single anchor; neither should life depend upon a single hope. — Epictetus

The promises of God for tomorrow are the anchor for believers today. — R.C. Sproul

But there are wanderers o'er Eternity Whose bark drives on and on, and anchor'd ne'er shall be. — Lord Byron

Hope gives the heart wings; the
soul, an anchor. — Janet Todd

Hope is like an anchor. Our hope in Christ stabilizes us in the storms of life, but unlike an anchor, it does not hold us back. — Charles R. Swindoll

The anchor of all my dreams is the collective wisdom of mankind as a whole. — Nelson Mandela

Wow, the entire network of anchors has been hired to be the press secretary. — Jon Stewart

Next to hot chicken soup, a tattoo of an anchor on your chest, and penicillin, I consider a honeymoon one of the most overrated events in the world. — Erma Bombeck

In a Home it must be order or ruin. Order is to the house as morality to the human being - a sheet-anchor. — Julia McNair Wright

Yeah, run if you want to. Time is the anchor, change is the constant, love is the trigger. — Chris Pureka

A classic unspoken agreement among escapees from a small town: don't look back, don't be each other's anchors, no nostalgia. — China Mieville

Nobody likes to life anchors. — Ernest Hemingway,

Consistency: It's the jewel worth wearing; It's the anchor worth weighing; It's the thread worth weaving; It's a battle worth winning. — Charles R. Swindoll

Things of this world all eventually reveal what incapable anchors they really are. — Lysa TerKeurst

Cast all your cares on God; that anchor holds. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Words like anchors, tethering boats of memory that would otherwise be settled by the storm. — Robert Charles Wilson

You will never be on this anchor desk, because you're Chinese. — Julie Chen

Blame anchors us into the past; a place we cannot change. Acceptance frees us to the future. — Bryant McGill

Do you know what the three most exciting sounds in the world are?
Anchor chains, airplane motors and train whistles. — George Bailey

Oaths and anchors equally will drag: naught else abides on fickle earth but unkept promises of joy. — Herman Melville

Unless man anchors the real love, man will always drift in the middle of nowhere! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

My testimony has been my anchor and my stay, my satisfaction in times of joy and gladness, my comfort in times of sorrow and discouragement. — Amy B. Lyman

My mother is everything to me. She's my anchor, she's the person I go to when I need to talk to someone. She is an amazing woman. — Demi Lovato

I AM your anchor. I AM your haven. Let My Peace and Love infill and enfold you. — Eileen Caddy

Let your heart be the anchor and the beat of your song. — Neil Peart

Maybes are anchors you chain to your own feet. Right before you leap off the boat into the ocean. — Karen Marie Moning

Sometimes you need an anchor, whatever it might be. You need a space to connect. So often you get into a way of doing things. — Jake Gyllenhaal

A man does a lot of praying in an enemy prison. Prayer, even more than sheer thought, is the firmest anchor. — Jeremiah Denton

We can endure almost anything if we are centered, if we have some focus in our life. You can endure if you have an anchor. — Renita J. Weems

The necklace is the anchor; it's the classification of jewelry that says what the whole idea is about. — Robert Lee Morris

I've never been in a focus-group meeting. I wonder how many anchors can say that. — Shepard Smith

A lot of alliteration from anxious anchors placed in powerful posts! — Albert Brooks

We use the :link pseudo-class to target all anchors tags which have yet to be clicked on. — Anonymous

Up anchor! Up anchor!
Set sail and away!
The ventures of dreamland
Are thine for a day. — Silas Weir Mitchell

Desire is a powerful boat herding anchors and chains in the middle of the night. — Rosabetty Munoz

Like black hulks the shadows of the great trees ride at anchor on the billowy sea of grass. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A family needs a father to anchor it. — L. Tom Perry

Alas! there is no casting anchor in the stream of time! — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

If we live rooted and established in His love, we don't just have knowledge of His love in our minds, but it becomes a reality that anchors us. — Lysa TerKeurst

Anchor your faith in the plain and simple truths of the gospel. — Gerald Causse

I've worked with Ed Bradley, Dan Rather and lots of different local news anchors. — Mika Brzezinski

The anchor in our world today is freedom, holding us steady in times of change, a symbol of hope to all the world. — George H. W. Bush

Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life. — Sophocles

All the defects are obstacles that anchors the mind to the external senses. — Samael Aun Weor

Do you know what White House correspondents call actors who pose as reporters? Anchors. — Jay Leno

As o'er the stormy sea of human Life We sail, until our anchor'd spirits rest In the far haven of Eternity, ... — Robert Montgomery

This time you've dug yourself an anchor too heavy to move ahead with. — Al Kaline

Kids are anchors of mothers' life — Sophocles

Women anchor me. They're there when I need them. They're sensitive to me, and I'm sensitive to them. I'm not saying I've loved that many women. — Ray Charles

The wind is rising and we must make sail. Anchors aweigh! We must be off! — Amitav Ghosh

Children are the anchors of a mother's life. - SOPHOCLES, Phaedra, fragment 612 — Jodi Picoult

Home is like the ship at sea, Sailing on eternally; Oft the anchor forth we cast, But can never make it fast. — Charles Dickens

Artists are the gatekeepers of truth. We are civilization's anchor. We are the compass for humanity's conscience. — Harry Belafonte

As a bassist he could never really be a sideman. He was always the anchor. He drove the beat. even if it was behind Miles Davis'a horn. — Michael Connelly

Ultimate hope constitutes the anchor of the soul. — Neal A. Maxwell