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How would the US be different today if people coming off the boat were greeted with a welfare check instead of a shovel? — James Buchanan

When we went to war at the Falklands, Buck Kernan had to shake each man's hand as we boarded a boat for war. — Scott Raab

I am your boat! I am your crew
Your rudder and your mast -
Your friend, I am your limpet too
And your elastoplast.
- Tintinnabulum — Mervyn Peake

I put myself and all the members of Congress in the same boat of things that could have been done better. — John Breaux

You were a stone wall, a fort in high,
unreachable trees, an island, my own island, that no boat could reach. — Deb Caletti

It takes just one wave to capsize a boat, and one more to take it down. — Federico Chini

If the family were a boat, it would be a canoe that makes no progress unless everyone paddles. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Did you know you can't steer a boat that isn't moving? Just like a life. — Paul Lutus

We were on the same boat, just trying to figure it all out. — Blakney Francis

The gospel is for lifeboats, not showboats, and a man must make up his mind which boat he is going to operate. — Vance Havner

The Kerguelen Islands in the southern Indian Ocean are a six-day boat ride from Madagascar, and their only inhabitants are French scientists. — Cary McNeal

Whatever you read, there's no better place to read than the cockpit or the berth of a boat. It's kind of like being in a womb. — Nathaniel Philbrick

The right woman for you wouldn't want you to change anything about your life. She wouldn't rock your boat, she'd jump right in and sail it with you. — Alice Clayton

You're gonna need a bigger boat. — Peter Benchley

Sometimes you can miss the boat and find a new life. — Benny Bellamacina

Fishing from a boat seems like dilettante bullshit - like hunting wild boar with a can of spray paint from the safety of a pick-up truck — Hunter S. Thompson

We must row in whatever boat we find ourselves in. — Christie Watson

Launch your boat, blessed youth, and flee at full speed from every form of culture. — Epicurus

I have friends who remember seeing fish hauled onto a boat's deck and beaten to death. — Casey Affleck

If one wants to get a boat ride, one must be near the river. — Anchee Min

We can't make a portal - "
"We've got a flying boat," Carter offered. — Rick Riordan

I don't think I'll ever be a real boat reporter. My Rolex isn't big enough. — P. J. O'Rourke

I remember that, at an early age, I spent many months making a three-masted sailing boat with rigging in a half-walnut shell. — John Gurdon

A boat can love the storm only if it is stronger than the storm! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

We also own a little boat and I'm like a kid with it. I take off early in the morning, fishing rod in tow, and just drift about the ocean all day. — Perry Como

We're all in the same boat and we all are going to catch the same hell from the same man. — Malcolm X

I think our Western society is very much about, 'Tuck your head in; make sure you're safe. Don't rock the boat.' — Cate Blanchett

I want you alone," he whispered, gliding a hand around her hip, "on a slow boat to China. Days together, nights ... rocking on the waves. — Ophelia London

Just because the boat rocks doesn't mean it's time to jump overboard. — Suzanne Woods Fisher

There's a price to pay for the speed, and that is danger. And to push that hard on a boat - it does take a lot out of you and is incredibly stressful. — Ellen MacArthur

Not every man or woman sailing down the river will be a figure of force or significance. Some are merely in the boat with all of us. — Guy Gavriel Kay

I love Chicago. I lived there briefly for three months and kept a boat under one of those space-age buildings. It was very Jetsons. — Candace Bushnell

We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

We men and women are all in the same boat, upon a stormy sea. We owe to each other a terrible and tragic loyalty. — G.K. Chesterton

You can't walk on water until you get yourself out the boat. — Craig Groeschel

I grew up in Oregon, where as a teenager I worked with my grandfather Axel on his i shing boat at the mouth of the Columbia River. — Karl Marlantes

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

I laugh, for hope hath a happy place with me; If my boat sinks, 'tis to another sea. — William Ellery Channing

As soon as I get on my boat, something inside me changes. Then I really feel what living is. — Laura Dekker

What's the point? was my attitude. We're all just going to die and then NOT be let on the boat. — Meg Cabot

I watched from the raft as the beautiful deep began to swallow the massive boat of steel.
In one large gulp." Emilia p341 — Ruta Sepetys

In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would never die. — Ernest Hemingway,

You have sea, you have boat, you have oars, and then why on earth you are rotting in the port? — Mehmet Murat Ildan

When you are in a common boat, cross the river peacefully together. — Hillary Rodham Clinton

I thought I would try my hand at sailing. It was too small and kept sinking, so I decided to try a boat instead. — Arthur M. Jolly

If the boat started shaking, we stayed on course and didn't lose focus. That made the difference. — Sebastian Vettel

No Americans wants to see somebody lose their house because of health bills. Their boat? Maybe. Maybe the boat. But not the house. — P. J. O'Rourke

You see, that's the whole point of being in government. If you don't like something you simply make up a law that makes it illegal. — Richard Curtis

Love is the only boat we can ride in to reach the island of happiness. — Debasish Mridha

When I'm all grown up, come what may,
I'll build a boat to carry me away — Guy Gavriel Kay

She walked down the pier and carefully stepped into the boat, taking up her seat — Nicole James

I do admire [Willie] Wonka. He's a true capitalist. His factory has zero government regulations, slave labor and an indoor boat. Wonderful. — Alec Baldwin

Reached only by boat, seaplane and, with less surety, telephone-this is Fire Island, a pile of sand beneath a pile of people. — Al Aronowitz

Life is like stepping into a boat that is about to sail out to sea and sink. - SHUNRYU SUZUKI ROSHI A — Pema Chodron

In a thousand subtle and unsubtle ways they were reinventing the experience of living on board a boat. — Michael Lewis

Can I offer a choice about how something is done? ("Do you want to take your bath with your doll or your boat?") — Adele Faber

Health, south wind, books, old trees, a boat, a friend. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Rowing harder doesn't help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction. — Kenichi Ohmae

Ocean waves gently rock the boat,
As if to the tune of a lullaby.
She sits still as the boat silently floats
Under the infinite blue sky. — Rachel Lewis

The boat is safer anchored at the port; but that's not the aim of boats. — Paulo Coelho

... a certain kind of wanderlust can only be assuaged by the acts of the body itself in motion, not the motion of the car, boat, or plane. — Rebecca Solnit

Pete and Repeat are in a boat, Pete jumps out who's left in the boat? — CM Punk

I've been on my grandfather's boat, Calypso, twice in my life. My mother raised me in a pretty typical middle-class life. — Philippe Cousteau Jr.

We all love narratives where we're the captain of our boat, and Americans love them more than anybody else. — Anne-Marie Slaughter

My parents immigrated from Italy and spent 40 days and 40 stinking nights on a boat so we didn't have to eat things like gizzards. — Nadia Giosia

Tolstoy carelessly neglects to include a boat race. — Mark Twain

Such is the human race. Often it seems such a pity that Noah.. didn't miss the boat. — Mark Twain

Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it
take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip
the bottom out of their boat. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

I wonder wether it is possible to stay delirious and in love when you've been together for a long time. — Carole Matthews

I've been an engineer, barman, skip lorry driver, coalman, boat window manufacturer, contract grass cutter and builder. — Neal Asher

Well you've been brought here against your will, just like I have. If you ask me, we're all in the same boat. And it's leaking. — John Boyne

We need not to just kill the boat-smuggling business model: we also need to get rid of this asylum-shopping in the European Union. — Mark Rutte

I'm attracted to seeing how different I can be, pushing the boat out. — James D'arcy

A boat may stay in water, but water should not stay in boat. A spiritual aspirant may live in the world, but the world should not live within him. — Ramakrishna

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. — Jentezen Franklin

And though I have sailed my boat hard aground,
O, it was so grand to be sailing! — Henrik Ibsen

It could be argued that it began long before Christianity arrived in a boat and seeped into Kerala like tea from a teabag. — Arundhati Roy

They caressed one another until their hides shone. They embraced until their 206 bones squeaked like mice. Their bed was a boat in a weird sea. — Tom Robbins

I think very often the boat-rockers turn out to be the people who are building the craft — Tony Benn

There was a man
Who made a boat
To sail away
And it sank. — J.P. Donleavey

People need all the good memories they can keep with them in this world; they're a sort of steering apparatus in a life-boat ... — Marah Ellis Ryan

The Admiralty said it was a plane and not a boat, the Royal Air Force said it was a boat and not a plane, the Army were plain not interested. — Christopher Cockerell

Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars. — Edvard Munch

this boat is and is not
when it sinks both disappear — Ikkyu

Get out of the boat. Face your fears. Fail. Learn. Adjust. Try again. And watch God do more than you can imagine. — Craig Groeschel

How strange! You seek guidance, yet you do not tread its path, surely a boat does not sail on land. — Al-Shafi'i

Of course you have a boat. You're a Viking. — Mark Lawrence

To get a good deal, I buy them all with a friend. The houses, the boat, everything. We each buy half. So I pay half price! They get used more. — Lars Larsen

seems like a lot of trouble for a boat that's going nowhere. — Cath Crowley

Death is permanent. There's no coming back if you get off the ferryman's boat. — Martha Sweeney

If you want to rock the Vote, You have to Rock the Boat. — Dennis Kucinich

Catch a boat to England baby, maybe to Spain. Wherever I have gone, wherever I've been and gone, wherever I have gone ... The blues are all the same. — Jackson C. Frank

America- often called the land of milk and honey- tends to be sweeter, more generous to those who don't rock the boat.

Sarah Mullen — Erin Passons

I thought to live on an island was like living on a boat. Islands intrigue me. You can see the perimeters of your world. It's a microcosm. — Jamie Wyeth

What the eye does not see, the stomach does not get upset over — Jerome K. Jerome

Does this boat go to Europe, France? — Anita Loos

My hope is that shows like 'Fresh Off the Boat' open the door for even more of those kinds of characters for Asian actors and actresses. — Randall Park

For the ocean is big and my boat is small. Find the courage. — Alanis Morissette

I'm not buying a boat because of writing skits. — Jason Sudeikis

I met her last summer on a moonlight boat trip... — Tennessee Williams