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Like Jesus said 'blessed are the lazy who lie on boats, for they shall inherit a suntan — Nicholas Sparks

She glanced at Tyson, who'd lost interest in our conversation and was happily making toy boats out of cups and spoons in the lava. — Rick Riordan

The way I see it, is the quicker we work together, the quicker you can row, row, row your boats back across the Atlantic. — Rachel Van Dyken

Rising tides lift all boats, — Chloe Neill

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

Several sailors, sheltered behind the curved bottoms of their boats, were watching this battle of the sky and the sea. — Guy De Maupassant

Anyone who has not rowed in a really close boatrace cannot comprehend the level of pain. — Daniel Topolski

Marriage is like a row boat: it fits two, it doesn't work on auto-pilot and it's very difficult to have sex in. — Dana Gould

How do men act on a sinking ship? Do they hold each other? Do they pass around the whisky? Do they cry? — Sebastian Junger

Lighthouses don't go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining. — Anne Lamott

Your boat's not like to sink, I don't think. Boats only sink when I'm aboard. — George R R Martin

Which direction?" Robard asked.
"Robard," I said exasperated, "we need a boat. I believe boats are kept at or near the ocean. — Michael P. Spradlin

The boats outside the window were always still I wondered if one of them would take me to the ocean. — Yoko Ono

Vessels large may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore. — Benjamin Franklin

In civilizations without boats, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure and the police take the place of pirates — Michel Foucault

We beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. — Ellery Adams

Will not risk the patrol boats. The Surete has squadrons all — Robert Ludlum

I was proud of the waves I had made, but wondered how many boats I was supposed to rock. — Phil Donahue

The stillness of the water, the horizon framed by other glass towers and miniature boats drifting in the distance. — Emily St. John Mandel

Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in my bath and she'd come in and sink my boats. — Woody Allen

One with God is always a majority. But many have been burned at the stake while the boats were being counted. Thomas Reed — H.W. Brands

In my land we don't question someone who has been touched deeply.
There is no malign shadow over capsized boats. — Rene Char

I carry music in my head, so I don't need more. It drives me nuts that, in hotels or on boats, people seem to think you need music 24 hours a day. — Miranda Richardson

My God, look at the size of this man! Quick! Tell the other villagers we're going back to the boats! — Robin Williams

There are a lot of mysterious things about boats, such as why anyone would get on one voluntarily. — P. J. O'Rourke

I was working on boats as a teenager, sweating like a pig during a summer job. — Douglas Leone

Houses are like boats," Aunt May had sniffed. "They should always keep their original names. — Rachel Hawkins

The great religions are the ships, Poets the life boats. Every sane person I know has jumped overboard. — Hafez

This man could sell boats to desert dwellers just by standing there, looking pretty. — Kristen Callihan

This was about as much fun as a surprise birthday party, which Hunter ranked alongside boats that sank.' (Hunter) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Burn the boats as you enter the island and you will take the island. — Napoleon Hill

U-boats in fact traveled underwater as little as possible, typically only in extreme weather or when attacking ships or dodging destroyers. — Erik Larson

The rising tide lifts all the boats. — John F. Kennedy

A soldier fights with an irresistible strength when he has blown up his bridges and burnt his boats. Even so, it is with a soldier of ahimsa. — Mahatma Gandhi

If God had meant for us to have fiberglass boats, he would have planted fiberglass trees. — L. Francis Herreshoff

He talks softly, patiently, as I sit on the window ledge and watch boats with colorful triangles for sails scratch the ocean. — Lauren DeStefano

I've seen a lot of 'Show Boats,' but I've never seen the one that thoroughly satisfies me. — Harold Prince

Consider, O Lord, how You sit atop the sky;
like a man in a glass bottom boat.
Consider sky elsewhere; worn thin as a mattress. — Cecilia Llompart

We all came in on different ships, but we're all in the same boat now — Martin Luther King Jr.

The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats. — Ernest Hemingway,

I feel like my life is just passing me by like two ships in the night. And I have missed both boats. — Jane Wagner

We were not a crew; we were only here at the same time. — Rosemary McGuire

When the sea goes down, there will come from the mainland boats and men. And they will find ten dead bodies and an unsolved problem on Indian Island. — Agatha Christie

Online education is like a rising tide, it's going to lift all boats, — Anant Agarwal

We [artists] aren't people, not the way most people are. We're just ... carriers. Little boats bringing goods from foreign lands. — Sam Starbuck

If you want to take the island, then burn your boats. With absolute commitment come the insights that create real victory. — Tony Robbins

Because I had worked the river boats some summers, pushing as far as New Orleans, I joined the Merchant Marine. — Clint Walker

She's got feet like boats, whiskers like an American, and her undies are filthy. — Marcel Proust

I grew to judge every purchase by how many bronze screws I could buy for the boat if I didn't spend on this or made do without that. — Lin Pardey

Every abyss is navigable by little paper boats. — Joao Guimaraes Rosa

The fishermen could not remain in their fishing boats and become apostles of Jesus Christ. — Henry T. Blackaby

I knew the whistle of each of the river boats on the Tennessee. — William Christopher Handy

If
you sing a sad song loud enough, the boys
on those torpedo boats
can hear you under the sea. — Laura Kasischke

Boats are safe in a dock, but boats aren't meant for that. — Chris Bradford

Some boats are rotten in the ports; some boats shine in the hard journeys! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I'm for innovation and a commitment to a rising tide that lifts all boats for all Americans. — Clark Durant

I'm great at boats! — Matt Fraction

These paper boats of mine are meant to dance on the ripples of hours, and not reach any destination. — Rabindranath Tagore

Time is a river, and books are boats. — Dan Brown

Ah, well ... hell is full of burning boats, did you know that, Nadir? I daresay that's what makes it so bloody hot. — Susan Kay

I'm crazy about cars, about boats, about airplanes, about anything mechanical - I'm just a boy, really, and my clients are like boys, too. — Richard Mille

How do we make sure that rising tides lift all boats and not just the yachts? — Thomas Perez

Splash or crash? Do you want special ops messing about in boats? Or special ops messing in aeroplanes? — Robert Radcliffe

I really like boats. If you want to go somewhere, you just take your house with you. — Laura Dekker

I'd like to have a beer-holder on my guitar like they have on boats. — James Hetfield

I miss my boats, and I miss having the ability to be out on the water during the daytime and then go skiing at night. — Jason Priestley

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered. — William Shakespeare

Boats and ships are female because they are beautiful, lovable, expensive and unpredictable. — Robert A. Heinlein

Where are the fish, though?"
"In the sea they say, in the boats we pray," said Dan, quoting a fisherman's proverb. — Rudyard Kipling

So we beat on, boats against the current. — F Scott Fitzgerald

We enjoy sailing small boats, two of which I have designed and built myself. — Martin Ryle

Whoever embarks with women embarks with a storm; but they are themselves the safety boats. — Arsene Houssaye

Charter boats are like books with no covers. — Tania Aebi

More than 150 types of boats appear in Egyptian hieroglyphics. — Stewart Gordon

Why does the New Italian navy have glass bottom boats? To see the Old Italian Navy! — Henny Youngman

If you can not arrive in daylight, then stand off well clear, and wait until dawn. After all, that's one of the things God made boats for- to wait in. — Tristan Jones

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

one of Marjorie's boats, they were inevitably — Nancy Rubin Stuart

My wife is immature. Whenever I take a bath, she sinks my boats. — Woody Allen

Appearance is everything. I find that a view is secondary. Even in those apartments on the East River, it's dull, looking out at those little boats. — Robert Denning

In a storm, you don't tie two boats together. They'll drag each other down. — Pierce Brown

Boats in the harbor are safe but that is not what they are meant for. — Zig Ziglar

Become a beacon of enhancement, and then, when the night is gray, all of the boats will move towards you, bringing their bountiful riches. — James Altucher

Why, for mercy's sake, did boys try to dance who didn't know the first thing about dancing; and who had feet as big as boats? — L.M. Montgomery

Away down the river,
A hundred miles or more,
Other little children
Shall bring my boats ashore. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Friendly had never liked to rock boats unnecessarily. That's how people end up drowned. — George R R Martin

Sometimes I wonder what my interior actually is. A heart that goes pitter-patter and thoughts that glide by like little paper boats on flowing water, — Orhan Pamuk

Barack Obama is like the old joke about boats. The two best days of owning a boat are the day you buy it and the day you sell it. — Howie Carr

The Mexicans descend from the Aztecs; the Peruvians descend from the Incas; the Argentineans descend from the boats. — Carlos Fuentes

Thing about boats is, you can always sell them if you don't like them. Can't sell kids. — Lin Pardey

I don't travel by airplane. I mean that because when my wife, my kids and I travel on trains or boats, we meet a lot of people and we talk to them. — Aaron Spelling

Genres are just bottles for the various boats. The boats matter to me. — Julianna Baggott

I wanted to remind you that you do not allow me to deliver boats, as I have been known to crash them. — Jennifer Echols

I grew up in Newquay, on the Atlantic coast and there developed a love of the sea and boats. — Antony Hewish

Although we are in different boats you in your boat and we in our canoe we share the same river of life. — Oren Lyons

I love boats. I can be on a boat for days. — Olga Kurylenko

You know we always travel in little skinny boats like this why can't travel to the end of the world in a yacht -Puck — Julie Kagawa

I spent most of my dough on booze, broads and boats and the rest I wasted. — Elmore Leonard

I used to own a dingy and can still sail one if pushed, but I like the pleasure boats. — John Dyer

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