Melville Ahab Quotes
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Melville Ahab Quotes & Sayings
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The FBI and the CIA hate each other, and they both hate the telephone company. The telephone company, in turn, seems to hate everybody.
— John A. Keel
blow your trump - blister your lungs! - Ahab will dam off your blood, as a miller shuts his watergate upon the stream!
— Herman Melville
Fear of death is worse than dying.
— Friedrich Schiller
For most people it's easier to support an eminent person in deserved disgrace than an obscure one who has been wronged.
— Shirley Hazzard
To be enraged with a dumb thing, Captain Ahab, seems blasphemous.
— Herman Melville
But Ahab's glance was averted; like a blighted fruit tree he shook, and cast his last, cindered apple to the soil.
— Herman Melville
Why did you go and do that? I served you faithfully and you broke me. I never harmed you and you smashed me. I was defenseless.
— Stephen King
No matter where you're going it's the wrong place.
— Tobe Hooper
When sadness was the sea, you were the one that taught me to swim
— Pleasefindthis
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
Ahab still stood like an anvil, receiving every shock, but without the least quivering of his own.
— Herman Melville
you are trained for job but you are born to work.Exert then your energy in the right proportion on the most vital matters
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
She liked that he wore their relationship so boldly, like a brightly colored shirt.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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