Oar Quotes: top 29 famous quotes about Oar

Oar Quotes & Sayings

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Never rest on your oars as a boss. If you do, the whole company starts sinking. — Lee Iacocca

Don't want to slump over the oars. — James Genn

The sun shone on us, the water sparkled, the oar-blades dipped and we were gone. Gone to make history. — Bernard Cornwell

Carry an oar when you drive. Three times I've ended up in water. — Phyllis Diller

Consider their role models," Nick said. "You can't change the tide with an oar. — Gary Ponzo

With a smile, the man at the oar moved from side to side: It is beautiful, sir, it is as you say. But isn't every life, isn't every work beautiful? — Hermann Hesse

I met my wife when we were 15 years old. I knew within 15 minutes of meeting her, that's who I wanted to marry. — Justin Allgaier

Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. — Alexander Pope

The judgment is an utensil proper for all subjects, and will have an oar in everything. — Michel De Montaigne

God may withhold an answer to prayer until we relinquish control of the outcome and put our complete trust in Him. — Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson

I dream of silent verses where the rhyme glides noiseless as an oar. — Richard Aldington

What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in! — Gustave Flaubert

There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water. — Kate Chopin

To follow the drops sliding from a lifting oar, Head up, while the rower breathes, and the small boat drifts quietly shoreward ... — Theodore Roethke

Quorum and group leaders should provide the leading voice and laboring oar in every ward and branch council regarding retention of converts. — D. Todd Christofferson

If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way. — Alan Bennett

A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them. — Michel De Montaigne

I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them. — Harold S. Geneen

If you look at my last songs and first short stories, there is a real connection between them. — Kazuo Ishiguro

On the ear Drops the light drip of the suspended oar. — Lord Byron

Now to unleash screaming temporal doom! — Invader

Strength and manliness are virtue; weakness and cowardice are sin. — Swami Vivekananda

There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily! — Saint Francis De Sales

It is not good to have an oar in everyone's boat. — Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden

When angry, count four. When very angry, swear. — Mark Twain

Oh swiftly glides the bonnie boat, Just parted from the shore, And to the fisher's chorus-note Soft moves the dipping oar. — Joanna Baillie

Shakespeare is forever coming into our affairs
putting in his oar, so to speak
with some pat word or sentence. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich

If I were a wolf, I would howl. If I were a lion, I would oar. If we lived in the jungle, I would bring her a lion and a wolf to feast on. - Caleb — C.J. Roberts

She had a penetrating sort of laugh. Rather like a train going into a tunnel. — P.G. Wodehouse