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Letter "S" » shipwreck
«Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.»
Author: Guy de Maupassant
| About:
Government,
War
| Keywords:
captain, ship, shipwreck, shipwrecked, shipwrecks
«Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck on the bottom of the sea of criticism.»
Author: Josef Skvorecky
| About:
Literature,
Lovers
| Keywords:
shipwreck, shipwrecked, The Remains of the
«Old age is a shipwreck.»
«We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down»
Author: Jean Anouilh
(Dramatist, Playwright, Screenwriter)
| Keywords:
burglary, shipwreck, shipwrecked
«This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightest war a good warfare; / Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck: / Of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
blaspheme, Hymenaeus, Prophecies, put away, shipwreck, To Whom It May Concern, warfare
«The mistakes of the learned man are like a shipwreck which wrecks many others with it»
«I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.»
Author: John Donne
| Keywords:
Dead Sea, declare, impotency, lake, shipwreck, shipwrecked, shipwrecks, swimming, Take Me, weedy
«The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with wild imprecations the most faithful of his courtiers to shipwreck, disaster, and death.»
Author: Joseph Conrad
| Keywords:
courtier, courtiers, Go West, monarch, quarter, shipwreck, shipwrecked, South West, south wind, sway, the South, westerly, west wind, Wild West
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