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No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.


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No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.
SOURCE UNKNOWN No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he or she could have gotten off the ship in a storm.
CHARLES KETTERING If adventurers were cowardly, no one would have crossed the nations; if sailors were fearful, no one...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO I don't know whether I would have gotten past Charles if he hadn't had the problems. I feel bad for ...
KATHERINE LEGGE The one thing I wish would have happened was we would have scored one more run for Milton. I wish he...
RICH AURILIA We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed...
JOHN H. GROBERG If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar...
GARY F EVANS... He said it was the biggest growing-up experience he had. He talked about jumping off the ship to swi...
CINDIE BLOOM She'd laughed, and if he could have bottled the sound and gotten drunk on it every night, he would h...
LEIGH BARDUGO The victory was right in front of our face. If we could have gotten one or two more rebounds, it wou...
YAO MING You’re not the only one,” he says through gritted teeth. “My twelve-year-old sister died in my...
RICK YANCEY My doctor at Sloan Kettering said if he could help me this way, he would. He told me to go to German...
LISA MUHS I crossed the room to him. "I love you," I said in a rush, afraid I would change my mind.
"Char...
EDITH PATTOU I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES If would have gotten one goal I think we would have exploded.
DAVID HARACKIEWICZ Once, Turner had himself lashed to the mast of a ship for several hours, during a furious storm, so ...
DAVID MARKSON If he could have just gotten a little closer... Maybe we could have saved him.
GARY ROOT We are not victims by nature...we are programmed to be victims...for good reason...if we truly embra...
GAIL MARIE MACLEAN Not everyone has the time to be normal.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements.
LAURA DOCKRILL I'm left with Haymitch in the rubble, wondering if Finnick’s fate would have one day been mine. Wh...
SUZANNE COLLINS He could have gotten sucked in easily.
DANIEL STUART Words do not create change as much as example does. Be the example
BRENT M. JONES She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
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HUNTER HILLENMEYER She would have her ship and he would have his city.
LEIGH BARDUGO One who wishes to cross the ocean first builds a ship.
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BONO Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON He was about to cross a point of no return. The place separating him from the imaginary line in the ...
JAIME ALLISON PARKER Fortunately, no one was hurt which is very, very good considering the size of the storm. It could ha...
ERNIE MURRAY There were a lot of things he could say. "Son of a bitch!" would have been a good one. Or he could s...
TERRY PRATCHETT Tell her this
And more,—
That the king of the seas
Weeps too, old, helpless man. STEPHEN CRANE In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music....
GARY F EVANS... [DiMaggio] could see it, and he understood completely where Harry Walker might hit the ball, ... Dom...
DAVID HALBERSTAM If we could have gotten a touchdown there, I think that would have ended the game, definitely. 28-7 ...
BRYAN CUPITO If we could have gotten that one big hit, we could have won that game. We just didn't get that hit.
DRAYTON MCLANE If he hadn't gotten those young women it would have been someone else.
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MARK WAGGONER My alar is like the ocean in storm. (Devi)
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BONES THE DOCTOR IN THE PHOTO In school I ended up writing three different papers on "The Castaway" section of Moby-Dick, the chap...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.
FAYE WATTLETON Savor the moment. Set a goal that you value and plan the steps to of getting there in a way that you...
TERENCE T. GORSKI The real world out there isn't nearly as nice as some people prefer it to be, so don't swallow every...
DAVID EDDINGS That openness comes with a cost. If you could have gotten the property at $100,000 less, you would h...
DEE STANLEY God is not impressed with what PRECEDES your name, but how you PROCEED in His Name."
BJ NELSON When Luke had descended into the River Styx, he would've had to focus on something important that wo...
RICK RIORDAN No one with a 17-11 record should have gotten into the NCAA. And anyone with a .500 record in confer...
CARLOS VALDEZ That felt really good — one of the best feelings I've ever had. If we could have gotten our offense...
JACOB JONES Any rational seller would have to feel the amount they got off market was at or more than they could...
ANNE FOLEY We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.
THICH NHAT HANH If (the driver) would have stopped, he could have helped my father-in-law. He always worked hard. He...
FRANCISCO GONZALEZ If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but deteriorate the cat.
MARK TWAIN If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.
MARK TWAIN You have to shake it off. If we dwell on the last call, we would be no good at the next one.
DEAN LYNDEN If my son didn't put his hand up, it would have gotten his face. I just can't see how no one is resp...
JAMES HENDERSON When Herndon intercepted the ball, he could have gotten some yards on the return,
MIKE HOLMGREN If we could have boxed out, we could have gotten back, gotten a lay-up and the game would've been di...
KALIN LUCAS nothing's news.
it's the same old thing in
disguise.
only one thing comes without a CHARLES BUKOWSKI It was a very exciting play. I would have liked to have gotten the game over sooner so we could have...
JENNILEE HUDDLESTON We would not have been put in this position if it had not been for the actions of Charles Sawyer.
BOB MARSHALL My mother always wanted to live near the water," she said. "She said it's the one thing that brings ...
MEGAN MIRANDA I have done so many love scenes in the past that I have learned how to pull off a sexy smoulder on t...
CHERIE LUNGHI If we would have gotten it, we would have been really surprised.
COUNCILMAN DAVID DEGEROLAMO I think that if Shakespeare had had access to CGI, he would have used it. Imagine Lear conjuring the...
JULIE WHITE If man could be crossed with a cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.
MARK TWAIN That’s what I liked about those nuns. You could tell, for one thing, that they never went anywhere...
J.D. SALINGER Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON Obviously there have to be consequences. He could have gotten himself killed.
LOURDES COWGILL If men could fit water into their pockets, the ocean would be empty.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO my grandfather would have loved to have met you," Charles told her huskily. "He would have called yo...
PATRICIA BRIGGS I wanted everything from and everything for him, because I wanted every piece of him.
KIERA CASS I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b...
LYDIA MILLET To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r...
MANDY HALE They should have told him that [the fence he fell through on a campaign stop] was not a metaphor. He...
BOB DOLE If you were to block off the entire Mexican border, they would just come through the ocean.
GEOFFREY BOYCE Now i know what it feels like being Ryan Bingham
ARIEL SERAPHINO To have the time to reminisce is one of the futures gifts. Don't think to much, don't live to fast, ...
CALVIN WILSON We are the masters of our own destinies we shape and mould our lives into to the circumstances surro...
GARY F EVANS... Hill was a great player. They would have the championship the following year if Bobby Joe hadn't got...
JOE GOMEZ Life is the everlasting gobstopper with its complications of the starter being birth, the main cours...
GARY F EVANS... No, of course not. But surely you know your affair couldn't go on forever."
"Forever has no mea...
ELLEN HOPKINS A perfectly decent fellow may be driven by circumstances to commit a crime and if he's found out he'...
W.SOMERSET MAUGHAM Let me repeat. I have not read all the work of this present generation of writing. I have not had ti...
WILLIAM FAULKNER I hate saying corny things like "traveling incognito." But when I'm with somebody that's corny, I al...
J.D. SALINGER “Love is not to be discovered but felt.It is brewing in air across universe.One needs only open ey...
ANUJ SOMANY I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.
THICH NHAT HANH You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now.
JAY ASHER Life is a journey, not a destination.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON

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CHARLES STANLEY In our friendships we have to be wise that we choose godly people to be our friends. Somebody might ...
CHARLES STANLEY Basically, there are two paths you can walk: faith or fear. It's impossible to simultaneously tr...
CHARLES STANLEY The bottom line in the Christian life is obedience and most people don't even like the word.
CHARLES STANLEY One of Satan's most deceptive and powerful ways of defeating us is to get us to believe a lie. A...
CHARLES STANLEY Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us ...
CHARLES STANLEY Every test, every trial, every heartache that's been significant, I can turn it over and see how...
CHARLES STANLEY What if others suffer shipwreck, yet none that sail with Jesus have ever been stranded yet.
CHARLES SPURGEON You have to believe in a placebo or it won't work, but if it works, it's obviously working i...
CHARLES JENCKS Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.
RAY CHARLES Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a fami...
CHARLES EASTMAN The Bible tells us that God will meet all our needs. He feeds the birds of the air and clothes the g...
CHARLES STANLEY The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI In the same way the sun never grows weary of shining, nor a stream of flowing, it is God's natur...
CHARLES SPURGEON It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in...
CHARLES DICKENS There's nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.
PRINCE CHARLES We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find t...
CHARLES STANLEY I take big risks, but I'm not reckless about it.
LARRY CHARLES