#anchor

Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition. ↗

— James Baldwin

#attachment #belonging #comfort #completion #fulfillment

Some people may have noticed the new computer shelf at the anchor desk. Rather than phone calls, we want to take real time e-mails, and we'll be starting that very soon. ↗

— Catherine Crier

#calls #computer #desk #e-mails #may

The 6th of August in the morning we saw an opening in the land and we ran into it, and anchored in 7 and a half fathom water, 2 miles from the shore, clean sand. ↗

— William Dampier

#august #clean #fathom #half #into

I don't want the news to be patriotic. I don't want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don't want any of that. ↗

— Aaron McGruder

#any #flags #i #lapels #news

So this anchoring in some way, in some important way in the past without repeating the past, but on the basis of the past building something new: that is what is important. ↗

— Gunther Schuller

#basis #building #important #important way #in the past

Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past. ↗

— Andrzej Wajda

#anchors #consequently #in the past #know #language

In this one terrified moment, my mind couldn’t focus on any of it. “I’ve forgotten everything.” “No, you haven’t.” His voice in the darkness was calm and reassuring. He smoothed back my hair and pressed one of those half kisses to my forehead. “Just relax and focus." “His reasonable words centered me and allowed the gears of logic that ran my life to take over again. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#anchor #comfort #strength #sydney-sage #trust

A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic. ↗

— Roy Blount, Jr.

#another #book #down #getting #gin

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope. ↗

— Epictetus

#hope #life #neither #nor #rely

To act is to anchor in an imminent future, so imminent it becomes almost tangible; to act is to feel you are consubstantial with that future. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#almost #anchor #becomes #feel #future