#floating

The Royal Navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of the island. ↗

— William Blackstone

#been #bulwark #defense #england #ever

People need to be made conscious of a very simple reality: we have no choice but to share this planet, this small blue sphere floating in the vast reaches of space, with all of our fellow 'passengers.' ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#choice #conscious #fellow #floating #made

Ju jitsu is very Buddhist. All that we fear we hold close to ourselves to survive. So if you're drowning and you see a corpse floating by, hang on to it because it will rescue you. ↗

— Tom Hardy

#buddhist #close #corpse #drowning #fear

Seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well prepared to receive them. ↗

— Joseph Henry

#constantly #discoveries #floating #great #minds

I think I fall into a lot of cracks in terms of I'm too something. I'm too this, I'm too that. And my music has never really had a home. I've been this floating alternative. I'm too mainstream for alternative. I'm too alternative for mainstream. And I'm just kind of wandering. ↗

— K. D. Lang

#been #cracks #fall #floating #had

On Memorial Day, I was out floating on Lake Norman and came across Denny Hamlin. We struck up a conversation, and one of the first things we were talking about was how much it helped him when he started racing the Cup car and how much it helped his Nationwide program. ↗

— Danica Patrick

#across #came #car #conversation #cup

We're trying to fix this with the plan we've been floating. Now, the law says the transition ends in 2006 or - and the "or" is the only part that matters - 85 percent of Americans go buy a digital TV. ↗

— Michael K. Powell

#buy #digital #ends #fix #floating

I mean, we've had all these awful pictures from the prison in Iraq and these sort of memos floating around about justifying torture, all this kind of stuff. And it makes you want to take a shower, you know? ↗

— Ron Reagan

#around #awful #floating #had #i