#oats

A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#books #ideas #sailing #ships #guns

But I made no efforts to organize my supporters to hold on to the apparatus. Consequently I was soon expelled and my followers, who did not change coats overnight, quietly left or were expelled from the party. ↗

— Earl Browder

#change #coats #consequently #did #efforts

...this beginning motion, this first time when a sail truly filled and the boat took life and knifed across the lake under perfect control, this was so beautiful it stopped my breath... ↗

— Gary Paulsen

#ocean #sailing #sea #wind #beauty

I've sown all the oats I want to sow. ↗

— Stephanie Zimbalist

#oats #sow #sown #want

We have a human rights interest. Then there is the immigration problem. The human-rights violations have caused people to take to boats and flood not only the United States, but other countries in the region, creating great instability. ↗

— Warren Christopher

#caused #countries #creating #flood #great

Honor wears different coats to different eyes. ↗

— Barbara Tuchman

#different #eyes #honor #wears

In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics. ↗

— Earl Warren

#ethics #floats #law #life #sea

I don't buy fur coats or jewelry. I have old cars. ↗

— Peta Wilson

#cars #coats #fur #i #jewelry

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#down #jelly #much #people #quotations

To supply people for ages in camps makes no sense... you have to rebuild that cabana that they rent out to tourists on the weekend. They need help getting their fields repaired and their boats repaired. ↗

— Sam Worthington

#boats #camps #fields #getting #help