Vessels Quotes

“Sealing your lips makes your eyes talk
Truth creeps beneath your lame feet’s walk
Knees stiffen when blood vessels stalk
A pounding heart’s lies hard as rock”
― Munia Khan

“All my works have vessels of some sort. Containers. Sometimes it's in the negative space, sometimes it's more obvious...

He's very loyal. He puts everything he has into one thing. one interest, one hobby, one friend, one love. I'm his love and it scares the shit out of me... He's poured all his love into me. I'm his vessel. But suppose I crack? Suppose I break? Suppose I die? What would he do?”
― Louise Penny, A Fatal Grace

“If the colander is perforated, then the hole filled vessel is irrelevant".

~R. Alan Woods [2012]”
― R. Alan Woods, The Journey Is The Destination: A Photo Journal

“We all serve as a vessel to be messengers for one another. Are you sharing the messages you are inspired to speak? Someone is waiting to hear your words.”
― Nanette Mathews

“I feigned sleep until my mother left for school, but even my eyelids didn't shut out the light. They hung the raw, red screen of their tiny vessels in front of me like a wound. I crawled between the mattress and the padded bedstead and let the mattress fall across me like a tombstone. It felt dark and safe under there, but the mattress was not heavy enough.
It needed about a ton more weight to make me sleep.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“When De Long arrived in California with Emma that May, he went straight down to the yard and feasted his eyes upon his new ship. He was smitten by the transformation that had taken place during his absence." I am perfectly satisfied with her, "he wrote." She is everything I want.”
― Hampton Sides, In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette

“Not many Ruminarii warships had ever been captured intact by any enemy, and so for those the Ruminarii “invited” aboard their vessels, this was usually a one-way sight-seeing trip. For those who really want to know, Ruminarii Hammerheads have an extensive corridor network, the interior walls are heavily decorated, savagely militaristic and inevitably, close together. He strode down one. Lesser ranks seeing him, fell to the deck and groveled like their fingernails depended on it. There was a chorus of shrieks and whimpers as he passed. When he arrived on the bridge, everyone was face down on the deck, each endeavoring to grovel lower than the next. Nothing like discipline to keep the crew in its place.”
― Christina Engela, Black Sunrise

“The things of this world are vessels, entrances for stories; when we touch them or tumble into them, we fall into their labyrinthine resonances. -Lynda Sexson”
― Louisa Thomsen Brits, The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well

“Leaders are like vessels that move a goal to its destination. That is why great leaders always become servants because leadership is not a luxury but an act of service to others.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, The Effective Leadership Prototype for a Modern Day Leader

“Words are empty vessels. We fill them with the passion of a life well lived, or we leave them empty by a life not lived. And we will leave those that hear those words with whatever we filled them with.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It is a new day and His hand is extended to each of us now to become fully yielded and filled vessels of His power and glory. To understand who we are as His Ekklesia…”
― Liz Wright