A Quote by Thomas Gibbons

There is but a plank between a sailor and eternity.

Thomas Gibbons

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Between Eternity Plank Sailor

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Thomas Gibbons
Writer
1720 - 1785

I always do some sort of plank exercise - whether it's a regular plank or a side plank, I always incorporate it into my workout.

David Kirsch

Burns' Hog-Weighing Method: (1) Get a perfectly symmetrical plank and balance it across a sawhorse. (2) Put the hog on one end of the plank. (3) Pile rocks on the other end until the plank is again perfectly balanced. (4) Carefully guess the weight of the rocks.

Robert Burns

I stepped from Plank to Plank A slow and cautious way

Emily Dickinson

When I was drawing this, I thought I’d put together Sailor Saturn and Sailor Chibi-Moon in a pair. Then I followed it with the Sailor Quartet. One of these days I’m going to put this team together into the manga. What a weird thing that would be. Anyway, here’s the six.

Naoko Takeuchi

The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long head

Herman Melville

I swear like a sailor, assuming the sailor in question died in 1800 and was really square.

Alexandra Petri

Whoever you are, you've got to start from where you are. If you're a sailor, and only know sailor's language, well, write in it, for God's sake.

Peter Levi

I stepped from plank to plank So slow and cautiously; The stars about my head I felt, About my feet the sea. I knew not but the next Would be my final inch,— This gave me that precarious gait Some call experience.

Emily Dickinson

Like a plank of driftwood Tossed on the watery main, Another plank encountered, Meets, touches, parts again; So tossed, and drifting ever, On life's unresting sea, Men meet, and greet, and sever, Parting eternally.

Edwin Arnold

Even someday when we disappear... ...and new Sailor Senshis are born... Sailor Moon, you will always be Invincible. The most beautiful shining star.

Naoko Takeuchi

If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.

Hermann Hesse

Exultation is the going Of an inland soul to sea Past the houses, past the headlands Into deep eternity! Bred as we, among the mountains Can the sailor understand The divine intoxication Of the first league out from land?

Emily Dickinson

The soul is created in a place between Time and Eternity: with its highest powers it touches Eternity, with its lower Time.

Meister Eckhart

Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political problems.

Fritz Sauckel

The Democratic party of Florida has put a temperance plank in its platform and the Republican party of every state would nail that plank in their platform if they thought it would carry the election.