Top 370 Vessel Quotes & Sayings

I think that you can't help but bring pieces of who you are. No matter what you do, it comes through you as a vessel.

Bitterness only consumes the vessel that contains it.

Though we may feel we are "like a broken vessel," as the Psalmist says (Psalms 31:12), we must remember, that vessel is in the hands of the divine potter. Broken minds can be healed just the way broken bones and broken hearts are healed. While God is at work making those repairs, the rest of us can help by being merciful, nonjudgmental, and kind.

The purpose of education is not to fill a vessel but to kindle a flame.

He who sends the storm steers the vessel.

A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself. When you are a child your vessel is not yet full;so you care for nothing but your own affairs. When you grow up, your vessel overflows; and you are a politician, a philosopher, or an explorer and adventurer. In old age the vessel dries up: there is no overflow: you are a child again.

Demagogue--a vessel containing beer and other liquids.

The thing about the performance part... starting with improv and standup, you're starting with yourself as the character, and I don't feel as much like, 'Oh, I'm a vessel for -' I feel like someone who calls themselves an actor is a vessel.

The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle; the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true!

The sea and wind can at the same time convey my neighbour's vessel and my own.

The Republican Party is an empty vessel unless we imbue it with values.

My rule is: If you meet the weakest vessel, attack. If it is a vessel equal to yours, attack. And if it is stronger than yours, also attack.

The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.

The vessel of Revolution can arrive at port only on a sea reddened by torrents of blood.

I like the idea that the body is a vessel, that it's not necessarily representative of the real you that's inside of it.

We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.

I think that you can't help but bring pieces of who you are. No matter what you do, it comes through you, as a vessel.

I asked God to use me as a vessel, so I guess you have to be careful what you ask for.

The revolution is like a vessel filled with the pulsating heartbeat of millions of working people.

You must not sneeze. If you have a vehement cold you must take no notice of it; if your nose membranes feel a great irritation you must hold your breath; if a sneeze still insists upon making its way you must oppose it keeping your teeth grinding together; if the violence of the pulse breaks some blood-vessel you must break the blood-vessel -- but not sneeze.

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.

The human voice: mysterious, spontaneous, primal. For me, the human voice is the vessel on which all emotions travel - except perhaps jealousy. And the breath, the breath is the captain of that vessel.

The water vessel, taken as a vessel only, raises the question, "Why does it exist at all?" Through its fitness of construction, it offers the apology for its existence. But where it is a work of beauty it has no question to answer; it has nothing to do, but to be.

I think the general anxiety of the 1960s - '70s spawned our interest in the living dead. When people worry about the end of their world, they need a safe vessel for all their fears. Zombies provide that vessel because they're 'safe.'

The Christian is more than an empty vessel. He has...Someone within. We have a treasure in the earthen vessel, and not only a treasure - a transcendent power! That is humanity as God intended it to be. The vessel is not much in itself, but it holds an inestimable treasure, beyond price, and a transcendent power, greater than any other power known to men.

Whatever God has given us, we are just the vessel for it.

Yet spiritual realizations often remain compartmentalized, apart from everyday life, or become used as a rationale for living in an impersonal or soulless way. That is why, if we are to live our realizations and bring them into this world, we also need to work on the vessel of spirit - our embodied humanity. Soulwork is the forging of this vessel... If spiritual work brings freedom, soulwork brings integration. Both are necessary for a complete human life.

There is more evidence to prove that saltness [of the sea] is due to the admixture of some substance, besides that which we have adduced. Make a vessel of wax and put it in the sea, fastening its mouth in such a way as to prevent any water getting in. Then the water that percolates through the wax sides of the vessel is sweet, the earthy stuff, the admixture of which makes the water salt, being separated off as it were by a filter.

Glorious is the tumult of the waves that crash against a vessel, preparing it for the seas of life.

I'm just a vessel of information.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

The supreme application of human attention is to be a vessel to carry awe.

A woman is essentially a vessel made to be filled.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Unless the vessel be pure, everything which is poured into it will turn sour.

Skating was the vessel into which I could pour my heart and soul

Skating was the vessel into which I could pour my heart and soul.

Humility has to do with trying to be a vessel of purposes you're content to understand as not your own.

I'm like a vessel, and God has chosen me to be the voice and the connector.

If time is my vessel, then learning to love might be my way back to sea

You only have one vessel. And the more we invest in our bodies, the better we feel about ourselves.

Black is like a broken vessel, which is deprived of the capacity to contain anything.

Clay is moulded to make a vessel, but the utility of the vessel lies in the space where there is nothing. . . . Thus, taking advantage of what is, we recognize the utility of what is not.

Sarah Palin is an empty vessel ready to be filled by ideology that she doesn't even understand, and that is really scary. Nothing is more frightening than an empty vessel in power.

I think the general anxiety of the 1960s - '70s spawned our interest in the living dead. When people worry about the end of their world, they need a safe vessel for all their fears. Zombies provide that vessel because they're 'safe.

Writing is a vessel...with readers the ocean and authors as its sails.

Self-care isn't selfish (it is a gift to all concerned). You can't serve from an empty vessel.

Margo's beauty was a kind of sealed vessel of perfection--uncracked and uncrackable.

The American Heritage Dictionary defines crucible as "a place, time, or situation characterized by the confluence of powerful intellectual, social, economic, or political forces; a severe test of patience or belief; a vessel for melting material at high temperatures." A crucible was the vessel in which medieval alchemists attempted to turn base metals into gold. That the alchemists inevitably failed in their audacious attempts doesn't denigrate the power of the crucible as a metaphor for the circumstances that cause an individual to be utterly transformed.

The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel.

Self-care is not selfish. You cannot serve from an empty vessel.

And the over-all fact that you are a frail vessel full of errors.

The Great Vessel takes long to complete.

I am so honored to be the vessel into which you pour this story of pain and strength.

A vessel is formed from a lump of clay with care, however, it is the empty space within the vessel that makes it useful.

We put thirty spokes to make a wheel: But it is on the hole in the center that the use of the cart hinges. We make a vessel from a lump of clay; But it is the empty space within the vessel that makes it useful. We make doors and windows for a room; But it is the empty spaces that make the room livable. Thus, while existence has advantages, It is the emptiness that makes it useful.

Everything that you receive is not measured according to its actual size, but, rather that of the receiving vessel.

A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.

Science is the Noah's Ark very itself! Seek no other vessel!