“ The Oxen and the Axle-Trees A heavy wagon was being dragged along a country lane by a team of Oxen. The Axle-trees groaned and creaked terribly; whereupon the Oxen, turning round, thus addressed the wheels: Hullo there! why do you make so much noise? We bear all the labor, and we, not you, ought to cry out… ”
- Aesop- Copy
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“ 'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world. ”
- George Washington- Copy
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“ To create is to boggle the mind and alter the mood. Once the urge has surged, it maintains its own momentum. We may go along for the ride, but when we attempt to steer the course, the momentum dies. ”
- Sue Atchley Ebaugh- Copy
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“ True courage consists not in flying from the storms of life, but in braving and steering through them with prudence. ”
- Hannah Webster Foster- Copy
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“ We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison. ”
- Marcel Proust- Copy
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“ We shall steer safely through every storm as long as our heart is right, our intention fervent, our courage steadfast, and our trust fixed on God. ”
- St. Francis De Sales- Copy
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“ When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment, we have no compass to govern us, nor can we know distinctly to what port to steer. ”
- Edmund Burke- Copy
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“ People come to Washington believing it's the center of power. I know I did. It was only much later that I learned that Washington is a steering wheel that's not connected to the engine. ”
- Richard Goodwin- Copy
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“ The will is never free — it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car — it can't steer. ”
- Joyce Cary- Copy
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“ He is the best sailor who can steer within the fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ as long as we have the courage and wisdom to make the tough choices, hold ourselves accountable for the results and steer clear of the deadly 'if only' scourge. ”
- Joe Klock- Copy
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“ Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners. ”
- Laurence Sterne- Copy
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“ How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad, that driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labors, and whose talk is of the bullocks? ”
- Apocrypha- Copy
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“ There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. ”
- Elie Wiesel- Copy
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“ Fortunate is the person who has developed the self-control to steer a straight course toward his objective in life, without being swayed from his purpose by either commendation or condemnation. ”
- Napoleon Hill- Copy
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“ An unstable pilot steers a leaking ship, and the blind is leading the blind straight to the pit. The ruler is like the ruled. ”
- Saint Jerome- Copy
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“ I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me. ”
- Dave Barry- Copy
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“ If you have a brain in your head and feet in your shoes, you can steer youeself in any direction you choose. ”
- Dr. Seuss- Copy
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“ Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by. ”
- John Masefield- Copy
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“ If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him. ”
- Marcus Annaeus Seneca- Copy
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“ It's not the bulls and bears you need to avoid — it's the bum steers. ”
- Chuck Hillis- Copy
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