 | Alan L. Mackay - 1991 - 312 pages
...means contemptible.) [Roman Emperor, died 238] The Decline and Fall of tke Roman Empire Chapter 7 35' The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest of navigators. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Josiah Willard Gibbs 1839-1903 36 One of the... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...Christian would rather admit that a wafer is God than that God is a cruel and capricious tyrant. 3923 0 (in a pamphlet on the army) We are suffering from a debilitating f GIBBON lohn Murray 3924 I always suspect an artist who is successful before he is dead. GIBBONS Orlando... | |
 | J. D. Kroft - 2000 - 310 pages
...sort of clever stupidity to develop just one sort of talent—like a carrier pigeon. —George Eliot The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. —Edward Gibbon The best evidence of ability is an immense capacity for hard work and an intense conviction... | |
 | Alan W. Hirshfeld - 2002 - 340 pages
...around me myriads of other globes. — Walt Whitman, "Night on the Prairies," from Leaves of Grass The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. — Edward Gibbon *** Ly father's desk was filled with mysterious instruments. As a child, I'd slip... | |
 | John Gookin - 2002 - 148 pages
...Chinese proverb Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. Thomas Edison The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. Edward Gibbon Buy gear that is "good enough" but learn to use it really well. Owning a paint brush... | |
 | 2004 - 516 pages
...Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. — Aldous Huxley The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. — Edu'ard Gibbon As experience widens, one begins to see how much upon a level all human things are.... | |
 | Alan M. Perlman - 2006 - 220 pages
...Future "A great historian1 once wrote [ — and all of you who are sailors know this, I'm sure — ]/the winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.' As we chart the future of our business, we have to be the ablest navigators of all. And while the outcome... | |
 | Larry Chang - 2006 - 826 pages
...Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680 ~ Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases. ~ Jeremy Collier, 1650-1726 ~ The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. ~ Edward Gibbon, 1737-1794 ~ Present opportunities are neglected and attainable good is slighted, by... | |
 | Alan M. Perlman - 2006 - 220 pages
...• "A great historian1 once wrote [—and all of you who are sailors know this, I'm sure— L'the winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.' As we chart the future of our business, we have to be the ablest navigators of all. And while the outcome... | |
 | 188 pages
...your capacities - and you will find your capacities are greater than you ever dreamt. - Arthur Gordon. The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators . - Edward Gibbon. Ability can take you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. - Anonym.... | |
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... adversaries, who, with the design of boarding, presumed to approach them; and the winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. 
