Ballast Quotes

Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion years; but in our day of electric wires and water-ballast we turn it around: Man waits not for time nor tide. - Mark Twain

There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business. - James Russell Lowell

There are fellow parishioners we never see because we are worshipping in two different locations. - Irene Ballasty

That requires the heavy lift ship to actually ballast or flood down. It could appear to the casual observer that a ship is sinking in Elliot Bay. - John Lockwood

One significant provision calls for ships to meet ballast water discharge standard according to a schedule of fixed dates -- beginning with certain ships constructed in 2009. These fixed dates serve as a signal to both the shipping industry and the emerging ballast water treatment industry of the need for investment, plans and ballast water treatment equipment inventory to meet ballast water management requirements. - Kathy Moore

One must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life. - Henry David Thoreau

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast. - William Penn

It will be great to have a place that everyone can worship together at one time. - Irene Ballasty