A little after moonrise Stephen woke. Extreme hunger had brought on cramps in his midriff again and he held his breath to let them pass: Jack was still sitting there, the tiller under his knee, the sheet in his hand, as though he had never moved, as though he were as immoveable as the Rock of Gibraltar and as unaffected by hunger, thirst, fatigue, or despondency. In this light he even looked rock-like, the moon picking out the salient of his nose and jaw and turning his broad shoulders and upper man into one massive block. He had in fact lost almost as much weight as a man can lose and live, and in the day his shrunken, bearded face with deep-sunk eyes was barely recognizable; but the moon showed the man unchanged. . Patrick OBrian
Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
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E.e. Cummings
Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. then your love would also change.
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William Shakespeare
That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind
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Neil Armstrong
In presence of the Moon nobody sees stars.
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Amit Kalantri
When you come to look into this argument from design, it is a most astonishing thing that people can believe that this world, with all the things that are in it, with all its defects, should be the best that omnipotence and omniscience have been...
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Bertrand Russell
More Quotes By Patrick OBrian
Sir, ’ said Stephen, ‘I read novels with the utmost pertinacity. I look upon them-- I look upon good novels--as a very valuable part of literature, conveying more exact and finely-distinguished knowledge of the human heart and mind than almost any other, with greater breadth...
I sew his ears on from time to time, sure.
I should send my bees ashore for you, upon my sacred honour.
Well, I will wear the bees, like Damon and Pythagoras — ho, a mere sixty thousand bees in the cabin don't signify, much.
You do not mean there is danger of peace?", cried Jack.
