Never rest on your oars as a boss. If you do, the whole company starts sinking.
There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.
I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.
You don't paddle against the current, you paddle with it. And if you get good at it, you throw away the oars.
The judgment is an utensil proper for all subjects, and will have an oar in everything.
I can imagine nothing more wonderful than always wanting to keep a man. It's this NOT wanting to keep them, and yet not quite being able to disentangle one's self, never quite having the ruthlessness to stike at the hands on the gunwale with an oar until they let go - that's the horrible thing.
He knows enough, the mariner, who knows Where lurk the shelves, and where the whirlpools boil, What signs portend the storm: to subtler minds He leaves to scan, from what mysterious cause Charybdis rages in the Ionian wave; Whence those impetuous currents in the main Which neither oar nor sail can stem; and why The roughening deep expects the storm, as sure As red Orion mounts the shrouded heaven.
Carry an oar when you drive. Three times I've ended up in water.
Don't want to slump over the oars.
A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
On the ear Drops the light drip of the suspended oar.
I dream of silent verses where the rhyme glides noiseless as an oar.
It is not good to have an oar in everyone's boat.
