Quotes about Ishmael

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I will go upon the rock, boys, and look abroad for the savages," said Ishmael shortly after, advancing towards them with a mien which he intended should be conciliating, at the same time that it was authoritative. "If there is nothing to fear, we will go out on the plain; the day is too good to be lost in words, like women in the towns wrangling over their tea and sugared cakes.

James Fenimore Cooper

Olaf: Of course I'm trying to trick you! That's the way of the world, Baudelaires. Everyone runs around with their secrets and their schemes, trying to outwit everyone else. Ishmael outwitted me, and put me in this cage. But I know how to outwit him and all his islander friends. If you let me out, I can be king of Olaf-Land, and you three can be my new henchfolk.
Klaus: We don't want to be your henchfolk, we just want to be safe. Olaf: Nowhere in the world is safe.

If you can't discover what's keeping you in, the will to get out soon becomes confused and ineffectual - "Ishmael

Captain Ahab drowned, he reminded himself; it was the trimmer, Ishmael, who survived.

You white women speak here of rights. I speak of wrongs. I as a colored woman have had in this country an education which has made me feel as if I were in the situation of Ishmael, my hands against every man, and every man's hand against me.