Captains Quotes - Page 12

• Then, again, the ability to organize and conduct industrial, commercial, or financial enterprises is rare; the great captains of industry are as rare as great generals.

  William Graham Sumner

  Financial, Ability, Enterprise

  William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.46, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• I became a boat captain because I loved the water and had been on a boat since I was eight. I captained the boat by myself because I liked being alone.

  Diane Wilson

  Eight, Water, Boat

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I like to quote Homer Simpson: 'I'm like a chocoholic except for alcohol.' I come from a long line of alcoholics. It's funny because when I first started making records, I was at the tail end of a period of sobriety, so I somehow got this reputation as Captain Sober.

  Moby

  Long, Sobriety, Alcohol

  Source: thequietus.com

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• When I was very young, one of my favourite books was Captain's Courageous and I suppose one of the reasons I loved it, it was a life I knew I should have had, learning all the different bits of the ship and learning to catch fish and rig sails and to -all the things that I never learned and I never learned the discipline, but I hungered after it.

  Clive James

  Book, Should Have, Discipline

  "Clive James: life through the prism of illness". "PM" with Mark Colvin, www.abc.net.au. August 21, 2015.

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• Politics can not only be drudgery and Captain Queeg with the balls in his hands.

  John Kasich

  Hands, Balls, Can Not

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• My favorite artists from comics were early ones like Jack Kirby or Steve Ditko who had a real heavy ink style. Captain America, co created by Jack Kirby, was a favorite of mine and I sometimes use an altered version of his costume on some of my characters.

  Marcel Dzama

  Real, Character, Artist

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Captain Ahab was a man possessed with an obsessional drive to pursue the white whale which had harmed him - which had torn his leg out - to the ends of the Earth, no matter what happened. In the final scene of the novel, Captain Ahab is being borne out to sea, wrapped around the white whale with the rope of his own harpoon and going obviously to his death. It was a scene of almost suicidal finality.

  Edward Said

  Suicidal, Men, Ahab

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• [Chris Evans] is doing an amazing job with "Captain America." I really enjoy those films as well so that's kind of pretty much where that was.

  Michael B. Jordan

  Jobs, America, Amazing Job

  Source: thesource.com

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• A movie is kind of like being the captain of a ship, which is nice, but when I perform by myself it's just surfing on the water and nobody really knows what happens.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Nice, Water, Surfing

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I'm obsessed with the Victorian era and the British Royal Navy... I'd love to play a troubled sailor or captain or a boatman on a three masted ship.

  Nick Offerman

  Play, Navy, Three

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• You know, there's a certain irony in the fact that our lives and perhaps the lives of everyone on Earth may depend on Captain Patterson's sex appeal.

  Charles Beaumont

  Sex, Men, Earth

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• I think the number one public-relations blunder Osama has made is that he lives in a cave-fortress and if there's one thing we've learned from it's that you can't trust a guy who lives in a cave-fortress -- Lex Luther, Captain Nemo, Dr. Evil. I'm telling you the list goes on.

  David Letterman

  Thinking, Numbers, Evil

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• It's not easy, being the best at what he does but still having the humility and desire to be close to those around him. In private, Messi is a great leader, a great captain. Usually the best in any area see things differently but in this case Leo is still an ordinary person and that makes our relationship work. He's the leader of ARG, he has helped us to reach two finals in one year. I have great respect for Messi the person and player.

  Javier Mascherano

  Humility, Player, Years

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• The soldier takes pride in saluting his Captain,
  The devotee proffers a knee to his Lord,
  Some back a mare thrown from a thoroughbred,
  Troy backed its Helen, Troy died and adored;
  Great nations blossom above,
  A slave bows down to a slave.

  William Butler Yeats

  Loyalty, Pride, Soldier

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.581, Simon and Schuster

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• Bad language or abuse, I never, never use, Whatever the emergency; Though 'Bother it' I may Occasionally say, I never use a big, big D : What, never? : No, never! : What never? : Well, hardly ever! : Hardly ever swears a big, big D Then give three cheers, and one cheer more, For the well-bred Captain of the Pinafore!

  Walter Raleigh

  Cheer, Giving, Abuse

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• History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with useful men.

  H. L. Mencken

  Kings, Men, History

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• A man may own a ship, but unless he is captain of a crew he goes where the ship goes.

  Josephine Tey

  Men, Independence, May

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• Oh, I am a cook and a captain bold,
  And the mate of the Nancybrig,
  And a bos'sun tight, and a midshipmite,
  And the crew of the captain's gig!

  W. S. Gilbert

  Gigs, Sun, Crew

  William Schwenck Gilbert, “The Yarn Of The Nancy Bell”

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• Great captains do never use long orations when it comes to the point of execution.

  Philip Sidney

  Long, Use, Execution

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• God has appointed us captains of this our bodily fort, which, without treason to that majesty, are never to be delivered over till they are demanded.

  Philip Sidney

  Suicide, Majesty, Forts

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.151

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• The death of a man is like the fall of a mighty nation That had valiant armies, captains, and prophets, And wealthy ports and ships all over the seas.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Fall, Army, Men

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• Randy Moss is not a leader. He doesn't deserve to be the captain of the Oakland Raiders. He's the one who said he wanted to be traded. He's not happy. His effort is lacking. That's a disgrace to the uniform. I don't care what uniform you have on.

  Boomer Esiason

  Oakland, Effort, Leader

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• It is unfortunate when final decisions are made by chieftains headquartered miles away from the front, where they can only guess at conditions and potentialities known only to the captain of the battlefield.

  Attila the Hun

  Decision, Finals, Made

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• I would not knock old fellows in the dust
  But there lay Captain Carpenter on his back
  His weapons were the old heart in his bust
  And a blade shook between rotten teeth alack.

  John Crowe Ransom

  Heart, Dust, Teeth

  John Crowe Ransom (1963). “Selected poems”

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• Captain Carpenter rose up in his prime
  Put on his pistols and went riding out
  But had got wellnigh nowhere at that time
  Till he fell in with ladies in a rout.

  John Crowe Ransom

  Women, Rose, Riding

  Donald Davidson, William Yandell Elliott, Merrill Moore, John Crowe Ransom, Robert Penn Warren (1928). “Fugitives: an anthology of verse”

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