Captains Quotes - Page 25

• Back on shore everyone was pretty messed up, but the owner/captain was by far the worst off. He ended up drunk for a week, though the only thing he ever said was "So?" The boat's gone. "So?" Your mate's dead. "So?" Hey at least you're alive. "So?" An awful word but it does harden you. It hardened me.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Drunk, Doe, Gone

  Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”

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• A captain always knows where his ship is. It's like a psychic bond." "If only we had a captain here.

  Marissa Meyer

  Psychics, Ships, Knows

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• I've been afraid of being Cansrel,' she said aloud to her reflection. 'But I'm not Cansrel.' At her elbow, Musa said blandly, 'Any one of us could have told you that, Lady.' Fire looked at the captain of her guard and laughed, because she wasn't Cansrel- she wasn't anyone but herself. She had no one's path to follow; her path was her own to choose.

  Kristin Cashore

  Reflection, Fire, Elbows

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.120, Penguin

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• I would rather receive a Pap smear from Captain Hook than venture out on New Year's Eve.

  Jen Lancaster

  New Year, Years, Hook

  Jen Lancaster (2013). “The Tao of Martha: My Year of LIVING; Or, Why I'm Never Getting All That Glitter Off of the Dog”, p.21, Penguin

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• To make decisions while infuriated is as unwise and foolish as it is for a captain to put out to sea in a raging storm.

  ElRay L. Christiansen

  Anger, Sea, Decision

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• What would you do if your country's welfare depended on labor? When a ship is in a storm it requires one captain.

  Fritz Sauckel

  Country, Storm, Ships

  "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, (p. 209), 2004.

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• The man who sailed around his soul From East to West, from pole to pole With ego as his drunken captain Greed, the mutineer, had trapped all reason in the hold

  Andy Partridge

  Men, Greed, Ego

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• The captain, thinking over this event afterward, realized that by his own lifelong standards he had a crew composed entirely of lunatics, with himself well to the front in degree of aberration; but he was fairly sure that this particular form of insanity was going to be useful.

  Hal Clement

  Thinking, Insanity, Aberration

  "Mission of Gravity" by Hal Clement, (Ch. 9), 1954.

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  We have good corporals and good sergeants and some good lieutenants and captains, and those are far more important than good generals.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Important, Sergeants, Lieutenants

  William Tecumseh Sherman, Brooks D. Simpson, Jean Vance Berlin (1999). “Sherman's Civil War: selected correspondence of William T. Sherman, 1860-1865”, The University of North Carolina Press

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• I've played English a number of times, and used an English accent a number of times, so it becomes a little bit of an obstacle course to go, "Oh, that's teetering into Captain Jack-ville," or "This is teetering into Chocolat or Wonka." You've got to really pay attention to the places you've been. But, that's part of it. That's the great challenge. You may get it wrong. There's a very good possibility that you can fall flat on your face, but that's a healthy thing for an actor.

  Johnny Depp

  Fall, Numbers, Challenges

  "Johnny Depp and Tim Burton Interview ALICE IN WONDERLAND". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 3, 2010.

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• Great military leaders have to sacrifice soldiers; great captains of industry have to sacrifice people. You can't only look after the poor, and the weak, and the disabled. You've got to do what's best for the community, and that often means sacrificing innocent people.

  David Nasaw

  Military, Mean, Sacrifice

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• Oh captain, my captain, bon voyage.

  Ken Dryden

  Voyages

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• I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship.

  Cesare Pavese

  Hard Times, Destiny, Ships

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• If the great Captain of Plymouth is so very eager to wed me, Why does he not come himself, and take the trouble to woo me? If I am not worth the wooing, I surely am not worth the winning!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Winning, Doe, Plymouth

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Favorite Poems”, p.54, Courier Corporation

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• To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser. It is as if a ship captain should sail to India from the Port of London; and having brought a chart of the Thames on deck at his first setting out, should obstinately use no other for the whole voyage.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Years, Views, London

  Robert Louis Stevenson (1999). “The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays”, p.63, Cooper Square Press

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• We see many instances of cities going down like sinking ships to their destruction. There have been such wrecks in the past and there surely will be others in the future, caused by the wickedness of captains and crews alike. For these are guilty men, whose sin is supreme ignorance of what matters most.

  Plato

  Ignorance, Past, Men

  Plato (1952). “Plato's Statesman”

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• There are many of our so-called captains on industry who, if the truth were told, and a shorter and uglier word were not unpermissible, are little better than malefactors of great wealth.

  James Branch Cabell

  Littles, Wealth, Industry

  James Branch Cabell (1927). “The cream of the jest”

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• [Serialism] is like a sailless ship, driven out to sea by its captain, who has grown tired of its being used only as a pontoon, and who is privately convinced that by subjecting life aboard to the rules of an elaborate protocol, he will prevent the crew from thinking nostalgically either of their home port or of their ultimate destination.…

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Home, Tired, Thinking

  "The Raw and the Cooked : Introduction to a Science of Mythology" translated by Doreen and John Weightman, (p. 113), 1975.

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• A man without religion or spiritual vision is like a captain who finds himself in the midst of an uncharted sea, without compass, rudder and steering wheel. He never knows where he is, which way he is going and where he is going to land.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Spiritual, Men, Sea

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• To my crew: Please be reasonable and do it my way.
  The Captain

  Rusty Mills

  Sailing, Way, Crew

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• We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to woman as freely as to man.

  Margaret Fuller

  Men, Sea, Justice

  "The Great Lawsuit. Man versus Men. Woman versus Women". Essay by Margaret Fuller, first published in The Dial Magazine, Volume IV, archive.vcu.edu. July 1843.

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• Let's face a historical truth: we have never had a "free market", we have always had government intervention in the economy, and indeed that intervention has been welcomed by the captains of finance and industry. They had no quarrel with "big government" when it served their needs.

  Howard Zinn

  Atheist, Government, Historical

  "From empire to democracy" by Howard Zinn, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2008.

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• We've never had nannies. We've had great grandparents, great support from family, and the kids have been on every set: they've seen me play Gollum, King Kong, Captain Haddock, the lot. They totally get it, and they want to go into the business. Ruby, my daughter, is very keen to become an actress.

  Andy Serkis

  Daughter, Mother, Kings

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• Woe to me if I should prove myself but a halfhearted soldier in the service of my thorn-crowned Captain.

  Fidelis of Sigmaringen

  Soldier, Suffering, Woe

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• Military tactics are like unto water; for water in its natural course runs away from high places and hastens downwards... Water shapes its course according to the nature of the ground over which it flows; the soldier works out his victory in relation to the foe whom he is facing. Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions. He who can modify his tactics in relation to his opponent and thereby succeed in winning, may be called a heaven-born captain.

  Sun Tzu

  Running, Art, Military

  Sun Tzu (2017). “El Arte de la Guerra – The Art of War (Sun Tzu)”, p.51, PLUTÓN EDICIONES X SL

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