Ships Quotes - Page 18

• Tessa had lain down beside him and slid her arm beneath his head, and put her head on his chest,listening to the ever-weakening beat of his heart. And in the shadows they'd whispered, reminding each other of the stories only they knew. Of the girl who had hit over the head with a water jug the boy who had come to rescue her, and how he had fallen in love with her in that instant. Of a ballroom and a balcony and the moon sailing like a ship untethered through the sky. Of the flutter of the wings of the clockwork Angel. Of holy water and blood.

  Cassandra Clare

  Girl, Princess, Heart

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.551, Simon and Schuster

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• Words were one of the most powerful forces known— or unknown— to man. The Most High had created this world with His words. And humans, who had been fashioned in His image, could direct the entire course of their lives with their words, their mouths as the rudder on a ship, as the bridle on a horse. They produced with their words. They destroyed with their words.

  Gena Showalter

  Horse, Powerful, Men

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• He gaped at the controls. "Why is my ship talking back to me?

  Marissa Meyer

  Talking, Talking Back

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• I'll find you, Will!" Then the wind filled the big, square sail of the wolfship and she heeled away from the shore, moving faster and faster towards the northeast. For a long time after she'd dropped below the horizon, the sodden figure sat there, his horse chest-deep in the rolling waves, staring after the ship. And his lips still moved, in a silent promis only he could hear.

  John Flanagan

  Horse, Moving, Squares

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• [Hazel] hissed in frustration. 'I hate eidolons. I thought Piper made them promise to stay away.' 'Oh...' Frank said, like he'd just had his own daily happy thought. 'Piper made them promise to stay off the ship and not possess any of us. But if they followed us, and used other bodies to attack us, then they're not technically breaking their vow...' 'Great,' Leo muttered. 'Eidolons who are also lawyers. Now I really want to kill them.

  Rick Riordan

  Hate, Frustration, Promise

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• So are you moving on now? Is that what brought you to the grand metropolis of Valladolid?” “No. The wind just blew me here.” “What? Like a plastic bag?” “I prefer to think of myself as a ship. Like a sailboat.

  Gayle Forman

  Moving, Thinking, Wind

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• There is a coldness to the Clave, it is true. We are dust and shadows. But you are like the heroes of ancient times, like Achilles and Jason.” “Achilles was murdered with a poisoned arrow, and Jason died alone, killed by his own rotting ship. Such is the fate of heroes; the Angel knows why anyone would want to be one.

  Cassandra Clare

  Hero, Angel, Fate

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• Hold up." Leo stepped forward, wagging his Wii controller. "Did you just call my a ship a monstrosity? I KNOW you didn't that.

  Rick Riordan

  Wii, Monstrosity, Controllers

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• I am praetor of the legion," Reyna said. "I judge this to be in the best interest of Rome." "To get yourself killed? To break our oldest laws and travel to the Ancient Lands? How will you even find their ship, assuming you survive the journey?" [Octavian] "I will find them," Reyna said.

  Rick Riordan

  Journey, Rome, Law

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• Like the wind that carries one ship east and another west, the law of autosuggestion will lift you up or pull you down according to the way that you set your sails of thought.

  Napoleon Hill

  Positive, Wind, Law

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.49, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• One hurries through, even though there's time; the past, the continent, is behind; the future is the glowing mouth in the side of the ship; the dim, turbulent alley is too confusedly the present.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Time, Past, Glowing

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.471, e-artnow

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• Time that is moved by little fidget wheels Is not myTime, the flood that does not flow. Between the double and the single bell Of a ship's hour, between a round of bells From the dark warship riding there below, I have lived many lives, and this one life Of Joe, long dead, who lives between five bells.

  Adam Skirving

  Time, Dark, Long

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• Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in, and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen?
  I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding-line, and had no way of knowing how near the harbour was.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Heart, Knowledge

  Helen Keller (2012). “The Story of My Life”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• Love contending with friendship, and self with each generous impulse.
  To and fro in his breast his thoughts were heaving and dashing,
  As in a foundering ship.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Self, Impulse

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1861). “The poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, including his translations and notes”, p.352

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• Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor.

  Saint Augustine

  Peace, War, Politics

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• The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.

  B. C. Forbes

  Men, Religion, He Man

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• When I forget how talented God is, I look to the sea.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Sea, Sailing, Nautical

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• The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

  Ovid

  Men, Sea, Sailing

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• The house was built on the highest part of the narrow tongue of land between the harbor and the open sea. It had lasted through three hurricanes and it was built solid as a ship.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Sea, Land, House

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Islands in the Stream: A Novel”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• First ship them dope, let them deal to brothers, give them guns, step back and watch them kill each other.

  Tupac Shakur

  Brother, Gun, Dope

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• A ship's a fool to fight a fort.

  Horatio Nelson

  War, Fighting, Fool

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• Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment

  Owen Feltham

  Humanity, Sailing, Moments

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• A sailor's joys are as simple as a child's.

  Bernard Moitessier

  Children, Simple, Sea

  Bernard Moitessier (1995). “The Long Way”, p.13, Sheridan House, Inc.

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• Until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore, you will not know the terror of being forever lost at sea.

  Charlie Cook

  Sight, Sea, Forever

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• I will always take on a new challenge. I believe in jumping off the ship every now and then. If you don't, you won't really learn how to swim

  Alec Broers, Baron Broers

  Believe, Athlete, Jumping

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