Ships Quotes - Page 22

• I can jump ship and swim--
  that the ocean will hold me,
  that there's got to be more
  than this boat I'm in.

  Ani DiFranco

  Ocean, Swim, Boat

  Song: Swan Dive, Album: Little Plastic Castle

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• We should look at the Twitter records of Andrew Fraser. Clearly, the ship was on remote control, because he spent all of his time on Twitter. He used to Twitter in the chamber. He used to Twitter at night. He used to Twitter probably in bed at home, but I am not going to go any further there.

  Campbell Newman

  Home, Night, Bed

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• Today at Pearl Harbor, veterans are gathering to pay tribute to the young men they remember who never escaped the sunken ships. And over the years, some Pearl Harbor veterans have made a last request. They ask that their ashes be brought down and placed inside the USS Arizona. After the long lives given them, they wanted to rest besides the best men they ever knew. Such loyalty and love remain the greatest strength of the United States Navy.

  George W. Bush

  Loyalty, Men, Years

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• When I'm a ship tossed around on the waves, Up on a highwire that's ready to break. When I've had just about all I can take, baby you save me

  Kenny Chesney

  Baby, Happy Love, Wave

  Song: You Save Me, 2005

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• The Kappamaki, a whaling research ship, was currently researching the question: How many whales can you catch in one week?

  Terry Pratchett

  Funny, Animal, Whales

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• Venice seemed incredibly lovely, elvishly lovely--to me like a dream of Old Gondor, or Pelargir of the Numenorean Ships, before the return of the Shadow.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Dream, Venice, Lovely

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• Seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from laying violent hands upon the ship.

  Jonathan Swift

  Hands, Whales, Amusement

  Jonathan Swift, William Wotton (1811). “A tale of a tub,: written for the universal improvement of mankind. To which is added, An account of a battle between the ancient and modern books in St. James's Library”, p.43

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• There is, how­ever, a strong empir­i­cal rea­son why we should cul­ti­vate thoughts that can never be proved. It is that they are known to be use­ful. Man pos­i­tively needs gen­eral ideas & con­vic­tions that will give a mean­ing to his life & enable him to find a place for him­self in the uni­verse. He can stand the most incred­i­ble hard­ships when he is con­vinced that they make sense; he is crushed when on top of all his mis­for­tunes, he has to admit that he is tak­ing part in a ‘tale told by an idiot.’

  Carl Jung

  Strong, Mean, Son

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• You're mistaken; men of sense often learn much from their enemies. Prudence is the best safeguard. This principle cannot be learnt from a friend: but an enemy extorts it immediately. It is from their foes and not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war. And this lesson saves their children, their homes, and their properties.

  Aristophanes

  Wall, Children, War

  Aristophanes (1812). “Comedies of Aristophanes: Viz: The Clouds, Plutus, The Frogs, The Birds”, p.434

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• The summation of human experience is being expanded at a prodigious rate, and the means we use for threading through the consequent maze to the momentarily important item is the same as was used in the days of square-rigged ships.

  Vannevar Bush

  Mean, Squares, Important

  "As We May Think" by Vannevar Bush, www.theatlantic.com. July 1945.

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• Those who are enamoured of practice without science are like a pilot who goes into a ship without rudder or compass and never has any certainty of where he is going. Practice should always be based upon a sound knowledge of theory.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Practice, Sound, Pilots

  Dell' Anatomia Vol. II, Ch. 29

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• And, as for me, if, by any possibility, there be any as yet undiscovered prime thing in me; if I shall ever deserve any real repute in that small but high hushed world which I might not be unreasonably ambitious of ; if hereafter I shall do anything that, upon the whole, a man might rather have done than to have left undone ; if, at my death, my executors, or more properly my creditors, find any precious MSS. in my desk, then here I prospectively ascribe all the honour and the glory to whaling; for a whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

  Herman Melville

  Real, College, Men

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.108

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• O Captain my Captain! our fearful trip is done, / The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won

  Walt Whitman

  Sailing, Done, Leaves Of Grass

  "O Captain! My Captain!" l. 1 (1871)

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• The fact that every part of this ship was built by the low bidder.

  Alan Shepard

  Facts, Lows, Built

  "Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond". Book by Gene Kranz, 2000.

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• What is the problem? We now have aeroplanes which can take them back quicker than the ships used by their ancestors.

  Robert Mugabe

  Problem, Used, Ancestor

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• But Ship Who Sang remains my favorite story. I really rocked folks with that and still cannot read it aloud myself without weeping at the end

  Anne McCaffrey

  Stories, My Favorite, Ends

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• When ships to sail the void between the stars have been built, there will step forth men to sail these ships.

  Johannes Kepler

  Stars, Men, Void

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• And they know neither sect nor idolatry, with the exception that all believe that the source of all power and goodness is in the sky, and they believe very firmly that I, with these ships and people, came from the sky, and in this belief they everywhere received me, after they had overcome their fear.

  Christopher Columbus

  Fear, Believe, Sky

  Christopher Columbus (1959). “A new and fresh English translation of the letter of Columbus announcing the discovery of America”

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• Were it not for love, Poor life would be a ship not worth launching.

  Edwin Arlington Robinson

  Love, Would Be, Poor

  Edwin Arlington Robinson, James P. Carley (1990). “Edwin Arlington Robinson”, p.353, Boydell & Brewer

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• Most of all, I like the quiet, rounded tugs. They remind me of women. As I watch them work I see them as kindly, no-fuss boats which patiently tend much larger, grander and more important-looking ships. They make sure these ships get to the right place as the right time, shepherding them with a pull or a push as needed. Their power is not immediately obvious but it is there - inside. I watch them a lot and never tire of seeing their unsung but absolutely essential work. The silent strong women of the sea.

  Hazel Hawke

  Strong Women, Sea, Important

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• But who is this, what thing of sea or land,- Female of sex it seems,- That so bedeck'd, ornate, and gay, Comes this way sailing Like a stately ship Of Tarsus, bound for th' isles Of Javan or Gadire, With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Sails fill'd, and streamers waving, Courted by all the winds that hold them play, An amber scent of odorous perfume Her harbinger?

  John Milton

  Sex, Gay, Wind

  John Milton (1832). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.34

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• I have heard upscale adult U.S. citizens ask the ship's Guest Relations Desk whether snorkeling necessitates getting wet...I now know the precise mixocological difference between a Slippery Nipple and a fuzzy navel.

  David Foster Wallace

  Differences, Nipples, Fuzzy

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• Without love our life is ... a ship without a rudder ... like a body without a soul.

  Sholom Aleichem

  Love, Soul, Body

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• When the king asked him what he meant by infesting the sea, the pirate defiantly replied:
  The same as you do when you infest the whole world;
  but because I do it with a little ship I am called a robber,
  and because you do it with a great fleet, you are an emperor.

  Saint Augustine

  Kings, Sea, Cynical

  Augustine, R. W. Dyson (1998). “Augustine: The City of God Against the Pagans”, p.148, Cambridge University Press

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• We don't want to fight, but by jingo if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too.

  G W Hunt

  Money, War, Fighting

  1878 Music-hall song, inspired by Disraeli's speech of 9 Nov1876 threatening Russia with war if it sent volunteers into Serbia and Montenegro. This is the origin of 'jingoism'.

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