Ships Quotes - Page 23

• O my son! The dunya (world) is a deep ocean in which many have drowned! Let your ship be taqwallah (fear of Allah), and load your ship with Iman-billah (believe in Allah), and let her sail be tawakkal (trust) on Allah! Insha'Allah you will survive then.

  Luqman

  Believe, Ocean, Islamic

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• The great religions are the ships, Poets the life boats. Every sane person I know has jumped overboard.

  Hafez

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Boat

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• Voice is the je ne sais quoi of spirited writing. It separates brochures and brilliance, memo and memoir, a ship's log and The Old Man and the Sea. The best writers stamp prose with their own distinctive personality; their timbre and tone are as recognizable as their voices on the phone. To cultivate voice, you must listen for the music of language-the vernacular, the syntactic tics, the cadences.

  Constance Hale

  Writing, Men, Sea

  Constance Hale (2001). “Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose”, Broadway

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• Already known as one of America’s best and wittiest poets, William Trowbridge has, in Ship of Fool, found the perfect vessel to convey his vision: comic, tender, wry, compassionate, full of insight and rueful understanding of what it means to carry on, cream pies in the face, pants falling down as the Green Weenie rampages through our foolish, beautiful lives.

  Charles Harper Webb

  Beautiful, Fall, Mean

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• Greek customs such as wine drinking were regarded as worthy of imitation by other cultures. So the ships that carried Greek wine were carrying Greek civilization, distributing it around the Mediterranean and beyond, one amphora at a time. Wine displaced beer to become the most civilized and sophisticated of drinks—a status it has maintained ever since, thanks to its association with the intellectual achievements of Ancient Greece.

  Tom Standage

  Drinking, Wine, Beer

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• His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.

  Edmund Wilson

  Life, Inspire, Style

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• We cannot change ideas in the minds of men and races with machine guns or battle ships.

  Herbert Hoover

  War, Gun, Men

  Herbert Hoover (1951). “Addresses Upon the American Road, 1948-1950”

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• All governments, Books, customs, buildings, railways, ships, and all the stark realities that men have made, Are but imagination's utterances.

  Henry Abbey

  Book, Reality, Men

  Henry Abbey, “Eleusinia”

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• Patriotism! It is used to define so many diversities, to justify so many wrongs, to compass so many ends, that its life is killed out; it becomes a dead word in the vocabulary-a blank counter, to be moved to any part of the game; and that flag which, streaming from the mast-head of our ship of state, striped with martyr-blood, and glistening with the stars of lofty promise, should always indicate our worldwide mission, and the glorious destinies that we carry forward, is bandied about in every selfish skirmish, and held up as the symbol of every political privateer.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Stars, Selfish, Destiny

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• What you do for a living is not be creative, what you do for a living is ship.

  Seth Godin

  Motivational, Creative, Be Creative

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• Social media isn't the end-all-be-all, but it offers marketers unparalleled opportunity to participate in relevant ways. It also provides a launchpad for other marketing tactics. Social media is not an island. It's a high-power engine on the larger marketing ship.

  Matthew Dickman

  Opportunity, Islands, Media

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• It so happened that I was on a German sailing vessel on the way to Australia when the ship was captured, and on the high seas I was made prisoner by the French.

  Fritz Sauckel

  Inspirational, Funny, Sea

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• As a cabin boy on a Norwegian sailing ship I earned five kronen a week in addition to my keep.

  Fritz Sauckel

  Inspirational, Funny, Boys

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• We were wavering around like a ship without a sail.

  Judy Holliday

  Inspirational, Funny, Sailing

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• It is a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel.

  Robert Bork

  Inspirational, Funny, Sailing

  Robert H. Bork (2008). “A time to speak: selected writings and arguments”, Intercollegiate Studies Institute

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• She watched the gap between ship and shore grow to a huge gulf. Perhaps this was a little like dying, the departed no longer visible to the others, yet both still existed, only in different worlds.

  Susan Wiggs

  Inspirational, Funny, Departed

  Susan Wiggs (2016). “Susan Wiggs The Calhoun Chronicles Books 1-3: The Charm School\The Horsemaster's Daughter\Halfway to Heaven”, p.70, MIRA

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• Ships are to little purpose without skillful Sea Men.

  Richard Hakluyt

  Men, Sea, Purpose

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• Harmony comes gradually to a pilot and his plane. The wing does not want so much to fly true as to tug at the hands that guide it; the ship would rather hunt the wind than lay her nose to the horizon far ahead. She has a derelict quality in her character; she toys with freedom and hints at liberation, but yields her own desires gently.

  Beryl Markham

  Character, Yield, Hands

  McDougal, Beryl Markham (1997). “West with the Night”, McDougal Littell/Houghton Mifflin

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• A perfect life is like that of a ship of war which has its own place in the fleet and can share in its strength and discipline, but can also go forth alone in the solitude of the infinite sea. We ought to belong to society, to have our place in it, and yet be capable of a complete individual existence outside of it.

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton

  Life, War, Sea

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1875). “The Intellectual Life”, p.325

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• Your heart like a hawk-mouth in the sun, your heart like a ship on an atoll, your heart like a compass needle driven mad by a little piece of lead, like washing drying in the wind, like a whining of horses, like seed thrown to the birds, like an evening paper one has finished reading! Your heart is a charade that the whole world has guessed.

  Louis Aragon

  Horse, Reading, Heart

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• In any new situation, whether it involves an elevator or a rocket ship, you will almost certainly be viewed in one of three ways. As a minus one: actively harmful, someone who creates problems. Or as a zero: your impact is neutral and doesn't tip the balance one way or the other. Or you'll be seen as a plus one: someone who actively adds value. Everyone wants to be a plus one, of course. But proclaiming your plus-oneness at the outset almost guarantees you'll be perceived as a minus one, regardless of the skills you bring to the table or how you actually perform.

  Chris Hadfield

  Zero, Impact, Skills

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• Yet the evil still increased, and, like the parasite of barnacles on a ship, if it did not destroy the structure, it obstructed its fair, comfortable progress in the path of life.

  William Banting

  Evil, Progress, Path

  William Banting (1864). “Letter on Corpulence: Addressed to the Public”, p.13

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• Let's just say I'm like a ship passing through storms, resting in ports now and then until it's time to continue the journey. I once told a friend, `I'm just looking for an angel with a broken wing - one that couldn't fly away.'

  Jimmy Page

  Angel, Journey, Wings

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• Let the Truth be known, no ship is unsinkable. The bigger the ship, the easier it is to sink her. I learned long ago that if you design how a ship'll sink, you can keep her afloat. I proposed all the watertight compartments and the double hull to slow these ships from sinking. In that way, you get everyone off. There's time for help to arrive, and the ship's less likely to break apart and kill someone while she's going down.

  Thomas Andrews

  Long Ago, Design, Hull

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• Our public credit is good, but the abundance of paper has produced a spirit of gambling in the funds, which has laid up our ships at the wharves as too slow instruments of profit, and has even disarmed the hand of the tailor of his needle and thimble. They say the evil will cure itself. I wish it may; but I have rarely seen a gamester cured, even by the disasters of his vocation.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Gambling, Hands, Evil

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”, p.126

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