Ships Quotes - Page 24

• I love everything that makes up a milieu, the rolling of the carriages and the noise of the workmen in Paris, the cries of a thousand birds in the country, the movement of the ships on the waters. I love also absolute, profound silence, and, in short, I love everything that is around me, no matter where I am.

  George Sand

  Country, Paris, Profound

  George Sand (2009). “The George Sand-gustave Flaubert Letters: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.201, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The popular mind often pictures gigantic flying machines speeding across the Atlantic carrying innumerable passengers in a way analogous to our modern steam ships. . . it seems safe to say that such ideas are wholly visionary and even if the machine could get across with one or two passengers the expense would be prohibitive to any but the capitalist who could use his own yacht.

  William Henry Pickering

  Ideas, Two, Flying

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• The success of the abolitionist movement lay in its making real for people in Britain and America the slave ship's pervasive and utterly instrumental terror, which was indeed its defining feature.

  Marcus Rediker

  Real, Britain And America, Slave Ships

  Marcus Rediker (2007). “The Slave Ship: A Human History”, p.13, Penguin

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• Joy, shipmate, joy! (Pleased to my soul at death I cry), Our life is closed, our life begins, The long, long anchorage we leave, The ship is clear at last, she leaps! She swiftly courses from the shore, Joy, shipmate, joy!

  Walt Whitman

  Life, Long, Joy

  Walt Whitman, “Joy, Shipmate, Joy!”

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• It's time for conservative Americans to right the ship again.

  Mike Pence

  Conservative

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I feel like a different person since my mum passed away, like I'm driving a ship with my husband alongside me and we're leading these four children into unknown waters.

  Stella McCartney

  Children, Husband, Water

  "'I feel like a different person since my mum passed away': Stella McCartney on how the loss of her mother changed her forever". "Daily Mail Reporter" Interview, www.dailymail.co.uk. April 06, 2012.

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• I be off the slave ships, building pyramids, writing my own hieroglyphs

  Kendrick Lamar

  Writing, Pyramids, Slave Ships

  Song: HiiiiPoWeR, Album: Section 80

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• I would like to live to see the time when the men and woman of God - holy, separated and spiritually enlightened - walk out of the evangelical
  church and form a group of their own; when they get off the sinking ship and let her go down in the brackish and worldliness and form a new ark to ride out the storm.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Men, Storm, Church

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• For me, a rocket is only a means--only a method of reaching the depths of space--and not an end in itself... There's no doubt that it's very important to have rocket ships since they will help mankind to settle elsewhere in the universe. But what I'm working for is this resettling... The whole idea is to move away from the Earth to settlements in space.

  Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

  Moving, Mean, Ideas

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• It has been said that one bad general is better than two good ones, and the saying is true if taken to mean no more than that an army is better directed by a single mind, though inferior, than by two superior ones at variance and cross-purposes with each other. And the same is true in all joint operations wherein those engaged can have none but a common end in view and can differ only as to the choice of means. In a storm at sea no one on board can wish the ship to sink, and yet not unfrequently all go down together because too many will direct and no single mind can be allowed to control.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Taken, Mean, Army

  Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, William T. Sherman, James Ford Rhodes, John Esten Cooke (2017). “CIVIL WAR – Complete History of the War, Documents, Memoirs & Biographies of the Lead Commanders: Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant & William T. Sherman, Biographies of Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis & Robert E. Lee, The Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg Address, Presidential Orders & Actions”, p.3597, Madison & Adams Press

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• If all do not join now to save the good old ship of the Union this voyage nobody will have a chance to pilot her on another voyage.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Unions, Pilots

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.216, Wildside Press LLC

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• As to rocket ships flying between America and Europe, I believe it is worth seriously trying for. Thirty years ago persons who were developing flying were laughed at as mad, and that scorn hindered aviation. Now we heap similar ridicule upon stratoplane or rocket ships for trans-Atlantic flights.

  Auguste Piccard

  Believe, Years, Europe

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• When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck; when you invent the plane you also invent the plane crash; and when you invent electricity, you invent electrocution...Every technology carries its own negativity, which is invented at the same time as technical progress.

  Paul Virilio

  Technology, Negativity, Progress

  Paul Virilio, Philippe Petit, Sylvère Lotringer (1999). “Politics of the Very Worst”, Semiotext

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• America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million, were introduced to Christian salvation, and reached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity blacks have ever known.

  Pat Buchanan

  Christian, Country, Slave Ships

  "Pat Buchanan Thinks You Should Be More Thankful For Slavery, Barry Obama". The Jezebel Interview, jezebel.com. March 24, 2008.

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• The Shambhala teachings are founded on the premise that there is basic human wisdom that can help to solve the world's problems. This wisdom does not belong to any one culture or religion, nor does it come only from the West or the East. Rather it is a tradition of human warrior-ship that has existed in many cultures at many times throughout history.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Teaching, Warrior, World

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Eight: Great Eastern Sun; Shambhala; Selected Writings”, p.19, Shambhala Publications

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• I am like a moon that shines on an immense, unknown sea where ships never pass

  Auguste Rodin

  Moon, Shine On, Sea

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• We're so structured and micromanaged, this isn't a world anymore, it's a damn cruise ship.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  World, Cruise, Damn

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• Like a ship, a car should be named after a girl as it's sexy. My original car was called Kate. But then it got smashed at the opening race in Australia. So we called this one Kate's Dirty Sister because it is more aggressive and faster.

  Sebastian Vettel

  Girl, Sexy, Dirty

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If I had my will, I would live in a ship on the sea and never come nearer to humanity than that!

  Eleanora Duse

  Sea, Humanity, Ifs

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• We are all passengers aboard one ship, the Earth, and we must not allow it to be wrecked. There will be no second Noah's Ark.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Ark, Earth, Passengers

  Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev (1990). “A Road to the Future: Address by Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ... at the Plenary Meeting of the Forty-third Session of the United Nations General Assembly, in New York, Wednesday, December 7, 1988”

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• Years from now, years and years, one of those ships will bring me back, me and my nine Brazilian brats. Because yes, they must see this, these lights, the river -- I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.

  Holly Golightly

  New York, Light, Years

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• Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.... Spaceship Earth was so extraordinarily well invented and designed that to our knowledge humans have been on board it for two million years not even knowing that they were on board a ship.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Eight, Years, Two

  "Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth". Book by Buckminster Fuller, 1963.

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• Having therefore no foreign establishments, either colonial or military, the ships of war of the United States, in war, will be like land birds, unable to fly far from their own shores. To provide resting places for them, where they can coal and repair, would be one of the first duties of a government proposing to itself the development of the power of the nation at sea.

  Alfred Thayer Mahan

  Military, War, Government

  Alfred Thayer Mahan (2010). “Sea Power and World History: 1660-1783”, p.48, Fireship Press

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• Always stay sharp on railways and cruise ships for transit has a way of making everything clear.

  Anna Godbersen

  Travel, Way, Cruise

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• That ship is loaded with treasure, but there's a hole in the ship. And my job is to get everyone to row in the same direction.

  Gil Amelio

  Jobs, Treasure, Holes

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