Ships Quotes - Page 28

• Remember, Lord, my ship is small and thy sea is so wide!

  Joshua Slocum

  Sea, Remember, Lord

  Joshua Slocum, Applewood Books (CRT) (2006). “Sailing Alone Around the World”, p.98, Applewood Books

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• My ship was also in better condition than when she sailed from Boston on her long voyage. She was still as sound as a nut, and as tight as the best ship afloat. She did not leak a drop - not one drop!

  Joshua Slocum

  Journey, Boston, Nuts

  Joshua Slocum, Applewood Books (CRT) (2006). “Sailing Alone Around the World”, p.278, Applewood Books

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• I have served many long and lonely years aboard ship in war zones, and the only thing that kept me sane during all that enforced loneliness was my access to a good library in which I read, literally, every book on the shelves, even textbooks, and which gave me access to other worlds no way open to me.

  Don Pendleton

  Lonely, War, Loneliness

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• God has made man a cosmopolite. He created seas for ships to glide on, the wind to push them, and the stars to guide them even in darkest night.

  Jose Rizal

  Stars, Night, Men

  "'Los Viajes' ('Travels')". Essay by José Rizal, La Solidaridad, May 15, 1889.

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• Put any two people together and each will seek ways of feeling superior to the other. If a ship went down in the Pacific and a single sailor managed to swim to a desert island, would he be pleased to see, ten minutes later, another sailor emerging from the surf? Quite possibly - but only if the new arrival accepted that the first man was now a landed aristocrat while he himself was an illegal immigrant.

  Michael Foley

  Men, Islands, Two

  Michael Foley (2012). “Embracing the Ordinary: Lessons From the Champions of Everyday Life”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

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• That MAC gun can put a round clean through a Covenant Capital Ship.

  Avery Johnson

  Gun, Covenant, Clean

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• Each man has his own vocation. The talent is the call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him. He has faculties silently inviting him thither to endless exertion. He is like a ship in the river; he runs against obstructions on every side but one; on that side all obstruction is taken away, and he sweeps serenely over a deepening channel into an infinite sea.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Taken, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.218, Modern Library

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• Those who can take that crabbed tree handsomely upon their back, and fasten it on cannily, shall find it such a burden as wings unto a bird, or sails to a ship.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Wings, Bird, Tree

  Samuel Rutherford (1857). “Letters”, p.18

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• President Clinton bankrupted Chrysler so that Italians could buy it to ship jobs overseas to China.

  Joe Biden

  Jobs, President, Clinton

  "Biden Makes Final Sales Pitch in Ohio, Calls Romney 'Shameless'" by Arlette Saenz, abcnews.go.com. November 4, 2012.

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• You say: "I'm a blue sky thinker." Investor thinks: "You have no business model, and you don't know how to ship."

  Guy Kawasaki

  Thinking, Blue, Sky

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• You mention the Navy, for example, and the fact that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. Well governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets.

  Barack Obama

  Horse, Navy, Example

  "Scientifically speaking, who's funnier: Democrats or Republicans?" by Joel Warner and Peter McGraw, www.wired.com. October 23, 2012.

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• A ship is worse than a gaol. There is, in a gaol, better air, better company, better conveniency of every kind; and a ship has the additional disadvantage of of being in danger.

  Samuel Johnson

  Air, Soldier, Kind

  Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1825). “The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals”, p.56

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• What's a pirate minus the ship? just a creative homeless guy

  Bo Burnham

  Funny, Humor, Creative

  Song: New Math, Album: Bo Burnham

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• It's not easy to take three ships out of service.

  Micky Arison

  Three, Easy

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• Clandestine attempts between late 1999 and 2002 to obtain from North Korea technology related to 1,300km range ballistic missiles, probably the No Dong 300km range anti-ship cruise missiles and other prohibited military equipment.

  David Kay

  Military, Technology, Korea

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• The ship is going by a mighty engine, and you are busy rowing.

  Mooji

  Rowing, Busy, Engines

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• I want to unfold. I don't want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie, and I want my grasp of things to be true. I want to describe myself like a painting that I looked at closely for a long time,
  like a saying that I finally understood, like the pitcher I use every day,
  like the face of my mother, like a ship that carried me through the wildest storm of all.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Mother, Lying, Long

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1981). “Selected Poems”

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• As I look back, I feel a touch of pride at my younger self's dedication to literature, which gave him the strength of mind to resist the blandishments of the enemies of promise. The sirens of ad-land sang sweetly and seductively, but I thought of Odysseus lashing himself to the mast of his ship, and somehow stayed on course.

  Salman Rushdie

  Pride, Dedication, Land

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• These are all I have. I do not have the wide, bright beacon of some solid old lighthouse, guiding ships safely home, past the jaggedrocks. I only have these little glimmers that flicker and then go out.

  Rebecca Wells

  Home, Past, Littles

  Rebecca Wells (2009). “Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: Novel, A”, p.22, Harper Collins

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• If the lives of men were relieved of all need, hardship and adversity; if everything they took in hand were successful, they would be so swollen with arrogance that, though they might not burst, they would present the spectacle of unbridled folly-nay, they would go mad. And I may say, further, that a certain amount of care or pain or trouble is necessary for every man at all times. A ship without ballast is unstable and will not go straight.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Pain, Adversity, Successful

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2007). “Studies in Pessimism”, p.6, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment; and even obstacles and opposition will but make us "like the fabled specter-ships," which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mean, Wind, Overcoming

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• If I did not see that the Lord kept watch over the ship, I should long since have abandoned the helm. But I see Him! - through the storm, strengthening the tackling, handling the yards, spreading the sails - yes more, commanding the very winds! Should I not be a coward if I abandoned my post? Let Him govern, let Him carry us forward, let Him hasten or delay; we will fear nothing!

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Prayer, Wind

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• No wind blows in favor of a ship without direction.

  Seneca the Younger

  Blow, Wind, Goal

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• When one rows it is not the rowing which moves the ship: rowing is only a magical ceremony by means of which one compels a demon to move the ship.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Moving, Mean, Rowing

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.63, Cambridge University Press

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• I think it is interesting that we have come back to star- and space ships. Jet will do for a transport shorthand; yet when man really reaches, across the vast seas of space, he still reaches in ships.

  John Fowles

  Stars, Men, Thinking

  John Fowles (2010). “Wormholes”, p.328, Random House

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