Ships Quotes - Page 36

• I can safely say, that the happiest part of my life has been spent on board a ship.

  Jane Austen

  Boards, Has Beens, I Can

  Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.206, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Our desire must be like a slow and stately ship, sailing across endless oceans, never in search of safe anchorage. Then suddenly, unexpectedly, it will find mooring for a moment.

  Etty Hillesum

  Ocean, Sailing, Desire

  Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.288, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• I feel like my life is just passing me by like two ships in the night. And I have missed both boats.

  Jane Wagner

  Failure, Night, Two

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• There is no second country for an Englishman, except a ship and the sea.

  Madame de Stael

  Country, Sea, England

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• Only yield when you must, never "give up the ship," but fight on to the last "with a stiff upper lip!

  Phoebe Cary

  Courage, Giving Up, Fighting

  Phoebe Cary (1875). “Ballads for Little Folk”, p.175

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• To experience conflicts knowingly, though it may be distressing, can be an invaluable asset. The more we face our own conflicts and seek out our own solutions, the more inner freedom and strength we will gain. Only when we are willing to bear the brunt can we approximate the ideal of being the captain of our ship. Spurious tranquillity rooted in inner dullness is anything but enviable. It is bound to make us weak and an easy prey to any kind of influence.

  Karen Horney

  Faces, Bears, May

  Karen Horney (2013). “Our Inner Conflicts: A CONSTRUCTIVE THEORY OF NEUROSIS”, p.27, Routledge

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• One's ships come in over a calm sea.

  Florence Scovel Shinn

  Sea, Calm, Manifestation

  Florence Scovel Shinn, Laura Berman Fortgang (2015). “The Complete Game of Life and How to Play It: The Classic Text with Commentary, Study Questions, Action Items, and Much More”, p.41, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• But when that smoking chowder came in, the mystery was delightfully explained. Oh! sweet friends, hearken to me. It was made of small juicy clams, scarcely bigger than hazel nuts, mixed with pounded ship biscuits and salted pork cut up into little flakes! the whole enriched with butter, and plentifully seasoned with pepper and salt... we dispatched it with great expedition.

  Herman Melville

  Sweet, Food, Cutting

  Herman Melville (2015). “MOBY-DICK (WITH NOTES)(BIOGRAPHY)(ILLUSTRATED): OR, THE WHALE”, p.100, Rastro Digital

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• What we need to do is follow the axiom of World War II which was 'Loose Lips Sink Ships' and the media has really got to follow that.

  David Hackworth

  War, Media, Needs

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I see climate change as one of the driving forces in the 21st century. With modern technology and globalization, we are much more connected than ever before. The world's warehouses are now container ships.

  David Titley

  Technology, World, Climate

  "'Climate Change War' Is Not a Metaphor". Interview with Eric Holthaus, www.slate.com. April 18, 2014.

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• There are two types of bands - there are the ones that are basically solo projects anyways, where there's clearly the one guy who's driving the ship and everyone else is just along for the ride. And then there was my band, where you have a few very disparate-taste, creative people who kind of meet in the middle somewhere.

  Patrick Stump

  Two, People, Creative

  Source: chicagoist.com

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• A movie is kind of like being the captain of a ship, which is nice, but when I perform by myself it's just surfing on the water and nobody really knows what happens.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Nice, Water, Surfing

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• How happy is the Optimist / To whom life shows its sunny side / His horse may lose, his ship may list, / But he always sees the funny side.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Horse, Optimism, May

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• The sea can swallow ships, and it can spit out whales like watermelon seeds. It will take what it wants, and it will keep what it has taken, and you may not take away from it what it does not wish to give.

  Natalie Babbitt

  Ocean, Taken, Whales

  Natalie Babbitt (2010). “The Eyes of the Amaryllis”, p.5, Macmillan

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• Well, we can skip childhood because I didn't have any. Not one goddam moment on the Good Ship Lollipop.

  Joan Crawford

  Childhood, Actors, Lollipop

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• Then there's that 'You're only as old as you feel' business, which is true to a point, but you can't be Shirley Temple on the Good Ship Lollipop forever. Sooner or later, dammit, you're old.

  Joan Crawford

  Forever, Age, Lollipop

  Roy Newquist, Joan Crawford (1980). “Conversations with Joan Crawford”

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• We marry to grow up, to escape our parents and to inherit our share of the world, not knowing who we are and who we will become, so it is left to marriage to make it clear which ones of us are growing in the same directions and which are ships meant to have passed in the night.

  Merle Shain

  Marriage, Growing Up, Night

  Merle Shain (1973). “Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others”

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• Woe is me! Bitter is me! For what is my life? Why didn't the ship go under and drown me before I came to America?

  Anzia Yezierska

  America, Woe Is Me, Bitter

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• My second ex-wife was really kind of like a ship passing in the night. Only she turned out to be the Exxon Valdez.

  James Woods

  Night, Wife, Love And Marriage

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• If you want to build a ship, don't summon people to buy wood, prepare tools, distribute jobs, and organize the work; teach people the yearning for the wide, boundless ocean.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Jobs, Ocean, People

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• The business of the English commander-in-chief being first to bring an enemy fleet to battle on the most advantageous terms to himself, (I mean that of laying his ships close on board the enemy, as expeditiously as possible); and secondly to continue them there until the business is decided.

  Horatio Nelson

  Mean, Enemy, Battle

  Horatio Nelson, Nicholas Harris Nicolas (2011). “The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson”, p.443, Cambridge University Press

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• Not infrequently, when a man asks a woman to marry him, he means that he wants her to help him love himself, and if, blinded by her own feeling, she takes him for her captain, her pleasure craft becomes a pirate ship, the colours change to a black flag with a sinister sign, and her inevitable destiny is the coral reef.

  Myrtle Reed

  Mean, Destiny, Men

  Myrtle Reed, Mary Badollet Powell (1911). “The Myrtle Reed Year Book: Epigrams and Opinions from the Writings and Sayings of Myrtle Reed”

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• Imagine a ship that is sinking and needs all the available power to run the pumps to drain out the rising waters. The first class passengers refuse to cooperate because they feel hot and want to use the air-conditioner and other electrical appliances. The second-class passengers spend all their time trying to be upgraded to first-class status. The boat sinks and the passengers all drown. That is where the present approach to climate change is leading.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Running, Air, Class

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• This is the way we win over our enemies, not with bigger weapons, or faster ships, but with human courage, ingenuity, and sacrifice. Don't lose hope. We've faced the darkness before-it has nothing new to teach us. As we go about our lives, let us remember the example Dr. Navarro set for us. At the right time, anyone can be a hero.

  Ann Aguirre

  Hero, Sacrifice, Winning

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• Time is like a ship which never anchors; while I am on board, I had better do those things that may profit me at my landing, than practice such as shall cause my commitment when I come ashore.

  Owen Feltham

  Time, Commitment, Anchors

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