Ships Quotes - Page 37

• All the earth is seamed with roads, and all the sea is furrowed with the tracks of ships, and over all the roads and all the waters a continuous stream of people passes up and down - traveling, as they say, for their pleasure. What is it, I wonder, that they go out to see?

  Gertrude Bell

  Travel, Sea, People

  Gertrude Lowthian Bell (1894). “Safar Nameh: Persian Pictures”

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• I was eight when we came to Australia. It was five amazing weeks onboard this ship - it was the Northern Star.

  Graeme Base

  Stars, Eight, Australia

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• I've been a river kayaker for a long time and I've done quite a few trips. I like kayaking and I like canoeing. I don't really like being on yachts or sailboats or cruise ships. I don't like anything that's large and not human-powered.

  Misha Collins

  Kayaking, Rivers, Long

  "Misha Collins Interview -- JustJared.com Exclusive". Interview with Alana Lynch, www.justjared.com. October 1, 2008.

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• There is a proliferation of terrorism as a result of the war in Iraq. What America has created is a den for terrorists to breed in Iraq as a result of the war and to ship their ideologies and their fears and their capabilities around the world, not just in the Middle East, but in other continents.

  David E. Bonior

  War, America, Iraq

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• You get the right collection of people together and you get the atmosphere together that it is very free where there is no judgment. If you create an atmosphere that is very open you steer the ship.

  Stephen Chbosky

  People, Atmosphere, Together

  "Interview with Writer and Director Stephen Chbosky “The Perks of Being a Wallflower". Interview with Sarah Knight Adamson, www.sarahsbackstagepass.com. August 27, 2012.

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• Your ships come in only after you have sent them out.

  Catherine Ponder

  Action

  Catherine Ponder (2016). “The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity”, p.100, Lulu.com

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• Cast out thy Jonah--every sleeping and secure sin that brings a tempest upon thy ship, vexation to thy spirit.

  Frederic Reynolds

  Sleep, Vexation, Spirit

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• Imagination bound us stronger than love. Within its limitless borders we launched ships and love affairs, discovered lost worlds, made buildings and babies, found husbands, wrote letters and Broadway plays. We made ourselves up everyday.

  Marita Golden

  Friends, Baby, Husband

  Marita Golden (2008). “Migrations of the Heart: An Autobiography”, p.32, Anchor

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• It's especially fitting that they call a cruise ship 'she,' for she is pregnant with a thousand adult embryos who long to stay forever warm and sheltered in this great white womb.

  Helen Van Slyke

  Travel, White, Long

  Helen Van Slyke (1988). “Helen Van Slyke, three complete novels”, Random House Value Pub

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• When I put out to sea, I do not offer advice to the skipper about the management of the ship.

  Elsa Barker

  Sea, Advice, Management

  Elsa Barker (1928). “The Cobra Candlestick”

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• Some of our German passengers on the ship would be crying. The Brits were the same way. They were crying, because they realized a new war was about to break out across Europe, with Hitler at the head of the goose-stepping parade.

  Frank Buckles

  War, Europe, Would Be

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• Magic doesn't happen often - not once in a blue moon ... I expect there isn't another magic ship like this one in the whole world.

  Hilda Lewis

  Moon, Blue, Magic

  "The Ship that Flew" by Hilda Lewis, (Ch. 2), 1939.

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• Rocks are like wreck magnets and ships run aground today in pretty much the same locations and for the same reasons they did thousands of years ago.

  E. Lee Spence

  Running, Rocks, Years

  "Concordia Not the First Sunk by Treacherous Reef" by Rossella Lorenzi, Discovery News, February 7, 2012.

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• There's no place where one can breathe as freely as on the deck of a ship.

  Elsa Triolet

  Breathe, Deck

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• The gospel has but a forced alliance with war. Its doctrine of human brotherhood would ring strangely between the opposed ranks. The bellowing speech of cartoon and the baptism of blood mock its liturgies and sacraments. Its gentle beatitudes would hardly serve as mottoes for defiant banners, nor its list of graces as names for ships-of-the-line.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  War, Blood, Names

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• We're waiting for a ship to come in that never went out.

  Luci Swindoll

  Waiting

  Luci Swindoll (1987). “After you've dressed for success: a guide to developing character as well as a career”, W Publishing Group

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• That's what so great about making movies. It's that you get to do stuff you never would be able to do in real life. You get to go to a recording studio, you get to go to Navy ships and fly all over the world for press. And it's just a great job.

  DJ Qualls

  Jobs, Real, Navy

  "A Conversation With Dj Qualls". Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. April 4, 2003.

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• Together we are stronger, our voices louder, and the synergy of our actions more powerful. Together we can prevail on the Navy to put commonsense safeguards in place, like requiring its ships to avoid the most sensitive marine mammal habitats and to stop their training exercises during peak migrations.

  Pierce Brosnan

  Powerful, Exercise, Marine

  "In the Darkened Sea, a Deaf Whale Is a Dead Whale" by Pierce Brosnan, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 10, 2014.

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• We are never without a pilot. When we know not how to steer, and dare not hoist a sail, we can drift. The current knows the way, though we do not. The ship of heaven guides itself, and will not accept a wooden rudder.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heaven, Pilots, Way

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.142, University of Georgia Press

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• Man is the will, and woman the sentiment. In this ship of humanity, Will is the rudder, and Sentiment the sail; when woman affects to steer, the rudder is only a masked sail.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Humanity, Rudders

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.19, University of Georgia Press

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• Ships feare fire more then water.
  [Ships fear fire more than water.]

  George Herbert

  Fire, Water

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• There is no life in thee, now, except that rocking life imparted by a gently rolling ship; by her, borrowed from the sea; by the sea, from the inscrutable tides of God.

  Herman Melville

  Sea, Tides, Rolling

  Herman Melville (2016). “Moby-Dick: Or, the Whale”, p.151, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Only a dreamer or a fool would pick a stock at random and expect it to take off like a space ship from its launching pad. Certainly this has happened - about as often as a dime-store clerk has become a Hollywood star or a boy born in a log cabin has been elected President of the United States - just often enough, that is, to keep alive the Great American Dream.

  Catherine Crook de Camp

  Dream, Stars, Boys

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• Sometimes a decision has to be made by a single individual, who has the authority to enforce it. That's why you need a captain. You can't run a ship by a committee-at least not all the time.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Running, Decision, Needs

  Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “The Songs of Distant Earth”, p.65, RosettaBooks

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• We are increasingly open to understanding how we are all connected and that if we sink the ship that we are all on, we all drown. However, we have simultaneously become so focused on our own life experiences that we think we are alone.

  Yehuda Berg

  Thinking, Understanding, Life Experience

  "What the @#$% is Going On?" by Yehuda Berg, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 10, 2010.

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