Ships Quotes - Page 38

• Because there was only one thing worse than dying. And that was knowing you were going to die. And where. And how. (“Death Ship”)

  Richard Matheson

  Knowing, Dying, Dies

  Richard Matheson (2017). “The Best of Richard Matheson”, p.93, Penguin

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• Nation after nation, when at the zenith of its power, has proclaimed itself invincible because its army could shake the earth with its tread and its ships could fill the seas, but these nations are dead, and we must build upon a different foundation if we would avoid their fate.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Fate, Army, Sea

  William Jennings Bryan, Mary Baird Bryan (1909). “Speeches of William Jennings Bryan”

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• We had very good discussions on current security challenges and NATO's continued adaptation to meet them. Canada is a committed ally and a capable contributor to international security. We appreciate your quick decision to deploy forces, planes and ships to strengthen our collective defence in view of Russia's aggressive actions in Ukraine, as well as your contribution to the international anti-ISIL coalition. Canada plays a major part in our decision-making and helps keep the vital bond between Europe and North America strong.

  Jens Stoltenberg

  Strong, America, Ukraine

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• The visual impact of a United States battleship springs from its ability to put Soviet ships on the bottom of the sea and to put devastating firepower ashore - nothing else.

  John Lehman

  Peace, Spring, War

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• I don't really do very well when I'm sent somewhere. A lot of magazines want to send you somewhere to do something. They want you to stow away on a ship, or something like that.

  David Sedaris

  Magazines, Want, Wells

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I communicate with fans on Twitter. I enjoy the ability to impulsively write something and ship it out to the fans and fellow tweeters out there.

  Neil Diamond

  Writing, Fans, Enjoy

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• Ships are safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for. So set sail on the stormy sea of love. You're going to get soaked at times, but at least you'll know you're alive.

  Dan Millman

  Love You, Sea, Alive

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• Women enjoyed rights in Egypt they would not again enjoy for more than 2,000 years. They owned ships, ran vineyards, filed lawsuits, practiced medicine. Their husbands supported them after divorce. Their power was unprecedented.

  Stacy Schiff

  Husband, Divorce, Rights

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• A ship is a bit of terra firma cut off from the main; it is a state in itself; and the captain is its king.

  Herman Melville

  Kings, Cutting, Sea

  Herman Melville (1970). “White-jacket: Or, The World in a Man-of-war”, p.23, Northwestern University Press

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• As with ships, so with men; he who turns his back to his foe gives him an advantage.

  Herman Melville

  Men, Giving, Advantage

  Herman Melville (1850). “White-jacket: or, The world in a man-of-war”, p.115

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• Ship me somewhere east of Suez, where the best is like the worst,
  Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raisea thirst.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Men, East, Worst

  "Mandalay" st. 6 (1892)

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• Lampis the ship owner, on being asked how he acquired his great wealth, replied, My great wealth was acquired with no difficulty, but my small wealth, my first gains, with much labor.

  Epictetus

  Gains, Firsts, Wealth

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• Dreadful is the mysterious power of fate; there is no deliverance from it by wealth or by war, by walled city or dark, seabeaten ships.

  Sophocles

  War, Fate, Dark

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• But the power of destiny is something awesome; neither wealth, nor Ares, nor a tower, nor dark-hulled ships might escape it.

  Sophocles

  Dark, Destiny, Might

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• Do not put all your goods in hollow ships.

  Hesiod

  Caution, Goods, Hollow

  Hesiod, Hugh G. Evelyn-White (2006). “Works and Days, Theogony and the Shield of Heracles”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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• When the Prince of Wales [later King George IV] and the Duke of York went to visit their brother Prince William [later William IV]at Plymouth, and all three being very loose in their manners, and coarse in their language, Prince William said to his ship's crew, "now I hope you see that I am not the greatest blackguard of my family.

  Horace Walpole

  Brother, Kings, Three

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• If the oarsmen of a fast-moving ship suddenly cease to row, the suspension of the driving force of the oars doesn't prevent the vessel from continuing to move on its course. And with a speech it is much the same. After he has finished reciting the document, the speaker will still be able to maintain the same tone without a break, borrowing its momentum and impulse from the passage he has just read out.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Moving, Tone, Momentum

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• People run away from the name subsidy. It is a subsidy. I am not afraid to call it so. It is paid for the purpose of giving a merchant marine to the whole country so that the trade of the whole country will be benefitted thereby, and the men running the ships will of course make a reasonable profit.... Unless we have a merchant marine, our navy if called upon for offensive or defensive work is going to be most defective.

  William Howard Taft

  Running, Country, Marine

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• There was the murdered corpse, in covert laid,
  And violent death in thousand shapes displayed;
  The city to the soldier's rage resigned;
  Successless wars, and poverty behind;
  Ships burnt in fight, or forced on rocky shores,
  And the rash hunter strangled by the boars;
  The newborn babe by nurses overlaid;
  And the cook caught within the raging fire he made.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Death, War, Fighting

  John Dryden, Geoffrey Chaucer (1897). “Palamon and Arcite”

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• Misanthropes have some admirable if paradoxical virtues. It is no exaggeration to say that we are among the nicest people you are likely to meet. Because good manners build sturdy walls, our distaste for intimacy makes us exceedingly cordial "ships that pass in the night." As long as you remain a stranger we will be your friend forever.

  Florence King

  Friendship, Relationship, Wall

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• I love moving water, I love ships, I love the sharp definition, the concentrated humanity, the sublime solitude of life at sea. The dangers of it only make present to us the peril inherent in all existence, which the stupid, ignorant, un-travelled land-worm never discovers; and the art of it, so mathematical, so exact, so rewarding to intelligence, appeals to courage and clears the mind of superstition, while filling it with humility and true religion.

  George Santayana

  Art, Stupid, Moving

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• On board ship there are many sources of joy of which the land knows nothing. You may flirt and dance at sixty; and if you are awkward in the turn of a valse, you may put it down to the motion of the ship. You need wear no gloves, and may drink your soda-and-brandy without being ashamed of it.

  Anthony Trollope

  Travel, Flirting, Land

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “John Caldigate: Trollope's Works”, p.37, 谷月社

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• I myself have seen the floating ships
  And nothing will ever be the same
  The shouts,
  The harrowing voices within the house.
  I stand apart with an army:
  My mind is graven with ships.

  Hilda Doolittle

  War, Army, Voice

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.76, New Directions Publishing

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• The Greeks have snatched up their spears.
  They have pointed the helms of their ships
  Toward the bulwarks of Troy.

  Hilda Doolittle

  War, Anger, Greek

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.77, New Directions Publishing

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• But beauty is set apart,
  beauty is cast by the sea,
  a barren rock,
  beauty is set about
  with wrecks of ships.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Beauty, Rocks, Sea

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.126, New Directions Publishing

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