Ships Quotes - Page 39

• Shall I let in the stranger,
  Shall I welcome the sailor,
  Or stay till the day I die?
  Hands of the stranger and holds of the ships,
  Hold you poison or grapes?

  Dylan Thomas

  Loneliness, Hands, Sailor

  Dylan Thomas (2010). “The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas: The Original Edition”, p.61, New Directions Publishing

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• We must not leap to the fatalistic conclusion that we are stuck with the conceptual scheme that we grew up in. We can change it, bit by bit, plank by plank, though meanwhile there is nothing to carry us along but the evolving conceptual scheme itself. The philosopher's task was well compared by Neurath to that of a mariner who must rebuild his ship on the open sea.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Philosophical, Sea, Tasks

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• Not only does every animal live at the expense of some other animal or plant, but the very plants are at war.... The individuals of a species are like the crew of a foundered ship, and none but good swimmers have a chance of reaching the land.

  Thomas Huxley

  War, Animal, Land

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.18, Cambridge University Press

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• Begin with loss and see
  how the world contradicts you,
  how the horizon implies that beyond it
  the water is not empty
  but full of ships
  all docking at another island.

  Lynn Emanuel

  Hope, Loss, Islands

  Lynn Emanuel (1979). “Oblique light”, Slow Loris Pr

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• It's very noble of President Obama to want to stay at the helm and maybe go down with this sinking ship.

  Sarah Palin

  President, Noble, Want

  "Exclusive: Sarah Palin on U.S. Economy, National Bus Tour". "Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. June 5, 2011.

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• I'm obsessed with the Victorian era and the British Royal Navy... I'd love to play a troubled sailor or captain or a boatman on a three masted ship.

  Nick Offerman

  Play, Navy, Three

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• The idea of the industrial fishing affects everyone. Those factory ships play this game of hit and run with the international fishing limits, and somebody said it's like hunting squirrels with a bulldozer. They pull everything in and they are only looking for certain types of fish and everything else dies and they just throw it back. It's like chumming.

  Robin Williams

  Running, Hunting, Squirrels

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• Greek shipowners like to boast, 'I bought ships at the bottom of the market, and now they're worth ten times as much.' It goes back to the days of Onassis and Niarchos competing with each other over who had the biggest fleet, the biggest yacht and the most famous girlfriend.

  Stelios Haji-Ioannou

  Girlfriend, Greek, Wealth

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• The war between the Iranians and Iraqis is a touchy issue. To be quite honest, they each other's guts. It was not responsible to let one of our ships be put into a war zone like that.

  Sam Nunn

  War, Issues, Honest

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• Love, like a carefully loaded ship, crosses the gulf between the generations.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Generations, Crosses, Loaded

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery, “Generation To Generation”

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• To travel far, there is no better ship than a book.

  Emily Dickinson

  Book

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• Sailing has given me some of the most pleasant and exciting moments of my life. It also has taught me something of the courage, resourcefulness, and strength of men who sail the seas in ships.

  John F. Kennedy

  Men, Sea, Sailing

  John F. Kennedy (2013). “The Letters of John F. Kennedy”, p.208, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Pirate Hunters is a fantastic book, an utterly engrossing and satisfying read. It tells the story of the hunt for the rare wreck of a pirate ship, which had been captained by one of the most remarkable pirates in history. This is a real-life Treasure Island, complete with swashbuckling, half-crazy treasure hunters and vivid Caribbean settings-a story for the ages.

  Douglas Preston

  Crazy, Real, Book

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• Odyssey Dawn? That's not a military operation. That's a Carnival Cruise ship.

  Stephen Colbert

  Military, Dawn, Odyssey

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• The wheels and springs of man are all set to the hypothesis of the permanence of nature. We are not built like a ship to be tossed, but like a house to stand.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Change, Nature, Spring

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1084, Delphi Classics

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• The Islamic community today is faced with a new version of an old struggle. My late mother used to say it doesn't matter whether you came to this country on the Mayflower or on a slave ship, through Ellis Island or the Rio Grande. We're all in the same boat now.

  Carol Moseley Braun

  Mother, Country, Struggle

  "40thCconvention of the Islamic Society of North America [John Esposito recognized as the "Abu Taleb of Islam"]". www.campus-watch.org. September 6, 2004.

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• Those who fall in love with practice without science are like a sailor who enters a ship without a helm or a compass, and who never can be certain whither he is going.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Falling In Love, Practice, Sailor

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.809, Delphi Classics

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• There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today.

  Warren Beatty

  Today, Bloody, Beatty

  "The Rules of the Game : Jutland and British Naval Command" by Andrew Gordon, (p. 120), 2005.

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• Is the scraping off of a barnacle the destruction of a ship?

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Change, Destruction, Barnacles

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• Shuttles in the rocking loom of history,
  the dark ships move, the dark ships move,
  their bright ironical names
  like jests of kindness on a murderer's mouth

  Robert Hayden

  Kindness, Moving, Dark

  Robert Earl Hayden (1984). “Collected Prose”, p.166, University of Michigan Press

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• A man may own a ship, but unless he is captain of a crew he goes where the ship goes.

  Josephine Tey

  Men, Independence, May

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• The art of Navigation demonstrates how, by the shortest good way, by the aptest direction, and in the shortest time, a sufficient ship, between any two places (in passage navigable) assigned, may be conducted; and in all storms and natural disturbances chancing, how to use the best possible means, whereby to recover the place first assigned.
  Mathematical Preface

  John Dee

  Art, Mean, Two

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• Christians should live in the world, but not be filled with it. A ship lives in the water; but if the water gets into the ship, she goes to the bottom. So Christians may live in the world; but if the world gets into them, they sink.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Christian, Water, World

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 622), 1895.

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• The majority of America's colossal fortunes have been made by entering industries in their early stages and developing leadership in them.... Think of what opportunities the present and the future contain in such fields as ship-building and ship-owning, aircraft, electrical development, the oil industry, different branches of the automotive industry, foreign trade, international banking, invention, the chemical industry, moving pictures, color photography, and, one night add, labor leadership.

  B. C. Forbes

  Photography, Moving, Thinking

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• And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill; But O for the touch of a vanished hand, And the sound of a voice that is still!

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Hands, Voice, Sound

  "Break, Break, Break" l. 9 (1842)

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