Ships Quotes - Page 40

• You mentioned the Navy, for example, and that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets because the nature of our military has changed. We have these things called aircraft carriers where planes land on them. We have these ships that go underwater, nuclear submarines.

  Barack Obama

  Horse, Military, Land

  Barack Obama's remarks in the Third Presidential Debate at the Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. October 23, 2012.

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• So we go, so little knowing what we touch and what touches us as we talk! We drop out a common piece of news, "Mr. So-and-so is dead, Miss Such-a-one is married, such a ship has sailed," and lo, on our right hand or on our left, some heart has sunk under the news silently - gone down in the great ocean of Fate, without even a bubble rising to tell its drowning pang. And this - God help us! - is what we call living!

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Women, Ocean, Heart

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1859). “The Minister's Wooing”, p.66

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• When the ship is going down we trouble ourselves little enough about the style of the cabin furniture.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Style, Cabins, Littles

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• Reason can no more influence the will, and operate as a motive, than the eyes which show a man his road can enable him to move from place to place, or that a ship provided with a compass can sail without a wind.

  Richard Whately

  Moving, Eye, Men

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• Little leaks sink the ship.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Littles, Leaks

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• The death of a man is like the fall of a mighty nation That had valiant armies, captains, and prophets, And wealthy ports and ships all over the seas.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Fall, Army, Men

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• Resolve to be merry though the ship were sinking.

  Susanna Centlivre

  Courage, Sinking, Resolve

  Susanna Centlivre (1872). “The wonder. The man bewitch'd. Gotham election. Wife well managed. Bickerstaff's burial. Bold stroke for a wife. Artifice”, p.357

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• Every man beholds his human condition with a degree of melancholy. As a ship aground is battered by the waves, so man, imprisonedin mortal life, lies open to the mercy of coming events.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lying, Fate, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.72, Courier Corporation

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• I worry that I'll go down to the dock, and that my ship will have already come and gone. I'll miss my boat." And we say, another boat, another boat, another boat. You have no idea how many boats are coming to your dock. It's a steady stream, and it doesn't matter how many of them you've missed.

  Esther Hicks

  Ideas, Worry, Missing

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• To have meaning, our lives require both passion and purpose. A life without passion is like a furnace without fuel, and without purpose, like a ship without a rudder.

  Mardy Grothe

  Life, Passion, Purpose

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• Who heeds the waste abyss of possibility? The ocean is everywhere the same, but it has no character until seen with the shore or the ship.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ocean, Character, Perception

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.226

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• Wherever a ship ploughs the sea, or a plough furrows the field; wherever a mine yields its treasure; wherever a ship or a railroad train carries freight to market; wherever the smoke of the furnace rises, or the clang of the loom resounds; even in the lonely garret where the seamstress plies her busy needle--there is industry.

  James A. Garfield

  Lonely, Yield, Sea

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• Self-love is always the mainspring, more or less concealed, of our actions; it is the wind which swells the sails, without which the ship could not go.

  Emilie du Chatelet

  Love Is, Self, Wind

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• So much goes into doing a transplant operation. All the way from preparing the patient, to procuring the donor. It's like being an astronaut. The astronaut gets all the credit, he gets the trip to the moon, but he had nothing to do with the creation of the rocket, or navigating the ship. He's the privileged one who gets to drive to the moon. I feel that way in some of these more difficult operations, like the heart transplant.

  Denton Cooley

  Heart, Moon, Rockets

  "Presidential Medal of Freedom". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. April 11, 1991.

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• It is a poor thing to strike our colors to God when the ship is going down under us; a poor thing to come to Him as a last resort, to offer up 'our own' when it is no longer worth keeping. If God were proud He would hardly have us on such terms: but He is not proud, He stoops to conquer, He will have us even though we have shown that we prefer everything else to Him.

  C. S. Lewis

  Color, Lasts, Proud

  "The Problem of Pain". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1940.

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• Small events and choices determine the direction of our lives just as small helms determine the directions of great ships.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Choices, Events, Helm

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• Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in. Embark, and the romance quits our vessel, and hangs on every other sail in the horizon.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Romantic, Envy, Romance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1993). “Self-reliance, and Other Essays”, p.84, Courier Corporation

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• Always leave a sinking ship. There's no virtue in hanging on to losers. And stocks don't have feelings.

  Nancy Dunnan

  Feelings, Hanging On, Loser

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• If you're going to cook a fresh chicken, it's not a big concern. But if you're going to ship a chicken, there's a change in structure.

  Roger Clemens

  Change, Bigs, Structure

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• Sometimes in life, we reach to a right place by departing from a wrong port with a wrong ship!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Sometimes, Port

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• The disabusing a man strongly possessed with an opinion of his own worth is the very same ill office that was done to the fool at Athens, who fancied all the ships that came into the harbor were his own.

  Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

  Men, Office, Done

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• I beg You, O my God, to be my life, my ship, my haven. You have made me ascend the cross of Your Son and I struggle to accept it as best I can. I am sure that I shall never come down from
  it.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Struggle, Son, Accepting

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• Why is almost every robust healthy boy with a robust healthy soul in him, at some time or other crazy to go to sea? Why upon your first voyage as a passenger, did you yourself feel such a mystical vibration, when first told that you and your ship were now out of sight of land? Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did the Greeks give it a separate deity, and own brother of Jove? Surely all this is not without meaning.

  Herman Melville

  Brother, Crazy, Boys

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.9

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• Inanimate objects are sometimes parties to litigation. A ship has a legal personality, a fiction found useful for maritime purposes. The corporation sole - a creature of ecclesiastical law - is an acceptable adversary, and large fortunes ride on its cases... So it should be as respects valleys, alpine meadows, rivers, lakes, estuaries, beaches, ridges, groves of trees, swampland, or even air that feels the destructive pressures of modern technology and modern life.

  William O. Douglas

  Party, Technology, Air

  "Sierra Club v. Morton, 405 U.S. 727". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. April 19, 1972.

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• ISS leak is just like on a ship, there are bulkheads that, if there's an emergency, can separate an area that's no longer airtight from the undamaged portion of the station. The former Russian space station Mir actually did once develop a leak, after colliding with an unmanned cargo ship. Everyone survived.

  Ulrich Walter

  Space, Emergencies, Leaks

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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