Boat Quotes - Page 18

• I don't worry about it because we are all growing old. If I were the only one I would worry. But we're all in the same boat, and all of my friends are coming with me. We all go toward old age. How many years left we don't know. We just have to accept it.

  Ingrid Bergman

  Years, Worry, Age

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

  Vladimir Mayakovsky

  Love, Everyday, Love Boat

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• When I'm all grown up, come what may,
  I'll build a boat to carry me away

  Guy Gavriel Kay

  May

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• A singular disadvantage of the sea lies in the fact that after successfully surmounting one wave you discover another behind it just as important and just as nervously anxious to do something effective in the way of swamping boats. In a ten-foot dinghy one can get an idea of the resources of the sea in the line of waves that is not probable to the average experience, which is never at sea in a dinghy.

  Stephen Crane

  Lying, Average, Sea

  Stephen Crane (1993). “The Open Boat and Other Stories”, p.58, Courier Corporation

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• Retirement, it seems, is the final fling. The love boat, the trip-around-the-world.

  Klaus H. Carl

  Retirement, Finals, World

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• For the ocean is big and my boat is small. Find the courage.

  Alanis Morissette

  Inspirational, Ocean, Bigs

  Song: Movement Vi: Innocence

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• Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Lakes, Sea

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• Falling in love for the first time, and then the heartbreak of having it end, is difficult, but I don't think it would ever hurt as much as when my mother was killed in the boating accident. I feel a part of my heart has already been broken, and that place is reserved for mother.

  Natasha Gregson Wagner

  Mother, Falling In Love, Hurt

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• Alligators and crocodiles are some of the most aggressive creatures on the planet - they'll take down a boat if you come up to their nest.

  Jack Hanna

  Nests, Alligators, Come Up

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• There's a lot of pride that business owners have. It's actually really critical that pride and ownership extends to everyone in the organization. I think of everyone is in the same boat in driving the company forward.

  Aaron Levie

  Pride, Thinking, Organization

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• I love being a woman. You can cry. You get to wear pants now. If you're on a boat and it's going to sink, you get to go on the rescue boat first. You get to wear cute clothes. It must be a great thing, or so many men wouldn't be wanting to do it.

  Gilda Radner

  Cute, Women, Love Is

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• There are a lot of human beings out there who are very hostile towards anything that rocks their perceptual boat.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Rocks, Humanity

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• The earth is such a voluminous, sparse, wild place that has its own rhythm that human beings try to control and strategize our way around, but the truth is, if you're out someplace like the ocean on a capsized boat, it doesn't matter if you have academic degrees, or if you're a martial-arts ninja. Nature is a bigger force than you.

  Rachael Taylor

  Art, Ocean, Wild Places

  "Talking About Ghosts with Rachael Taylor". Interview with Mark Svartz, www.esquire.com. September 28, 2012.

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• The gospel is for lifeboats, not showboats, and a man must make up his mind which boat he is going to operate.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Men, Mind

  Vance Havner (1973). “Three-Score & Ten”, Fleming H. Revell Company

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• I'm on my boat, training, rehearsing; I spend all my energy on the job that's coming up, and I found that's the way that works for me. The more energy you have on set, the better you'll be; it's all about being alive in that moment and listening.

  Rory McCann

  Jobs, Training, Listening

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The first dolly track was somebody who had the idea to put the camera on a boat on a canal. So the boat would move very slowly but steadily. So they would see all that surrounds you and you'd see the landscape changing slowly. So that was the first time.

  Michel Gondry

  Moving, Ideas, Track

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• If you were aboard a lifeboat with a baby and a dog, and the boat capsized, would you rescue the baby or the dog?" Regan, "If it were a retarded baby and a bright dog, I'd save the dog.

  Tom Regan

  Dog, Baby, Animal

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• On every commercial flight, the traveler is told, "Your seat cushion can be used as a flotation device". The question is, why doesn't the plane just become a boat?

  Sam Ewing

  Stupidity, Flight, Used

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• Where is your ancient courage? You were used to say extremities was the trier of spirits; That common chances common men could bear; That when the sea was calm all boats alike showed mastership in floating.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Sea, Floating

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1809). “The plays of William Shakespeare: With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators”, p.123

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• My wife wonders why all women do not seek anglers for husbands. She has come in contact with many in her life with me and she claims that they all have a sweetness in their nature which others lack.

  Ray Bergman

  Husband, Lakes, Sea

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• From the time I was a kid, I had a wanderlust. I always wanted to travel, in any form - plane, train, boat, car, motorcycle. So I think that if I ever do have a mid-life crisis, I have all the toys to refer to quickly.

  John Travolta

  Kids, Thinking, Car

  "Wild Hogs - John Travolta interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Water its living strength first shows, When obstacles its course oppose.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Edgar Alfred BOWRING (1853). “The Poems of Goethe, Translated in the Original Metres, with a Sketch of Goethe's Life. By E. A. Bowring”, p.331

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• The small force that it takes to launch a boat into the stream should not be confused with the force of the stream that carries it along: but this confusion appears in nearly all biographies.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Confused, Confusion, Biographies

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• Make the most of whatever it is that floats your boat.

  Ken Robinson

  Floats

  "Ideas for modern living: passion" by Ken Robinson, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2011.

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• Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Plato, Men, Sea

  "De Senectute", XIII. 44, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 600-02,

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