Naval Quotes - Page 4

• Americans often did not realize that their Marine Corps was a force without counterpart in the world. European navies used Marines for limited duties on shipboard or in naval bases, but neither the numbers nor the training were provided for large-scale offensive operations.

  Lynn Montross

  Marine, Numbers, Training

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• I have always considered Saipan the decisive battle of the Pacific offensive...(it was) the naval and military heart and brain of the Japanese defence strategy.

  Holland Smith

  Military, War, Heart

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• It was that summer, too, that I began the cutting, and was almost as devoted to it as my newfound loveliness. I adored tending to myself, wiping a shallow red pool of my blood away with a damp washcloth to magically reveal, just above my naval: queasy. Applying alcohol with dabs of a cottonball, wispy shreds sticking to the bloody lines of: perky. I had a dirty streak my senior year, which I later rectified.

  Gillian Flynn

  Summer, Senior, Dirty

  Gillian Flynn (2006). “Sharp Objects: A Novel”, p.62, Broadway Books

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• In every age states of varying size and constitution and at every level of development have found naval warfare to be one of their most formidable and expensive tasks. Ships have always been large, costly and complicated, and warships much more complicated and costly than any others. Scholars are nowadays inclined to emphasize the power, wealth and sophistication of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, and there is not more striking illustration of this than the advanced and elaborate administrative structures of the early English navy.

  Nicholas Rodger

  Illustration, Naval Warfare, Navy

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• Medieval England was a great military power with a sophisticated machinery of government, but her naval administration, at best improvised and for long periods missing altogether, pointed to a grave weakness: the lack of any reliable means of putting a force of warships at the disposal of the crown. Only Richard I and Henry V of all the kings of England can be said to have understood the problem and attempted to remedy it. It is no coincidence that they wer by far the most successful in war.

  Nicholas Rodger

  Kings, Military, War

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• Focus your attention around the naval area, feel that spot. Visualize it. Do whatever it takes. When thoughts come in and out of your mind, pay no attention. You just stay right on that spot!

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Chakra Meditation, Focus

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• To become powerful, to develop will, meditate on the naval center.

  Frederick Lenz

  Powerful, Buddhism, Chakra Meditation

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• I was standing next to a famed geo-politician when the first news of the Argentine attack [on the Faulkland Islands] was received, and heard him muse incredulously: "An old-fashioned naval battle. A war between two civilized nations, perhaps with even a declaration of war, and later a peace conference. Wow." No hostages, no nukes, no ideologies, no religious fanaticism; just a fair-and-square war over national interests - hard to believe, in this day and age.

  William Safire

  Religious, Peace, War

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• The dollar is the final term in almost every equation which arises in the practice of engineering in any or all of its branches, except qualifiedly as to military and naval engineering, where in some cases cost may be ignored.

  Henry R. Towne

  Military, Engineering, Practice

  "Industrial Engineering". An Address Delivered at the Purdue University, February 24, 1905.

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• I was brought up in a very naval, military, and conservative background. My father and his friends had very typical opinions of the British middle class - lower-middle class actually - after the war. My father broke into the middle class by joining the navy. I was the first member of my family ever to go to private school or even to university. So, the armed forces had been upward mobility for him.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Military, War, Father

  Interview with Sasha Abramsky, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. December 16, 1997.

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• Jesse Jackson's wife was arrested in Puerto Rico while protesting the naval bombings there. Jesse said he was holding a meeting with four of his secretaries to decide what to do and that these meetings could run well into the night.

  Jay Leno

  Running, Night, Wife

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• I wanted to do a naval film and I flirted with different ideas, most of which ended up being too intense. So when the idea of 'Battleship' was first suggested, I was instantly drawn to the challenge - could I invent a movie around the idea of five ships fighting five ships?

  Peter Berg

  Fighting, Different Ideas, Challenges

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• Oh, I’m nerdy about science fiction and fantasy and graphic novels and reading, and I’m nerdy about board games. My favorite board game is a board game I’m working on right now. It’s a game of Napoleonic era naval warfare, and it’s going to be fun.

  Billy Campbell

  Fun, Reading, Games

  "Q&A – Billy Campbell (Darren Richmond)". AMC Interview, www.amc.com. April 2012.

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• It is by no means enough that an officer should be capable. . . . He should be as well a gentleman of liberal education, refined manners, punctilious courtesy, and the nicest sense of personal honor. . . . No meritorious act of a subordinate should escape his attention, even if the reward be only one word of approval. Conversely, he should not be blind to a single fault in any subordinate.

  John Paul Jones

  Mean, Gentleman, Honor

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• I was suppose to be a Jesuit priest or a naval academy graduate.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Religious, Religion, Graduates

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• The third eye is located between the eyebrows and a little above. The heart center is located directly in the center of the chest. The naval center is about two inches below the navel.

  Frederick Lenz

  Eye, Heart, Buddhism

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• The amphibious landing of U.S. Marines on September 1950 at Inchon, on the west coast of Korea, was one of the most audacious and spectacularly successful amphibious landings in all naval history.

  Bernard Brodie

  Successful, Marine, Korea

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• Visualize a sphere, a dome of red energy surrounding you. Feel that you are consciously directing energy from the center of your body, in the area of your naval.

  Frederick Lenz

  Energy, Body, Red

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• So popular is the naval service the only embarrassment is that men volunteer so rapidly we have to work overtime to give them hardy, adequate housing and proper training.

  Josephus Daniels

  Men, Volunteer, Giving

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• My grandfather told me that I should have a series of headshots, one with a tennis racket, one dressed as a naval officer, and one dressed as a cheeky chappie. He said, "If you have those headshots, the world is your oyster."

  Henry Lloyd-Hughes

  Tennis, Grandfather, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• [Lloyd George] said that Harding's speech on American naval aspirations made him feel that he would pawn his shirt rather than allow America to dominate the seas. If this was to be the outcome of the League of Nations propaganda, he was sorry for the world and in particular for America.

  David Lloyd George

  Sorry, Sea, America

  "The Riddell Diaries 1908-1923". Book by George Allardice Riddell, 1986.

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• I read sometime around 1938 of Jewish fines and some street actions against them. But I was too concerned with U-Boats and the naval problems to be concerned about Jews.

  Karl Donitz

  Action, Problem, Boat

  Said to Leon Goldensohn, May 02, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

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• I am for relying for internal defense on our militia solely till actual invasion, and for such a naval force only as may protect our coasts and harbors from such depredations as we have experienced; and not for a standing army in time of peace which may overawe the public sentiment; nor for a navy which, by its own expenses and the eternal wars in which it will implicate us, will grind us with public burthens and sink us under them.

  Thomas Jefferson

  War, Army, Navy

  Bernard Mayo, Thomas Jefferson (1988). “Jefferson Himself: The Personal Narrative of a Many-Sided American”, p.212, University of Virginia Press

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• It is clear that the flame of True Freedom had passed with naval supremacy and constitutional, consultative government from the United Provinces to Great Britain, where it was regarded with quite as much national pride.

  Peter Padfield

  Pride, Government, Flames

  Peter Padfield (2000). “Maritime Supremacy & the Opening of the Western Mind: Naval Campaigns that Shaped the Modern World”, Overlook Books

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• Naval dominance of European waters was the largest, longest, most complex and expensive project ever undertaken by the British state and society.

  Nicholas Rodger

  Water, Dominance, Projects

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