Ships Quotes - Page 10

• When it comes to politics, one has to do as one at sea with a sailing ship, reach one's course having regard to prevailing winds.

  William Lyon Mackenzie King

  Wind, Sea, Sailing

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• Guiding the ship takes more the your skill.  It is the compass inside as the strength of your will.

  Dar Williams

  Skills, Compass

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• The Universe is a big ship and its captain is the Laws of Physics! The bad news is that there seems to be no safe harbour to dock and no lifeboats if we sink!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Law, News, Safe

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• There are only two options for a ship: Either to sail to the sea and fight with the waves or rot in a port! The same is valid for the man!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Fighting, Men, Two

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• My fantasy football team got mixed up in another fantasy and now they're stuck on a pirate ship with a chick in a Catwoman suit.

  Dana Gould

  Football, Team, Pirate

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• We realized that YouTube is a rocket ship and that this is an incredibly big space. I started agitating for it. I was the most passionate voice for acquiring YouTube: 'The price tag seems really high, but it is going to be worth it.

  Salar Kamangar

  Price Tag, Voice, Space

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• One night I was on my [Navy] ship... on my first cruise crossing the North Atlantic in a horrible storm, chained to the rails so I wouldn't fall overboard. In this lightning and thunder and hail, in this misery, I shouted at the heavens with my little squeaky voice and said, Someday I'm going to be a photographer! It was as big an epiphany as any man ever had.

  Ralph Gibson

  Fall, Night, Men

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• It's always been Apple's goal to ship something we were proud of and something people would be proud to own, and I think that's still true from thirty years ago.

  Michael Scott

  Thinking, Years, Apples

  "EXCLUSIVE: Interview With Apple's First CEO Michael Scott". Interview with Jay Yarow, www.businessinsider.com.au. May 25, 2011.

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• I always try to get behind the guy steering the ship. That's the kind of guy I am.

  Neil Young

  Guy, Trying, Kind

  "Neil Young Returns to the Harvest: Music Legend Talks 'Harvest Moon' LP". Interview with Alan Light, January 21, 1993.

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• We pass for what we are.  Character teaches above our wills.  Men imagine that they communicate thier virtue or vice by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath ever moment....One tendency unites them all.  The voyage of the best ship is a zsig zag line of a hundred tacks.  See the line from a sufficent distance and it straightens itslef to the average tendency.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Distance, Character, Men

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• Well my wife and I just had a baby ourselves and it makes it harder to be on the road. It isn't for everybody and it can burn people out, and that's what's happened in the past. We've just kept the ship running y'know what I mean? You change engineers from time to time and as long as everybody coming aboard knows what direction the ship is, everything's alright.

  Al Barr

  Running, Baby, Mean

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• I am happiest in the brush and by myself - whether that's the woods of northern Minnesota or the wilds of Alaska behind a dogteam, picking through the foothills of the mountains by my ranch in New Mexico on horseback, or on the ship of my sailboat on the Pacific - so I guess it made sense to me that both Brian and Samuel would find their challenges and adventures, if that's what you call them, in the woods.

  Gary Paulsen

  Adventure, Alaska, Challenges

  "Author Interview: Gary Paulsen". Interview with Amanda Lynch, www.thechildrensbookreview.com. January 26, 2009.

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• I certainly never feel discouraged. I can't myself raise the winds that might blow us or this ship into a better world. But I can at least put up the sail so that when the winds comes, I can catch it.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Blow, Wind, World

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• Ship of the line is the most honourable thing that man, as a gregarious animal, has ever produced.

  John Ruskin

  Animal, Men, Lines

  John Ruskin (1871). “Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin”, p.380

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• I began to understand that 'America' in reality belonged to the whole world and not just to Americans. The idea of America had already been invented by the philosophers, the vagabonds, the dispersed of this earth, long before the Spanish ships got there. Those whom we call Americans have only rented it for a time. If they behave badly, we can discover another 'America'. The contract can be canceled at any time.

  Sergio Leone

  Reality, Ideas, America

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• I am willing to remain and play the man's game if there are not enough boats for more than the women and children. Tell my wife I played the game straight out and to the end. No woman shall be left aboard this ship because Ben Guggenheim is a coward.

  Benjamin Guggenheim

  Children, Men, Games

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• When I was very young, one of my favourite books was Captain's Courageous and I suppose one of the reasons I loved it, it was a life I knew I should have had, learning all the different bits of the ship and learning to catch fish and rig sails and to -all the things that I never learned and I never learned the discipline, but I hungered after it.

  Clive James

  Book, Should Have, Discipline

  "Clive James: life through the prism of illness". "PM" with Mark Colvin, www.abc.net.au. August 21, 2015.

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• I was very moved to see that the name of the boat was Hamlet - an imaginary character becomes so important to people, we think about them so much that we name a ship after them. The imaginary lives on in the real.

  Paul Auster

  Real, Character, Thinking

  "A Connoisseur of Clouds, a Meteorologist of Whims: The Rumpus Interview with Paul Auster". Interview with Juliet Linderman, therumpus.net. November 16, 2009.

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• I think we all try to figure out ways to ignore the fact that life is about suffering. In the modern world, that's what we're surrounded with. We have all these little tools, such as phones and the Internet, to help us forget about suffering. Whenever you are tired, you don't have to really sit in the abyss of what it means to be alive. We always find ways to avoid it. When a ship sinks, you are sitting in it. There is no way to avoid.

  Matt de la Pena

  Tired, Mean, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I once performed The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald to about 15 sea captains. The song was about a ship that broke in half and sank.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Song, Sea, Half

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• From my image of digging around in the mud like a grunt, I preferred fighting the war from ships.

  Haskell Wexler

  War, Fighting, Digging

  "Remembering Oscar-Winning Cinematographer Haskell Wexler". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 29, 2015.

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• I'm focusing on quality versus quantity - a nicer tee-shirt with organic cotton and buying just one or two instead of five that are cheaper but made with GMO cotton, which is hard on Earth, sewn by slave labor, shipped all the way from China on boats that use lots of oil and can kill whales with ship strikes and sold by (some) companies that could treat their

  Kristin Bauer van Straten

  Two, Oil, Gmos

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• I don't know where you're reading all this stuff, but it's pretty accurate, yes. It was in 1942. I was on a ship called the Accelo(ph) coming back from the Red Sea and we were sunk off the coast of Africa by a German submarine. And I was in a lifeboat for 14 days and landed and lived with the Pondos in South Africa while - who took care of us and took care of me. I had some wound in my left leg.

  Haskell Wexler

  Reading, Sea, Submarines

  "Remembering Oscar-Winning Cinematographer Haskell Wexler". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 29, 2015.

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• In New Zealand we had this colossal squid, which was discovered just off the shores of New Zealand, between New Zealand and Antarctica back in 2003. It's the biggest squid ever found, and I know that there's things living down in the depths of the ocean that do explain the Kraken - you know, these giant things that people saw back in the day, that could take ships down - and so I know that there's stuff out there, and I like the idea that we haven't solved everything yet.

  Rhys Darby

  Ocean, Kraken, Ideas

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Hillary Clinton has decided to line up with John McCain in pushing to suspend the federal excise tax on gasoline, 18.4 cents a gallon, for this summer's travel season. This is not an energy policy. This is money laundering: we borrow money from China and ship it to Saudi Arabia and take a little cut for ourselves as it goes through our gas tanks. What a way to build our country.

  Thomas Friedman

  Summer, Country, Cutting

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