Ships Quotes - Page 13

• For thirty years, Isreal has been highjacking ships in international waters, killing people, taking hostages, bringing them to Israel, putting them in secret prisons, all with the help of the United States. That's serious piracy.

  Noam Chomsky

  Israel, Years, People

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• The big change, the really radical change in communication, was in the late 19th century. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph is astronomical. Everything since then has been small increments, including the internet. So you don't have to wait for a letter to get to England in six weeks, you have almost instant communication. That was an enormous shift.

  Noam Chomsky

  Communication, Waiting, Sailing

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• Today, natural gas now outstrips coal as the leading provider of electricity in America. If this is as big as people believe it is, natural gas will soon be powering trucks and marine ships. Maybe even standard commercial cars that people use at home through compressed natural gas, other gas to liquids. The potential is there for more energy independence by America and a reliance on cleaner fuel - natural gas emits half as much as coal, in terms of carbon emissions. That's a real bounty.

  Thomas Friedman

  Real, Believe, Home

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• Oil platforms are a technology for floating permanently on the high seas, and cruise ships are a technology for self-governance on the high seas, and if you combine these two technologies, imagine cruise ships that never dock but float permanently. Imagine if they were 10 times as big. Imagine if they were modular and could move about and you could choose the neighbours you wanted to live with.

  Joe Quirk

  Moving, Technology, Self

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• The massive corruption common in so many developing countries would be quite impossible if Western countries did not provide convenient opportunities to ship ill-gotten funds out of the country. It wouldn't make much sense for a ruler to store in his basement large quantities of stolen cash in his own country's currency. A corrupt ruler wants to be able to keep this money safe and to be able to spend it. And for this, he needs to convert it into a Western currency and store it in a bank abroad, where it can also earn investment returns and be bequeathed to his heirs.

  Thomas Pogge

  Country, Opportunity, Return

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• To me, the amazing thing is that so much that was science fiction back then, political fiction, today is reality. We have indeed a spacecraft called an international space station. And we have the diversity of this planet working on that ship, including Americans and Russians working side by side. I think the imagineers are the ones that set the goal. And the inventors and the technicians see that as a goal to work toward, or the political scientists and the diplomats. And eventually, that's arrived at.

  George Takei

  Reality, Thinking, Space

  Source: progressive.org

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• Be careful about gossiping because loose lips really do sink ships.

  Tavis Smiley

  Lips, Be Careful, Careful

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• Clint Eastwood just runs an incredibly tight ship, but it's really laid back.

  Matt Damon

  Running, Laid Back

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.

  Henry Adams

  Sea, President, Port

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• I've had lots of things that didn't work out, like TV shows. You learn a lot through mistakes - I learned that you have to be the captain of your ship. Actually, I own my ship.

  Pamela Anderson

  Mistake, Tv Shows, Work Out

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• We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.

  Jean Anouilh

  House, Poison, Burglary

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• On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever by walking to the bank at Greenwich to get the money to which my father's letter of credit entitled me. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me from France, whose name was a common one, John Smith, took particular charge of me, removed me to Morristown, N. J., and placed me under the care of two Quaker ladies who kept a boarding - house. To their skilful and untiring ministrations I may safely say I owe the prolongation of my life.

  John James Audubon

  New York, Men, Kind Man

  "Selected Journals and Other Writings".

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• It's extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can't get a job on a ship unless you have seaman's paper's, and you can't get seaman's papers unless you have a job on a ship. There had to be a way to break through the circle, and he was the one who arranged it for me.

  Paul Auster

  Jobs, Break Through, Circles

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• There's huge, massive mother ships going up to the Yukon. They've been filmed and are on video.

  Dan Aykroyd

  Mother, Games, Yukon

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• Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook's time than now. It's amazing.

  Robert Ballard

  Ocean Exploration, Southern, Hemisphere

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• I run a tight ship, but I try and make it seem like I'm not doing that at all.

  Lynda Barry

  Running, Trying, Seems

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• We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon and to prepare for new journeys to the worlds beyond our own.

  George W. Bush

  Journey, Men, Moon

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• I sum up the prospects for 1967 in three short sentences. We are back on course. The ship is picking up speed. The economy is moving. Every seaman knows the command at such a moment: 'steady as she goes'.

  James Callaghan

  Moving, Perspective, Three

  James Callaghan (1987). “Time and chance”, HarperCollins

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• The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!

  Noam Chomsky

  Inspirational, Funny, Communication

  "Peace netter". Interview with Hamish Mackintosh, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2002.

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• The ship of Democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those aboard.

  Grover Cleveland

  Storm, Democracy, Boards

  "The American Mercury" Magazine, Volume 93, 1961.

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• To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Men, Light, Track

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• As a child, I was aware of the widely-held attitude that the ocean is so big, so resilient that we could use the sea as the ultimate place to dispose of anything we did not want, from garbage and nuclear wastes to sludge from sewage to entire ships that had reached the end of their useful life.

  Sylvia Earle

  Attitude, Children, Ocean

  "Earth Has a Heart — It’s Blue" by Sylvia Earle, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 31, 2010.

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• To read a paper book is another experience: you can do it on a ship, on the branch of a tree, on your bed, even if there is a blackout.

  Umberto Eco

  Book, Tree, Paper

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• Inspiration is one thing and you can't control it, but hard work is what keeps the ship moving. Good luck means, work hard. Keep up the good work.

  Kevin Eubanks

  Moving, Inspiration, Hard Work

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• I've always fantasized about being on TV. And I was. Then I fantasized about being in the movies. What could be better than captain of a space ship? I get to ride horses, shoot guns, have adventures.

  Nathan Fillion

  Horse, Adventure, Gun

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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