Ships Quotes - Page 18

• It used to be the case that for an Irishman to come to the U.S. involved a perilous journey on a ship. It involved singing lots of songs before you left saying goodbye, and once you were in the U.S., it involved singing lots of songs about how you were never going to set foot in Ireland again.

  Joseph O'Neill

  Goodbye, Song, Journey

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• Adventure Bay is a convenient and safe place for any number of ships to take in wood and water during the summer months: but in the winter, when the southerly winds are strong, the surf, on all parts of the shore, makes the landing exceedingly troublesome.

  William Bligh

  Summer, Travel, Strong

  William Bligh (2009). “The Voyage of the Bounty”, p.43, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Our Faith must be tested. God builds no ships but what He sends to sea.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Sea, Christianity, Tested

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• Desire is making people build ships and cities, has made men conquer nations... and it can defeat that nicotine

  Napoleon Hill

  Encouragement, Cities, People

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• Captain Fisher, the commander, with a party of young ladies from the city and gentlemen belonging to his ship, came one day to pay me a visit in the midst of a deluge of rain.

  Joshua Slocum

  Party, Rain, Cities

  Joshua Slocum (2005). “Sailing Alone around the World”, p.95, Shambhala Publications

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• Every ship should have a cat.

  Alan Villiers

  Cat, Should Have, Should

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• The invention of the ship was also the invention of the shipwreck.

  Paul Virilio

  Inspirational, Invention, Shipwreck

  Paul Virilio, Philippe Petit, Sylvère Lotringer (1999). “Politics of the Very Worst”, Semiotext

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• The mighty steam-engine has its germ in the simple boiler in which the peasant prepares his food. The huge ship is but the expansion of the floating leaf freighted with its cargo of atmospheric dust; and the flying balloon is but the infant's soap-bubble lightly laden and overgrown. But the Telescope, even in its most elementary form, embodies a novel and gigantic idea, without an analogue in nature, and without a prototype in experience

  John Timbs

  Nature, Science, Simple

  John Timbs (2012). “Stories of Inventors and Discoverers in Science and the Useful Arts”, p.212, BoD – Books on Demand

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• As long as man was small in numbers and limited in technology, he could realistically regard the earth as an infinite reservoir, an infinite source of inputs and an infinite cesspool for outputs. Today we can no longer make this assumption. Earth has become a space ship, not only in our imagination but also in the hard realities of the social, biological, and physical system in which man is enmeshed.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Technology, Reality, Men

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• True leadership must have follower-ship. Management styles can vary, but even an autocrat needs people who believe and simply don't follow from fear.

  James D. Robinson III

  Believe, People, Style

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• A man who is all theory is like "a rudderless ship on a shoreless sea." ... Theories and speculations may be indulged in with safety only as long as they are based on facts that we can go back to at all times and know that we are on solid ground.

  Elisha Gray

  Knowledge, Science, Men

  Elisha Gray (1899). “Nature's Miracles: Familiar Talks on Science”, W. Briggs ; Montreal : C.W. Coates ; Halifax : S.F. Huestis, [19--?]

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• In the beginning, sin is like a thread of a spider's web. But in the end, it becomes like the cable of a ship.

  Rabbi Akiva

  Spiders, Sin, Ends

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• What is the problem? We now have aeroplanes which can take them back quicker than the ships used by their ancestors.

  Robert Mugabe

  Problem, Used, Ancestor

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• Come, don't be in a fright, but put on your clothes, and I'll let you into a secret. You must know that I am Captain of this ship now, and this is my cabin, therefore you must walk out. I am bound to Madagascar, with a design of making my own fortune, and that of all the brave fellows joined with me...if you have a mind to make one of us, we will receive you, and if you'll turn sober, and mind your business, perhaps in time I may make you one of my Lieutenants, if not, here's a boat alongside and you shall be set ashore.

  Henry Every

  Clothes, Design, Pirate

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• But Ship Who Sang remains my favorite story. I really rocked folks with that and still cannot read it aloud myself without weeping at the end

  Anne McCaffrey

  Stories, My Favorite, Ends

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• A family ship will never sink until it is abandoned by its crew.

  Wes Fesler

  Commitment, Abandoned, Crew

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• The true beloveds of this world are in their lover's eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered conversations, friends, a child's Sunday, lost voices, one's favorite suit, autumn and all seasons, memory, yes, it being the earth and water of existence, memory.

  Truman Capote

  Love, Dream, Children

  Truman Capote (2007). “Other Voices, Other Rooms”, p.120, Vintage

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• When ships to sail the void between the stars have been built, there will step forth men to sail these ships.

  Johannes Kepler

  Stars, Men, Void

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• Since you are not a prophet, follow the way taught by prophets.
  Since you are not a king, be a loyal subject to The King.
  Since you are not a captain, do not take the helm of the ship.
  Since you do not possess every skill, have partners in your business.
  Be as pliant as dough in the hands of others, that you may rise well.

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Kings, Islamic

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• Love slowly like a ship full of flowers.

  Sidney Nolan

  Love, Flower

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• Going to Europe, someone had written, was about as final as going to heaven. A mystical passage to another life, from which no-one returned the same. Those returning in such ships were invincible, for they had managed it and could reflect ever after on Anne Hathaway's Cottage or the Tower of London with a confidence that did generate at Sydney. There was nothing mythic at Sydney; momentous objects, beings and events all occurred abroad or in the elsewhere of books.

  Shirley Hazzard

  Wisdom, Book, Europe

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• The problems are our lives. In the "developed" countries, at least, the large problems occur because all of us are living either partly wrong or almost entirely wrong. It was not just the greed of corporate shareholders and the hubris of corporate executives that put the fate of Prince William Sound into one ship; it was also our demand that energy be cheap and plentiful.

  Wendell Berry

  Country, Fate, Greed

  Wendell Berry (2010). “What Are People For?: Essays”, p.198, Counterpoint Press

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• We all understand that America feels so angry, they want to get somebody, but you can't just have lots of planes and guns and ships and make everybody do your bidding.

  Clare Short

  Gun, America, Bidding

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• And they know neither sect nor idolatry, with the exception that all believe that the source of all power and goodness is in the sky, and they believe very firmly that I, with these ships and people, came from the sky, and in this belief they everywhere received me, after they had overcome their fear.

  Christopher Columbus

  Fear, Believe, Sky

  Christopher Columbus (1959). “A new and fresh English translation of the letter of Columbus announcing the discovery of America”

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• [Admiral Nelson's counsel] guided me time and again. On the eve of the critical battle of Santa Cruz, in which the Japanese ships outnumbered ours more than two to one, I sent my task force commanders this dispatch: ATTACK REPEAT ATTACK. They did attack, heroically, and when the battle was done, the enemy turned away. All problems, personal, national, or combat, become smaller if you don't dodge them, but confront them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble. Carry the battle to the enemy! Lay your ship alongside his!

  William Halsey

  Courage, Two, Enemy

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