Ships Quotes - Page 22

If Camels are the ship of the dessert, this one is the Titanic

Karl Pilkington

Camels, Dessert, Ifs

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We are like sailors who on the open sea must reconstruct their ship but are never able to start afresh from the bottom. Where a beam is taken away a new one must at once be put there, and for this the rest of the ship is used as support. In this way, by using the old beams and driftwood the ship can be shaped entirely anew, but only by gradual reconstruction.

Otto Neurath

Taken, Sea, Support

Otto Neurath, Marie Neurath, Robert Sonné Cohen (1973). “Empiricism and sociology”

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Build a rocket ship and leave the earth!

Jon Heder

Earth, Rockets

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No matter how much of our liberty Washington takes away in the name of security, there are no guarantees that there won't be another terrorist attack. Instead of attacking American liberties, the government ought to go after terrorists in their countries of origin. It should be like what our military attempted during WWII. Don't wait to defend ships against the kamikaze -- bomb the fields where they take off.

Walter E. Williams

Country, Military, Government

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I don't like standing near the edge of a platform when an express train is passing through. I like to stand right back and if possible get a pillar between me and the train. I don't like to stand by the side of a ship and look down into the water. A second's action would end everything. A few drops of desperation.

Winston Churchill

Depression, Water, Bipolar

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I can jump ship and swim--
that the ocean will hold me,
that there's got to be more
than this boat I'm in.

Ani DiFranco

Ocean, Swim, Boat

Song: Swan Dive, Album: Little Plastic Castle

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We should look at the Twitter records of Andrew Fraser. Clearly, the ship was on remote control, because he spent all of his time on Twitter. He used to Twitter in the chamber. He used to Twitter at night. He used to Twitter probably in bed at home, but I am not going to go any further there.

Campbell Newman

Home, Night, Bed

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Today at Pearl Harbor, veterans are gathering to pay tribute to the young men they remember who never escaped the sunken ships. And over the years, some Pearl Harbor veterans have made a last request. They ask that their ashes be brought down and placed inside the USS Arizona. After the long lives given them, they wanted to rest besides the best men they ever knew. Such loyalty and love remain the greatest strength of the United States Navy.

George W. Bush

Loyalty, Men, Years

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Your task is to conquer yourselves, not ships, lands and castles. This battle is the one in which you especially are to 'come off conqueror.' It is fought every day. In fact, it is a continuing process which commenced a long, long time ago.

Neal A. Maxwell

Land, Long, Battle

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When I'm a ship tossed around on the waves, Up on a highwire that's ready to break. When I've had just about all I can take, baby you save me

Kenny Chesney

Baby, Happy Love, Wave

Song: You Save Me, 2005

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The Kappamaki, a whaling research ship, was currently researching the question: How many whales can you catch in one week?

Terry Pratchett

Funny, Animal, Whales

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Venice seemed incredibly lovely, elvishly lovely--to me like a dream of Old Gondor, or Pelargir of the Numenorean Ships, before the return of the Shadow.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Dream, Venice, Lovely

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Seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from laying violent hands upon the ship.

Jonathan Swift

Hands, Whales, Amusement

Jonathan Swift, William Wotton (1811). “A tale of a tub,: written for the universal improvement of mankind. To which is added, An account of a battle between the ancient and modern books in St. James's Library”, p.43

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There is, however, a strong empirical reason why we should cultivate thoughts that can never be proved. It is that they are known to be useful. Man positively needs general ideas & convictions that will give a meaning to his life & enable him to find a place for himself in the universe. He can stand the most incredible hardships when he is convinced that they make sense; he is crushed when on top of all his misfortunes, he has to admit that he is taking part in a ‘tale told by an idiot.’

Carl Jung

Strong, Mean, Son

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You're mistaken; men of sense often learn much from their enemies. Prudence is the best safeguard. This principle cannot be learnt from a friend: but an enemy extorts it immediately. It is from their foes and not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war. And this lesson saves their children, their homes, and their properties.

Aristophanes

Wall, Children, War

Aristophanes (1812). “Comedies of Aristophanes: Viz: The Clouds, Plutus, The Frogs, The Birds”, p.434

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The summation of human experience is being expanded at a prodigious rate, and the means we use for threading through the consequent maze to the momentarily important item is the same as was used in the days of square-rigged ships.

Vannevar Bush

Mean, Squares, Important

"As We May Think" by Vannevar Bush, www.theatlantic.com. July 1945.

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Those who are enamoured of practice without science are like a pilot who goes into a ship without rudder or compass and never has any certainty of where he is going. Practice should always be based upon a sound knowledge of theory.

Leonardo da Vinci

Practice, Sound, Pilots

Dell' Anatomia Vol. II, Ch. 29

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And, as for me, if, by any possibility, there be any as yet undiscovered prime thing in me; if I shall ever deserve any real repute in that small but high hushed world which I might not be unreasonably ambitious of ; if hereafter I shall do anything that, upon the whole, a man might rather have done than to have left undone ; if, at my death, my executors, or more properly my creditors, find any precious MSS. in my desk, then here I prospectively ascribe all the honour and the glory to whaling; for a whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

Herman Melville

Real, College, Men

Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.108

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O Captain my Captain! our fearful trip is done, / The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won

Walt Whitman

Sailing, Done, Leaves Of Grass

"O Captain! My Captain!" l. 1 (1871)

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The fact that every part of this ship was built by the low bidder.

Alan Shepard

Facts, Lows, Built

"Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond". Book by Gene Kranz, 2000.

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If the Marines are abolished half the efficiency of the Navy will be destroyed. They are as necessary to the well being of a ship as the officers. Instead of decreasing the Corps, I would rather hope to see a large increase, for we feel the want of Marines very much.

David Dixon Porter

Hope, Military, Marine

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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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I would like to live to see the time when the men and woman of God - holy, separated and spiritually enlightened - walk out of the evangelical
church and form a group of their own; when they get off the sinking ship and let her go down in the brackish and worldliness and form a new ark to ride out the storm.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Men, Storm, Church

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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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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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