Ships Quotes - Page 32

• In the road ships must ride in 30, 40, or 50 fathom water, not above half a mile from the shore at farthest: and if there are many ships they must ride close one by another.

  William Dampier

  Water, Half, Miles

  William Dampier (2012). “A Voyage to New Holland”, p.27, tredition

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• To send our troops, our ships, our planes to this war is ridiculous.

  John Hewson

  War, Troops, Ridiculous

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Dozens of nations have agreed to join in monitoring and, if necessary, intercepting and boarding ships on the high seas in the event they are suspected of engaging in one or both of these threatening activities.

  Frank Gaffney

  Sea, Events, Dozen

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• I think experience has shown that privateers have done more toward distressing the trade of our enemies, and furnishing these States with necessaries, than Continental Ships of the same force.

  William Whipple

  Thinking, Enemy, Experience

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• We have nine ships and in the next two years will have ten, eleven and twelve. So things are going very nicely and all because of that program that people thought was mindless and so forth.

  Gavin MacLeod

  Years, Two, People

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• If I had been censured every time I have run my ship, or fleets under my command, into great danger, I should have long ago been out of the Service and never in the House of Peers.

  Horatio Nelson

  Running, Long Ago, Should Have

  Horatio Nelson (1846). “The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson”, p.353

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• People notice it and they help you participate and see your work included in this project and when we ship our browser, you and millions of other people get to see the fruits of your efforts.

  Mitchell Baker

  People, Effort, Fruit

  "Next generation browser: Pure open source software development comes of age". Interview with Dana Greenlee, www.tacomadailyindex.com. September 10, 2004.

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• Readers no longer need novelists to tell us what it's like to cross the world on a ship or fight a war. In the twenty-first century, we get that information in other ways. The thing that's still a mystery to us is the human heart. What we want is to understand people, what they're doing, and why they're doing it.

  Walter Mosley

  War, Heart, Fighting

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• We are not a country that subscribes to policing any part of the world. The areas we are comfortable with are capacity building, intelligence sharing, exchange of ships, call on each other's ports, joint training and exercises.

  Salman Khurshid

  Country, Exercise, Training

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• For over two weeks, the defenders of Wake Island held off a vastly superior force of Japanese ships and troops, inspiring the whole nation with their plucky spirit and sacrifice. Unfortunately, Navy leaders at Pearl Harbor, struggling to protect what was left of the shattered Pacific Fleet, canceled a relief mission, allowing the island and its defenders to fall without support. Wake damaged the long-standing trust between the Corps and the Navy, a memory that still rankles Marines and shames sailors.

  Tom Clancy

  Memories, Struggle, Fall

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• Emotions are the fuel and the mind is the pilot which together propel the ship of civilized progress.

  Jim Rohn

  Mind, Together, Progress

  Jim Rohn (2013). “7 Strategies for Wealth & Happiness: Power Ideas from America's Foremost Business Philosopher”, p.150, Harmony

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• The City is a machine miraculously organised for extracting gold from the seas, airs, clouds, from barren lands, holds of ships, mines, plantations, cottage hearth-stones, trees and rocks; and he, wretchedly waiting in the exterior halls, could not even get his finger on one tiny, tiny lever.

  Christina Stead

  Art, Clouds, Rocks

  Christina Stead, Anita Segerberg (1994). “Christina Stead, Selected Fiction and Nonfiction”, UQP

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• When companies are growing quickly and they are having a lot of impact, careers take care of themselves.... If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat. Just get on.

  Eric Schmidt

  Impact, Careers, Growing

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• A leader is the wave pushed ahead by the ship.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Leader, Wave

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• The ship anchored in the harbor rots faster than the ship crossing the ocean; a still pool of water stagnates more rapidly than a running stream.

  Brownie Wise

  Running, Ocean, Water

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• When the sea was calm all ships alike showed mastership in floating.

  William Shakespeare

  Leadership, Sea, Floating

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• If you see the fury and hear the howling of the tempest, or read of shipwrecks, think of the storm of human passions causing daily groans and disturbance in the hearts of men, wrecking the spiritual ship of the soul or the ship of human society; and pray fervently to the Lord that He may subdue the tempest of sins, as He once subdued the tempest at sea by His word, and that He may root our passions from our hearts, and re-establish in them unceasing tranquility.

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Spiritual, Passion

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• For me, boviscopophobia is an even stronger motive than semi-agoraphobia for staying on the ship when we're in port.

  David Foster Wallace

  Travel, Stronger, Bovine

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• It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.

  Thucydides

  Travel, Wall, Men

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• I believe in living, I believe in birth, I believe in the sweat of love and in the fire of truth and I believe that a lost ship, steered by tired, sea sick sailors, can still be guided home to port

  Assata Shakur

  Believe, Home, Tired

  Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.17, Zed Books

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• Sign your work...If you're not proud of it, don't ship it. If you are, sign your work and own the results. We'll know who to thank. If you work for a place where work goes unsigned (internally, in particular) it's worth asking why.

  Seth Godin

  Asking Why, Proud, Results

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• A man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - never likely to reach home port. To us comes the signal: chart your course, set your sail, position your rudder, and proceed.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Home, Men, Purpose

  FaceBook post by Thomas S Monson from Oct 31, 2014

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• Sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Strong, America, Unions

  "The Building of the Ship" l. 378 (1849)

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• Your life is an island separated from all other islands and continents. Regardless of how many boats you send to other shores or how many ships arrive upon your shores, you yourself are an island separated by its own pains, secluded in its happiness

  Khalil Gibran

  Peace, Pain, Islands

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• One of my first jobs was on a lesbian cruise. I was the ship comedian for the Lesbian Love Boat.

  Margaret Cho

  Jobs, Comedian, Firsts

  "Margaret Cho: I'm the One That I Want". TV Special, August 4, 2000.

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