Ships Quotes - Page 37

• It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Blow, Wind, May

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• The doctors take the bodily evidence as the disease. . . . disease is itself an impudent opinion. He throws off the feelings of the sick and imparts to them his own which are perfect health, and his explanation destroys their feelings or disease. . . . He is like a captain who knows his business and feels confident in a storm, and his confidence sustains the crew and ship when both would be lost if the captain should give way to his fears.

  Phineas Quimby

  Doctors, Giving, Perfect

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• Mother of the Sun, Theia of many names, for your sake men honor gold as more powerful than anything else; and through the value you bestow on them, o queen, ships contending on the sea and yoked teams of horses in swift-whirling contests become marvels.

  Pindar

  Mother, Horse, Queens

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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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• 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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• It's getting late. I must return to my ship or my men will think I've drowned and be celebrating.

  Michael Moorcock

  Men, Thinking, Return

  "The Eternal Champion". Book by Michael Moorcock, 1970.

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• There is a rule in sailing where the more maneuverable ship should give way to the less maneuverable craft. I think this is sometimes a good rule to follow in human relationships as well.

  Joyce Brothers

  Thinking, Giving, Sailing

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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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• As the master politician navigates the ship of state, he both creates and responds to public opinion. Adept at tacking with the wind, he also succeeds, at times, in generating breezes of his own.

  Stewart Udall

  Wind, Public Opinion, Succeed

  Stewart L. Udall (1988). “The quiet crisis and the next generation”, Gibbs Smith

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• What do we plant when we plant the tree? We plant the ship that will cross the sea, we plant the mast to carry the sails, we plant the planks to withstand the gales--the keel, the keelson, and beam and knee--we plant the ship when we plant the tree.

  Henry Abbey

  Sea, Tree, Knees

  Henry Abbey, “What Do We Plant?”

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• Children drown, beautiful women are mangled in automobile accidents, cruise ships founder, and men die lingering deaths in mines and submarines, but you will find none of this in my accounts.

  John Cheever

  Beautiful, Children, Men

  John Cheever (2016). “The Jewels of the Cabots”, p.13, Vintage

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• A ship in dock, surrounded by quays and the walls of warehouses, has the appearance of a prisoner meditating upon freedom in the sadness of a free spirit put under restraint.

  Joseph Conrad

  Wall, Sadness, Free Spirit

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Under Western Eyes (Unabridged Deluxe Edition): An Intriguing Tale of Espionage and Betrayal in Czarist Russia From the Renowned Author of Heart of Darkness, Nostromo & The Secret Agent (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)”, p.475, e-artnow

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• In thought I am living wholly with Theo and Vincent, oh, the infinitely delicate, tender and lovely [quality] of that relation[ship].

  Johanna van Gogh-Bonger

  Lovely, Quality, Relation

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• A really conscientious doctor ought to die with his patient. The captain goes down with his ship.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Doctors, Captains, Patient

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• They say a woman's place Is to wait and serve Under the veil Submissive and dear But I think my place Is in a ship from space To carry me The hell out of here.

  Laura Nyro

  Thinking, Space, Waiting

  Song: The Right to Vote, Album: Mother's Spiritual

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• The last spectacle of which Christian men are likely to grow tired is a harbour. Centuries hence there may be jumping-off places for the stars, and our children's children's and so forth children may regard a ship as a creeping thing scarcely more adventurous than a worm. Meanwhile, every harbour gives us a sense of being in touch, if not with the ends of the universe, with the ends of the earth.

  Robert Wilson Lynd

  Christian, Stars, Children

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• No attempt of any kind must be made at rescuing members of ships sunk, and this includes picking up persons in the water and putting them in lifeboats, righting capsized lifeboats, and handing over food and water. Rescue runs counter to the most primitive demands of warfare for the destruction of enemy ships and crews. Be hard, remember that the enemy has no regard for women and children when he bombs German cities.

  Karl Donitz

  Running, Children, Cities

  Orders issued on September 17, 1942. "The Trial of the Germans". Book by Eugene Davidson, p. 406, 1997.

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• I won't slave for beggar's pay, likewise gold and jewels, but I would slave to learn the way, to sink your ship of fools.

  Robert Hunter

  Jewels, Gold, Pay

  Robert Hunter, David G. Dodd (2005). “The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: The Collected Lyrics of Robert Hunter and John Barlow, Lyrics to All Original Songs, with Selected Traditional and Cover Songs”, p.222, Simon and Schuster

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• The essence of air transport is speed, and speed is unfortunately one of the most expensive commodities in the world, principally because of the disproportionate amount of the power required to achieve high speed and to lift loads thousands of feet into the air. This is strikingly illustrated by the fact that while an average cargo ship, freight train and transport aeroplane are each equipped with engines totalling about 2,500 H.P., the ship can carry a load of about 7,000 tons, the train 800 tons and the plane only two and a half tons.

  J. R. D. Tata

  Air, Average, Essence

  Speech at the Bombay Rotary Club on November 02, 1943. "Keynote: Excerpts from his speeches and chairman's statements to shareholders". Book by J. R. D Tata, 1986.

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• We want players here who are going to be here for the long term. Players who buy houses here, who settle in the area. It's a brilliant club, great supporters but we want players to come here to be part of that community rather than being ships in the night having a last pay day at Ipswich... we want to build for the future rather than do a quick fix because I think it's going to be a long-term job.

  Paul Jewell

  Jobs, Player, Night

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• The success of our surprise attack on Pearl Harbor will prove to be the Waterloo of the war to follow. For this reason the Imperial Navy is massing the cream of its strength in ships and planes to assure success.

  Chuichi Nagumo

  War, Navy, Pearls

  "American Caesar". Book by William Manchester, p. 195, 1978.

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• Why don't I watch the ocean?My lover's gone.No earthly ships will ever bring him home againbring him home again.

  Dido Armstrong

  Ocean, Home, Watches

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• It is to labor, and to labor only, that man owes everything possessed of exchangeable value. Labor is the talisman that has raised him from the condition of the savage: that has changed the desert and the forest into cultivated fields; that has covered the earth with cities, and the ocean with ships; that has given us plenty, comfort, and elegance, instead of want, misery, and barbarism.

  John Ramsay McCulloch

  Ocean, Men, Cities

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• I think this is the first time I've altered a book based on what you guys told me. So it's an occasion! Soon I'll be putting up polls to choose between plots, and then it's a short stop to accepting anonymous contributions and stapling them together while I sip margaritas on the deck of a Pacific cruise ship.

  Max Barry

  Book, Thinking, Guy

  "Retrospective #6: Reviewing the Future". Personal blog, maxbarry.com. August 24, 2005.

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• You are the captain of your ship that never comes in

  Daniel Lee

  Captains

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