Ships Quotes - Page 38

• 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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• Reason can no more influence the will, and operate as a motive, than the eyes which show a man his road can enable him to move from place to place, or that a ship provided with a compass can sail without a wind.

  Richard Whately

  Moving, Eye, Men

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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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• The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lines, Voyages, Hundred

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.266, Library of America

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

  Daniel Lee

  Captains

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• Little leaks sink the ship.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Littles, Leaks

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• The death of a man is like the fall of a mighty nation That had valiant armies, captains, and prophets, And wealthy ports and ships all over the seas.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Fall, Army, Men

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• Who heeds the waste abyss of possibility? The ocean is everywhere the same, but it has no character until seen with the shore or the ship.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ocean, Character, Perception

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.226

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• Every man beholds his human condition with a degree of melancholy. As a ship aground is battered by the waves, so man, imprisonedin mortal life, lies open to the mercy of coming events.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lying, Fate, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.72, Courier Corporation

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• And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill; But O for the touch of a vanished hand, And the sound of a voice that is still!

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Hands, Voice, Sound

  "Break, Break, Break" l. 9 (1842)

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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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• You mentioned the Navy, for example, and that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets because the nature of our military has changed. We have these things called aircraft carriers where planes land on them. We have these ships that go underwater, nuclear submarines.

  Barack Obama

  Horse, Military, Land

  Barack Obama's remarks in the Third Presidential Debate at the Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. October 23, 2012.

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• So we go, so little knowing what we touch and what touches us as we talk! We drop out a common piece of news, "Mr. So-and-so is dead, Miss Such-a-one is married, such a ship has sailed," and lo, on our right hand or on our left, some heart has sunk under the news silently - gone down in the great ocean of Fate, without even a bubble rising to tell its drowning pang. And this - God help us! - is what we call living!

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Women, Ocean, Heart

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1859). “The Minister's Wooing”, p.66

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• Small events and choices determine the direction of our lives just as small helms determine the directions of great ships.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Choices, Events, Helm

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• I worry that I'll go down to the dock, and that my ship will have already come and gone. I'll miss my boat." And we say, another boat, another boat, another boat. You have no idea how many boats are coming to your dock. It's a steady stream, and it doesn't matter how many of them you've missed.

  Esther Hicks

  Ideas, Worry, Missing

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• So much goes into doing a transplant operation. All the way from preparing the patient, to procuring the donor. It's like being an astronaut. The astronaut gets all the credit, he gets the trip to the moon, but he had nothing to do with the creation of the rocket, or navigating the ship. He's the privileged one who gets to drive to the moon. I feel that way in some of these more difficult operations, like the heart transplant.

  Denton Cooley

  Heart, Moon, Rockets

  "Presidential Medal of Freedom". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. April 11, 1991.

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• Self-love is always the mainspring, more or less concealed, of our actions; it is the wind which swells the sails, without which the ship could not go.

  Emilie du Chatelet

  Love Is, Self, Wind

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• Always leave a sinking ship. There's no virtue in hanging on to losers. And stocks don't have feelings.

  Nancy Dunnan

  Feelings, Hanging On, Loser

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• ISS leak is just like on a ship, there are bulkheads that, if there's an emergency, can separate an area that's no longer airtight from the undamaged portion of the station. The former Russian space station Mir actually did once develop a leak, after colliding with an unmanned cargo ship. Everyone survived.

  Ulrich Walter

  Space, Emergencies, Leaks

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I beg You, O my God, to be my life, my ship, my haven. You have made me ascend the cross of Your Son and I struggle to accept it as best I can. I am sure that I shall never come down from
  it.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Struggle, Son, Accepting

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• The majority of America's colossal fortunes have been made by entering industries in their early stages and developing leadership in them.... Think of what opportunities the present and the future contain in such fields as ship-building and ship-owning, aircraft, electrical development, the oil industry, different branches of the automotive industry, foreign trade, international banking, invention, the chemical industry, moving pictures, color photography, and, one night add, labor leadership.

  B. C. Forbes

  Photography, Moving, Thinking

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• If you're going to cook a fresh chicken, it's not a big concern. But if you're going to ship a chicken, there's a change in structure.

  Roger Clemens

  Change, Bigs, Structure

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• Wherever a ship ploughs the sea, or a plough furrows the field; wherever a mine yields its treasure; wherever a ship or a railroad train carries freight to market; wherever the smoke of the furnace rises, or the clang of the loom resounds; even in the lonely garret where the seamstress plies her busy needle--there is industry.

  James A. Garfield

  Lonely, Yield, Sea

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