Ships Quotes - Page 5

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  The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Leadership

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• In the 19th Century people were looking for the Northwest Passage. Ships were lost and brave people were killed, but that doesn't mean we never went back to that part of the world again, and I consider it the same in space exploration.

  John L. Phillips

  Mean, Space, People

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• I wondered about the explorers who'd sailed their ships to the end of the world. How terrified they must have been when they risked falling over the edge; how amazed to discover, instead, places they had seen only in their dreams.

  Jodi Picoult

  Dream, Fall, World

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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• Gotta get a tight grip, don't slip, loose lips, sank ships, it's a trip, I love the way she licks her lips.

  Tupac Shakur

  Poetry, Way, Lips

  Song: I Get Around

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• Without a strategy, an organization is like a ship without a rudder, going around in circles. It's like a tramp; it has no place to go.

  Joel Ross

  Circles, Organization, Places To Go

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• What a terrible thing could be freedom. Trees were free when they were uprooted by the wind; ships were free when they were torn from their moorings; men were free when they were cast out of their homes—free to starve, free to perish of cold and hunger.

  Radclyffe Hall

  Home, Men, Wind

  Radclyffe Hall (2016). “The Well Of Loneliness”, p.273, Radclyffe Hall

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• So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.

  Roald Dahl

  Strong, Book, Sea

  "Matilda". Book by Roald Dahl, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 1988.

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• Investors repeatedly jump ship on a good strategy just because it hasn't worked so well lately, and, almost invariably, abandon it at precisely the wrong time.

  David Dreman

  Investing, Strategy, Abandon

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• Without the Spirit of God, we can do nothing. We are as ships without wind. We are useless.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Wind, Useless, Spirit

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

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• Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to burn his ships and cut all sources of retreat.

  Napoleon Hill

  Cutting, Winning, Retreat

  Napoleon Hill (2007). “The Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time on the Secrets to Wealth and Prosperity”, p.34, Penguin

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• A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Men, Goal

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• I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Motivational, Lying, Moving

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

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• Watching a coast as it slips by the ship is like thinking about an enigma. There it is before you, smiling, frowning, inviting, grand, mean, insipid, or savage, and always mute with an air of whispering, "Come and find out".

  Joseph Conrad

  Mean, Thinking, Air

  Joseph Conrad (2016). “Heart of Darkness”, p.15, Xist Publishing

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• Great people are not affected by each puff of wind that blows ill.
  Like great ships, they sail serenely on, in a calm sea or a great tempest.

  George Washington

  Blow, Wind, Sea

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• Creating a believable world on the ship was very important, and technically they got better and better and better at showing the ship too.

  Patrick Stewart

  Creating, Important, World

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• The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.

  Douglas Adams

  Funny, Hilarious, Laughter

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.26, Pan Macmillan

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• I knew that I had turned my world back to cinders, sunk my lovely ship with my own stupid, wicked hands.

  Mary Stewart

  Stupid, Hands, Lovely

  Mary Stewart (1969). “Nine Coaches Waiting”

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• If words had weight, a single sentence from Death would have anchored a ship.

  Terry Pratchett

  Weight, Sentences, Ifs

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “The Colour Of Magic: (Discworld Novel 1)”, p.107, Random House

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• We have our factory, which is called a stage. We make a product, we color it, we title it and we ship it out in cans.

  Cary Grant

  Color, Titles, Factories

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• Rocket ships are exciting but so are roses on a birthday.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Rose, Rockets, Exciting

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• Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will be the profit upon profit.

  Hesiod

  Literature, Profit, Admire

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• Here ends the story of a ship, but there will always be other ships, for we are an island race. Through all our centuries, the sea has ruled our destiny. There will always be other ships and men to sail in them. It is these men, in peace or war, to whom we owe so much. Above all victories, beyond all loss, in spite of changing values in a changing world, they give to us, their countrymen, eternal and indomitable pride.

  Noel Coward

  War, Pride, Loss

  Noel Coward, Barry Day (2009). “The Essential Noël Coward Compendium: The Very Best of His Work, Life and Times”, p.346, A&C Black

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• Science is a magnificent force, but it is not a teacher of morals. It can perfect machinery, but it adds no moral restraints to protect society from the misuse of the machine. It can also build gigantic intellectual ships, but it constructs no moral rudders for the control of storm tossed human vessel. It not only fails to supply the spiritual element needed but some of its unproven hypotheses rob the ship of its compass and thus endangers its cargo.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Spiritual, Teacher, Science

  William Jennings Bryan (1924). “William Jennings Bryan on Orthodoxy, Modernism, and Evolution”, Facsimiles-Garl

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• The man who would be fully employed should procure a ship or a woman, for no two things produce more trouble.

  Plautus

  Inspirational, Funny, Men

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• Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. It's like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea. You can't stop the raging storm, but singing can change the hearts and spirits of the people who are together on that ship

  Anne Lamott

  Reading, Writing, Heart

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.237, Anchor

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