Submarines Quotes

Of all the branches of men in the forces there is none which shows more devotion and faces grimmer perils than the submariners.

Winston Churchill

Men, Navy, Branches

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We shall never forget that it was our submarines that held the lines against the enemy while our fleets replaced losses and repaired wounds.

Chester W. Nimitz

Military, Loss, Enemy

"Historic Ship Exhibits in the United States". Book by United States Naval History Division and United States Navy, 1969.

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Habits are like submarines; they run silent and deep.

Denis Waitley

Running, Silent, Habit

Denis Waitley, Dayna Waitley, Deborah Waitley (1999). “The Psychology of Winning for Women: What Every Woman Needs to Know, what Every Man Needs to Understand”, Executive Excellence Pub

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No one has done more to prevent conflict - no one has made a greater sacrifice for the cause for Peace - than you, America's proud missile submarine family. You stand tall among our heroes of the Cold War.

Colin Powell

War, Hero, Sacrifice

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The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim.

Edsger Dijkstra

Technology, Thinking, Swim

Interview with Jack Schofield, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2002.

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I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.

H. G. Wells

Sea, Imagination, Literature

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I think a submarine is a very worthwhile weapon. I believe we can defend ourselves with submarines and all our troops back at home. This whole idea that we have to be in 130 countries and 900 bases... is an old-fashioned idea.

Ron Paul

Country, Believe, Home

"Ron Paul: Flawed policies helped lead to 9/11" by Lucy Madison, www.cbsnews.com. November 20, 2011.

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When I assumed command of the Pacific Fleet in 31 December, 1941; our submarines were already operating against the enemy, the only units of the Fleet that could come to grips with the Japanese for months to come. It was to the Submarine Force that I looked to carry the load until our great industrial activity could produce the weapons we so sorely needed to carry the war to the enemy. It is to the everlasting honor and glory of our submarine personnel that they never failed us in our days of peril.

Chester W. Nimitz

War, Honor, Enemy

Foreword to Theodore Roscoe "United States Submarine Operations in World War II" (p. 5), June 1, 1949.

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Just like the submarines, deep men are also unaffected by the storms!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Men, Storm

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When you consider all the stars I have managed, mere submarines make me smile.

Charles Frohman

Smile, Stars, Mere

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In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.

J. William Fulbright

Long, People, History

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Falling in love is like submerging beneath the ocean with a submarine; you leave the outside world and wander in the silence of dimness.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Love, Fall, Ocean

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I can imagine no more rewarding a career. And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile, I think can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction: 'I served in the United States Navy.

John F. Kennedy

Military, Pride, Men

Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.620, Best Books on

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To me, nudity is a joke. I don't think nude people are very attractive at all. I like my women fully clothed. I like to imagine what might be under there. It might not be the standard thing. Imagine, stripping a woman down, and she has a body like a little submarine. With periscope, propellers, torpedoes. That would be the one for me. I'd marry her right off and be faithful to the end.

Charles Bukowski

Thinking, People, Faithful

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Without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive.

George Washington

Navy, Force, Naval

George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson (1782). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”, p.341

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To gaze into the depths of the sea is, in the imagination, like beholding the vast unknown, and from its most terrible point of view. The submarine gulf is analogous to the realm of night and dreams. There also is sleep, unconsciousness, or at least apparent unconsciousness, of creation. There in the awful silence and darkness, the rude first forms of life, phantomlike, demoniacal, pursue their horrible instincts.

Victor Hugo

Dream, Sleep, Night

Victor Hugo (2015). “Toilers of the Sea: Works Of Hugo”, p.142, 谷月社

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I was in the first submarine. Instead of a periscope, they had a kaleidoscope. "We're surrounded."

Steven Wright

Funny, Humor, Firsts

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Faith without works is like a song you can't sing. It's about as useless as a screen door on a submarine.

Rich Mullins

Song, Doors, Expression

Song: Screen Door

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I believe the only way you can make sure that submarines will not be abused in future wars is that there should be no submarines.

Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon

War, Believe, Way

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Marriage, like a submarine, is only safe if you get all the way inside.

Frank Pittman

Marriage, Safe, Way

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For me 'Submarine', is probably one of the most important things I've done and it will always remain the closest thing to my heart. It was an amazing experience and it really changed things for me after I'd finished filming it because of the people on it.

Yasmin Paige

Heart, People, Important

Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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It seems to me absolutely true, that our world, which appears to us the surface of all things, is really the bottom of a deep ocean: all our trees are submarine growths, and we are weird, scaly-clad submarine fauna, feeding ourselves on offal like shrimps. Only occasionally the soul rises gasping through the fathomless fathoms under which we live, far up to the surface of the ether, where there is true air.

D. H. Lawrence

Ocean, Our World, Air

D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3924, Delphi Classics

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Before I became President, in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, there had been fairly dramatic, and I think excessive, reductions in the capability of our military forces, and as a former military man myself - I was a professional naval officer, a submarine officer - I thought it was better, on a step-by-step, very carefully planned way, to increase the technical, or technological, capability of our weapons systems.

Jimmy Carter

Military, War, Men

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I'm a Veteran. I was in the Navy, in the submarine corps. I come from a military family. Both of my grandparents were in World War II and retired as officers. One fought in the Pacific and one fought in Europe. The whole family was in the war. I grew up exposed to it and hearing the stories, but the stories I heard weren't kind of the whole "Rah, rah, rah! We saved the world!" They were about the personal price and the emotional price.

David Ayer

War, Military, Emotional

Source: collider.com

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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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