Ships Quotes · Page 47

Admirals and Generals always want more ships and more weapons and they take the arguments where they can find them.

— Helmut Schmidt

Why is almost every robust healthy boy with a robust healthy soul in him, at some time or other crazy to go…

— Herman Melville

The methods by which men have met and conquered trouble, or been slain by it, are the same in every age. Some…

— Henry Ward Beecher

If it's sent by ship then it's a cargo, if it's sent by road then it's a shipment.

— Dave Allen

It never takes longer than a few minutes, when they get together, for everyone to revert to the state of nature, like…

— Michael Chabon

One of the strengths of Adani is that, because we are controlling mines, ships, ports and logistics, we are the cheapest solution…

— Gautam Adani

I've never been lucky. The day my ship came in, I was at the airport.

— Rodney Dangerfield

Organic as a dandelion seed, [the ship of our imagination] will carry us to worlds of dreams and worlds of facts

— Carl Sagan

In a sense, the better you adapt to school the less your chances are of later adapting to the actual world. So…

— Philip K. Dick

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

— Eugene Ionesco

Whoever you are, motion and reflection are especially for you, The divine ship sails the divine sea for you.

— Walt Whitman

In his fierce, bold determination to see the lives of modern-day slaves up close, Benjamin Skinner reminds me of the British abolitionist…

— Adam Hochschild

And there are Ben [Jonson] and William Shakespeare in wit-combat, sure enough; Ben bearing down like a mighty Spanish war-ship, fraught with…

— Thomas Carlyle

Today at Pearl Harbor, veterans are gathering to pay tribute to the young men they remember who never escaped the sunken ships.…

— George W. Bush

The move from scarcity thinking to abundance thinking, from zero-sum competition to one-hundred-sum collaboration, is not just a “nice” or “moral” idea.…

— Daniel Burrus

We will start by modernizing our cruisers to provide the ballistic missile defense capability our nation needs. This will cost around $220…

— Donald Trump

She watched the gap between ship and shore grow to a huge gulf. Perhaps this was a little like dying, the departed…

— Susan Wiggs

Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than a moving plane, ship or train. There…

— Alain de Botton

Celebrate the success of others. High tide floats all ships.

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

My formative years, until I was 12, was all shaped by Jamaican culture, by that economy, by the people in my family,…

— Harry Belafonte

A rotten ship is not afraid of the storms!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

If people don't like [my film], the ship's sailed. There's nothing I can do about that.

— Ti West

You see layers as you look down. you see clouds towering up. You see their shadows on the sunlit plains, and you…

— Joseph P. Allen

While he was watching the ships, Buttercup shoved him with all her strength remaining. Down went the man in black. "You can…

— William Goldman

Great works of art can be produced in barbarous societies - in fact the very narrowness of primitive society gives their ornamental…

— Kenneth Clark