Fleet Quotes

87 quotes by 77 authors

Above or Love, Hope, Hate or Fear, It lives all passionless and pure: An age shall fleet like earthly year; Its years in moments shall… — Lord Byron
There was enough tension in the room to send a fleet of the nervous running for their tranquilizers. — Charlaine Harris
Then a person has only one tale?â€ No, some have two or three separate ones or more,â€ Fleet said. â€œSome people have many tales. Sometimes… — Chris Wooding
When they first kiss, there on the beach, they will kneel at the edge of the Pacific and say a prayer of thanks, sending all… — Francesca Lia Block
Life is too fleet for onomatopoeia. — Mervyn Peake
He was in blue jeans and a work shirt, which is another weird quirk of Rich Old Men. Just one of the guys here. Blue… — Warren Ellis
Tis a morning pure and sweet, And a dewy splendour falls On the little flower that clings To the turrets and the walls; 'Tis a… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Love can do all but raise the Dead I doubt if even that From such a giant were withheld Were flesh equivalent But love is… — Emily Dickinson
Poetic simile was strictly limited to statements like 'his mighty steed was as fleet as the wind on a fairly calm day, say about Force… — Terry Pratchett
Gerry?' Laurel had to strain to hear thought the noise on the other end of the line. 'Gerry? Where are you?' 'London. A phone booth… — Kate Morton
Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor. — Saint Augustine
My father was a journalist for 50 years in Leeds and Fleet Street. I thought about a career in business to show I could do… — Lionel Barber
Denmark is a small nation of five million people, but our economy is completely dependent on our commercial fleet. Every family has some connection to… — Tobias Lindholm
It is a natural goal of Iran to try and expel the Fifth Fleet from Bahrain. — Elliott Abrams
I flew fighters for the Navy in San Diego for three years, went and did my post-graduate education, and then I was a test pilot… — Alan G. Poindexter
Instead of inventing imaginary friends, I invented whole imaginary worlds. They were elaborate scenarios about spies and adventurers and top secret missions. I crawled along… — Robin Wasserman
Of whatsoever number a fleet of ships of war is composed, it is usually divided into three squadrons; and these, if numerous, are again separated… — William Falconer
The fleet being thus more inclosed will more readily observe the signals, and with greater facility form itself into the line of battle a circumstance… — William Falconer
The attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 completely crippled our Pacific Fleet. — Jerry Costello
Our duty was to try and find the Japanese fleet. We never did find the Japanese fleet and I am awfully glad, because they had… — Barney Ross

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