Ship Quotes
860 Ship quotes by 656 unique authors
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You are good when you are one with yourself. Yet when you are not one with yourself you are not evil. For a divided house…
— Khalil Gibran
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Objectives can be compared to a compass bearing by which a ship navigates. A compass bearing is firm, but in actual navigation, a ship may…
— Peter Drucker
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All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.
— Barney Ross
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They lead only as the carved wooden figurehead leads the ship.
— Laurence J. Peter
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WE DASH THE BLACK RIVER, ITS flats smooth as stone. Not a ship, not a dinghy, not one cry of white. The water lies broken,…
— James Salter
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Each picture has some sort of rhythm which only the director can give it. He has to be like the captain of a ship.
— Fritz Lang
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It all started off with stirring speeches, Greek columns, the thrill of something new. Now all that's left is a presidency adrift, surviving on slogans…
— Paul Ryan
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If the art of ship-building were in the wood, ships would exist by nature.
— Aristotle
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Load the ship and set out. No one knows for certain whether the vessel will sink or reach the harbor. Cautious people say, 'I'll do…
— Unknown Author
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If you lack the iron and the fizz to take control of your own life, then the gods will repay your weakness by having a…
— Tom Robbins
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But all of this action goes on in the dark, hidden underground. It’s called stealing or piracy, as if sharing a wealth of knowledge were…
— Aaron Swartz
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How then to enforce peace? Not by reason, certainly, nor by education. If a man could not look at the fact of peace and the…
— Isaac Asimov
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History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.
— Stephen Spender
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Thats what a ship is, you know. Its not a keel and a hull and a deck and sails. Thats what a ship needs. But…
— Johnny Depp
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Suddenly Star Wars came out while we were on hiatus, and we looked like the old Buck Rogers series, where they had cigarette smoke blowing…
— Gregory Harrison
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Not only I lost what I had in the ship, but from the captain and the company generally what was good or worth the taking…
— William Adams
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On the 28th the ship's company received two months pay in advance, and on the following morning we worked out to St. Helen's, where we…
— William Bligh
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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
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This little ship you sent is more wonderful than the big one that takes me away from you.
— Charles Frohman
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The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.
— Thomas Reid
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I was deposed in association with a case involving the Golden Venture, a ship which smuggled Chinese aliens into the United States about eight or…
— Rand Beers
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From the ship all things were taken out, so that the clothes which I took with me on my back I only had.
— William Adams
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Remember Star Trek? They're on this huge ship and they've got all these people, right? But you only see them, maybe they go on some…
— Josh Holloway
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We must develop a deeper interest and greater understanding of the people we meet here or abroad. Like us, they are passengers on board that…
— Ella Maillart
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We're probably the opposite of the Osbournes. We run a very tight ship.
— Hulk Hogan
Who Wrote These Ship Quotes
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