Ship Quotes

860 Ship quotes by 656 unique authors

We were wavering around like a ship without a sail. — Judy Holliday
The man who would be fully employed should procure a ship or a woman, for no two things produce more trouble. — Plautus
It is a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel. — Robert Bork
She watched the gap between ship and shore grow to a huge gulf. Perhaps this was a little like dying, the departed no longer visible… — Susan Wiggs
Harmony comes gradually to a pilot and his plane. The wing does not want so much to fly true as to tug at the hands… — Beryl Markham
A perfect life is like that of a ship of war which has its own place in the fleet and can share in its strength… — Philip Gilbert Hamerton
Your heart like a hawk-mouth in the sun, your heart like a ship on an atoll, your heart like a compass needle driven mad by… — Louis Aragon
In any new situation, whether it involves an elevator or a rocket ship, you will almost certainly be viewed in one of three ways. As… — Chris Hadfield
Yet the evil still increased, and, like the parasite of barnacles on a ship, if it did not destroy the structure, it obstructed its fair,… — William Banting
Let's just say I'm like a ship passing through storms, resting in ports now and then until it's time to continue the journey. I once… — Jimmy Page
I cannot imagine any condition which would cause a ship to founder. I cannot conceive of any vital disaster happening to this vessel. Modern shipbuilding… — Edward Smith
Let the Truth be known, no ship is unsinkable. The bigger the ship, the easier it is to sink her. I learned long ago that… — Thomas Andrews
Joy, shipmate, joy! (Pleased to my soul at death I cry), Our life is closed, our life begins, The long, long anchorage we leave, The… — Walt Whitman
One flesh. Or if you prefer, one ship. The starboard engine has gone. I, the port engine, must chug along somehow till we make harbour.… — C.S. Lewis
It's time for conservative Americans to right the ship again — Mike Pence
People don't dream all their lives of escaping the hellish countries they live in and pay their life savings to underworld types for the privilege… — Sean Hannity
I feel like a different person since my mum passed away, like I'm driving a ship with my husband alongside me and we're leading these… — Stella McCartney
You wouldn't abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn't control the winds. — Thomas More
If all do not join now to save the good old ship of the Union this voyage nobody will have a chance to pilot her… — Abraham Lincoln
It has been said that one bad general is better than two good ones, and the saying is true if taken to mean no more… — Abraham Lincoln
When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck; when you invent the plane you also invent the plane crash; and when you invent… — Paul Virilio
The Shambhala teachings are founded on the premise that there is basic human wisdom that can help to solve the world's problems. This wisdom does… — Chogyam Trungpa
The United States is like the Titanic, and I'm here with the lifeboat trying to get people to leave the ship... I see a real… — Peter Schiff
A bigger business is like a cruise ship: There are lots of amenities and you can go a lot further, but it's harder to turn… — Tony Hsieh
We're so structured and micromanaged, this isn't a world anymore, it's a damn cruise ship. — Chuck Palahniuk

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