Best Ships Sayings
1037 Ships quotes by 750 unique authors
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Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?
— W D Richter
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In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the heroine bobs... we…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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About midnight the fog shut down again denser than before. One could almost "stand on it." It continued so for a number of days, the…
— Joshua Slocum
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To me the sea is a continual miracle; The fishes that swim - the rocks - the motion of the waves - the ships, with…
— Walt Whitman
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I've seen attack ships on fire on the shoulder of Orion, I've seen moon beams glisten at the Ten hauser gate, all those memories, lost…
— Rutger Hauer
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Every master has but one disciple, and that one becomes unfaithful to him, for he too is destined for master-ship.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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She was like a sinking ship firing on the rescuers.
— Alexander Woollcott
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Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In every man there is a hidden child which is called the urge to create and he prefers as play things and serious things not…
— Christian Morgenstern
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To throw bombs from an airplane will do as much damage as throwing bags of flour. It will be my pleasure to stand on the…
— Newton D. Baker
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Sail on ship of state, sail on, I union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, with all its hopes of future years, is…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting on the powder barrel with…
— Isak Dinesen
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The whole Mediterranean, the sculpture, the palm, the gold beads, the bearded heroes, the wine, the ideas, the ships, the moonlight, the winged gorgons, the…
— Lawrence Durrell
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The laws of nature are the rules according to which the effects are produced; but there must be a cause which operates according to these…
— Thomas Reid
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Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The direction of all economic affairs is in the market society a task of the entrepreneurs. Theirs is the control of production. They are at…
— Ludwig von Mises
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Make a decision that from now on, your thoughts do not run you, you run your thoughts. From now on, your mind is not the…
— T. Harv Eker
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I am absolutely enraptured by the atmosphere of a wreck. A dead ship is the house of a tremendous amount of life-fish and plants. The…
— Jacques Yves Cousteau
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My words are like a ship, and the sea is their meaning. Come to me and I will take you to the depths of spirit.
— Rumi
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It used to be the case that for an Irishman to come to the U.S. involved a perilous journey on a ship. It involved singing…
— Joseph O'Neill
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Adventure Bay is a convenient and safe place for any number of ships to take in wood and water during the summer months: but in…
— William Bligh
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Our Faith must be tested. God builds no ships but what He sends to sea.
— Dwight L. Moody
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Desire is making people build ships and cities, has made men conquer nations... and it can defeat that nicotine
— Napoleon Hill
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Captain Fisher, the commander, with a party of young ladies from the city and gentlemen belonging to his ship, came one day to pay me…
— Joshua Slocum
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It's easy to grin / When your ship comes in / And you've got the stock market beat. / But the man worthwhile, / Is…
— Ted Knight
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