Enemy Quote by Horatio Nelson Download Open image “No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.” — Horatio Nelson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Enemy
“But in case signals can neither be seen or perfectly understood, no captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that… — Vice Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson 1st Viscount Nelson Copy Share Image
Somebody can be the captain of the ship, which allows you to make big mistakes. — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
A man may own a ship, but unless he is captain of a crew he goes where the ship goes. — Josephine Tey Copy Share Image
I prefer to sail in a bad ship with a good captain rather than sail in a good ship with a bad captain. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
the captain is supposed to go down with the ship" . "unless the first mate knocks him out and throws him in a lifeboat — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
A captain always knows where his ship is. It's like a psychic bond." "If only we had a captain here. — Marissa Meyer Copy Share Image
“If an enemy ship cannot be taken over by our own crews, it must be sunk! There is to be no deviation from that!” — Michael G. Kramer Copy Share Image
Two fellows on a ship will not make it safely to shore unless they agree. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
A captain sees you differently from the way you see yourself. You need a captain who can push you. — Sourav Ganguly Copy Share Image
It is observed at sea that men are never so much disposed to grumble and mutiny as when least employed. Hence an old captain,… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be. — Horatio Nelson Copy Share Image
When I came to explain to them the 'Nelson Touch', it was like an electric shock. Some shed tears, all approved - 'It was… — Horatio Nelson Copy Share Image
Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order… — Horatio Nelson Copy Share Image
Had we taken ten sails, and let the eleventh to escape, being able to get at her, I could never have called it well… — Horatio Nelson Copy Share Image
Something must be left to chance; nothing is certain in a sea fight — Horatio Nelson Copy Share Image
The politics of courts are so mean that private people would be ashamed to act in the same way; all is trick and finesse,… — Horatio Nelson Copy Share Image
I am ill every time it blows hard, and nothing but my enthusiastic love for the profession keeps me one hour at sea. — Horatio Nelson Copy Share Image
If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that his opinion… — Horatio Nelson Copy Share Image
Laurels grow in the Bay of Biscay, I hope a bed of them may be found in the Mediterranean. — Horatio Nelson Copy Share Image
When I follow my own head, I am, in general, much more correct in my judgment than following the opinion of others. — Horatio Nelson Copy Share Image
Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals? — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
It is the rule in war, if our forces are ten to the enemy's one, to surround him; if five to one, to attack… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
The surprise of an army is now next to an impossibility. ... Prearranged surprises are rare and difficult because in order to plan one… — Antoine-Henri Jomini Copy Share Image
The concept of humanity is an especially useful ideological instrument of imperialist expansion, and in its ethical-humanitarian form it is a specific vehicle of… — Carl Schmitt Copy Share Image
Pain held no terror for him. Pain was, if not friend, then family, something he had grown up with in his crèche, learning to… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
To achieve victory we must mass our forces at the hub of all power & movement. The enemy's 'Center of Gravity' — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has done nothing… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
In this business, you find the enemy, then go after and destroy him. Everything else is rubbish! — Eddie Rickenbacker Copy Share Image