Ship Quotes
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And the ship went out into the High Sea and passed into the West, until at last on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a far green country under a swift sunrise.
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This ship is built to fight. You had better know how.
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There are two types of bands - there are the ones that are basically solo projects anyways, where there's clearly the one guy who's driving the ship and everyone else is just along for the ride. And then there was my band, where you have a few very disparate-taste, creative people who kind of meet in the middle somewhere.
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They almost made me get up and walk out of the building in the third quarter. I almost left them alone on a sinking ship. But they got it right in time and it took another 10 minutes but they finally got it right and got going. That's what a layoff will do sometimes.
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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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I think if humans are really going to explore the solar system, or go beyond our immediate neighborhood, we are going to have to go with nuclear power. Nuclear power really is the development of the steam ship compared to sailing ships.
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When a crew and a captain understand each other to the core, it takes a gale, and more than a gale, to put their ship ashore.
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I saw Donald Trump saying that there were some Iranian sailors on a ship in the waters off of Iran, and they were taunting American sailors who were on a nearby ship. He said, you know, if they taunted our sailors, I'd blow them out of the water and start another war. That's not good judgment.
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A ship is safe at shore but it's not built for that.
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I've never been lucky. The day my ship came in, I was at the airport.
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A ship should not be held by a single anchor; neither should life depend upon a single hope.
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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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On a ship thats made of paper, I would sail the seven seas. (Just to be with you)
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A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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The Virginia class is an extremely successful program, and we'd like to keep it that way, and we're confident in our performance. But the Ohio replacement is a significantly larger ship.
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She gave me this look – she might have been watching from a lifeboat as the ship went down. Or maybe it was the other way around.
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Candidate Obama promised to fundamentally transform America and that's one promise he has kept. Turning a shining city on a hill into a sinking ship.
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When one is building a ship, one does not begin with gathering timber and cutting planks, but rather by arousing in people the yearning for the great wide sea.
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It's awful bad luck to bring a woman aboard the ship." "It's awful worse luck not to.
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This ship is built on secrets; it runs on secrets. And if you keep asking about them, you'll see how far I'm willing to go to keep mine.
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To compel the nation with challenge the traditional American doctrine of freedom of the seas, every man and every ship in the navy is solemnly pledged.
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If I didn’t have a ship to go after you, I’d buy one and chase you until I caught you.
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If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
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Once you get on the ship, everything is fine. Once you get on land, everything is not so fine.
