Ship Quotes
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I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship.
Cesare Pavese
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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
George William Curtis
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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.
Steve Howe
Yes
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For when a ship is floating calmly along, the sailors see its motion mirrored in everything outside, while on the other hand they suppose that they are stationary, together with everything on board. In the same way, the motion of the earth can unquestionably produce the impression that the entire universe is rotating.
Nicolaus Copernicus
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I've never been lucky. The day my ship came in, I was at the airport.
Jack Roy
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On a ship thats made of paper, I would sail the seven seas. (Just to be with you)
Scott Spencer
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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.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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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.
Hillary Clinton
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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.
Rudyard Kipling
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A ship should not be held by a single anchor; neither should life depend upon a single hope.
Epictetus
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I don't know where you're reading all this stuff, but it's pretty accurate, yes. It was in 1942. I was on a ship called the Acceloph coming back from the Red Sea and we were sunk off the coast of Africa by a German submarine. And I was in a lifeboat for 14 days and landed and lived with the Pondos in South Africa while - who took care of us and took care of me. I had some wound in my left leg.
Haskell Wexler
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A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
Henrik Ibsen
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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.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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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.
Haruki Murakami
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Once you get on the ship, everything is fine. Once you get on land, everything is not so fine.
Johnny Depp
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When you want to build a ship, then do not drum the men together in order to procure wood, to give instructions or to distribute the work, but teach them longing for the wide endless sea.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
Thomas Aquinas
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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.
Patrick Stump
Fall Out Boy
