Ships Quotes
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Of whatsoever number a fleet of ships of war is composed, it is usually divided into three squadrons; and these, if numerous, are again separated into divisions.
William Falconer
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Wooden ships are a hippie dream, capsized in excess if you know what I mean.
Neil Young
Buffalo Springfield
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The great weight of the ship may indeed prevent her from acquiring her greatest velocity; but when she has attained it, she will advance by her own intrinsic motion, without gaining any new degree of velocity, or lessening what she has acquired.
William Falconer
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We are all passengers aboard one ship, the Earth, and we must not allow it to be wrecked. There will be no second Noah's Ark.
Mikhail Gorbachev
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Every voice doesn't matter--only the voices that move your idea forward, that make it better, that make you better, that make it more likely you will ship work that benefits your tribe.
Seth Godin
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“The surer of himself an admiral is, the finer the tactical development of his fleet, the better his captains, the more reluctant must he necessarily be to enter into a melee with equal forces, in which all these advantages will be thrown away, chance reign supreme, and his fleet be place on terms of equality with an assemblage of ships which have never before acted together.”
Alfred Thayer Mahan
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Hence a ship is said to head the sea, when her course is opposed to the setting or direction of the surges.
William Falconer
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The great religions are the ships, Poets the life boats. Every sane person I know has jumped overboard.
Hafez
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“Those far distant, storm-beaten ships, upon which the Grand Army never looked, stood between it and the dominion of the .”
Alfred Thayer Mahan
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As ships meet at sea a moment together, when words of greeting must be spoken, and then away upon the deep, so men meet in this world; and I think we should cross no man's path without hailing him, and if he needs giving him supplies.
Henry Ward Beecher
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When I put out to sea, I do not offer advice to the skipper about the management of the ship.
Elsa Barker
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I disagree with the concept that somehow or another we're going to pack up 10, to 12, to 15 million people and ship them back to the country of origin. That's not going to happen.
Rick Perry
