Ships Quotations | Page 5

When the ship is sinking and you're forced to choose sides, the new solution is to jump from island to island to island. You don't have to pick.

Hold up." Leo stepped forward, wagging his Wii controller. "Did you just call my a ship a monstrosity? I KNOW you didn't that.

When your ship comes in, make sure you are willing to unload it

The war between the Iranians and Iraqis is a touchy issue. To be quite honest, they each other's guts. It was not responsible to let one of our ships be put into a war zone like that.

Somebody can be the captain of the ship, which allows you to make big mistakes.

I'll always rather be in a ship that's got a captain that has some vision.

Celebrate the success of others. High tide floats all ships.

Getting a project started is like moving a ship. It takes a lot of energy to build up momentum.

As the master politician navigates the ship of state, he both creates and responds to public opinion. Adept at tacking with the wind, he also succeeds, at times, in generating breezes of his own.

History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.

If you're going to cook a fresh chicken, it's not a big concern. But if you're going to ship a chicken, there's a change in structure.

You sounded like someone who should be singing on a cruise ship. Halfway through your song, I wished the ship was sinking.

There will be a lot of fun things happening. Looking forward to singing on the ship!

A ship in harbour is safe, but it's not fulfilling its potential

I love being on set, because I've basically grown up on a set. And now I love to contribute as a director and help steer the ship, if you will.

On 9/11, 2001, the Navy stood at 316 ships. By 2008, after one of the great military buildups in American history, we were at 278 ships and had 49,000 fewer sailors.

What though the sea be calm? trust to the shore, Ships have been drown'd, where late they danc'd before.

Well, label me very impressed and ship me to Carthak!

Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked.

Fate has terrible power. You cannot escape it by wealth or war. No fort will keep it out, no ships outrun it.

Don't try to sail your ship now by how the wind is going to be in three days. You have to sail with the winds are they are now.

Odyssey Dawn? That's not a military operation. That's a Carnival Cruise ship.

Greek shipowners like to boast, 'I bought ships at the bottom of the market, and now they're worth ten times as much.' It goes back to the days of Onassis and Niarchos competing with each other over who had the biggest fleet, the biggest yacht and the most famous girlfriend.

Because there was only one thing worse than dying. And that was knowing you were going to die. And where. And how. (“Death Ship”)

You wouldn't abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn't control the winds.

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 rules. The laws of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.

ISS leak is just like on a ship, there are bulkheads that, if there's an emergency, can separate an area that's no longer airtight from the undamaged portion of the station. The former Russian space station Mir actually did once develop a leak, after colliding with an unmanned cargo ship. Everyone survived.

Everyone knows the best volume of the encyclopedia is the one with ships-S.

Mystery lies over the sea. Every ship is bound for Thule.

What is the problem? We now have aeroplanes which can take them back quicker than the ships used by their ancestors.

Coach Hedge came pounding up the stairs with Hazel at his hooves. “Where are they?” he demanded. “Who do I kill?” “No killing!” Annabeth ordered. “Just defend the ship!” “But they interrupted a Chuck Norris movie!

For most software startups, this translates to keep growing. For hardware startups, it translates to don't let your ship date slip.

But all the love in the world won't save a sinking ship. You have to either bail or jump overboard.

First, I thought we'd already established that I am not a gentleman. That ship sailed long ago. And second, you'd be surprised what gentlemen do...and what ladies enjoy." ~Lord Bourne

Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.

Swiftly, swiftly flew the ship, Yet she sailed softly too: Sweetly, sweetly blew the breeze - On me alone it blew.

The cross of Christ is the sweetest burden that I ever bore; it is such a burden as wings are to a bird, or sails to a ship, to carry me forward to my harbor.

There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today.

About here, she thought, dabbling her fingers in the water, a ship had sunk, and she muttered, dreamily half asleep, how we perished, each alone.

I think everybody at IBM knows the early 1990s disaster, and its in our fabric that you cannot miss the ship.

The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an adventurer; and his sons are born in exile.

It's very noble of President Obama to want to stay at the helm and maybe go down with this sinking ship.

We must not leap to the fatalistic conclusion that we are stuck with the conceptual scheme that we grew up in. We can change it, bit by bit, plank by plank, though meanwhile there is nothing to carry us along but the evolving conceptual scheme itself. The philosopher's task was well compared by Neurath to that of a mariner who must rebuild his ship on the open sea.

I have a ships bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.

Ships are but boards, sailors but men.

Organic as a dandelion seed, [the ship of our imagination] will carry us to worlds of dreams and worlds of facts

and it was not until I began to think, that I began fully to know how wrecked I was, and how the ship in which I had sailed was gone to pieces.

God works all things together for your good. If the waves roll against you, it only speeds your ship towards the port

Little leaks sink the ship.

Law is the rudder of the ship of state.

If you want to sail your ship in a different direction, you must turn one degree at a time.

Take me on a trip upon your magic swirling ship.

Look at the sun sinkin' like a ship. Ain't that just like my heart, babe. When you kissed my lips?

Because I never have any definite destination. This ship is not for going to places, but for getting away from them. When I stop at a port, it's only for the sheer pleasure of leaving it. I always think: here's one more place that can't hold me.

The captain of a ship is not chosen from those of the passengers who comes from the best family.

Without the Spirit of God, we can do nothing. We are as ships without wind. We are useless.

The result of the voyage does not depend on the speed of the ship, but on whether or not it keeps a true course.

Good evening Mr and Mrs America, from border to border and coast to coast and all the ships at sea. Let's go to press.

A father has to do everything in his power to keep a tight ship, even though he knows the crew would like to send him away in a dinghy.

Behold the threaden sails, Borne with the invisible and creeping wind, Draw the huge bottoms through the furrow'd sea, Breasting the lofty surge

When the sea was calm all ships alike showed mastership in floating.

A ship is safe at shore but it's not built for that.

When one rows it is not the rowing which moves the ship: rowing is only a magical ceremony by means of which one compels a demon to move the ship.

He sailed through American history like a steel ship loaded with monoliths of granite.

Every master has but one disciple, and that one becomes unfaithful to him, for he too is destined for master-ship.

Education without morals is like a ship without a compass, merely wandering nowhere.

We have ploughed the vast ocean in a fragile bark.

Perspective is to painting what the bridle is to the horse, the rudder to a ship.

Those who fall in love with practice without science are like a sailor who enters a ship without a helm or a compass, and who never can be certain whither he is going.

We will send ships and Marines as soon as possible for the protection of American life and property.

Ship of the line is the most honourable thing that man, as a gregarious animal, has ever produced.

Objectives can be compared to a compass bearing by which a ship navigates. A compass bearing is firm, but in actual navigation, a ship may veer off its course for many miles. Without a compass bearing, a ship would neither find its port nor be able to estimate the time required to get there.

Those who are enamoured of practice without science are like a pilot who goes into a ship without rudder or compass and never has any certainty of where he is going. Practice should always be based upon a sound knowledge of theory.

Once you get on the ship, everything is fine. Once you get on land, everything is not so fine.

It's awful bad luck to bring a woman aboard the ship." "It's awful worse luck not to.

Anyone can steer a ship, but it takes a leader to chart the course

The coastwise lights of England watch the ships of England go!

Your life is an island separated from all other islands and continents. Regardless of how many boats you send to other shores or how many ships arrive upon your shores, you yourself are an island separated by its own pains, secluded in its happiness

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to burn his ships and cut all sources of retreat.

You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her decks? I have no time for such nonsense.

Lampis the ship owner, on being asked how he acquired his great wealth, replied, My great wealth was acquired with no difficulty, but my small wealth, my first gains, with much labor.

A ship should not be held by a single anchor; neither should life depend upon a single hope.

To travel far, there is no better ship than a book.

I know not how it is, but during a voyage I collect books as a ship does barnacles.

Love contending with friendship, and self with each generous impulse. To and fro in his breast his thoughts were heaving and dashing, As in a foundering ship.

And the wind plays on those great sonorous harps, the shrouds and masts of ships.

Build me straight. O worthy Master! Staunch and strong, a goodly vessel That shall laugh at all disaster, And with wave and whirlwind wrestle!

Anyone can steer the ship, but it takes a leader to chart the course. Leaders who are good navigators are capable of taking their people just about anywhere.

A leader is the wave pushed ahead by the ship.

The ship is safest when it is in port, but that’s not what ships were built for.

The saying of old Antigonus, who when he was to fight at Andros, and one told him, "The enemy's ships are more than ours," replied, "For how many then wilt thou reckon me?

Man is the will, and woman the sentiment. In this ship of humanity, Will is the rudder, and Sentiment the sail; when woman affects to steer, the rudder is only a masked sail.

The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.

The true ship is the ship builder.

Every day brings a ship, Every ship brings a word; Well for those who have no fear, Looking seaward well assured That the word the vessel brings Is the word they wish to hear.

The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder.

Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus.

Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in.

Boats and ships are female because they are beautiful, lovable, expensive and unpredictable.

Worship, from the Latin word meaning "worth-ship", is where we express God's worth to us in our lives.