Ships Quotes

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

It was obvious to me that we could never colonize Mars without reusability, any more than America would have been colonized if they had to burn the ships after every trip.

Germany is a young and growing empire. She has a worldwide commerce which is rapidly expanding, and to which the legitimate ambition of patriotic Germans refuses to assign any bounds. Germany must have a powerful fleet to protect that commerce and her manifold interests in even the most distant seas. She expects those interests to go on growing, and she must be able to champion them manfully in any quarter of the globe. Her horizons stretch far away.

Human love, human trust, are always perilous, because they break down. The greater the love, the greater the trust, and the greater the peril, the greater the disaster. Because to place absolute trust on another human being is in itself a disaster, both ways, since each human being is a ship that must sail its own course, even if it go in company with another ship.... And yet, love is the greatest thing between human beings.

The future navy will have two kinds of ships: Submarines and targets.

You might ask me why do I have nuclear powered ships. That is a necessary evil. I would sink them all (if they were not absolutely necessary).

There is not a ship in our navy that can defend us against a first class enemy.

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

I finally had a ship tattooed to my chest. I wanted something on it.

To a crazy ship, all winds are contrary.

The big change, the really radical change in communication, was in the late 19th century. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph is astronomical. Everything since then has been small increments, including the internet.

Take me on a trip upon your magic swirling ship.

Do not try to make the Bible relevant. Its relevance is axiomatic. Do not defend God's word, but testify to it. Trust to the Word. It is a ship loaded to the very limits of its capacity. -Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

Perpetually doing, without ever tuning in to the center of our being, is the equivalent of fueling a mighty ship by tossing all its navigational equipment into the furnace.

Be careful about gossiping because loose lips really do sink ships.

President Clinton bankrupted Chrysler so that Italians could buy it to ship jobs overseas to China.

When I'm a ship tossed around on the waves, Up on a highwire that's ready to break. When I've had just about all I can take, baby you save me

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

Those who first cross the Atlantic in a steam-boat will be entitled to a great portion of applause. In a few years we expect such trips will be common ... and bold will they be who first make a passage to Europe in a steam-boat.

If I were the treasury secretary or head of the Fed, you know, I would try to scare the hell the out of the private sector and say, you better save this because you're going down with the ship.

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

The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.

History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.

None of the U. S. Navy’s current surface ships are powerful enough to navigate in the Arctic…. Russia owns 30 icebreakers, some nuclear powered. Canada has 13. Even South Korea and China which lack Arctic coastlines, own new icebreakers, The U. S. Coast Guard has only 3. 1 is inoperative. 1 … is on its last legs, and 1 is a floating research lab.