The Ship Quotes

The Ship Quote of the day

A ship is always safe at the shore, but that is not what it is built for.

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

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

We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.

Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.

A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.

Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

She watched the gap between ship and shore grow to a huge gulf. Perhaps this was a little like dying, the departed no longer visible to the others, yet both still existed, only in different worlds.

If you don't mark your successes, the day your ship comes in could be just another day at the office, and there's no poetry in that.

It is a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel.

In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent.

'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

Natural selection is not the wind which propels the vessel, but the rudder which, by friction, now on this side and now on that, shapes the course.

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.

I've always fantasized about being on TV. And I was. Then I fantasized about being in the movies. What could be better than captain of a space ship? I get to ride horses, shoot guns, have adventures.

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.

The church is the primary arena in which we learn that glory does not consist in what we do for God but in what God does for us.

On Staten Island, there's a ship graveyard. I'm using that a lot, even for 'Under the Dome.' When I'm dissatisfied with a location scout, I go on Google Earth. It's an amazing tool.

Good thoughts without actions are like a ship stuck in a port.

I pray that I am never so foolishly naive or roguishly pompous to think that I can be the captain of my own ship, for if God is not at the helm my ship will soon be at the bottom.

Take charge of your life! The tides do not command the ship. The sailor does.

The captain of a ship can run a great ship, but he can't do anything about the tides.

A ship on the port always waits for you to sail to the oceans!

A life without goal is a ship without rudder!

Maxim 10: Sometimes the only way out is through... through the hull.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

Any design, whether it's for a ship or an airplane, must be done in anticipation of potential failures.

I must go down to the sea...to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship, and a star to steer her by......

I lay on my back, surprised at how calm and focused I felt, strapped to four and a half million pounds of explosives.

they ask for water we give them seathey ask for bread we give them seathey ask for life we give them only the sea

I am not afraid of storms, for I am leaning how to sail my ship.

In her unworldly voice she thanked them for finally understanding her. She reminded me of a female pirate captain alone on the deck of her sinking ship.

She can push me away all she wants, she can burn me with those eyes, but right now, I’m not going anywhere.

Sometimes the storm winds blow so strong a man has no choice but to furl his sails.

one day my best friend said to me 'Jess, you rock a lot of polka dots' and that was the deal breaker, now we're mortal enemies

I studied at the Hebrew University Medical Faculty, graduated, and was an Israel Defense Forces' combat physician on a Navy ship.

Even a ship can become a prison if all you see around you are bars.

Mr. Bird flung his food away and leaped to his feet, glaring around at no one in particular. 'I am not a dog!' he shouted agrily, his gold earrings flashing in the firelight.

Can you imagine, in 2030, taking a space cruise on the very ship that carried the first human beings to Mars? I can't believe that people wouldn't line up for that possibility.

What's aero braking? That's a way to use the gravity and upper atmosphere of Earth to sling shot a ship out either deeper into space, or slow it down to be 'captured' by Earth's gravity.

Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.

What's in a life without Camaraderie? For setting sail on a ship with a band of merry brothers by your side is much more gratifying than drifting aimlessly on a boat lost alone at sea.

A mighty storm is inconsequential when facing a mighty ship.

I can’t control the waves of the ocean, but I can learn how to navigate my ship.

Where there is any kind of doer-ship, there is karmic bondage, and where there is knower-ship and inner understanding, there is Moksha [Liberation].

Poetry isn’t an island, it is the bridge. Poetry isn’t a ship, it is the lifeboat. Poetry isn’t swimming. Poetry is water.

Why ships won't use roads, is why cars won't travel on oceans. When the position is wrong, the leader won't be right.

When all seems to be against you, remember, a ship sometimes has to sail against the current, not with it.