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We've found 56 quotes for 'abandoned ship' (0.147 seconds):



"Man is not a ship in harbour; Earth is not a ship in harbour; even Universe is not a ship in harbour! No safe harbour for anything exists!" »Mehmet Murat ildan 
"Avoid destructive thinking. Improper negative thoughts sink people. A ship can sail around the world many, many times, but just let enough water get into the ship and it will sink. Just so with the human mind. Let enough negative thoughts or improper thoughts get into the human mind and the person sinks just like a ship." »Alfred A. Montapert 
"Art is never finished, only abandoned." »Leonardo DaVinci, (maybe) 
"A poem is never finished, only abandoned." »Paul Valery 
"It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart." »Anne Frank, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, July 15, 1944 
"The Godless would deny and destroy human rights .... the liberties of a nation cannot be secure when belief in God is abandoned." »U.S. Senate Chaplain Richard Halverson 
"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age." »Wystan Hugh Auden 
"Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding line, and no way of knowing how near the harbor was. 'Light Give me light' was the wordless cry of my soul, and the light of love shone on me in that very hour." »Helen Keller 
"It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that 'Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, have not got what they expected, and have lost what they had,--being unfortunate by an enigmatical sort of calamity.'" »Athenus 
"I prefer to sail in a bad ship with a good captain rather than sail in a good ship with a bad captain." »Mehmet Murat ildan 
"If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it" »Jonathan Winters 
"A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for." »John A. Shedd 
"The only safe ship in a storm is leadership." »Faye Wattleton 
"A community is like a ship, everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm." »Henrik Ibsen 
"A ship in harbor is safe--- but that is not what ships are for." »John A. Shedd 
"Being in a ship is like being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned." »Samuel Johnson 
"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning to sail my ship." »Louisa May Alcott 
"A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for." »William Shedd 
"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship." »Louisa May Alcott 
"A ship is always referred to as 'she' because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder." »Chester William Nimitz 
"I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship." »Helen Keller 
"A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for." »Grace Murray Hopper 
"History is the ship carrying living memories to the future." »Stephen Spender 
"I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast for I intend to go in harm's way." »John Paul Jones 
"When your deeply in love, you will sail the ship till it sinks...." »Emprezz 
"The world isn't interested in the storms you encountered, but whether or not you brought in the ship." »Raul Armesto 
"From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned. I insist that this shall cease. The country needs repose after all its trials it deserves repose. And repose can only be found in everlasting principles." »Charles Sumner 
"From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned. I insist that this shall cease. The country needs repose after all its trials; it deserves repose. And repose can only be found in everlasting principles." »Charles Sumner 
"Muddy waters should never prevent proper navigation of the ship or the spirit. " »Chase LeBlanc 
"Human experience, like the stern-lights of a ship at sea, illumines only the path which we have passed over." »Coleridge 
   BTW, Why won't you become an editor?

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