| "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 |
| "If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it" »Jonathan Winters |
| "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 harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for." »William Shedd |
| "A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for." »Grace Murray Hopper |
| "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." »Louisa May Alcott |
| "History is the ship carrying living memories to the future." »Stephen Spender |
| "To Robert Fulton What, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck I pray you excuse me. I have no time to listen to such nonsense." »Napoleon I |
| "No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into jail for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned." »Samuel Johnson |
| "A politician is a person who can make waves and then make you think he's the only one who can save the ship." »Ivern Ball |
| "I think it's them...Men. They have no fortitude. They're always dying or skedaddling off at the first sign of trouble. So tell me this, who is left to pick up the pieces, ship the body. clean out the closets Us And they have the audacity to call us the weaker sex." »Robin Green |
| "An unstable pilot steers a leaking ship, and the blind is leading the blind straight to the pit. The ruler is like the ruled." »Saint Jerome |
| "Judge Smails It's easy to grin When your ship comes in And you've got the stock market beat. But the man worthwhile, Is the man who can smile, When his shorts are too tight in the seat." »CaddyShack |
| "Wake up with one mind, my friends, and kindle the fire, you many who share the same nest. Make your thoughts harmonious stretch them on the loom make a ship whose oars will carry us across." »Rig Veda |
| "I think a good novel would be where a bunch of men on a ship are looking for a whale. They look and look, but you know what They never find him. And you know why they never find him It doesn't say. The book leaves it up to you, the reader, to decide. Then, at the very end, there's a page you can lick and it tastes like Kool-Aid." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "People who soar are those who refuse to sit back, sigh and wish things would change. They neither complain of their lot nor passively dream of some distant ship coming in. Rather, they visualize in their minds that they are not quitters they will not allow life's circumstances to push them down and hold them under." »Charles R. Swindoll |
| "The true beloveds of this world are in their lover's eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered conversations, friends, a child's Sunday, lost voices, one's favorite suit, autumn and all seasons, memory, yes, it being the earth and water of existence, memory." »Truman Capote |
| "A man with a half volition goes backwards and forwards, and makes no way on the smoothest road a man with a whole volition advances on the roughest, and will reach his purpose, if there be even a little worthiness in it. The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - a waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life and having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you." »Thomas Carlyle |
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