Quotes on Ships

Congratulations on the new library, because it isn't just a library. It is a space ship that will take you to the farthest reaches of the Universe, a time machine that will take you to the far past and the far future, a teacher that knows more than any human being, a friend that will amuse you and console you-and most of all, a gateway, to a better and happier and more useful life.

The problems are our lives. In the "developed" countries, at least, the large problems occur because all of us are living either partly wrong or almost entirely wrong. It was not just the greed of corporate shareholders and the hubris of corporate executives that put the fate of Prince William Sound into one ship; it was also our demand that energy be cheap and plentiful.

You possess only whatever will not be lost in a ship wreck.

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

When a great ship is in harbor and moored, it is safe, there can be no doubt. But that is not what great ships are built for.

In the beginning, sin is like a thread of a spider's web. But in the end, it becomes like the cable of a ship.

The ship of Democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those aboard.

I am absolutely enraptured by the atmosphere of a wreck. A dead ship is the house of a tremendous amount of life-fish and plants. The mixture of life and death is mysterious, even religious. There is the same sense of peace and mood that you feel on entering a cathedral.

Sail on ship of state, sail on, I union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, with all its hopes of future years, is hanging on thy fate!

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

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

I have a feeling that when my ship comes in I'll be at the airport.

Tell the men to fire faster and not to give up the ship; fight her till she sinks.

First ship them dope, let them deal to brothers, give them guns, step back and watch them kill each other.

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

Like the wind that carries one ship east and another west, the law of autosuggestion will lift you up or pull you down according to the way that you set your sails of thought.

There is no ship now that can bear me hence

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.

How will the ships navigate without stars? And then he remembered that the stars were dead, long dead, and the light they shed was not to be trusted, was false, if not an outright lie, and in any case was inadequate, unequal to its task, which was to illuminate the evil that men did.

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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.