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. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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. — John Edward Masefield
These vessels are out of sight, out of mind. They are exempt from minimum-wage requirements, from Coast Guard inspections, OSHA regulations and other safety laws. — Steve Finley
When the sea is calm, every ship has a good captain. — Swedish Proverbs
It’s similar to what sailors feel when they are out at sea – if they meet another ship, they probably feel some kind of brotherhood; it doesn’t matter which flag is on the ship. — Sergei Krikalev
Great sea captains are made in rough waters and deep seas. — Kathryn Kuhlman
A ship in the harbor is safe, but that’s not what a ship is for. — English Proverbs
Light boats sail swift, though greater hulks draw deep. — William Shakespeare
You know who the good seamen are when the storm comes — Greek Proverbs
Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink. — Erin Morgenstern
Short Ships Quotes
When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I wanted freedom, open air and adventure. I found it on the sea. — Alain Gerbault
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Loving someone who doesn't love you is like waiting for a ship at the airport. — Zayn Malik
At sea, I learned how little a person needs, not how much. — Robin Lee Graham
What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul. — Corrie Ten Boom
If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever. — Thomas Aquinas
Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope. — Epictetus
Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship. — Benjamin Franklin
Ships Image Quotes
A ship in harbour is safe but thats not what ships are for.
I be off the slave ships, building pyramids, writing my own hieroglyphs — Kendrick Lamar
Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out and meet the bloody thing. — Barry Sheene
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm. — Henrik Ibsen
Entire water of the sea can't sink a ship, unless it gets inside the ship. Similarly negativity of the world can't put you down unless you allow it to get inside you !
We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope. — Epictetus
The horns came riding in like the rainbow masts of silver ships. — Peter S. Beagle
Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship. — Omar N. Bradley
I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.
The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on. — Sheryl Sandberg
I am not afraid of storm for I am learning how to sail my ship.
Sailing Ships Quotes
Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire that urged adventurers of old to set forth in their sailing-ships for foreign lands. — Jean Batten
Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit. — Brooks Atkinson
If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends. — John Enoch Powell
We simply can't abandon ship every time we encounter a storm in our marriage. Real love is about weathering the storms of life together.
The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea. — Ovid
O my son! The dunya (world) is a deep ocean in which many have drowned! Let your ship be taqwallah (fear of Allah), and load your ship with Iman-billah (believe in Allah), and let her sail be tawakkal (trust) on Allah! Insha'Allah you will survive then. — Luqman
It isn't that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better. — Francis Drake
There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful. — Fernando Pessoa
A sailing ship is no democracy; you don't caucus a crew as to where you'll go anymore than you inquire when they'd like to shorten sail. — Sterling Hayden
Until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore, you will not know the terror of being forever lost at sea. — Charlie Cook
To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go. — Joshua Slocum
Cruise Ships Quotes
A bigger business is like a cruise ship: There are lots of amenities and you can go a lot further, but it's harder to turn quickly. — Tony Hsieh
Out of sight of land the sailor feels safe. It is the beach that worries him. — Charles Davis
The Church used to be a lifeboat rescuing the perishing. Now she is a cruise ship recruiting the promising. — Leonard Ravenhill
The way I see it, being dead is not terribly far off from being on a cruise ship. Most of your time is spent lying on your back. The brain has shut down. The flesh begins to soften. Nothing much new happens, and nothing is expected of you. — Mary Roach
I had a nightmare about being on a cruise ship and the ship going down. It was an arduous process of the ship going down and we knew it was going down. There was everyone I know and love on the ship. — Jared Padalecki
A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
I've been a river kayaker for a long time and I've done quite a few trips. I like kayaking and I like canoeing. I don't really like being on yachts or sailboats or cruise ships. I don't like anything that's large and not human-powered. — Misha Collins
We used two Princess Cruise ships. The Island Princess and The Pacific Princess. They were identical ships. — Gavin MacLeod
A cruise ship is a floating town of lazy people. — Garrison Keillor
You do not ask a tame seagull why it needs to disappear from time to time toward the open sea. It goes, that's all. — Bernard Moitessier
later down the road of life, i made the discovery that salt water was also good for the mental abrasions one inevitably acquires on land. — Jimmy Buffett
We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came. — John F. Kennedy
Hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic. — Van Morrison
Any damn fool can navigate the world sober. It takes a really good sailor to do it drunk. — Francis Chichester
I went to sea from the most tender age and have continued in a sea life to this day. Whoever gives himself up to this art wants to know the secrets of Nature here below. It is more than forty years that I have been thus engaged. Wherever any one has sailed, there I have sailed. — Christopher Columbus
My real log is written in the sea and sky; the sails talking with the rain and the stars amid the sounds of the sea, the silences full of secret things between my boat and me, like the times I spent as a child listening to the forest talk. — Bernard Moitessier
Darius was clearly of the opinion
That the air is also man's dominion,
And that, with paddle or fins or pinion,
We soon or late
Shall navigate
The azure, as now we sail the sea. — John Townsend Trowbridge
My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea, and the heart of the great ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sailors And The Sea Quotes
All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken. — Thomas Wolfe
And the voices in the waves are always whispering to Florence, in their ceaseless murmuring, of love - of love, eternal and illimitable, not bounded by the confines of this world, or by the end of time, but ranging still, beyond the sea, beyond the sky, to the invisible country far away! — Charles Dickens
Sailors, with their built in sense of order, service and discipline, should really be running the world. — Nicholas Monsarrat
There is but a plank between a sailor and eternity. — Thomas Gibbons
I don't know who named them swells. There's nothing swell about them. They should have named them awfuls. — Hugo Vihlen
Bad cooking is responsible for more trouble at sea than all other things put together. — Thomas Fleming Day
I believe in living, I believe in birth, I believe in the sweat of love and in the fire of truth and I believe that a lost ship, steered by tired, sea sick sailors, can still be guided home to port — Assata Shakur
Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates. — Mark Twain
At last the anchor was up, the sails were set, and off we glided. It was a sharp, cold Christmas; and as the short northern day merged into night, we found ourselves almost broad upon the wintry ocean, whose freezing spray cased us in ice, as in polished armor. — Herman Melville
Pirate Ships Quotes
It was a dark and stormy night. Suddenly, a shot rang out! A door slammed. The maid screamed. Suddenly, a pirate ship appeared on the horizon! While millions of people were starving, the king lived in luxury. Meanwhile, on a small farm in Kansas, a boy was growing up. — Charles M. Schulz
A captured pirate was brought before Alexander the Great. “How dare you molest the sea?” asked Alexander. “How dare you molest the whole world?” the pirate replied, and continued: “Because I do it with a little ship only, I am called a thief; you, doing it with a great navy, are called an emperor. — Noam Chomsky
A dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. — Johnny Depp
It was a great experience for a kid, because it was a bunch of kids playing on pirate ships and water slides, so looking back on it, it was the fondest experience of my childhood. — Corey Feldman
My fantasy football team got mixed up in another fantasy and now they're stuck on a pirate ship with a chick in a Catwoman suit. — Dana Gould
Ships are but boards, sailors but men; there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves, I mean pirates, and thenthere is the peril of waters, winds, and rocks. — William Shakespeare
What's a pirate minus the ship? just a creative homeless guy — Bo Burnham
Even pirates, before they attack another ship, hoist a black flag. — Bela Kiraly
When the king asked him what he meant by infesting the sea, the pirate defiantly replied:
The same as you do when you infest the whole world;
but because I do it with a little ship I am called a robber,
and because you do it with a great fleet, you are an emperor. — Saint Augustine
Thoughts of being a pirate and stealing her away to my ship race across my mind. Although I’m not a pirate, and she’s not my captured princess. — Simone Elkeles
Christians should live in the world, but not be filled with it. A ship lives in the water; but if the water gets into the ship, she goes to the bottom. So Christians may live in the world; but if the world gets into them, they sink. — Dwight L. Moody
It's time for Black people to stop playing the separating game of geography, of where the slave ship put us down. We must concentrate on where the slave ship picked us up. — John Henrik Clarke
If you want to build a ship, don't summon people to buy wood, prepare tools, distribute jobs, and organize the work; teach people the yearning for the wide, boundless ocean. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The great religions are the ships, Poets the life boats. Every sane person I know has jumped overboard. — Hafez
Let's just say I'm like a ship passing through storms, resting in ports now and then until it's time to continue the journey. I once told a friend, `I'm just looking for an angel with a broken wing - one that couldn't fly away.' — Jimmy Page
O captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done. The ship has weather'd every wrack The prize we sought is won The port is near, the bells I hear The people all exulting While follow eyes, the steady keel The vessel grim and daring But Heart! Heart! Heart! O the bleeding drops of red Where on the deck my captain lies Fallen cold and dead. — Walt Whitman
You are like a captain navigating a ship... You must give the right orders, thoughts and images to your subconscious which controls and governs all your experiences. — Joseph Murphy
We repeat again: strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one’s balance in spite of them. Even with the violence of emotion, judgment and principle must still function like a ship’s compass, which records the slightest variations however rough the sea. — Carl von Clausewitz
The Church is like a great ship being pounded by the waves of life's different stresses. Our duty is not to abandon ship, but to keep her on her course. — Saint Boniface
My piano is to me what a ship is to the sailor, what a steed is to the Arab. It is the intimate personal depository of everything that stirred wildly in my brain during the most impassioned days of my youth. It was there that all my wishes, all my dreams, all my joys, and all my sorrows lay. — Franz Liszt
You wouldn't abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn't control the winds. — Thomas More
If you want to find out who your real friends are, sink the ship. The first ones to jump aren't your friends. — Marilyn Manson
Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind. With such persons, gullibility, which they call faith, takes the helm from the hand of reason, and the mind becomes a wreck. — Thomas Jefferson
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
Servant-leader ship is all about making the goals clear and then rolling your sleeves up and doing whatever it takes to help people win. In that situation, they don't work for you, you work for them. — Ken Blanchard
We cannot rely on ourselves, for we have learned by bitter experience the folly of self-confidence. We are compelled to look to the Lord alone. Blessed is the wind that drives the ship into the harbor. Blessed is the distress that forces us to rest in our God. — Charles Spurgeon
The ship of Democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those aboard. — Grover Cleveland
The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house. — Thomas Reid
The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights. — Giotto di Bondone
The sea from Dunkirk to Dover during these days of the evacuation looked like any coastal road in England on a bank holiday. It was solid with shipping. — Douglas Bader
When one is building a ship, one does not begin with gathering timber and cutting planks, but rather by arousing in people the yearning for the great wide sea. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I'm trying to stop a civil war not because I'm a hero but because I want to have a future and I want freedom for my family, that means you need freedom too. Rising tides raise all ships but a lowering tide will beach us all. — Alex Jones
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