Ship Quotes

The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.

At this time, the only thing that would get me back in the ring is something that would positively impact those in need. If selling out another major event would allow me to bring a ship full of supplies to hand out to those in need, I'd say that would be very significant.

Hence a ship is said to head the sea, when her course is opposed to the setting or direction of the surges.

A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

If I had my will I would live in a ship on the sea, and never come nearer to humanity than that!

If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains; every ship upon the ocean they can tie with mighty chains.

We need prefab housing, we need to repair what can be repaired. We have appealed to the whole world to ship tents and blankets to Pakistan.

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.

We're probably the opposite of the Osbournes. We run a very tight ship.

The ship of democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those on board.

After Watergate, America was a ship without a rudder. Vietnam was left to its own devices, drifting along towards its fate.

If you have a crisis, whether on a ship or wherever, there are heroes who rise above it.

The factor most ignored in discussing interstellar flight is the kinetic energy that must be invested in the ship to make its tons of matter move at a substantial fraction of the speed of light.

It's hard to tell whether the ship or airplane - they're all the same, I'm convinced - is male or female; it may shift back and forth.

Qmail out of the box works fine, so people will want to use it regardless of licensing restrictions, even when the software does not ship with their system software.

We never had planned to hijack a ship. We never thought of any war plans outside the Palestinian lands. We wished that the program had not failed and then the warriors could have achieved their goals.

One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.

Often undecided whether to desert a sinking ship for one that might not float, he would make up his mind to sit on the wharf for a day.

Candidate Obama promised to fundamentally transform America and that's one promise he has kept. Turning a shining city on a hill into a sinking ship.

We worked out a lot of bugs and figured out who was working and who wasn't and how this beast functions. It was a lot bigger than we actually thought, and now we have a well-run ship where it feels I can actually have time to imagine and not just stress out about everything.

We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

In terms of the black female audience, usually if you're true to that character but more so in your body of work if you've proven that you love your sisters and you proven you will come back home like in 42.4% they'll give you a pass when you jump ship. I hear it all the time.

I can't tell you how much we laughed on the set to have Alec Guinness in a scene with a big, furry dog that's flying a space ship.

Build a rocket ship and leave the earth!

One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the way they go.

Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping.

My ship was also in better condition than when she sailed from Boston on her long voyage. She was still as sound as a nut, and as tight as the best ship afloat. She did not leak a drop - not one drop!

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.

It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.