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As Far As One-Day Cricket Is Concerned, Dhoni Is One Of The Greatest Captains Of All Times -- Sourav Ganguly
Leaders: Captains of industry. -- Thomas Carlyle
I am the captain of my pain. -- Nick Cave
I am the captain of my soul. -- Nelson Mandela
There can be only one Captain to a ship. -- Thomas John Barnardo
O Captain! My Captain! our fearful trip is done. -- Walt Whitman
Well, my transition into being a captain was easy. -- Mark Messier
Captain is a good travelling name and so I take it. -- George Farquhar
I think people want success, you know, and I'm the captain. -- Mats Sundin
I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement. -- Ted Turner
In any other job, they're truck drivers. In show-biz, they're Transportation Captains. -- Drew Carey
I don't pretend to be captain weird. I just do what I do. -- Johnny Depp
I was a keen sportsman, and became school captain in soccer and cricket. -- John E. Walker
I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul. -- William Ernest Henley
Captain Kirk has been a source of pleasure and income for a long time. -- William Shatner
We are the Captains of Spaceship Earth...we have the capacity to overcome our limits. -- Jason Silva
The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep. -- Charles Baudelaire
I played under many Captains, but Dhoni is the one, who fulfilled my Dream of winning World Cup -- Sachin Tendulkar
If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever. -- Thomas Aquinas
Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck. -- Guy de Maupassant
One of the advantages of being a captain is being able to ask for advice without necessarily having to take it. -- William Shatner
To sing of Wars, of Captains, and of Kings/Of Cities founded, Common-wealths begun/For my mean Pen are too superior things, -- Anne Bradstreet
I haven't yet figured out how I was made first captain, because I was not an outstanding student. I was an adequate student. -- William Westmoreland
When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship. -- Dick Gregory
To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman. -- George Santayana
It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul. -- William Ernest Henley
My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger. -- Aldous Huxley
During my time we had two chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, at different times of course, on the bridge, both of whom asked my permission to sit on the captain's chair. -- Patrick Stewart
I would read fishing reports on the road and then it just occurred to me: I should go to sea school and get my captain's license, see if I can get paid to be out here every day. -- Mickey Melchiondo
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
I miss the personalization that Vegas was - there were showroom captains and all the dealers knew the gamblers by their first names. -- Wayne Newton
The captains of industry do not keep on working for the sake of making money, but for the love of completing a job successfully. -- Charles M. Schwab
Then, again, the ability to organize and conduct industrial, commercial, or financial enterprises is rare; the great captains of industry are as rare as great generals. -- William Graham Sumner
Seafaring can be lucrative - the elite, such as gas-tanker captains, can earn $100,000 for six months' work - but the isolation is a heavy price to pay. -- Rose George
Directors are the captains of the ship, and it's your job as the lead actor to make sure that the rest of the cast understand that by doing whatever he says. -- George Clooney
I remember in 1978 meeting two Ugandan captains in the hotel talking Russian. They had been educated in Moscow and since they came from different Ugandan peoples, it was the only way they could understand one another. -- Ryszard Kapuscinski
Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay. -- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
I'm inspired every day by the great captains of industry and enlightened entrepreneurs like my great-great-grandfather and founder of Fiat, Giovanni Agnelli, who personally knew all his workers and gave so much to this country, or Adriano Olivetti, unique and innovative in every way. -- Lapo Elkann
Myself, Eric Wareheim, and Jason Woliner decided to start a Food Club where the three of us go to restaurants with a couple of other people. The three of us are the captains of the Food Club, so we have to wear the captains' hats. -- Aziz Ansari
Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world. -- Alfred A. Montapert
There's rule changes every year. I do wish, however, that the NFL did have a voice from the players' side, whether it's our players' union president, or team captains, or our executive committee on the players' side. Because we're the guys that realize the risk; we're the guys on the field. -- Troy Polamalu
A lot of Polish and Russian Jews had this experience: they would emigrate, thinking they were on their way to New York. Then their captains would stop in Dublin and say, 'Everybody off.' They would leave, and by the time they discovered they weren't in America, they didn't have enough money to continue. -- Rosemary Mahoney
I think a captain is someone who captains on the cricket field but, most of the leadership that happens is off the cricket field. It's very easy to captain people on the cricket field, but if you can start leading them off the cricket field, and show them that trust, what you have in them. -- Gautam Gambhir
Gym class was, of course, where the strongest, best-looking kids were made captains and chose us spazzes last. More important, it was where the figures of supposed authority allowed them to do so. Forget the work our parents did molding our minds and values. Everything fell apart as soon as we put on those maroon polyester gym suits. -- Ayelet Waldman
A boat can't have two captains. -- Akira Mori
We don't break our captains. We kill them. -- Vincent Gigante
Chance works for us when we are good captains. -- George Meredith
Great captains of industry are as rare as great generals -- William Graham Sumner
Great sea captains are made in rough waters and deep seas. -- Kathryn Kuhlman
Big storms create big captains and they destroy the little ones! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls. -- Winston Churchill
You never get a straight answer from captains. You should know that by now. -- Jim Butcher
You don't want captains in the army who know too much or think too much. -- Robert Graves
Great captains do never use long orations when it comes to the point of execution. -- Philip Sidney
During the great storms of our lives we imitate those captains who jettison their weightiest cargo. -- Honore de Balzac
History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with useful men. -- H. L. Mencken
You can pick captains, but you can't pick leaders. Whoever controls the locker room controls the team -- Don Meyer
There are 2 types of captains in World Cricket. One is MS Dhoni and the other are the all others. -- Navjot Singh Sidhu
All the great captains have performed vast achievements by conforming with the rules of art--by adjusting efforts to obstacles. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
We are the masters of our fate, the captains of our souls, because we have the power to control our thoughts. -- Napoleon Hill
Let's not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it. -- Vincent Van Gogh
If I can't get the captains to respond appropriately and show the leadership I expect, how is anyone else going to respond? -- Tony Dungy
We have good corporals and good sergeants and some good lieutenants and captains, and those are far more important than good generals. -- William Tecumseh Sherman
I miss the personalization that Vegas was - there were showroom captains and all the dealers knew the gamblers by their first names." -- Wayne Newton
Fans have been very important in my career. Even though I'm just doing me and doing my thing, they're the captains of this ship. -- Prince Royce
The captains of England and Australia can barely exchange pleasantries these days without a body-language expert immediately declaiming on the angle of their handshakes." -- Lawrence Booth
Managers think of themselves as captains of a ship on a stormy sea. Risk for them is danger, but they are fighting it, very controlled. -- Daniel Kahneman
I once performed The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald to about 15 sea captains. The song was about a ship that broke in half and sank. -- Gordon Lightfoot
I've played lots of law enforcement agents, and I do have friends that are in the bureau, in the DEA, and who are detectives and captains. -- Malik Yoba
God has appointed us captains of this our bodily fort, which, without treason to that majesty, are never to be delivered over till they are demanded. -- Philip Sidney
Black is a color of power and strength, and to see all those players, with the captains linking their arms in front - it's a powerful picture. -- Hayden Fry
The death of a man is like the fall of a mighty nation That had valiant armies, captains, and prophets, And wealthy ports and ships all over the seas. -- Czeslaw Milosz
If the heart has its reasons, perhaps the body Has its own lumbering sort of carnal spirit, Felt in the tingling bruises of collision, And known to captains as esprit de corps. -- Anthony Hecht
There are many of our so-called captains on industry who, if the truth were told, and a shorter and uglier word were not unpermissible, are little better than malefactors of great wealth. -- James Branch Cabell
In Halberstram's fun house, television elected John F. Kennedy in 1960 (presumably Richard J. Daley and his precinct captains were at home on election night watching the Cook County ballots being counted on television). -- Edwin Diamond
In reality, in the history of it, the captains are only really in charge during an engagement. The rest of the time, everyone had got the same vote. It's been very interesting finding that. -- Zach McGowan

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