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No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy. -- Horatio Nelson
No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm. -- Charles Kettering
I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way. -- John Paul Jones
If you don't mark your successes, the day your ship comes in could be just another day at the office, and there's no poetry in that. -- Glen Hansard
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
Don't get me wrong, I'm going to play the young role as long as I can because once that ship has sailed, there's no getting back on it. -- Alexa Vega
When I was the captain of a ship I never failed to bring my ship to port and I won't fail to bring Romania to safe harbor. The belief that the president no longer represents the people is false. -- Traian Basescu
Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness. -- John Calvin
We must reign in overspending by ridding government of outmoded programs, making Big Oil pay their fair share, repealing massive tax breaks for corporations that ship jobs overseas, and enacting a tax code that no longer favors millionaires and billionaires. -- Paul Tonko
No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company. -- Samuel Johnson
Africans in the United States must remember that the slave ships brought no West Indians, no Caribbeans, no Jamaicans or Trinidadians or Barbadians to this hemisphere. The slave ships brought only African people and most of us took the semblance of nationality from the places where slave ships dropped us off. -- John Henrik Clarke
Usually, there is no equivalent of air traffic control at sea. Some busy areas operate 'traffic separation schemes,' but mostly, ships are treated like cars on roads where there are rules and codes of behavior, and successful, accident-free outcomes depend on everyone respecting them. As on roads, this doesn't always work. -- Rose George
My father used to take me to the movies on Saturdays. In 1940, when I was four years old, we encountered 'Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe.' I loved it. Especially the rocket ship, which I later realized had no airlock and no washroom. But they managed to get to Mongo with it. -- Jack McDevitt
There's a lot of women out there, some of whom are my age who've never been married and some who have been married and would like to be married again but think their ship has sailed, and I'm like, 'Oh no, honey, let Miss Niecy show you it is never too late for love!' -- Niecy Nash
There's this misconception that the Navy is this cruise ship, and you get to go out and sail around, and every now and then, you have to swab the deck. But, no, it is a very impressive group of young people that live at sea, in this place that's very uncomfortable. They exude a pride that is well-deserved. -- Tom Hanks
I think at the beginning of a project, you decide if you're in love with the idea and what it's about, or what you think it's about at that time at least. Then you commit to it, and once you've commit to it no matter what, no matter how many self doubts you have, you're in it. The ship's sailed, you can't turn around. -- Spike Jonze
Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. -- Arthur Koestler
Our Faith must be tested. God builds no ships but what He sends to sea. -- Dwight L. Moody
There are silver ships There are gold ships, But there are no ships Like friendships. -- W Mitchell
Why don't I watch the ocean?My lover's gone.No earthly ships will ever bring him home againbring him home again... -- Dido Armstrong
Fate has terrible power. You cannot escape it by wealth or war. No fort will keep it out, no ships outrun it. -- Sophocles
Sometimes when we're not paying attention, relation-ships happen. There is no rule that requires two people in love to be exactly alike. -- Lisa Kleypas
Dreadful is the mysterious power of fate; there is no deliverance from it by wealth or by war, by walled city or dark, seabeaten ships. -- Sophocles
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
Wind is the heart of the wave, the spoon of the sea and the angry bull of the ships. Without wind, there is no ardour, no agitation! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Ships are blowing up at sea, or catching fire, factories are blowing up. Are these accidents? Are these industrial sabotage? No one really suspected a spy network. -- Howard Blum
Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say. -- Oscar Wilde
In the end [of the "2012"], there were no ships, no water, no nothing. Only the interiors [were real]. Everything else had to be made, and that is always challenging. -- Roland Emmerich

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