Ships Quotes

What is the problem? We now have aeroplanes which can take them back quicker than the ships used by their ancestors.

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

The great religions are the ships, Poets the life boats. Every sane person I know has jumped overboard.

The captain doesn't think about death, or life, he thinks about saving his ship.

You wouldn't abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn't control the winds.

God works all things together for your good. If the waves roll against you, it only speeds your ship towards the port

Behold, now, another providence of God. A ship comes into the harbor.

A lighthouse doesn't save the ships; it doesn't go out and rescue them, it's just this pillar that helps to guide people home.

Yet the evil still increased, and, like the parasite of barnacles on a ship, if it did not destroy the structure, it obstructed its fair, comfortable progress in the path of life.

The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.

If it's sent by ship then it's a cargo, if it's sent by road then it's a shipment.

Like an ox-cart driver in monsoon season or the skipper of a grounded ship, one must sometimes go forward by going back.

There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.

In calm water every ship has a good captain.

Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all others were making ships.

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.

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.

The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder.

When I'm a ship tossed around on the waves, Up on a highwire that's ready to break. When I've had just about all I can take, baby you save me

And the wind plays on those great sonorous harps, the shrouds and masts of ships.

Human love, human trust, are always perilous, because they break down. The greater the love, the greater the trust, and the greater the peril, the greater the disaster. Because to place absolute trust on another human being is in itself a disaster, both ways, since each human being is a ship that must sail its own course, even if it go in company with another ship.... And yet, love is the greatest thing between human beings.

All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.

Science Fiction is not just about the future of space ships travelling to other planets, it is fiction based on science and I am using science as my basis for my fiction, but it's the science of prehistory - palaeontology and archaeology - rather than astronomy or physics.

Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?

The result of the voyage does not depend on the speed of the ship, but on whether or not it keeps a true course.

A fleet of British ships at war are the best negotiators.

It's easy to grin when your ship comes in and you've got the stock market beat. But the man worthwhile is the man who can smile when his shorts are too tight in the seat.

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

from the slave ship to the citizenship we faced a lot of bullship

There is a persistent funny form of suspicion in most of us that we can solve our own problems and be the masters of our own ships of life, but the fact of the matter is that by ourselves we can only be consumed by our problems and suffer the shipwreck.

Without the Spirit of God, we can do nothing. We are as ships without wind. We are useless.

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

This ship is built to fight. You had better know how.

The Church used to be a lifeboat rescuing the perishing. Now she is a cruise ship recruiting the promising.

The invention of the ship was also the invention of the shipwreck.

All we have to do is preserve our personality, to live our own life, be captain of our own ship, and all will be well.

I cannot imagine any condition which would cause a ship to founder. I cannot conceive of any vital disaster happening to this vessel. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that . . .

Do not try to make the Bible relevant. Its relevance is axiomatic. Do not defend God's word, but testify to it. Trust to the Word. It is a ship loaded to the very limits of its capacity. -Dietrich Bonhoeffer

When a crew and a captain understand each other to the core, it takes a gale, and more than a gale, to put their ship ashore.

Worship, from the Latin word meaning "worth-ship", is where we express God's worth to us in our lives.

There's nothing like a shipwreck to spark the imagination of everyone who was not on that specific ship.

I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep.

When you can't wait for your ship to come in, you've got to row out to it.

What's the point of wearing your favorite rocket ship underpants if nobody ever asks to see 'em?

We must not leap to the fatalistic conclusion that we are stuck with the conceptual scheme that we grew up in. We can change it, bit by bit, plank by plank, though meanwhile there is nothing to carry us along but the evolving conceptual scheme itself. The philosopher's task was well compared by Neurath to that of a mariner who must rebuild his ship on the open sea.

A ship should not be held by a single anchor; neither should life depend upon a single hope.

The fact that every part of this ship was built by the low bidder.

Whether it is a big ship or small ship, the same size hole placed correctly in the hull can sink it.

We have our factory, which is called a stage. We make a product, we color it, we title it and we ship it out in cans.