ship quotes

• We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship. (Omar Nelson Bradley) [ship]
• A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder. (Eileen Caddy) [high/ship]
• A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder. (Thomas Carlyle) [ship]
• The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder -- waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you. (Thomas Carlyle) [ship/life/mind/god]
• The ship of Democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those aboard. (Grover Cleveland) [ship/democracy]
• The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [ship/willpower]
• Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship. (Benjamin Franklin) [expenses/willpower/ship]
• A small leak can sink a great ship (Benjamin Franklin) [ship]
• Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock. (Mahatma Gandhi) [control/ship]
• 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) [willpower/being/ship/being]
• Sail on ship of state, sail on, I union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, with all its hopes of future years, is hanging on thy fate! (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) [ship/state/future]
• The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven. (Martin Luther) [human/ship]
• 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 Masefield) [sky/ship]
• If I took a cruise ship and went to any of the Caribbean islands, I could meet with a coach or an athlete I know there, ... That's pretty neat. ( Bjork) [ship]
• Thats what a ship is, you know. Its not a keel and a hull and a deck and sails. Thats what a ship needs. But what a ship is. What the Black Pearl really is . . . is freedom. (Johnny Depp) [ship/ship/needs/ship]
• Around the property I have here, I'm about to put an all weather race track. I'm about to build stables. I'm about to ship over a couple of my thoroughbreds from England. (David Bowie) [property/forecasters/ship]
• If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains; every ship upon the ocean they can tie with mighty chains. (Joe Hill) [ship]
• 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. (William Banting) [evil/ship/destroy/civilization & progress]
• I sum up the prospects for 1967 in three short sentences. We are back on course. The ship is picking up speed. The economy is moving. Every seaman knows the command at such a moment: 'steady as she goes'. (James Callaghan) [ship/speed/economy/moment]

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