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“The soul, they say, is divine and the flesh is iniquity. But I am a musician and I ask this - without the wood and the strings of the violin, where would the sonata find form?”

Romance Love Story Maritime Maritime Stories

Book:The Old Mermaid's Tale: A Novel of the Great Lakes

Source: The Old Mermaid's Tale: A Novel of the Great Lakes

“Many of those who elected to remain might have escaped. 'Chivalry' is a mild appellation for their conduct. Some of the vaunted knights of old were desperate cowards by comparison. A fight in the open field, or jousting in the tournament, did not call out the manhood in a man as did the waiting till the great ship took the final plunge, in the knowledge that the seas round about were covered with loving and yearning witnesses whose own salvation was not assured.”

History Sacrifice Sea Disaster Manhood Chivalry Shipwreck Manliness Maritime Titanic

Author:The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters

“It was a symposium of horror and heroism, the like of which has not been known in the civilized world since man established his dominion over the sea.”

History Sacrifice Sea Ocean Disaster Manhood Sinking Chivalry Shipwreck Manliness Gallant Maritime Titanic

Author:The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters

“I phoned the Admiral back. 'It's no use, Admiral, the French speak nothing but French.' There was a short pause on the end of the line then his voice rattled into life like a sabre. 'They're lying, Tim!' 'What?' 'The French Navy must by law speak English, as English is the international maritime language of the sea.' 'Has anyone told the French that?' The line went dead for a moment before he thundered, 'Yes Nelson. At the battle of Trafalgar.' I tried to stifle an irresistibly British giggle not knowing if the Admiral was making a joke or not. I got it right. He was serious.”

Language Humour Communication Navy Nautical Maritime The French French Navy

Book:In the Bath: Conquering the Channel in a Piece of Plumbing

Source: In the Bath: Conquering the Channel in a Piece of Plumbing

“The deep sea will never run out of things for us to dream about. Places will remain unseen and unvisited, fleeting moments will be missed, and nimble creatures, whose existence nobody can guess, will keep slipping out of sigh. We need to do all we can to keep it that way.”

Sea Ocean Nonfiction Maritime Oceanography

Book:The Brilliant Abyss

Source: The Brilliant Abyss

“The deep sea will never run out of things for us to dream about. Places will remain unseen and unvisited, fleeting moments will be missed, and nimble creatures, whose existence nobody can guess, will keep slipping out of sight. We need to do all we can to keep it that way.”

Sea Ocean Nonfiction Maritime Oceanography

Book:The Brilliant Abyss

Source: The Brilliant Abyss

“There are no compelling reasons for exploiting the deep, just industry and politics vying to push into that last frontier.”

Sea Ocean Nonfiction Maritime Oceanography

Book:The Brilliant Abyss

Source: The Brilliant Abyss

“If readers can come away seeing Alfred Wallis's paintings with fresh eyes - seeing not just the charm but the strength and experience behind them – I’ll know the last eight years of the book's production will have been incredibly worthwhile.”

Biography Art History Outsider Maritime Cornish Alfred Wallis British Artist Folk Artist Naive Art St Ives

Book:Alfred Wallis Child Pauper To Artistic Luminary

Source: Alfred Wallis Child Pauper To Artistic Luminary

“[T]hen all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.”

Time Sea Ocean Immensity Maritime

Book:Moby-Dick or, The Whale

Source: Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“Freedom of navigation is an indispensable part of Law of the Sea. It is the foundation stone of law of the sea. One of the purposes of law of the sea is to ensure peaceful navigation.”

Navigation Maritime Ship Quotes Law Of The Sea Freedom Of Navigation Maritime Law

Author:Henrietta Newton Martin, International Law of the Sea-A Primer

“With 300 Marines, you could probably take over Iraq if you wanted to and get rid of ISIS completely. Make no mistake about it, Marines are war fighters. I mean they are really good at what they do. The only time they are not good at what they do is when someone puts the shackles on them.”

Ifs Mean War Wanted Mistake Military Iraq Fighter Navy Only Time Marine Isis Shackles Mariners Maritime Navy Seal

Author:Marcus Luttrell

“The cooperation of navies from around the world promises high tactical value for the ships, aircraft, and divers involved; while demonstrating international resolve in defending maritime security against potential threats.”

World Values Security Involved Promise Threat International Ships Around The World Resolve Cooperation Navy Aircraft Demonstrating Tactical Maritime

Author:John C. Stennis

“The wide difference between the two characters, the slowness and want of energy of the Spartans as contrasted with the dash and enterprise of their opponents, proved of the greatest service, especially to a maritime empire like Athens. Indeed this was shown by the Syracusans, who were most like the Athenians in character, and also most successful in combating them.”

Want Two Character Energy Differences Successful Wide Opponents Enterprise Empires Athens Slowness Athenians Maritime

Book:The history of the Peloponnesian War: illustrated with maps from the 1820 Oxford edition

Source: The history of the Peloponnesian War: illustrated with maps from the 1820 Oxford edition

“You don't need to buy a $7 billion company to penetrate maritime security. The Mafia doesn't buy FedEx to smuggle.”

Needs Company Security Billions Penetrate Mafia Maritime

Author:James Carafano

“Our faith in democracy, personal freedoms and human 'rights', and the other comforting prescriptions of the humanist liberal credo stem from the supremacy of maritime over territorial power. Pragmatists may deplore this as crude determinism, as another vain attempt to construct a general theory of history. They should reflect on the sort of political philosophy and structures we might now adhere to had the Habsburgs, Bourbons, Bonaparte, Hitler, Stalin or his heirs prevailed in the titanic world struggles of the past four centuries.”

Source: Maritime Supremacy & the Opening of the Western Mind: Naval Campaigns that Shaped the Modern World

“The reason territorial monarchs failed time after time against maritime powers was not that absolutist, non-consensual governments were incapable of building great fleets in peace - quite the reverse - but that they were unable to fund them in the crises of war. Mainly this was because they were forced to divert resources from the fleet to their armies, to fight territorial rivals frequently financed by their maritime enemy from the profits of sea trade.”

War Reason Government Fighting Enemy Sea Building Resources Army Crisis Trade Profit Fund Reverse Incapable Rivals Monarchs Territorial Maritime

Author:Peter Padfield

“Nations, as well as man, almost always betray the most prominent features of their future destiny in their earliest years. When I contemplate the ardour with which the Anglo-Americans prosecute commercial enterprise, the advantages which befriend them, and the success of their undertakings, I cannot refrain from believing that they will one day become the first maritime power of the globe. They are born to rule the seas, as the Romans were to conquer the world.”

Source: Democracy in America

“I lived for a long time under vast porticos That maritime suns tinted with a thousand fires, And whose great pillars, straight and majestuous In the evening made seem like basaltic caves.”

Long Made Seems Sun Fire Thousand Long Time Evening Caves Pillars Maritime

Author:Charles Baudelaire

“[Somali maritime violence] is a response to greedy Western nations, who invade and exploit Somalia's water resources illegally. It is not a piracy, it is self defence. It is defending the Somalia children's food.”

Children Self Nations Water Violence Resources Response Western Greedy Exploits Defence Piracy Somalia Water Resources Self Defence Maritime Somali

Author:Muammar al-Gaddafi

“It is a golden chapter in the history of India's maritime security. May INS Vikramaditya, imbibe the radiance of the sun and confidence of victory in each one of us.”

May Motivation Sun Security Victory India Golden Chapters Radiance Maritime

Author:Narendra Modi

“One sailor will do us more good than two soldiers.”

Two Soldier Sailor Naval Maritime

Book:Correspondence of the Late President Adams

Source: Correspondence of the Late President Adams

“A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.”

“This accession of territory affirms forever the power of the United States, and I have given England a maritime rival who sooner or later will humble her pride.”

States Given United United States Forever Pride England Humble Territory Sooner Or Later Rivals Maritime

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Well the most likely emerging countries are Japan, Turkey, and Poland. So I would say Eastern Europe, the Middle East and a maritime war by Japan with the United States enjoying its own pleasures.”

Wells War Country States Enjoy Pleasure United United States Middle Europe East Japan Middle East Eastern Turkeys Emerging Poland Eastern Europe Maritime

Author:George Friedman

“The Philippines made a lawful and peaceful effort to resolve their maritime claims with China using the tribunal established under the Law of the Sea Convention (Unclos). The tribunal's ruling delivered a clear and legally binding decision on maritime claims in the South China Sea as they relate to China and the Philippines - and that ruling should be respected. We believe this decision can and should serve as an opportunity to renew efforts to address maritime claims peacefully.”

Should Believe Made Law Opportunity Decision Effort Clear Sea Claims South China Peaceful Relate Addresses Resolve Conventions Ruling Binding Philippines Tribunals Maritime

Author:Barack Obama

“France and Germany were opposed to a maritime blockade of the Adriatic Sea without a mandate from the United Nations (UN). So, what we witnessed in Kosovo was an extraordinary war, a war waged solely with bombs from the air.”

War Nations United Air Sea Extraordinary France Germany Bombs United Nations Mandates Kosovo Maritime Blockades

Author:Paul Virilio

“The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.”

Source: GIFT FROM THE SEA

“Our Great Lakes, harbors, ports, and rivers provide not only vital resources for us to live, but an entire maritime way of life for so many people. The least we can do is protect it, and the way of life it provides for so many.”

People Way Can Do Protect Resources Rivers Lakes Harbors Port Maritime Great Lakes Rivers And Lakes Lakes And Rivers

Author:Candice S. Miller

“We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.”

Hope Sea Wind Ships Sail Sailing Sailing And The Sea Sailing Ships Ships At Sea Maritime Sailing And Wind Sailing And Love

Author:Aristotle Onassis

“You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India

“The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.”

“Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.”

Funny Tradition Army Navy Talk To Me Lashes Naval Rum Maritime Army Navy Don't Talk To Me British Navy

Author:Winston Churchill

“At sea, I learned how little a person needs, not how much.”

“If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.”

Ifs Men Bits Boat Obsessed Sailing Nautical Sailing And The Sea Boats And Sailing Mariners Maritime

Author:E. B. White

“It is too often forgotten that when the Europeans gained enough maritime skills and gunpowder to conquer most of the world, they not only colonized the bulk of the world's people but they colonized the interpretation of history itself. Human history was rewritten to favor them at the expense of other people. The roots of modern racism can be traced to this conquest and colonization.”

“If a single act of folly was more responsible for this explosion than any other it was the arbitrary and dangerous announced decision that the Straits of Tiran would be closed. The right of innocent, maritime passage must be preserved for all nations”

Ifs War Would Be Nations Decision Dangerous Responsible Innocent Folly Passages Arbitrary Explosions Maritime

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.”

People Sea Ocean Making Love Sailing Diving Sailing And The Sea Ocean Sea Oceans And Seas Maritime Beach Ocean Sea And Sky

Author:Jacques Yves Cousteau

“It isn't that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better.”

“It's the maritime equivalent of rock climbing.”

Rocks Climbing Rock Climbing Maritime

Author:Cesar Romero

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

“The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.”

“Canada is like an old cow. The West feeds it. Ontario and Quebec milk it. And you can well imagine what it's doing in the Maritimes.”

Inspirational Wells Imagine Humorous West Canada Milk Cows Quebec Ontario Maritime Canada Day Canada Funny Happy Canada Day

Author:Tommy Douglas

“As soon as I finished the Russian course, I was sent to Korea with the task of trying to establish an agent network, a network in the so called maritime provinces.”

Trying Courses Tasks Finished Agents Korea Provinces Kgb Maritime

Author:George Blake

“No big modern war has been won without preponderant sea power; and, conversely, very few rebellions of maritime provinces have succeeded without acquiring sea power.”

Has Beens War Bigs Sea Modern Rebellion Provinces Maritime Modern War Sea Power

Book:the Oxford History of the American People \

Source: the Oxford History of the American People \

“I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.”

Firsts Clubs Maritime Belfast

Author:Van Morrison

“From protecting our natural resources to providing maritime security and national defense, the Coast Guard's duties are broad in scope, and the performance of those duties has never been more important.”

Important Natural Security Duty Resources Performances Defense Broads Providing Coast Scope Natural Resources National Defense Maritime Coast Guard

Author:Russ Carnahan

“Close with a Frenchman, but out-maneuver a Russian.”

Naval Frenchmen Maritime

Author:Horatio Nelson

“An income means life to wretched mortals, but it is a terrible fate to die among the waves.”

Mean Dies Fate Terrible Wave Income Mortals Wretched Naval Meaning Life Maritime

Author:Hesiod

“Since time immemorial it had been the custom before a sea battle for the men to wash and don clean clothes in case of being wounded. This was all the more necessary under these circumstances, as many of them were still covered with coal dust.”

Men Stills Cases Sea He Man Circumstances Battle Clothes Clean Dust Customs Covered Wounded Coal Naval Maritime Clean Clothes

Book:Naval Battles of the Twentieth Century

Source: Naval Battles of the Twentieth Century

“That a modern battleship of 48,000 tons would have to defend itself against wood and fabric biplanes with its main armament was a salutary reminder of the changing face of sea warfare.”

Faces Sea Modern Woods Warfare Fabric Reminders Naval Armament Maritime

Book:Great naval battles of the 20th century

Source: Great naval battles of the 20th century