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“It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth . . . and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.”

Truth Lying Pleasure Sea Adventure Honor Battle Standing Window Errors Ships Wander Shore Castles Mist Tempest

Book:Complete Essays

Source: Complete Essays

“Hence a ship is said to head the sea, when her course is opposed to the setting or direction of the surges.”

Said Courses Sea Setting Ships Settings

Book:A New and Universal Dictionary of the Marine: Being, a Copious Explanation of the Technical Terms and Phrases Usually Employed in the Construction, Equipment, Machinery, Movements, and Military, as Well as Naval Operations of Ships: with Such Parts of Astronomy, and Navigation, as Will be Found Useful to Practical Navigators

Source: A New and Universal Dictionary of the Marine: Being, a Copious Explanation of the Technical Terms and Phrases Usually Employed in the Construction, Equipment, Machinery, Movements, and Military, as Well as Naval Operations of Ships: with Such Parts of Astronomy, and Navigation, as Will be Found Useful to Practical Navigators

“Give me a spirit that on this life's rough sea Loves t'have his sails filled with a lusty wind, Even till his sail-yards tremble, his masts crack, And his ship run on her side so low That she drinks water, and her keel plows air.”

Life Giving Running Spirit Sides Water Air Sea Wind Drink Lows Give Me Filled Ships This Life Rough Cracks Sail Yards Drink Water Masts Keel Rough Seas

Book:The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles Duke of Byron

Source: The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles Duke of Byron

“Once more upon the waters! yet once more! And the waves bound beneath me as a steed That knows his rider.”

Knows Water Sea Ocean Bounds Wave Ships Riders

Author:Lord Byron

“He rose and turned toward the lights of town. The tidepools bright as smelterpots among the dark rocks where the phosphorescent seacrabs clambered back. Passing through the salt grass he looked back. The horse had not moved. A ship's light winked in the swells. The colt stood against the horse with its head down and the horse was watching, out there past men's knowing, where the stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.”

Men Soul Light Past Stars Black Dark Knowing Sea Rocks Horse Towns Down And Moved Rose Passing Passings Ships Grass Salt Drowning Whales Passing Through Seamless Ferry Colts

Author:Cormac McCarthy

“I have vertigo. Vertigo makes it feel like the floor is pitching up and down. Things seem to be spinning. It's like standing on the deck of a ship in really high seas.”

Feels Seems Sea Standing Ships Up And Down Spinning Pitching Deck Vertigo High Seas

Author:Laura Hillenbrand

“When you want to build a ship, then do not drum the men together in order to procure wood, to give instructions or to distribute the work, but teach them longing for the wide endless sea.”

Men Want Giving Together Order Teach Sea He Man Longing Woods Wide Endless Ships Instruction Endless Sea

Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“Those who become enamoured of the art, without having previously applied to the diligent study of the scientific part of it, may be compared to mariners who put to the sea in a ship without rudder or compass and therefore cannot be certain of arriving at the wished for port.”

May Art Certain Study Sea Ships Compass Port Arriving Diligent Mariners Rudders

Book:A Treatise on Painting:

Source: A Treatise on Painting:

“Governments are the sails, the people the wind, the country is the ship and time is the sea.”

People Country Government Sea Wind Ships Sail

Author:Ludwig Borne

“When it comes to politics, one has to do as one at sea with a sailing ship, reach one's course having regard to prevailing winds.”

Courses Sea Wind Regard Ships Sailing Prevailing Sailing Ships

Author:William Lyon Mackenzie King

“There are only two options for a ship: Either to sail to the sea and fight with the waves or rot in a port! The same is valid for the man!”

Men Two Fighting Sea He Man Wave Ships Sail Port Two Options

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“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!”

Heart Sea Wind Angry Wave Ships Bulls Spoons Agitation

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“When you are playing an egomaniac running a fantastical ship, you don't want him to be too suburban. Naturalism doesn't work on the high seas.”

Want Running Sea Ships Want Him Naturalism Egomaniacs High Seas

Author:Geoffrey Rush

“The legislator is like the navigator of a ship on the high seas. He can steer the vessel on which he sails, but he cannot alter its construction, raise the wind, or stop the waves from swelling beneath his feet.”

Sea Feet Wind Raises Wave Ships Construction Sail Vessel Steers Legislators Swelling High Seas Navigators

Author:Alexis de Tocqueville

“When one is building a ship, one does not begin with gathering timber and cutting planks, but rather by arousing in people the yearning for the great wide sea.”

People Doe Cutting Sea Building Wide Ships Yearning Gathering Timber

Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“If you want to build a ship, teach the men to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”

Ifs Men Want Teach Sea He Man Endless Ships Endless Sea

Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“We are like sailors who have to rebuild their ship on the open sea, without ever being able to dismantle it in dry-dock and reconstruct it from the best components.”

Able Sea Ships Dry Components Sailor Docks

Author:Otto Neurath

“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.”

Song Half Sea Ships Broke Captains Wrecks

Author:Gordon Lightfoot

“Your ship was spotted off the coast this morning, slipping silently through the fog... coming around the cape she appeared in a shaft of sunlight... and what a sight to see! Glimmering as much as the ocean herself. Massive and beautiful beyond belief! Laden with treasures, happy times, friends, love, and laughter. Quick, you must PREPARE for her docking... you MUST make space in your life for her gifts... otherwise, just as quickly, she'll quietly slip back out to sea.”

Beautiful Belief Space Morning Sea Ocean Laughter Sight Treasure Ships Massive Slips Sunlight Coast Fog Slipping Capes Friend Love Happy Times Love And Laughter

Author:Mike Dooley

“There goes many a ship to sea, with many hundred souls in one ship, whose weal and woe is common, and is a true picture of a commonwealth or a human combination or society. It hath fallen out sometimes that Papists, Protestants, Jews, and Turks may be embarked in one ship; upon which supposal I affirm that all the liberty of conscience that ever I pleaded for turns upon these two hinges: that none of the Papists, Protestants, Jews, or Turks be forced to come to the ships prayers or worship, nor be compelled [restrained] from their own particular prayers or worship, if they practice any.”

Ifs Humans May Two Soul Sometimes Turns Prayer Common Liberty Practice Sea Particular Worship Hundred Conscience Jew Ships Combination Fallen Woe Compelled Protestants Commonwealth Hinges

Author:Roger Williams

“Oil platforms are a technology for floating permanently on the high seas, and cruise ships are a technology for self-governance on the high seas, and if you combine these two technologies, imagine cruise ships that never dock but float permanently. Imagine if they were 10 times as big. Imagine if they were modular and could move about and you could choose the neighbours you wanted to live with.”

Ifs Two Self Bigs Wanted Moving Technology Imagine Sea Oil Ships Platforms Floating Floats Governance Neighbour Cruise Docks Cruise Ships High Seas

Author:Joe Quirk

“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.”

“Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.”

Heaven Gone Sea Quiet Ships Tranquility Tranquillity Ships At Sea

Book:The works of Thomas Moore, comprehending all his melodies, ballads, etc

Source: The works of Thomas Moore, comprehending all his melodies, ballads, etc

“A ship is always referred to as 'she' because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.”

War Peace Sea Cost Paint Ships Sailing Navy Powder Nautical Yacht Sailing And The Sea Sailing Ships Ships At Sea Sailboat Seamen

Author:Chester W. Nimitz

“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

“If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”

People Ifs Want Inspirational Long Wisdom Dream Motivational Success Faith Peace Leadership Teach Creativity Sea Team Building Determination Tasks Innovation Longing Woods Endless Ships Teamwork Collaboration Cooperation Sail Bad Ass Follow Your Dreams Our Actions Visionaries Team Building Team Work Immensity Best Team Dreams You Have Sailing And The Sea Teamw Team Working Building A Team Cooperation Teamwork Aviator Cooperation And Teamwork Sailing Ships Visions And Dreams Ships At Sea Motivational Teamwork Innovation Inspiration Sea Life Sailors And The Sea Importance Of Teamwork Inspirational And Innovation Leadership Teamwork Leadership Vision Leadership And Vision Teamwork In Education Visionary Leaders Team Collaboration Cooperation And Collaboration Inspiration And Innovation Visionary Leadership Team Work Motivational Leading The Way Becoming A Leader Leading On Innovative Leadership Teamwork Athletic Endless Journey Endless Sea

Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“Anybody can pilot a ship when the sea is calm.”

Sea Quiet Calm Ships Pilots

Author:Navjot Singh Sidhu

“He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.”

“I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it is because in addition to the fact that the sea changes and the light changes, and ships change, it is because we all came from the sea. And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have, in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch it we are going back from whence we came.”

“Long ago, men went to sea, and women waited for them, standing on the edge of the water, scanning the horizon for the tiny ship. Now I wait for Henry. He vanishes unwillingly, without warning. I wait for him. Each moment that I wait feels like a year, an eternity. Each moment is as slow and transparent as glass. Through each moment I can see infinite moments lined up, waiting. Why has he gone where I cannot follow?”

Source: The Time Traveler's Wife

“When you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book.”

Source: Parnassus On Wheels