Best Torpedoes Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Many risks fail because they were not taken in time. Too many risks are postponed until unnecessarily elaborate preparations are made. This does not mean that one should say, Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead! That is foolish and self-destructive. . . . But don't sit back waiting for the perfect moment. It almost never comes.”

Inspirational Should Mean Doe Made Self Moments Motivational Waiting Perfect Taken Failing Risk Speed Foolish Preparation Damn Destructive Self Destructive Perfect Moments Torpedoes

Author:David Viscott

“The greatest missile in the world is useless ... unless it's targeted. A torpedo is adrift unless it has someplace to go. An arrow is pointless unless it hits something. So it's important for kids--for everyone, even if you fail at first--to target something and head in that direction. With all your might.”

Ifs World Firsts Important Might Kids Failing Useless Target Arrows Pointless Missiles Adrift Torpedoes

Author:Tim Allen

“The head of dullness, unlike the tail of the torpedo, loses nothing of the benumbing and lethargizing influence by reiterated discharges.”

Loses Influence Tails Discharge Dullness Torpedoes

Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“In brief, we who write are all in the same boat, as if we are survivors of torpedoes, and we hope to reach the shores of thought with strength for more activity.”

Ifs Writing Activity Boat Survivor Shore Torpedoes

Book:A Woman Making History: Mary Ritter Beard Through Her Letters

Source: A Woman Making History: Mary Ritter Beard Through Her Letters

“If the submarines, the aerial torpedoes, the poison gas, the liquid fire, the long-distance guns, the hand grenades, the trench mortars, and all the other things injure without killing them, they are sent back again and again after being patched up until they are killed.”

Ifs Long War Hands Fire Gun Distance Killing Poison Gas Again And Again Liquid Back Again Long Distance Trenches Submarines Grenade Mortar Poison Gas Torpedoes

Author:Evadne Price

“Purpose! Purposes are for animals with a hell of a lot more dignity than the human race! Just hop on that strange torpedo and ride it to wherever it's going.”

Humans Purpose Animal Race Hell Strange Dignity Human Race Hops Torpedoes

Book:Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Source: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

“In the past I've had public feuds with people, and I have really not benefited from any of them. The feud with Eminem did kind of torpedo my career in the United States, but it also introduced me to Middle America in a way I never could have conceived of.”

People Way Kind States America Past United Careers United States Middle Feuds Middle America Torpedoes

Author:Moby

“To me, nudity is a joke. I don't think nude people are very attractive at all. I like my women fully clothed. I like to imagine what might be under there. It might not be the standard thing. Imagine, stripping a woman down, and she has a body like a little submarine. With periscope, propellers, torpedoes. That would be the one for me. I'd marry her right off and be faithful to the end.”

People Thinking Littles Ends Body Might Would Be Imagine Standards Jokes Down And Faithful Attractive Nudity Being Faithful Stripping Submarines One For Me Torpedoes Propeller

Author:Charles Bukowski

“Other men puffed, snorted, and splashed. George passed through the ocean with the silent dignity of a torpedo. Other men swallowed water, here a mouthful, there a pint, anon, maybe, a quart or so, and returned to the shore like foundering derelicts. George's mouth had all the exclusiveness of a fashionable club. His breast stroke was a thing to see and wonder at. When he did the crawl, strong men gasped. When he swam on his back, you felt that that was the only possible method of progression.”

Men Strong Felt Water Wonder Ocean Mouths Dignity Method Silent Clubs Breasts Shore Strokes Fashionable Progression Strong Man Pints Anon Derelict Torpedoes

Author:P. G. Wodehouse

“Indeed, ask every man separately whether he thinks it laudable and worthy of a man of this age to hold a position from which he receives a salary disproportionate to his work; to take from the people--often in poverty--taxes to be spent on constructing cannon, torpedoes, and other instruments of butchery, so as to make war on people with whom we wish to be at peace, and who feel the same wish in regard to us; or to receive a salary for devoting one's whole life to constructing these instruments of butchery, or to preparing oneself and others for the work of murder.”

People Thinking Men Feels War Whole Age Asks Wish Poverty Position Taxes Murder Regard Instruments Oneself Worthy Whole Life Every Man Preparing Salary Cannons Butchery Torpedoes

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“What's one more torpedo in a sinking ship.”

Football Ships Nfl Sinking Torpedoes

Author:Lynn Dickey

“We must ride this strange torpedo out until the end.”

Life Ends Strange Torpedoes

Author:Hunter S. Thompson

“**** the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!”

“For me, it's a bigger challenge, it's much harder to do and much more rewarding to do well, then just to think up stuff of your own, hit or miss, because you've got to see to it that you don't torpedo any of his punch lines.”

Thinking Wells Stuff Challenges Lines Missing Bigger Harder Missing You Torpedoes

Author:Humphrey Lyttelton

“What do I advise? Forget it all. Don't be afraid. Do what you get the most pleasure from. Is it to build a cloud chamber? Then go on doing things like that. Develop your talents wherever they may lead. Damn the torpedoes - full speed ahead!If you have any talent,or any occupation that delights you,do it, and do it to the hilt”

Ifs May Forget Pleasure Talent Goes On Clouds Delight Speed Damn Occupation Chamber Forget It Advise Torpedoes

Author:Richard P. Feynman

“One will never get any more than he thinks he can get. YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES. Look back and see your progress - damn the torpedo, full speed ahead!”

Thinking Looks Progress Speed Damn Mma Torpedoes

Book:Bruce Lee: Letters of the Dragon: An Anthology of Bruce Lee's Correspondence with Family, Friends, and Fans 1958-1973

Source: Bruce Lee: Letters of the Dragon: An Anthology of Bruce Lee's Correspondence with Family, Friends, and Fans 1958-1973

“Be it whim or emergency, the modern laboratory is equally at the service of romance, equally ready to gratify mankind with a torpedo or a toy.”

Romance Modern Mankind Ready Toys Emergencies Laboratory Whim Torpedoes

Book:Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays

Source: Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays

“Isn't a policy of conventional weapons, with the terrible bombs raining down, with the missiles, with the aircraft, with the submarines, with the torpedoes, with the tanks, with chemical weapons - isn't that based on the possibility of threat?”

War Policy Possibility Cold Terrible Weapons Rain Threat Bombs Chemicals Conventional Cold War Tanks Missiles Aircraft Submarines Chemical Weapons Torpedoes

Author:Margaret Thatcher

“The true art of being young is knowing how to defy gravity and upset as many people as possible while doing it. How to penetrate the great secrets of the universe and damn the torpedoes. How to stir the demons of our destiny.”

People Art Young Universe Secret Destiny Knowing Damn Upset Demon Gravity Our Destiny Penetrate Torpedoes

Author:Mick Rock