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“A ship's engine far away on the water expands the summer-night horizon. Both joy and sorrow swell in the dew's magnifying glass. Without really knowing, we divine; our life has a sister ship, following quietly another route. While the sun blazes behind the islands.”

“It was mid-November 2008. There were pirates taking ships with impunity in African waters, terrorists punching holes in Indian security, China sinking towards depression because Americans were afraid to buy cheap goods for Christmas, and the richest nation in the history of the world was talking about how to keep a budget.”

World Nations Water Talking Security China Terrorist Holes Ships Indian Budgets Goods World History Pirate November Sinking Impunity Punching

Book:Known to Evil: A Leonid McGill Mystery

Source: Known to Evil: A Leonid McGill Mystery

“Avoid destructive thinking. Improper negative thoughts sink people. A ship can sail on water all around the world many, many times, but just let enough water get into the ship and it will sink. Just so with the human mind. Let enough negative thoughts or improper thoughts get into the human mind and the person sinks just like a ship.”

People Thinking World Mind Humans Persons Enough Water Justice Negative Ships Around The World Destructive Human Mind Sail Negative Thoughts

Author:Alfred Armand Montapert

“A great ship asks deep water.”

Asks Water Greatness Ships Deep Water

Book:The poetical works of George Herbert

Source: The poetical works of George Herbert

“Morn on the waters, and purple and bright Bursts on the billows the flushing of light O'er the glad waves, like a child of the sun, See the tall vessel goes gallantly on.”

Children Light Water Sun Wave Glad Ships Tall Purple Vessel Flushing

Book:The poetical sketch-book, including a 3rd ed. of Australia

Source: The poetical sketch-book, including a 3rd ed. of Australia

“If it had not been for the English I should have been emperor of the East, but wherever there is water to float a ship we are sure to find them in our way.”

Ifs Way Should Has Beens Water History Should Have East Ships Floats Should Have Been Emperor

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Only one ship is seeking us, a black-Sailed unfamiliar, towing at her backA huge and birdless silence. In her wakeNo waters breed or break.”

Black Water Silence Break Huge Seeking Ships Unfamiliar

Book:The Less Deceived

Source: The Less Deceived

“No attempt of any kind must be made at rescuing members of ships sunk, and this includes picking up persons in the water and putting them in lifeboats, righting capsized lifeboats, and handing over food and water. Rescue runs counter to the most primitive demands of warfare for the destruction of enemy ships and crews. Be hard, remember that the enemy has no regard for women and children when he bombs German cities.”

Kind Children Persons Made Hard Running Remember Water Cities Enemy Demand Members Destruction Regard Ships Bombs Rescue Primitive Warfare Crew Lifeboats Handing Over

Author:Karl Donitz

“The Navy's a very gentlemanly business. You fire at the horizon to sink a ship and then you pull people out of the water and say, 'Frightfully sorry, old chap.'”

People Water Fire Sorry Ships Horizon Navy Chaps Gentlemanly

Author:William Golding

“The Dunya is like the ocean and our heart is like the ship. If a ship allows the water to enter, it will sink. Just like when we allow the Dunya to enter our heart.”

Ifs Heart Water Ocean Ships Dunya

Author:Yasmin Mogahed

“Being on a ship is something like being pregnant. You can sit there and do absolutely nothing but stare at the water and have the nicest sense that you are accomplishing something.”

Water Ships Staring Pregnant Absolutely Nothing Being Pregnant Accomplishing Something

Book:Penny Candy

Source: Penny Candy

“A movie is kind of like being the captain of a ship, which is nice, but when I perform by myself it's just surfing on the water and nobody really knows what happens.”

Knows Kind Happens Water Nice Ships Captains Surfing

Author:Jerry Seinfeld

“Imagine a ship that is sinking and needs all the available power to run the pumps to drain out the rising waters. The first class passengers refuse to cooperate because they feel hot and want to use the air-conditioner and other electrical appliances. The second-class passengers spend all their time trying to be upgraded to first-class status. The boat sinks and the passengers all drown. That is where the present approach to climate change is leading.”

“All the earth is seamed with roads, and all the sea is furrowed with the tracks of ships, and over all the roads and all the waters a continuous stream of people passes up and down - traveling, as they say, for their pleasure. What is it, I wonder, that they go out to see?”

People Earth Water Pleasure Wonder Sea Travel Track Ships Streams Up And Down

Book:Safar Nameh: Persian Pictures

Source: Safar Nameh: Persian Pictures

“Ships feare fire more then water. [Ships fear fire more than water.]”

Water Fire Ships

Author:George Herbert

“I love moving water, I love ships, I love the sharp definition, the concentrated humanity, the sublime solitude of life at sea. The dangers of it only make present to us the peril inherent in all existence, which the stupid, ignorant, un-travelled land-worm never discovers; and the art of it, so mathematical, so exact, so rewarding to intelligence, appeals to courage and clears the mind of superstition, while filling it with humility and true religion.”

“Begin with loss and see how the world contradicts you, how the horizon implies that beyond it the water is not empty but full of ships all docking at another island.”

World Hope Water Loss Empty Ships Islands Horizon

Book:Oblique light

Source: Oblique light

“Christians should live in the world, but not be filled with it. A ship lives in the water; but if the water gets into the ship, she goes to the bottom. So Christians may live in the world; but if the world gets into them, they sink.”

Ifs World Should May Christian Water Filled Bottom Ships Worldliness

Author:Dwight L. Moody

“Why is almost every robust healthy boy with a robust healthy soul in him, at some time or other crazy to go to sea? Why upon your first voyage as a passenger, did you yourself feel such a mystical vibration, when first told that you and your ship were now out of sight of land? Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did the Greeks give it a separate deity, and own brother of Jove? Surely all this is not without meaning.”

Giving Feels Firsts Soul Water Boys Sea Crazy Land Brother Holy Healthy Sight Environmental Ships Greek Mystical Deities Vibrations Voyages Passengers Robust Healthy Soul

Book:Moby Dick

Source: Moby Dick

“Inanimate objects are sometimes parties to litigation. A ship has a legal personality, a fiction found useful for maritime purposes. The corporation sole - a creature of ecclesiastical law - is an acceptable adversary, and large fortunes ride on its cases... So it should be as respects valleys, alpine meadows, rivers, lakes, estuaries, beaches, ridges, groves of trees, swampland, or even air that feels the destructive pressures of modern technology and modern life.”

“There is no theory that would guide us through interplantary space to another world even if we could control our departure from the earth; there is no means of carrying the large amount oxygen, water, and food that would be necessary for such a long journey; and there is not known way of easing our ether ship down on the surface of another world, if we could get there.”

Ifs World Way Mean Long Would Be Earth Water Space Known Journey Theory Amount Surface Guides Ships Aviation Predictions Oxygen Departure Another World Long Journey

Author:Forest Ray Moulton

“More than 200 ships from 13 nations conducted over 10,000 flawless intercepts, which formed a steel wall around the waters leading to Iraq. And these operations continue today. Thanks to these superb efferts not one cargo hold, not one crate, not even one pallet of seaborne contraband even touched Saddam Hussein's shores. The result: Iraq lost 90% of its imports, 100% of its exports, and had its gross national product cut in half.”

War Today Lost Nations Water Results Half Cutting Products Wall Iraq Ships Thanks Operations Touched Shore Steel Saddam Gross Hussein Imports Superb Flawless Gulf War Cargo Pallets

Author:Norman Schwarzkopf

“I want to be like water. I want to slip through fingers, but hold up a ship.”

Want Water Fingers Ships Slips Deep Thought

Author:Michelle Williams

“Hence a ship is said to be tight, when her planks are so compact and solid as to prevent the entrance of the water in which she is immersed: and a cask is called tight, when the staves are so close that none of the liquid contained therein can issue through or between them.”

Said Water Issues Ships Liquid Entrances Compact

Book:An Universal Dictionary of the Marine: Or, A Copious Explanation of the Technical Terms and Phrases Employed in the Construction, Equipment, Furniture, Machinery, Movements, and Military Operations of a Ship

Source: An Universal Dictionary of the Marine: Or, A Copious Explanation of the Technical Terms and Phrases Employed in the Construction, Equipment, Furniture, Machinery, Movements, and Military Operations of a Ship

“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

“If you cause your ship to stop and place the head of a long tube in the water and place the outer extremity to your ear, you will hear ships at a great distance from you.”

Ifs Long Causes Water Ears Distance Ships Tubes Extremity

Author:Leonardo da Vinci