Ships Quotes - Page 13

When we speak of being vulnerable, it suggests being especially vulnerable to pain. People for whom personal dignity and self-sufficiency are everything, do all they can to shut it out. Noli mi tangere. They are well aware that any intimate relationship has pain in it, forces a special kind of awareness, is costly, and so they try to keep themselves unencumbered by shutting pain out as far as it is possible to do so.

When the storm brews and the waves swell, only an experienced captain can control the ship and save it.

What's one more torpedo in a sinking ship.

I always want to have a personal relationship with everybody that works for me.

A leader is the wave pushed ahead by the ship.

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.

The Socratic teacher turns his students away from himself and back onto themselves; he hides in paradoxes, makes himself inaccessible. The intimate relationship between student and teacher here is not one of submission, but of a contest for truth.

Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself.

The railroad originally was as completely dissociated from steam propulsion as was the ship

To send our troops, our ships, our planes to this war is ridiculous.

Barnacles on the container ship of consciousness.

If you have a crisis, whether on a ship or wherever, there are heroes who rise above it.

People who are incapable of having any kind of intimate relationship have to turn to feeling this incredible hunger and void, have to turn to some quantifiable external product to make them feel whole.

Cats ... are completely self-sufficient and can leave you at any time and go off and make a living. And yet cats can have warm and loving relationships with humans.

Gazzy: "Captain, like the captain of a ship. And then Terror, you know, T-E-R-O-R.

Most educators would continue to lecture on navigation while the ship is going down.

We're probably the opposite of the Osbournes. We run a very tight ship.

Parenthood has the power to redefine every aspect of life - marriage, work, relationships with family and friends. Those helpless bundles of power and promise that come into our world show us our true selves- who we are, who we are not, who we wish we could be.

The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.

We've got to have a deep, intimate relationship with the Father if we're going to lead like Jesus.

I'm like a ship captain: I have a woman in every port.

Jesus was a revolutionary, who did not become an extremist, since he did not offer an ideology, but Himself. He was also a mystic, who did not use his intimate relationship with God to avoid the social evils of his time, but shocked his milieu to the point of being executed as a rebel. In this sense he also remains for nuclear man the way to liberation and freedom.

You live by yourself for a stretch of time and you get to staring at different objects. Sometimes you talk to yourself. You take meals in crowded joints. You develop an intimate relationship with your used Subaru. You slowly but surely become a has-been.

To a crazy ship, all winds are contrary.

Directors are the captains of the ship, and it's your job as the lead actor to make sure that the rest of the cast understand that by doing whatever he says.