Ships Quotes - Page 2

The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder.

When I'm a ship tossed around on the waves, Up on a highwire that's ready to break. When I've had just about all I can take, baby you save me

And the wind plays on those great sonorous harps, the shrouds and masts of ships.

Nobody had ever instructed him that a slave-ship, with a procession of expectant sharks in its wake, is a missionary institution, by which closely-packed heathen are brought over to enjoy the light of the Gospel.

Whenever anyone grows tired of the secondhand sort of existence that depends on purchased products, and wants to resume the intimate relationship with nature that man once enjoyed, the kukui-nut stands ready to furnish him with food, flavor, tannin, oil, paint, varnish, medicine, and magic.

Without the Spirit of God, we can do nothing. We are as ships without wind. We are useless.

My wife is a sex object - every time I ask for sex, she objects.

I have short goals - to get better every day, to help my teammates every day - but my only ultimate goal is to win an NBA championship. It's all that matters. I dream about it. I dream about it all the time, how it would look, how it would feel. It would be so amazing.

Human love, human trust, are always perilous, because they break down. The greater the love, the greater the trust, and the greater the peril, the greater the disaster. Because to place absolute trust on another human being is in itself a disaster, both ways, since each human being is a ship that must sail its own course, even if it go in company with another ship.... And yet, love is the greatest thing between human beings.

The result of the voyage does not depend on the speed of the ship, but on whether or not it keeps a true course.

The most important relationship is the mind's relationship with itself. In other words, the ultimate - and, really, the only - relationship you have is the relationship with your own thoughts.

In terms of the spaceship Earth, the wrong crew is in command, and it’s time for a mutiny.

A fleet of British ships at war are the best negotiators.

Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone.

Science Fiction is not just about the future of space ships travelling to other planets, it is fiction based on science and I am using science as my basis for my fiction, but it's the science of prehistory - palaeontology and archaeology - rather than astronomy or physics.

The truth about intimate relationships is that they can never be any better than our relationship with ourselves.

Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?

Relationships end, but they don't end your life.

All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.

Above all else, we seek connection - with parts of ourselves that we have repressed, with other people, and with the larger universe. We cannot experience life in its fullness unless we have an intimate relationship with another human being and, beyond that, a feeling of connection with the world around us.

It's easy to grin when your ship comes in and you've got the stock market beat. But the man worthwhile is the man who can smile when his shorts are too tight in the seat.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few.

We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.

It's different as a coach because you feel responsible for a lot of people. Even though you don't take a shot, you don't get a rebound, you feel like you just want people to succeed and you want to help them any way you can.

I'm pleased that they performed as well as they did while we've been in Miami and that's about as far as it goes. Now, we've got to go home and play as well or better.