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Quotes About Ship

so the plan had been to get into the hostile ship through its lock and then run around getting shot and murdering my way through whoever was aboard until I could get control. (I hadn't used those exact words during the planning process with Indah and Aylen, but we all knew what we were talking about.)
~ Martha Wells
I had a plan, but it was mostly "keep the hostiles off the ship," which is not so much a plan as a statement of hopeful intent.
~ Martha Wells
I meant to wait until I was back up to at least 90 percent performance reliability but I heard Amena say, "There's no weapon, you got the wrong ship." The fear in her voice was more obvious and I was suddenly in the room. (Impulse control; I should try to write a code patch for that.)
~ Martha Wells
I came for the cause. Since I could not help, at least don't let me remember that I hindered it. I've learned how to manage on the ship; it will be nothing, after all this. Goodbye, Niko. You have made me a truer philosopher. Go with God.
~ Mary Renault
Hacía apenas unas horas, tenía a mi corazón por un navío capaz de romper las aguas de un océano enfurecido. Ya sabía que no era precisamente el más sólido del mundo, pero creía en el poder de mi entusiasmo.
~ Mathias Malzieu
Davvero potrei continuare a navigare per sempre attraverso la vita sentendomi così? Una nave alla fine si deve fermare. Deve raggiungere un porto, un riparo, una destinazione, nota o ignota. Deve arrivare da qualche parte e fermarsi lì, altrimenti qual è lo scopo di una nave?
~ Matt Haig
My heart Is a ship in the turbulent ocean defying the raging storm that they call love
~ Unknown
Don't be afraid of the storms; be afraid of the ship and the captain! Forget about the outside factors, what matters is the internal power!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Our heart is a port; allow every ship to come to the port; but let only the best one to anchor!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The Universe is a big ship and its captain is the Laws of Physics! The bad news is that there seems to be no safe harbour to dock and no lifeboats if we sink!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
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!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Though this gives a fleeting impression of them all being connected by wireless to the great mother ship of French aristocracy in the sky, the "antennae" are in fact meant to keep the park birds from landing and covering their regal heads in unsightly droppings.
~ Unknown
Taking control of a ship operated by those bumpy-headed savages
~ Unknown
According to tradition as well as certain early Church writers, Lazarus, the Magdalen, Martha, Joseph of Arimathea, and a few others were transported by ship to Marseilles.16
~ Unknown
After supper he went on to the poop once more, and I with him.
~ Unknown
I'd feel kind of like a rat abandoning ship." "Rats are intelligent mammals," he answered calmly, almost with amusement. "They will probably outlive us. Their society, at any rate, is a good deal more stable than ours.
~ Michel Houellebecq
WHEN daylight came to the forecabin, and percolated dimly through the sails covering the holes in the deck on to the dank jumble that lay higgledy-piggledy throughout the ship, we set about breakfast.
~ Unknown
And the tale of the Flying Dutchman is thought to be the story of a yellow-fever-infected ship repeatedly denied port until all on board perished of the fever, and the ship was forced to sail endlessly, manned by a ghost crew, delivering detriment to other seafaring vessels.
~ Unknown
With nine compartments flooded the ship would still float, and as no known accident of the sea could possibly fill this many, the steamship Titan was considered practically unsinkable.
~ Unknown
it. He did not tell her, of course, that Rowland had hailed from the berg as she lay unconscious, and that if he still had the child, it was with him there—deserted.
~ Unknown
See that ship? She made the Kessel Run in twelve parsecs!
~ Mur Lafferty
The equidistant sea and sky were divided for her by the line of gravity like an hour-glass, through which a ship wrapped in pink-mauve haze passed from one element to the other, coming down over the horizon
~ Nadine Gordimer
which I draw is European. Even the form in which I write is European. Arguably, one of the most familiar memes of science fiction is that of going to foreign countries and colonizing the natives, and as I've said elsewhere, for many of us, that's not a thrilling adventure story; it's non-fiction, and we are on the wrong side of the strange-looking ship that appears out of nowhere.
~ Nalo Hopkinson
Wherever wood can swim, there I am sure to find this flag of England.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte