Ship Handling Quotes & Sayings

As a traveller in some far wilderness might by chance pick up a handful of stones from the ground, examine them idly and then, with mounting excitement, first surmise, next think it probable and finally feel certain that they must be diamonds; or as a sea-captain, voyaging in distant waters, might round an unknown cape, busy himself for an hour with the handling of the ship and only then, and gradually, realize that he - he himself - must have sailed into none other than that undiscovered, fabled ocean known to his forbears by nothing but legend and rumour; so now, little by little, there stole upon this hunter the stupefying, all-but-incredible knowledge of what it must be that he had seen. — Richard Adams

My three-thousand mile walk through Ireland convinced me of one thing - the possibility of organising a proper movement for the independence of my native land. — James Stephens

If you always make the right decision, the safe decision,
the one most people make, you will be the same as everyone else. — Paul Arden

I Born as Human its blessing of GOD .But if you die as Human it will be My achievement — Mohammed Zaki Ansari

And when you're afraid of someone's judgment, you can't connect with them. You're too preoccupied with the task of impressing them. — Amanda Palmer

Looking desultorily about, his attention had been drawn by a dull glimmering on one of the tables; and he had extricated the queer orblike stone from its shadowy, crowded position between an ugly little Aztec idol, the fossil egg of a dinornis, and an obscene fetish of black wood from the Niger. — H.P. Lovecraft

Our Imperfections Are What Make Us Perfect. — Lace Vintage

He called at once to his companion Patroclus, shouting for him from the ship. Hearing the call in his hut, Patroclus equal of Ares came out; and that was the beginning of his end. — Homer

I don't know who had it out for me, but somebody did. — Jim McMahon

If I did not see that the Lord kept watch over the ship, I should long since have abandoned the helm. But I see Him! - through the storm, strengthening the tackling, handling the yards, spreading the sails - yes more, commanding the very winds! Should I not be a coward if I abandoned my post? Let Him govern, let Him carry us forward, let Him hasten or delay; we will fear nothing! — Martin Luther

I am now and have always been a stranger to the realm of practical matters. — Anton Chekhov

The ship's knowledge extended to navigation, to the handling of weather and awareness of necessary maintenance. — Robin Hobb

Which way did they go, Peeves?" Filch was saying. "Quick, tell me."
"Say 'please.'"
"Don't mess with me, Peeves, now where did they go?"
"Shan't say nothing if you don't say please," said Peeves in his annoying singsong voice.
"All right- PLEASE."
"NOTHING! Ha haaa! Told you I wouldn't say nothing if you didn't say please! Ha ha! Haaaaaa!" And they heard the sound of Peeves whooshing away and Filch cursing in rage. — J.K. Rowling

There is no such thing as a powerful prayer; we only have powerful people praying to a powerful God. — Chris Oyakhilome

If we could learn to live from the level of the soul, we would see that the best most luminous part of ourselves is connected to all the rhythms of the universe. We would truly know ourselves as the miracle-makers we are capable of being. — Deepak Chopra

When I turned 60, it didn't bother me at all. — Yoko Ono