Shipbuilding Industry Quotes & Sayings

I never met a color I didn't like. — Dale Chihuly

By 1957, a mere eleven years after its devastation, Japan not only had the most modern steel mills in the world but was the foremost steel producer in the world. But that was just the beginning: In the decade following 1957, Japanese steel production grew by 170 percent - while the American steel industry grew only 20 percent. The American steel industry, believing itself invulnerable, was headed by a complacent and insular management which was slow to bring in modern technology and which, even as the challenger grew more proficient, locked the industry into ever costlier labor agreements. By 1964, 28 percent of Japan's steel exports was going to America. In Japan, a thrust in shipbuilding followed closely upon the success in steel; by 1956 Japan had replaced Britain as the world's leading shipbuilding nation. — David Halberstam

It doesn't matter where you've been, only where you are going. — L.M. Fields

There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion. — Yves Saint-Laurent

Anybody who thinks that they are a leader and doesn't have anyone following them is just out for a walk. — John C. Maxwell

I wear the chains I forged in life. — Charles Dickens

It is good that a man's enemies want him dead, for it proves he has lived a life of worth. — Forrest Carter

Steel is the nation, went a Japanese saying. If the nation had a strong steel industry, then it would have a strong shipbuilding industry, and it would be a powerful, respectable nation again. Thus the efforts in the postwar years centered first and foremost on steel. The recovery did not come easily. At the end of the war only three of the nation's thirty-five blast furnaces were in operation, the others closed down as much from lack of raw material as from American bombs. The nation was poor, hard currency was limited, but the government poured much of its treasure into steel. By 1949 Japan had reached its prewar steel-production figures. — David Halberstam

Maybe I was just flirting with madness the way I flirted with my teachers and my classmates. — Susanna Kaysen

Live, Love and Die in Glory', meaning live and love like it's your last time and if your going down, take as many douchebags with you as possible. And I'm not talking about Demons. Archangels just replaced demons at the top of the 'douchebags' list. — Ednah Walters

Miracles focused gospel teaches us to be selfish and egocentric. — Sunday Adelaja

If I had known what it meant to love, I wouldn't have had children, because once we love, we love forever, like Uncle Two's wife, Step-aunt Two, who can't stop loving her gambler son, the son who is burning up the family fortune like a pyromaniac. — Kim Thuy

We still feel that color is hard on the eyes for so long a picture. — Frank Nugent

Lies come from fear, from cowardice. — Jenny Sanford

Central to everything I am and believe and have written is my astonishment, naive as it seems to people, that you can use human speech both to bless, to love, to build, to forgive and also to torture, to hate, to destroy and to annihilate. — George Steiner