Shipowners Association Quotes & Sayings

The road recedes as the traveler advances, leaving a continuous present. — Richard Le Gallienne

It is to be regretted that no mental method of daguerreotype or photography has yet been discovered by which the characters of men can be reduced to writing and put into grammatical language with an unerring precision of truthful description. How often does the novelist feel, ay, and the historian also and the biographer, that he has conceived within his mind and accurately depicted on the tablet of his brain the full character and personage of man, and that nevertheless, when he flies to pen and ink to perpetuate the portrait, his words forsake, elude, disappoint, and play the deuce with him, till at the end of a dozen pages the man described has no more resemblance to the man conceived than the signboard at the coner of the street has to the Duke of Cambridge? — Anthony Trollope

What is the society we wish to protect? Is it the society of complete surveillance for the commonwealth? Is this the wealth we seek to have in common - optimal security at the cost of maximal surveillance? — Tom Stoppard

I'm not against the intergenerational function of the museum, I am not against its address or celebration of the individual, but I am against its continuous, unreflected-on celebration of material production. — Tino Sehgal

People who seek political power are, with exceptions too rare to matter, never to be trusted; at best, such people are vain and officious busybodies. People who actually achieve political power are to be trusted even less than those who seek it without success; winning elections requires a measure of deceitfulness and Machiavellian immorality that no decent person comes close to possessing. — Donald J. Boudreaux

Whatsoever is done in charity, however small and of no reputation it be, bringeth forth good fruit. — Thomas A Kempis

I've always approached acting from a passion point of view. It's what I love to do. The fact that you get paid is just a bonus — Katheryn Winnick

The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame. — Gertrude Stein

I don't understand why people say that I am full of courage. I feel terribly nervous. — Aung San Suu Kyi

Dirk Nowitzki has been my hero for many years. — Flula Borg