Five thousand balloons, capable of raising two men each, could not cost more than five ships of the line; and where is the prince who can afford so to cover his country with troops for its defense as that 10,000 men descending from the clouds might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief before a force could be brought together to repel them?
Benjamin Franklin
130 quotes about ships follow in order of popularity. Be sure to bookmark and share your favorites!
The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.
Douglas Adams
I'm always nervous when I go to new ships. I'm it. There is no one else to go to for advice. However, I feel confident that I am prepared.
William Campbell
The Independence and other ships entered the Columbia River and we docked in Portland, Ore.. What a welcome that city gave us.
Thomas Cosgrove
Increasingly, niche cruises are becoming more popular. Ships are evolving. They used to be a way for people to get from A to Z. Now they're becoming destinations themselves.
Ralph Cooper
If we don't dredge every year, the cruise ships won't be able to tie up.
Jim Larson
Imagine hoisting a sail and being out there in space. It's a beautiful idea, and it conjures up the idea of the great sailing ships and whole notion of exploration.
Louis Friedman
Nineteen ships is not a whole lot of ships. Look at how quickly and efficiently these ports were able to redeploy and get that queue down.
Dr. John Martin
Several ships have (the outbreaks), but it's not a cruise ship problem. It's a people problem.
Dave Forney
When you get one that hasn't been refurbished, you will see worn spots on the furniture. That's disgusting. And newer ships are better designed and better thought out.
Laura Schraw
We will not allow ships to enter the ports and they should to their own country.
Fadel Muhammad
We've tracked shipments from farms that break the law to various silos and various ships into Liverpool and then followed the trucks to companies that produce chickens for McDonald's .
Gavin Edwards
There's strength in the IT department, which his son developed, so people know where their ships are all the time. It's become a logistics company. It's one of the biggest shipping employers in Fairfield County.
Jim Lawrence
Where are we going to find another 30 to 60 ships?
Chris Mennis
Live oak in the age of wooden ships was the best available ship timber; it is strong and dense and more importantly it grows in gentle curves that are almost analogous to the frames in a ship's structure. So it's really excellent material for shipbuilding.
Quentin Snediker
I am convinced, ... that if we get larger and larger ships in the industry, it will actually filter off a lot of passengers into the niche market ships of 100 to 200 passengers in the years to come.
Douglas Ward
In budget-strapped times, it is more cost effective to add a new generation of dogfight missiles to an older aircraft than to buy a new aircraft. Likewise, ships and many other weapons categories. Missiles offer to increase the combat capabilities of many weapons platforms without the need for the expense of replacing the system itself.
Steve Zaloga
It was a great experience for a kid, because it was a bunch of kids playing on pirate ships and water slides, so looking back on it, it was the fondest experience of my childhood.
Corey Feldman
A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.
Grace Murray Hopper
Eighteen months out we have to go to developers and talk to them about the platform, talk to them about the tools and the architecture so that when the product ships there are amazing games available.
Robbie Bach
The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.
Amelia E. Barr
More ships dock at the Port of Dubai than at any other port outside the U.S..
Dan Griswold
When President Bush's father was in office, an almost identical scenario faced the United States. There was fighting by rebel forces trying to overthrow then-President Samuel Doe. U.S. ships were off the coast of Monrovia, they were evacuating Americans and Europeans, but refusing to intervene with a humanitarian force aimed at making peace.
Salih Booker
Well, I'm sure it's slightly less romantic for people who were out (on ships). (18th-century English diarist) Samuel Johnson said going to sea is like going to prison.
David Caruthers
We are fully aware of Capt. Atkins' exploits and he certainly is a Navy hero, ... And he is one of many Navy heroes who would be considered in the future naming of ships.
Jack Green
Egyptians even sailed to Lebanon to gather cedar for building their ships. The resin in this wood was thought to prevent damage, but it obviously didn't work very well.
Cheryl Ward
President (Hosni) Mubarak wants an immediate probe into the causes of the accident of the Al-Salam 98 ferry and guarantees that other similar ships comply with safety regulations.
Suleiman Awad
Obviously we're very excited about this. When the ship's here, there's man-hours involved.
John Philbrook
One sticking point is their stance on nuclear power. They have a policy that they won't allow any nuclear-powered ships into their territorial waters.
Terry Pope
Our equipment carries supplies to the Persian Gulf and then it's on other ships into Iraq. That's a common practice in the shipping industry. I'm not aware that we have people on the ground in Iraq.
Mike Zampa
Right now as we speak, there are probably four vessels brought in by different companies that KPC has locked out in the high seas, and the ships are accruing demurrage of over $100,000 (Sh7 million) per day.
Jacob Segman
We don't feel we are putting that roadway in any significant danger at all and don't feel that this has any significant impact on the city of Eastport in any way other than the visual impact of seeing the ships go by.
Brian Smith
It's unclear on which ship (Hickok) died. There were seamen who were killed on shore, in attacks, or he could have been between ships.
Larry Greer
A ship in harbor is safe--- but that is not what ships are for.
John A. Shedd
Still have a (quick reaction force) mission, but we can react quicker from the ships.
Thomas Collins
A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment; and even obstacles and opposition will but make us 'like the fabled specter-ships,' which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It appears to have been caused by an IED that was left near or on top of the counter of the ship's canteen.
Buenaventura Pascual
FLAG, n. A colored rag borne above troops and hoisted on forts and ships. It appears to serve the same purpose as certain signs that one sees and vacant lots in London -- 'Rubbish may be shot here.'
Ambrose Bierce
Most refineries are being planned or built quite far from consuming regions. The eight ships we have now give us a good foundation to expand further.
Billy Chiu
Truck drivers were hard to find before. That's a very vulnerable area now. Without trucks there are no ships. Without ships there are no jobs.
Gary Lagrange
These sorts of ships are famous for having stability problems. We can't rule out anything at this stage.
David Osler
There was gridlock in the South Florida ports. You can't keep building ships and still have enough space.
Brian Major
They were there as long as they were needed to be there. There's no sense for them to be there if there's no requirement for the ships to be down south.
Mike Bonin
We have sent most of our ships to sea and are refueling in only very selected ports and with the use of tankers at sea because we are still not confident that we have complete ability to protect those ships in situations like this, ... By moving them out to sea, we do achieve that higher degree of the protection.
Richard Danzig
All those buildings you see out there are made of steel and concrete and glass and all of it was brought over by cargo ships.
David Bryant
We seem to be paying a heck of a lot of money for these ships. I'm trying to determine if this is a wise use of resources.
Henry A. Waxman
I'm worried about Turkey because there's a deadline for them to lift restrictions on Cypriot ships going into their ports. This will come to a head and cause an incident.
Katinka Barysch
We are quite disappointed at the unprofessional and dangerous acts of the ships. The company is preparing to file a lawsuit against the ships' operators because they not only brought danger to Odyssey, but to their own ships. The company will file a lawsuit against the crew members too since they violated a lot of maritime affairs rules.
Greg Stemm
Silicon Carbide-based semiconductors will play an important role in future Navy all-electric ships and vehicles as well as many advanced weapons systems.
Colin Wood
If you were to go back 20 years ago, the ships were trans-Atlantic liners, and people thought they'd be bored or confined on the ship.
Princess Cruises
There are more ships floating around the Caribbean than any other place in the world.
Steve Loucks
Imagine when Plymouth had a working waterfront with all the bustle and energy and stench that comes with it. But as the ships became bigger, they couldn't fit in Plymouth Harbor. They passed by to go to the cordage company in North Plymouth, but they no longer came here.
Peggy Baker
They will have time to burn for the record. They will be rocket ships. The record will go. They could take between three to six hours off it.
Roger Badham
It captures a sense of what extraordinary history this has through the old ships, the tall ships. At the same time it emphasizes the extraordinary present-day relevance of naval power. Seventy percent of the globe is water, and we're able to operate from the sea everywhere. The Navy really is everywhere for America.
Richard Danzig
Has anybody seen my Mopser? - / A comely dog is he, / With hair the colour of a Charles the Fifth, / And teeth like ships at sea.
Walter De La Mare
Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
Guy De Maupassant
My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.
Malcolm Bradbury
This is just the first beta that we have. We have more betas coming. Our delivery timeframe hasn't changed. It will still be in beta when Windows Vista ships.
Quentin Clark
People like Mehta and Gandhi can bring changes in the thinking of the people who are deciding the ship's fate.
Vivek Sharma
Having multimodal access is important because shippers want to immediately move product off ships to rail via hopper or tank car. There is also growing consideration -- given fuel costs, capacity issues, and emissions concerns -- for offloading product to barge for all-water movement elsewhere.
Jay Baird
They look like river ships, but scaled up.
Cheryl Ward
The bridge is not the essential limiting factor of the port. It?s not ?take down the bridge and cruise ships will come,? but finding out whether or not they want to come to Portsmouth at all.
George Bald
Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war . . .
Aristophanes
It was awesome, and it is something that I have been working toward for 19 years. It is an unbelievable honor. There are less than 300 ships in the Navy, and to be in charge of one of those few is a privilege.
William Campbell
[Either way,] someone has to get all that stuff to where it's going, ... It's already mind-boggling what that company ships in a day and it's only going to get bigger.
Alex Brand
Arlington was originally a logging town. Ships used to come up the river and float logs down, back in the day.
Tom Cooper
We were on deck and all tossed our hats up in the air with joy. Some went overboard. Ship's horns blared in the harbor at Guam where we were. Then the officer of the day came on the ship's intercom and ordered no more throwing of hats, ... There was no more celebrating.
Russell Collins
These will be the largest container ships to call Tampa by far.
John Thorington
I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep / Beyond the village which men still call Tyre.
James Elroy Flecker
Normal levels would be having two ships in the middle of the summer. I think we've got some hard work to do in finding alternate means.
David Hahn
I think there is going to be a lot more because of the storms. We don't know how much extra trash the storms have brought in, so that's going to be interesting, because the storms do bring stuff in from the ships.
Linda Wagner
Our ships, God be thanked, have received little hurt.
John Hawkins
Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.
Charles Simic
The windjammers tall ships from around the world whose very presence bespeaks man's centuries-old struggle against the inexorabilities of the sea.
Deirdre Carmody
Cost estimates are more reliable for ships you've been building for a long time.
Ronald O'rourke
Our nation needs the right tools to mitigate risk, and this means prudent investment in security systems, ... I have several ships that are old enough to collect Social Security.
Thomas Collins
We are confident that our ship's medical staff will be exonerated.
Consumer Reports
Good evening Mr and Mrs America, from border to border and coast to coast and all the ships at sea. Let's go to press.
Walter Winchell
Ours is a very diversified fund ranging from small ticket items like office equipment to big ticket items like ships and airplanes. We've pooled into the same fund to get the maximum diversification.
Allen Hirsch
We have excellent security practices on board the ships that screen out anything you don't want on board.
Michael Crye
EXILE, n. One who serves his country by residing abroad, yet is not an ambassador. An English sea-captain being asked if he had read 'The Exile of Erin,' replied: 'No, sir, but I should like to anchor on it.' Years afterwards, when he had been hanged as a pirate after a career of unparalleled atrocities, the following memorandum was found in the ship's log that he had kept at the time of his .
Ambrose Bierce
We initiated the Green Flag program this year. We want fleet operators like Westwood Shipping to join in helping us reduce air emissions from ships in Port.
Don Snyder
The Catalogue of Ships in the second book of Homer's Iliad names the places in Greece that committed ships and troops to the siege of Troy.
David Hill
With all the uncertainty, you were the right person for the job. The ship's been righted. I'd like to say, 'No, we're not going to accept your resignation.' I guess that's not possible.
Andrew Taylor
This operation was a coordinated, nationwide attempt to root out bribery, kickbacks and fraud in the repair and maintenance of Navy supply ships in the maritime industry.
James Robinson
The boycott is effective from April 6 until the visas are revoked. We also asked all port workers across Indonesia to refuse to unload goods from Australia-flagged ships.
Amirudin Saud
There is something Canada can do because the ships would have to travel through internal Canadian waters and if the government of Canada says 'no' to the transport of those tankers through those waters, the project would not go ahead.
Greg Thompson
It is worth more than food and drink, tobacco, insurance, ships and aircraft.
Drummond Bone
When 'SimCity' came out, most games were really action-oriented. They were modeled on the arcade counterparts, which were mostly shooting games with space ships and things like that. But 'SimCity' was definitely in a class by itself.
John Marrin
When you consider the number of passengers on board these ships that run into the millions, cruising has never been safer than it is right now. Sixty percent of our business is cruise business.
David Reid
Around the end of January 2006 we shall send a group of ships from our Black Sea fleet to take part.
Sergei Ivanov
As we understand it, the U.S. Navy's basic policy is to deploy nuclear-powered ships from now on, ... We feel that this (decision) cannot be helped.
Hiroyuki Hosoda
What we know today is that children all over America have the right to learn-whether their ancestors came to America on slave ships or the Mayflower.
Mark Pryor
The president will then review the rows of anchored ships and a mobile column of smaller ships and submarines.
Rear Admiral Pradeep Chauhan
We were looking for an old square-rigger. There were a couple of other ships around, but nothing of that caliber. It worked out great.
Matt O'connor
We train for all kinds of emergencies on cruise ships so we are prepared for anything.
Deborah Natansohn
We're adamantly fighting any attempt to transfer pollution from North to South, from rich to poor. These ships are moving precisely because the environmental and labor costs in developing countries are much less than they are in the developed countries.
Jim Puckett
A hell of a lot of ships that were hugging the shore going south ... were lost right along the beach.
Ray Mcallister
Pirates who were hired by many countries, especially in times of war, were businessmen and capitalists of every background searching for a profit in the Atlantic Ocean. Governments armed pirates' ships and directed the pirates to attack ships of other warring countries. America even hired its own pirates to disrupt British trade ships during the War of Independence.
Frank Lambert
HARBOR, n. A place where ships taking shelter from stores are exposed to the fury of the customs.
Ambrose Bierce
How is it that Pizarro and Cortes reached the New World at all, before Aztec and Inca conquistadors could reach Europe? That outcome depended partly on technology in the form of oceangoing ships. Europeans had such ships, while the Aztecs and Incas did not.
Jared Diamond
Ellis Island is for the people who came over on ships. My people came in chains.
David N. Dinkins
We have only just several ships that can really sail and some subs that can go out, but the really operational part of the navy is only a small fraction of the entire inventory that they have.
Pavel Felgengauer
The horns came riding in like the rainbow masts of silver ships.
Peter S. Beagle
It was one of those experiences where you get a great perspective on how things operate in the department of defense, like how ships are purchased, and such. It was a lot of hard work and long hours, but it was an amazing educational opportunity.
William Campbell
The departure of the ships marks another step forward in the region's recovery. In the fall, the cruise ships will return with tourists who will help boost the local economy and help the great city of New Orleans continue to rebuild.
Gil Jamieson
If the Navy experiences difficulties in one or more of these areas, the number of ships procured in coming years may fall short of the quantities shown in the Navy's shipbuilding plan, and future force levels may be lower than the Navy projects.
Ronald O'rourke
On the big ships, you've got a casino, musical shows, organized activities and games. But on this ship, if you want somebody to entertain you, it ain't going to happen.
Dave Moreland
Troops, both regulars and reserves, are already over-stretched. Cutting the number of boots on the ground, ships or aircraft, are not sensible options.
Bruce George
I was raised in a different era: Loose lips sink ships. I've learned to be quiet about (the draft process). I try not to talk about it.
Bill Polian
Back then forecasters didn't have satellites or even land-based radar. All they had were ships at sea.
Chris Landsea
Now is not the time to close bases, ... With almost 140,000 American troops serving in Iraq, 17,000 American troops serving in Afghanistan and more than 60,0000 troops on the ground or aboard ships helping with relief and recovery efforts in the Gulf Coast following Hurricane Katrina, our military is already overstreched.
Harold Ford
The natural sounds that exist -- ice and rainstorms and earthquakes. And also the sounds of human activity -- the noise of ships of all kinds.
Billy Spitzer
The Grand Princess is going to have the first wedding chapel at sea where the captain can actually marry you and you can have your reception on board. The choices on board these ships are second-to-none, and I would challenge any resort vacation to deliver the type of vacations that these new grand-class ships are going to deliver.
Rick James
NASSCO has hired and trained hundreds of employees to build this class of ships, and this award will provide sustained employment for approximately 1,000 skilled NASSCO employees through 2009.
Fred Harris
It didn't originate from multiple ships, it originated from one ship. It looks that we may be leaning towards the traditional bilge oils that impacted these birds or impacted these shores.
Terry Harvey
The French state with its Clemenceau has 55 other ships that are waiting to be dismantled. The UK has 40. And we know that in the U.S. there are 600 ships waiting to be dismantled. All of them are government ships, full of asbestos, PCPs and all this other stuff.
Martin Besieux
We have more cargo coming in than last year, largely because of the end of textile and apparel quotas, but it's flowing much more smoothly from the ships to the stores than we saw in 2004.
Erik Autor
The supply situation was very spotty. We got them (parts) off the ships, but to get them out of the dock area was not an easy undertaking.
Fred Miller
It takes time, it takes manpower, it takes aircraft, ships, to verify this. That's why we are calling on all citizens to help the government, to help the military, to help the police in providing information.
Edilberto Adan
We're probably doing 60 percent as many ships as we had been before the storm.
Jared Peterson
Even radar was unheard of when I first went into the service. Then suddenly, they started putting bedsprings up on the tops of ships.
Ernest Borgnine
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