Quotes About Seamanship

#1. Those who never sail stormy waters are the quickest and harshest judges of bad seamanship.

Susan Glaspell

#2. The best that science can devise and that naval organization can provide must be regarded only as an aid, and never as a substitute for good seamanship.

Chester W. Nimitz

#3. The world is in dreadful need of men who will assume the new leadership - who will have the courage of their own visions and who will recognise clearly that we are only at the beginning of the voyage, and have to learn an entirely new system of seamanship.

Hendrik Willem Van Loon

#4. There are no words to describe the pain of burying a child, and specifically there is no word to label their new, lifelong status. If you lose a spouse, you are a widow; if you lose a parent, you are an orphan. But what about when you lose a child? How do you name something you cannot comprehend?

Lisa Belkin

#5. One of the reasons there are so many terms for conditions of ice is that the mariners observing it were often trapped in it, and had nothing to do except look at it.

Alec Wilkinson

#6. There can be no meaning in what will someday be lost. Passing glory is not true glory at all.

Haruki Murakami

#7. My books are more about people experimenting with different identities and social models in a short-term way before they can break through to something authentic.

Chuck Palahniuk

#8. Waves of positivity and possibilities send tiny ripples of hope to wash away the walls of negativity.

Debasish Mridha

#9. The foundation of the Germanic system was blood and kin.

Winston S. Churchill

#10. God is the captain of our lives, sometimes He diverts our plans and our ideas, let Him do so because he will never let us do something daft.

Euginia Herlihy