Quotes About Steamships

#1. steamships insult the dignity of distance,

Alexander McCall Smith

#2. A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership.

John Updike

#3. In time of war steamships and improved arms are the most important things.

Townsend Harris

#4. I'm a photographer and retoucher from Sweden. I use photography as a way of collecting material to realize the ideas in my mind.

Erik Johansson

#5. A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.

John Dryden

#6. I'm not coming over anymore if Alice is going to treat me like Guinea Pig Barbie when I do, I griped.

Stephenie Meyer

#7. Whether it's steamships disrupted by the railroads or railroads disrupted by the airlines, it's typically the large entrenched incumbents that are displaced by innovators.

Peter Diamandis

#8. Since the invention of steamships distant countries have become like those that are near at hand.

Townsend Harris

#9. Force does not necessarily have to be cruel; it is strongest when it does not take advantage of its power, and is kindly.

Vicente Blasco Ibanez

#10. As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know anything of the origin of steamships and railways.

Alfred Russel Wallace

#11. The truth? What the Hell is the truth? We're born, we live and we die. Everything else is just shades of opinion.

David Gemmell

#12. Bourgeois existence is the regime of private affairs ... and the family is the rotten, dismal edifice in whose closets and crannies the most ignominious instincts are deposited. Mundane life proclaims the total subjugation of eroticism to privacy.

Walter Benjamin

#13. Age steals away all things, even the mind.

Virgil

#14. Your heart can only take you so far - sometimes the physical body tells you otherwise.

Abby Wambach

#15. Truth from the mouth of an honest man and severity from a good-natured man have a double effect.

William Hazlitt

#16. Life Lesson 8: Change is always hard, but time softens the rough edges and eases the pull of the past. Eventually, we all climb out from under the bed, and even the most unfamiliar places begin to feel like home.

Patti Davis

#17. Appreciate the creation, respect the creator of it, and admire the source of all creativity.

T.F. Hodge