Shipboard Quotes

#1. Americans often did not realize that their Marine Corps was a force without counterpart in the world. European navies used Marines for limited duties on shipboard or in naval bases, but neither the numbers nor the training were provided for large-scale offensive operations.

Lynn Montross

#2. Oh, it was easy to see why people had whirlwind shipboard romances, for it was a temporary journey into fantasy, where dreams could come true
if only for the duration of the cruise.

Patricia Hagan

#3. Hi there! This is Eddie, your shipboard computer, and I'm feeling just great, guys, and I know I'm just going to get a bundle of kicks out of any program you care to run through me.

Douglas Adams

#4. In the fifth season [of Star Trek: The Next Generation] viewers will see more of shipboard life [including] gay crew members in day-to-day circumstances.

Gene Roddenberry

#5. Having established itself securely on shipboard, the chronometer was soon taken for granted, like any other essential thing, and the whole question of its contentious history, along with the name of its original inventor, dropped from the consciousness of the seamen who used it every day.

Dava Sobel

#6. Are you one who looks on? or lends a hand? - or who looks away, sidles off? ... Third question for the conscience.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#7. I can remember being eight, and I like writing about that age of innocence when children still have a sense of wonder.

John Boyne

#8. The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.

Confucius

#9. I can forgive, but no matter how hard I try, the memories never fade. Forgetting is the worst because there's a trigger for every memory.

Calia Read

#10. The things that are done in the name of the shareholder are, to me, as terrifying as the things that are done - dare I say it - in the name of God,

John Le Carre

#11. I wear my faith on my sleeve."

~R. Alan Woods [2012]

R. Alan Woods

#12. Alice will always be a beautiful mystery. It is one I am content not to solve.I can love her now in her lovely darkness. -Amalia Milthorpe

Michelle Zink

#13. The past, as you suggest, is absolutely present at all times and the present is born from the past. I wouldn't want to suggest that the past determines the present.

Chang-rae Lee

#14. Do I ever get tired of being the first female everything? Not really, I just happened to be in a position where the job that I wanted was not really there for me. I had to create an opportunity instead of waiting for an opportunity.

Ronda Rousey

#15. Sometimes the Devil doth preach.

John Webster

#16. of all the cities he had been to - Detroit, Indianapolis, Chicago, St. Louis, Salt Lake City - San Francisco was by far the worst.

Tracy Chevalier

#17. Like Johns, I am one of the little men, not interested in ideologies, tied to a flat Cambridgeshire landscape, a chalk quarry, a line of willows across the featureless fields, a market town
his thoughts scrabbled at the curtain
where he used to dance at the Saturday hops.

Graham Greene

#18. Character = the ability to meet the demands of reality.

Henry Cloud

#19. Imagination is a faculty of the mind which can be cultivated, developed, extended and broadened by use.

Napoleon Hill