Who cares about the men who steered your breakfast cereal through winter storms? How ironic that the more ships have grown in size and consequence, the less space they take up in our imagination.
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The more ships have grown in size and consequence, the more their place in our imagination has shrunk.
Ships are like children: they need individual attention.
Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.
It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
Ships are a strange kind of commodity because they're very lumpy, very big individual units, but they're commodities.
Many today feel troubled and distressed; many feel that, at any moment, the ships of their lives could capsize or sink.
There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.
I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.
If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains; every ship upon the ocean they can tie with mighty chains.
Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.
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