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Ninety percent of what we wear, we eat, we consume is carried by ships... Container ships carry a vast amount of stuff.
Many today feel troubled and distressed; many feel that, at any moment, the ships of their lives could capsize or sink.
The Brits are escorting their ships, and we will escort our ships, and I assume other countries will escort their ships.
Like an ox-cart driver in monsoon season or the skipper of a grounded ship, one must sometimes go forward by going back.
The idealist and dreamer will stubbornly go down with the ship. The serial innovator grabs the rudder and changes course.
You sounded like someone who should be singing on a cruise ship. Halfway through your song, I wished the ship was sinking.
Small events and choices determine the direction of our lives just as small helms determine the directions of great ships.
Romney economics would spell disaster for America's middle class. In this economy there are shipbuilders and ship wreckers.
If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains; every ship upon the ocean they can tie with mighty chains.
When a crew and a captain understand each other to the core, it takes a gale, and more than a gale, to put their ship ashore.
'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.'
We are all passengers aboard one ship, the Earth, and we must not allow it to be wrecked. There will be no second Noah's Ark.
Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will be the profit upon profit.
A lighthouse doesn't save the ships; it doesn't go out and rescue them, it's just this pillar that helps to guide people home.
That ship is loaded with treasure, but there's a hole in the ship. And my job is to get everyone to row in the same direction.
Clearly security without values is like a ship without a rudder. But values without security are like a rudder without a ship.
I'm bemused by the whole Robbie Williams aspect of British pop. Posh Spice? It all looks like cruise ship entertainment to me.
Living with generosity creates a swelling tide that raises all ships. Not just yours; not just the other person's; everyone's.
Hold up." Leo stepped forward, wagging his Wii controller. "Did you just call my a ship a monstrosity? I KNOW you didn't that.
Two human beings anchored to one another are like two ships shaken by waves; their carcases collide with one another and creak.
The truth is ships and aircraft have been vanishing with tragic regularity in every part of the world since they were invented.
People have the "ships" that they love, and I think they love the show's ["Pretty Little Liars"] original relationship the most.
Because there was only one thing worse than dying. And that was knowing you were going to die. And where. And how. (“Death Ship”)
The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.
You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her decks? I have no time for such nonsense.
Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains.
When we lived in Juneau, Alaska, it was a town of about 7,000 people, and totally isolated; the only way to get to it was by ship.
For most software startups, this translates to keep growing. For hardware startups, it translates to don't let your ship date slip.
We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.
A bigger business is like a cruise ship: There are lots of amenities and you can go a lot further, but it's harder to turn quickly.
If you don't mark your successes, the day your ship comes in could be just another day at the office, and there's no poetry in that.
In thought I am living wholly with Theo and Vincent, oh, the infinitely delicate, tender and lovely [quality] of that relation[ship].
Ship me somewhere east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raisea thirst.
My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.
If you're going to cook a fresh chicken, it's not a big concern. But if you're going to ship a chicken, there's a change in structure.
A father has to do everything in his power to keep a tight ship, even though he knows the crew would like to send him away in a dinghy.
I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the first to be rescued off sinking ships.
You're either my ship's cook-and then you were treated handsome-or Cap'n Silver, a common mutineer and pirate, and then you can go hang!
At other clubs I have been, at Juventus, at Barca, we had two 'ships': one for the domestic league and another for the Champions League.
We brought with hus in the ship a cat, a most amicable cat and greatly loved by us; but he grew to great bulk through the eating of fish.
The Moon is our local port opening to the universe; in the future, it's through that port we will sail our ships to the coastless oceans.
Man is not a ship in harbour; Earth is not a ship in harbour; even Universe is not a ship in harbour! No safe harbour for anything exists!
Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook's time than now. It's amazing.
And his six pawns were scattered like the ships of the Armada that should have conquered England; the Lord blew, and they were all isolated.
When I'm a ship tossed around on the waves, Up on a highwire that's ready to break. When I've had just about all I can take, baby you save me
But Ship Who Sang remains my favorite story. I really rocked folks with that and still cannot read it aloud myself without weeping at the end
Seven million ship cargo containers come into the United States every year. Five to seven percent only are inspected - five to seven percent.
Build me straight. O worthy Master! Staunch and strong, a goodly vessel That shall laugh at all disaster, And with wave and whirlwind wrestle!
The opening scene in A New Hope, when you see the huge ship, it goes on, and on, and on, and on, and on... that is like a joke of awesomeness.
I love being on set, because I've basically grown up on a set. And now I love to contribute as a director and help steer the ship, if you will.