Top 177 Fleet Quotes & Sayings

Of course we are coming to invest in Germany - that is certain. Most airplanes in the fleet of Qatar Airways are from Airbus.

If someone at Fleet Farm offers you assistance and they don't work there you might live in Wisconsin.

A fleet of British ships at war are the best negotiators.

I believe my arrival was most welcome, not only to the Commander of the Fleet but almost to every individual in it.

Standing, with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet!

There is credible evidence that a Chinese fleet went as far as the coast of Africa, in present-day Kenya. It was the largest maritime fleet in the world, under the command of Zheng He, a favorite of the emperor.

For me, I think the bigger something is, the more difficult it is to make it nimble and fleet afoot.

No price is too great to preserve the health of the fleet.

Our nation's power plant fleet must include a mix of solar, wind, hydro, natural gas and nuclear plants.

I felt only as a man can feel who is roaming over the prairies of the far West, well armed, and mounted on a fleet and gallant steed.

I was an oddball in kickboxing because of my style. I'm different. I'm fleet-footed and I understand how to move and work the system.

Life is too fleet for onomatopoeia.

Of whatsoever number a fleet of ships of war is composed, it is usually divided into three squadrons; and these, if numerous, are again separated into divisions.

The speed of the fleet is not determined by the fastest vessel; rather it is determined by the slowest one.

How fleet is a glance of the mind! Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light.

The Volkswagen Group offers the world's largest low-CO2 fleet.

I always come back to the gentler stuff like Simon & Garfunkel and the Fleet Foxes' first album - that's quite an odd one.

The notion of having a fleet of autonomous ocean-going vehicles wandering the world collecting data is something out of fiction.

The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.

I've got a fleet of cars and I've never had a driving license, ever.

Basically I have a fleet of cleanup systems floating around, up to 50 that we plan on deploying.

Naturally, we will continue to offer very powerful vehicles in the future. Nevertheless, no other manufacturer has reduced the CO2 emissions of its fleet as substantially as the BMW Group.

Frigates are the eyes of a fleet.

Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port; but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year.

When I assumed command of the Pacific Fleet in 31 December, 1941; our submarines were already operating against the enemy, the only units of the Fleet that could come to grips with the Japanese for months to come. It was to the Submarine Force that I looked to carry the load until our great industrial activity could produce the weapons we so sorely needed to carry the war to the enemy. It is to the everlasting honor and glory of our submarine personnel that they never failed us in our days of peril.

It is highly unlikely that an airplane, or fleet of them, could ever sink a fleet of Navy vessels under battle conditions.

If we are to have a war with America, we will have no hope of winning unless the U.S. fleet in Hawaiian waters can be destroyed.

The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.

It is a natural goal of Iran to try and expel the Fifth Fleet from Bahrain.

Nuclear is an important part of the heritage of Duke. We operate the largest regulated nuclear fleet in the U.S. We love the diversity of the generation.

There was enough tension in the room to send a fleet of the nervous running for their tranquilizers.

Opportunity comes like a snail, and once it has passed you it changes into a fleet rabbit and is gone.

Insights and perceptions pass through the mind like fleet fireflies. Lit for an instant, then gone back into the dark.

I have a fleet of Rimowa Topas aluminum suitcases! They're all covered in stickers from around the world.

Free supplies and open retreat are two essentials to the safety of an army or a fleet.

Once our carrier fleet went all nuclear in 2005, we went from having two aircraft carrier homeports on the East Coast to one.

Though we work with rental agencies, a large part of our fleet comprises individual drivers.

So fleet the works of men, back to their earth again;Ancient and holy things fade like a dream.

A fleet of the most powerful vessels would be of little use in war without a personnel at least as efficient as that of our possible enemies.

If you have ever been robbed by a black teen-aged male, you know how unbelievably fleet-footed they can be.

Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor.

Divinity is not playful. The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensibl e earnest. By a power that is unfathomably secret, and holy, and fleet. There is nothing to be done about it, but ignore it, or see.

It's not just fleet of foot or speed. It's about who gets caught and gets knocked out.

The U.S. is not a claimant state in the South China Sea or in the China-Japan dispute over the Senkaku Islands. But, of course, the 7th Fleet has been a presence in the region since the Second World War, and it is the most powerful fleet in the region.

Our duty was to try and find the Japanese fleet. We never did find the Japanese fleet and I am awfully glad, because they had attacked us there with six carriers, three battleships, 10 or 15 cruisers, and about 20 destroyers.

The surer of himself an admiral is, the finer the tactical development of his fleet, the better his captains, the more reluctant must he necessarily be to enter into a melee with equal forces, in which all these advantages will be thrown away, chance reign supreme, and his fleet be place on terms of equality with an assemblage of ships which have never before acted together.

The admirals of his majesty's fleet are classed into three squadrons, viz. the red, the white, and the blue.

Southward with fleet of ice Sailed the corsair Death; Wild and fast blew the blast, And the east-wind was his breath.

Memories are made of peculiar stuff, elusive and yet compelling, powerful and fleet. You cannot trust your reminiscences, and yet there is no reality except the one we remember.

Fleet Foxes are a really talented band. They make beautiful music.

Each of us A cell of awareness Imperfect and incomplete Genetic blends With uncertain ends On a fortune hunt that's far too fleet

Sweet Skepticism of the Heart That knows and does not know And tosses like a Fleet of Balm Affronted by the snow.

A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway.

Sometime is that appointment, the final one to meet. Let's color all with love, for Time is naught but fleet.

I'm proud to have played a major part in destroying Fleet Street, a corrupt cartel of unions and proprietors that operated against the public interest.

In Fleet Street, in Fleet Street, the People are so fleet, They barely touch the cobble-stones with their nimble feet!

Hold the fleet angel fast until he bless thee.

Nobody now fears that a Japanese fleet could deal an unexpected blow on our Pacific possessions. Radio makes surprise impossible.

The attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 completely crippled our Pacific Fleet.

Alas, by what rude fate Our lives, like ships at sea, an instant meet, Then part forever on their courses fleet.