Top 1200 Slave Ships Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

The translator of prose is the slave of the author, and the translator of poetry is his rival.

The worst slave owners were those who were kind to their slaves

I don't take anything for granted from any director. I am just a slave of my director.

A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.

Was it proof of madness in the first corps of sea officers to have, at so critical a period, launched out on the ocean with only two armed merchant ships, two armed brigantines, and one armed sloop, to make war against such a power as Great Britain?

'2001' is a really interesting movie because it came out in 1968, and everybody thought that that was possible, and look how ridiculous that was. We don't have ships like that, and you know, nobody in 1968 was going, 'Oh, that'll never happen!' But of course it never happened. We're not even close to it.

Who fears not to do ill fears the name, And free from conscience, is a slave to fame.

A wise man will be master of his mind, a fool will be its slave.

The covetous person is full of fear; and he or she who lives in fear will ever be a slave.

...counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.

Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end.

When a player knows he is a slave he'll never give his employer his heart.

That's why I'm not on Twitter and don't have an iPhone. It's not because I'm superior to it: it's because I would be a slave to it, and I don't want that to happen.

The Placer is an enemy who must necessarily become our lord or our slave; one doesn't enjoy if it's not defeated.

What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave!

I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.

There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.

Was not Abraham Lincoln an extremist? - "This nation cannot survive half slave and half free."

'12 Years a Slave' was very powerful, very moving, and deserved all of the acclaim it did get.

I believe this Government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.

Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave.

The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.

As a slave [to fashion], I can be very dramatic and very demanding of myself and of the people I work with.

The business of the English commander-in-chief being first to bring an enemy fleet to battle on the most advantageous terms to himself, (I mean that of laying his ships close on board the enemy, as expeditiously as possible); and secondly to continue them there until the business is decided.

The artist has a twofold relation to nature; he is at once her master and her slave.

The chance of any species reaching and then surviving on an island as distant as one of the Hawaiian chain is infinitesimal, but despite the extraordinary odds, plants and seeds found their way ashore, carried by the tide or blown by trade winds, inside birds or in their feathers, in the branches of trees and in the jetsam of sunken ships.

For what is the self-complacent man but a slave to his own self-praise.

If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave.

I would rather be a freeman among slaves than a slave among freemen.

You have been overcome; and whether you are overcome by envy or by a so-called noble influence, you are still a slave, you are not free.

I love college football and I love pro football. This is how fair-weathered I am. I used to be a Giants fan, but my son who's turning 12 has really gotten into football, and he likes the Jets, so I totally jumped ships so we can root for the same team.

Tremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break.

As soon as extreme attachment comes, a man loses himself, he is no more master of himself, he is a slave.

The artist is the lover of nature; therefore he is her slave and her master.

It is hard for the old slave holding spirit to die. But die it must.

The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellow-men.

You know, I'll always be your slave 'til I'm buried, buried in my grave.

I'm a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.

At the decisive Boston town meeting of Nov. 29, 1773, while ships loaded with cargo from the East India Company idled in the harbor, Thomas Young was the first and only speaker to propose that the best way to protest the new Tea Act was to dump the tea into the water.

Please remember that my great grandmother was a slave. My grandmother was a sharecropper. My mother was a factory worker.

Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, till not a slave shall on this earth be found.

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.

Ghana is one of the countries in Western Africa that still has quite a few of their slave castles still standing.

The reason given by the President in asking Congress to declare war against Germany is that the German government has declared certain war zones, within which, by the use of submarines, she sinks, without notice, American ships and destroys American lives.

Lights of ships moved in the fairway-a great stir of lights going up and going down. And farther west on the upper reaches the place of the monstrous town was still marked ominously on the sky, a brooding gloom in sunshine, a lurid glare under the stars.

The weak-minded man is the slave of his vices and the dupe of his virtues.

For a genius to be a genius, he must have a selfless slave between himself and the world.

Only the disciplined ones in life are free. If you are undisciplined, you are a slave to your moods and your passions.

I ask for so little.Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave

I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free.

Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave.

A fundamental condition of Being is slavery. Man is the slave of God, and God that of His vanity.

You can be more creative when you're not feeling like a slave. When you're on a record label, they have you like that.

He who has no opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave.

Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.

The white face of the winter day came sluggishly on, veiled in a frosty mist; and the shadowy ships in the river slowly changed to black substances; and the sun, blood-red on the eastern marshes behind dark masts and yards, seemed filled with the ruins of a forest it had set on fire.

Just fear me and love me...and do as I say...and I will be your slave.

The Force is neither light nor dark, master nor slave, but a balance between extremes.

Things are expensive, very expensive in Israel for many reasons. One of the reasons is our ports. It's a monopoly. They run very poorly. And we have ships that are stuck in the ocean for three or four days or a week, and all that cost is transferred to the products and the consumer.

My youngest son has a very clear idea of what he wants to be when he grows up: he wants to be Indiana Jones, Batman and Jack Sparrow. Yes, all three at the same time. So he basically wants to be an archaeologist who wears tights and fights crimes on pirate ships. That's pretty cool, huh?