Fleet Quotes

When reflecting upon it today, that the Pearl Harbor attack should have succeeded in achieving surprise seems a blessing from Heaven. It was clear that a great American fleet had been concentrated in Pearl Harbor, and we supposed that the state of alert would be very high. (Hideki Tōjō)
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street. View quote
Charles Lamb
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...... View quote
Klaus Mann
Standing with reluctant feet Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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. View quote
William Cowper
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. View quote
Horatio Nelson
But America is a great, unwieldy Body. Its Progress must be slow. It is like a large Fleet sailing under Convoy. The fleetest Sailors must wait for the dullest and slowest. Like a Coach and six-the swiftest Horses must be slackened and the slowest quickened, that all may keep an even Pace. View quote
John Adams
One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns. View quote
Ezra Pound
The speed of the fleet is not determined by the fastest vessel; rather it is determined by the slowest one. View quote
Wen Jiabao
In Fleet Street, in Fleet Street, the People are so fleet, They barely touch the cobble-stones with their nimble feet! View quote
Eleanor Farjeon
The Spanish fleet thou canst not see, becauseit is not yet in sight. (Richard Brinsley Sheridan)
Were a stranger to drop on a sudden into this world, I would show him, as a specimen of its ills, a hospital full of diseases, a prison crowded with malefactors and debtors, a field of battle strewed with carcasses, a fleet foundering in the ocean, a nation languishing under tyranny, famine, or pestilence. To turn the gay side of life to him, and give him a notion of its pleasures; whither should I conduct him? to a ball, to an opera, to court? He might justly think, that I was only showing him a diversity of distress and sorrow. View quote
David Hume
We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and the oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills we shall never surrender.... And if, which I do not for a moment believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our empires beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, will carry on the fight, until in Gods own time the new world in its power and might steps forth to the rescue and liberation of the old. View quote
Winston Churchill
The deeds we do, the words we say, Into still air they seem to fleet; We count them ever past; But they shall last - In the dread judgment they And we shall meet. View quote
John Keble
You can power the entire U.S. vehicle fleet with 73,000 to 145,000 five-megawatt wind turbines. That would take between one and three square kilometers of footprint on the ground. View quote
Mark Z. Jacobson
There was enough tension in the room to send a fleet of the nervous running for their tranquilizers. View quote
Charlaine Harris
If the British Fleet were lost or captured, the Atlantic might be dominated by Germany, a power hostile to our way of life, controlling in that event most of the ships and shipbuilding facilities of Europe. View quote
Wendell Willkie
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. View quote
Buffalo Bill
After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war. View quote
Barney Ross
Of course we are coming to invest in Germany - that is certain. Most airplanes in the fleet of Qatar Airways are from Airbus. View quote
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
As for the position they held in this war ... well, I think they've been more skillful than the Americans. Certainly they've had a lighter touch-had they wanted to, they could have done more for Pakistan. Isn't that so? It was the Americans who sent the Seventh Fleet into the Bay of Bengal, not the Chinese. (Indira Gandhi)
It may be observed, however, that organized associations of citizens requiring compliance with their wishes too much resemble the recommendations of Athens to her allies, supported by an armed and powerful fleet. View quote
William Henry Harrison
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. View quote
William Falconer
The fleet being thus more inclosed will more readily observe the signals, and with greater facility form itself into the line of battle a circumstance which should be kept in view in every order of sailing. View quote
William Falconer
The admirals of his majesty's fleet are classed into three squadrons, viz. the red, the white, and the blue. View quote
William Falconer