#ship

The great weight of the ship may indeed prevent her from acquiring her greatest velocity; but when she has attained it, she will advance by her own intrinsic motion, without gaining any new degree of velocity, or lessening what she has acquired. ↗

— William Falconer

#acquiring #advance #any #attained #degree

The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy. ↗

— William Falconer

#british #head #her #however #immediate

If you change partners every time it gets tough or you get a little dissatisfied, then I don't think you get the richness that's available in a long-term relationship. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#change #dissatisfied #every #every time #get

When I'm working, I'm very purposeful and everything else gets out of focus. Something I've had to work on together with my wife is how to acknowledge each other in the midst of this and keep the relationship going. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#each #else #everything #focus #gets

Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition. ↗

— Cyril Falls

#contrary #ensure #leadership #necessary #particularly

While attendance at traditional churches has been declining for decades... the evangelical movement is growing, and it is changing the way America worships. ↗

— Tom Brokaw

#attendance #been #changing #churches #decades

A lot of people seem to want to make the institution of marriage substitute for a real relationship. ↗

— Susan Faludi

#lot #make #marriage #people #real

What happened with Hurricane Katrina was the American electorate was forced to look at what lay behind the veneer of chest-beating. We all saw the consequences of having terrible government leadership. ↗

— Susan Faludi

#behind #consequences #electorate #forced #government

It never felt real to me. I never felt I had complete ownership over Bond. Because you'd have these stupid one-liners - which I loathed - and I always felt phony doing them. ↗

— Pierce Brosnan

#because #bond #complete #doing #felt

Censorship is advertising paid by the government. ↗

— Federico Fellini

#censorship #government #paid