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I was elected a Captain of Volunteers--a success which gave me more pleasure than any I have had since.

Abraham Lincoln
captains volunteer pleasure
A boat can't have two captains. by Akira Mori

A boat can't have two captains.

Akira Mori
captains management two

I felt pride, wonderful pride, when I was captain. It was an honour to take over from Labby. Anybody who has ever captained a big club, which Everton are, will tell you it's a great honour.

Alan Ball
captains clubs pride
We're all responsible. I'm the leader, the captain of the ship, a... by Alan Trammell

We're all responsible. I'm the leader, the captain of the ship, and I have to take responsibility.

Alan Trammell
captains leader responsibility
[I am not] the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passeng... by Aldous Huxley

[I am not] the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

Aldous Huxley
fate-and-destiny captains soul
A widow is like a frigate of which the first captain has been shi... by Alphonse Karr

A widow is like a frigate of which the first captain has been shipwrecked.

Alphonse Karr
widows captains firsts

We all love narratives where we're the captain of our boat, and Americans love them more than anybody else.

Anne-Marie Slaughter
boat captains narrative

Sometimes you don't know if you're Caesar about to cross the Rubicon or Captain Queeg cutting your own tow line.

Anthony Kennedy
captains lines cutting
It is the duty of the ship's captain to make port, cost what it m... by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It is the duty of the ship's captain to make port, cost what it may.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
captains cost may
I'd Love to be captain of Arsenal for even just one day. by Ashley Cole

I'd Love to be captain of Arsenal for even just one day.

Ashley Cole
captains england one-day

It is unfortunate when final decisions are made by chieftains headquartered miles away from the front, where they can only guess at conditions and potentialities known only to the captain of the battlefield.

Attila the Hun
captains finals decision

"Events," I say to the Captain, "events control our lives, although we have no understanding of them nor do they have any motivation. Everything is blind chance, happenstance, occurrence; in an infinite universe anything can happen. After the fact we find reasons.

Barry N. Malzberg
captains motivation understanding

Hereafter, if you should observe an occasion to give your officers and friends a little more praise than is their due, and confess more fault than you can justly be charged with, you will only become the sooner for it, a great captain.

Benjamin Franklin
captains littles giving

It’s up to the captain. I certainly feel my golf is worthy of playing in the Ryder Cup. But I’m not sure I’m on the radar screen of Paul McGinley.

Bernhard Langer
captains cups golf

New Rule: Someone has to tell Francesco Schettino that embracing a callous policy of "every man for himself" doesn't make you a sea captain. It makes you the Republican nominee.

Bill Maher
captains sea men
The captain of a ship is not chosen from those of the passengers... by Blaise Pascal

The captain of a ship is not chosen from those of the passengers who comes from the best family.

Blaise Pascal
ships captains politics

Alfred Hitchcock, Isaac Newton, Elvis Presley, Captain Bligh, they're heroic or pathetic depending on which book you buy.

Bob Seger
heroic captains book

I don't like being recognised, I have no interest in being famous at all, I just do what I do. If I could be like Captain Kirk and beam myself up and then beam myself down, I would!

Bruce Dickinson
captain-kirk captains fame

I did not ask for objections, but for comments, or helpful suggestions. I looked for more loyalty from you, Captain Hornblower.' That made the whole argument pointless. If Leighton only wanted servile agreement there was no sense in continuing.

C. S. Forester
captains loyalty agreement

I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship.

Cesare Pavese
captains hard-times destiny
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