Fleet Quotes: top 64 famous quotes about Fleet

Fleet Quotes & Sayings

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Fleet the time carelessly, as they did in the golden world — William Shakespeare

Frigates are the eyes of a fleet. — Horatio Nelson

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

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

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

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

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

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

Who has not felt how sadly sweet The dream of home, the dream of home, Steals o'er the heart, too soon to fleet, When far o'er sea or land we roam? — Charles Lamb

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. — William Sims

Where does one purchase a mustache in London? Fleet Street? — Gail Carriger

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

If we cannot be fearless, let us be fleet. — Linda Robinson

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

Hold the fleet angel fast until he bless thee. — Nathaniel Cotton

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. — Buffalo Bill

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

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

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

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

No price is too great to preserve the health of the fleet. — John B. Jervis

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

Concentrate on poverty and you will be poor. — James Van Fleet

Output always equals input. — James Van Fleet

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

You can do nothing that is in conflict with your own image of what you really are. — James Van Fleet

Socialism has been preached for so long, the British people no longer have any sense of personal responsibility. — Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson Of Fleet

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

Of course we are coming to invest in Germany - that is certain. Most airplanes in the fleet of Qatar Airways are from Airbus. — Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani

Because even if you buried yourself in guilt, you can't go back and change what happened. — Katherine Fleet

No. I cannot let him control me.
You are mine, Adelina, Enzo growls. Turn your powers against your own fleet. — Marie Lu

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

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

Fold your fleet wings I have brought some dreams to share
A dream that you love someone
A dream that the wars are done — Joni Mitchell

Imagination without initiative would more properly be called idle daydreaming. — James Van Fleet

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

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

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

Life is too fleet for onomatopoeia. — Mervyn Peake

YOU, Harley Ann, are my beast.
My perfect wave, my high, my one, true love.

Mason ~ When It's Least Expected — Heather Van Fleet

And if you feel that everyone has rejected you and your ideas let me tell you this, you are most assuredly in good company. — James Van Fleet

This aye night, this aye night; Every night and all; Fire and fleet and candlelight; And Christ receive thy soul — Neil Gaiman

Success requires strenuous effort, but it's a proven fact statistically that most people are as lazy as they dare to be and still get by. — James Van Fleet

Good, good. Always remember, Fleet Captain - internal organs belong inside your body. And blood belongs inside your veins. — Ann Leckie

To 'tweet' is sweet
Friends to meet
The message fleet
I think it's neat
Now to repeat.... — Gary Henson

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

Each time she applied her lip gloss, she imagined another fleet of brain cells dying a horrible death. — Michael Buckley

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

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. — Barbara Tuchman

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

The Ghigua who was the most fleet of foot stroked her legs and gifted — P.C. Cast

I'm frank, brutally frank. And even when I'm not frank, I look frank. — Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson Of Fleet

In Fleet Street, in Fleet Street, the People are so fleetThey barely touch the cobble-stones with their nimble feet! — Eleanor Farjeon

A 1.5 litres/100km (3 mpg) increase in the auto and light truck fleet is worth 158,968.35 cubic metres (41,994,994.53 US gallons) of oil a day. — Ernest Moniz

Sometimes souls are meant to meet and fleet for they have different contracts to complete. — Nikki Rowe

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. — William Cowper

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

Darkness gathered there, smothering out the sunlight. As the fleet headed towards it, it threatened to smother them too. — Dean F. Wilson

I got the best Mark-1 eyeballs in the fleet. Ain't no one can keep up with me! - Duv Jackson, Gunship — J.J. Snow

Standing, with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet! — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Get involved in everything you've ever dreamed of doing. — Marion Jones

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. — Saint Augustine

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

There was the sky, filled with flat-topped clouds, cruising like a fleet of anvils across the blue. George — Paul Harding