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I'm like a ship captain: I have a woman in every port. — Henrique Capriles Radonski

It is as if we find ourselves on a ship in the middle of the ocean, with the captain making the point that we are free to leave. — Peter Cave

To me it's like, every time I'm a director, like today, you're the captain of the ship, so you better dress like it. You're the host of the party. — Mike Mills

In calm water every ship has a good captain. — Grover Cleveland

When the storm brews and the waves swell, only an experienced captain can control the ship and save it. — Mata Amritanandamayi

No!" she said adamantly. "The Captain doesn't leave his ship in enemy territory, damn it! — Mike Resnick

I am not the captain of my ship. My ship is out there, but I don't have my course. You never know in this business. — Jamie Farr

They say the captain goes down with the ship, so when the world ends, will God go down with it? — Fall Out Boy

No mother should outlive her children, and no captain should outlive his ship. — George R R Martin

The ship was small, his cabin smaller, but the captain would not allow him abovedecks. — George R R Martin

Don't be afraid of the storms; be afraid of the ship and the captain! Forget about the outside factors, what matters is the internal power! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

You're either my ship's cook-and then you were treated handsome-or Cap'n Silver, a common mutineer and pirate, and then you can go hang! — Robert Louis Stevenson

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

A man may own a ship, but unless he is captain of a crew he goes where the ship goes. — Josephine Tey

There can be only one Captain to a ship. — Thomas John Barnardo

I prefer to sail in a bad ship with a good captain rather than sail in a good ship with a bad captain. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Who would be captain?" he said. "Uh, I would." "Oh, no, no no. Guess again." "You can't mutiny, we don't have a ship yet." "I'm planning ahead." I — Heidi Heilig

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

I'll always rather be in a ship that's got a captain that has some vision. — Susan Sarandon

The Navy has a custom-if a ship runs aground, the captain is relieved regardless of who is responsible. That's how Abu Ghraib should be handled. — Rand Beers

It is the duty of the ship's captain to make port, cost what it may. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

What would you do if your country's welfare depended on labor? When a ship is in a storm it requires one captain. — Fritz Sauckel

You're no kind of captain if you keep jumping ship. — Heidi Heilig

Each picture has some sort of rhythm which only the director can give it. He has to be like the captain of a ship. — Fritz Lang

You are the captain of your own ship; the more you act from that perspective, the better things will go for you. — David Allen

When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship. — Dick Gregory

when God is the captain of your ship, your future looks a whole lot brighter than your past! — P.L. Wilson

If you don't trust either the captain or the ship, there remains only one thing for safety: Trusting the storm! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

All we have to do is preserve our personality, to live our own life, be captain of our own ship, and all will be well. — Edward Bach

Somebody can be the captain of the ship, which allows you to make big mistakes. — Susan Sarandon

Gazzy: Captain, like the captain of a ship. And then Terror, you know, T-E-R-O-R. — James Patterson

When you go into labor you see that you are not the captain of the ship. You are the ship. There is no captain. There are only the waves. — Karen Maezen Miller

Don't let others hijack your dreams. Be captain of your own ship and master of your own destiny. — Joanne Madeline Moore

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever. — Thomas Aquinas

On this ship, my word is fucking law! Captain Josiah Trenchard. UWSS Might of Fortitude. — Jonathon Fletcher

I'm obsessed with the Victorian era and the British Royal Navy ... I'd love to play a troubled sailor or captain or a boatman on a three masted ship. — Nick Offerman

To live is to walk beside Death but never join hands. ~ Captain Buck "Slackeye" Roberts — Kai McCarthy

A captain always knows where his ship is. It's like a psychic bond."
"If only we had a captain here. — Marissa Meyer

Any government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
[On Water] — Guy De Maupassant

When you do a movie, it's like going on a journey. It's really like the director is the captain of the ship, and that energy, everybody feels. — Kellan Lutz

You are the captain of your own ship; don't let anyone else take the wheel. — Michael Josephson

The captain of a ship can run a great ship, but he can't do anything about the tides. — Matthew Norman

The captain doesn't think about death, or life, he thinks about saving his ship, — Bashar Al-Assad

Acting on television is like being asked by the captain to entertain the passengers while the ship goes down. — Peter Ustinov

Your life is your ship and you are the captain. Choose your course, take the wheel firmly and get on your way. — Michael Josephson

When a crew and a captain understand each other to the core, it takes a gale, and more than a gale, to put their ship ashore. — Rudyard Kipling

You are the captain of your ship that never comes in — Daniel Lee Edstrom

No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy. — Horatio Nelson

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

The captain is supposed to go down with the ship" . "unless the first mate knocks him out and throws him in a lifeboat — Neal Shusterman

A really conscientious doctor ought to die with his patient. The captain goes down with his ship. — Eugene Ionesco

A ship is a bit of terra firma cut off from the main; it is a state in itself; and the captain is its king. — Herman Melville

The newly-minted captain is told to let nothing stop him but to do nothing that would risk his ship or his crew. — Patrick O'Brian

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck. — Guy De Maupassant