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Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
Written by Guy de Maupassant
Captain is a good travelling name and so I take it.
Written by George Farquhar
My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.
Written by Aldous Huxley
The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.
Written by Charles Baudelaire
No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.
Written by Horatio Nelson
I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
Written by Oliver Cromwell
It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.
Written by William Ernest Henley
I don't pretend to be captain weird. I just do what I do.
Written by Johnny Depp
It all has to do with the director, the captain of the ship. He sets the pace, the mood. If the director is quiet, the set is quiet. If the director is loud, then everybody has to be louder to be heard.
Written by Eva Marie Saint
If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
Written by Thomas Aquinas
My father was a sea captain, so was his father, and his father before him, and all my uncles. My mother's people all followed the sea. I suppose that if I had been born a few years earlier, I would have had my own ship.
Written by Joseph C. Lincoln
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!
Written by Bruce Dickinson
My lord, I will tell you what the case was. I was coming up within a league of the Dutchman, and some of my men were making a mutiny about taking her, and my gunner told the people he could put the captain in a way to take the ship, and be safe.
Written by William Kidd
The doctor punched my vein, the captain called me Cain, upon my belly sat the sow of fear.
Written by Karl Shapiro
Captain Hale, alone, without sympathy or support, save that from above, on the near approach of death asked for a clergyman to attend him. It was refused. He then requested a Bible; that too was refused by his inhuman jailer.
Written by William Hull
In a few days an officer came to our camp, under a flag of truce, and informed Hamilton, then a captain of artillery, but afterwards the aid of General Washington, that Captain Hale had been arrested within the British lines condemned as a spy, and executed that morning.
Written by William Hull
In the last James Bond movie, the villain was a culture captain, a tycoon of culture, a Murdoch figure. It's not as if people don't know what is going on.
Written by Thomas Frank
He is a very positive captain; he is proactive as well as reactive. He is keen to read the game, to get in there, and he never stops thinking about the game, the situation, and trying to turn it to his advantage. He has been very good for the game.
Written by David Gower
I think people want success, you know, and I'm the captain.
Written by Mats Sundin
You will find the poet who wrings the heart of the world, or the foremost captain of his time, driving a bargain or paring a potato, just as you would do.
Written by Rebecca Harding Davis
The conservative movement today is like that tall ship with its proud captain: strong, accomplished but veering off course into the dangerous and uncharted waters of big government republicanism.
Written by Mike Pence
Captain Fisher, the commander, with a party of young ladies from the city and gentlemen belonging to his ship, came one day to pay me a visit in the midst of a deluge of rain.
Written by Joshua Slocum
Likewise, I see no shame in writing Captain America or Wolverine.
Written by Mark Millar
During my time we had two chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, at different times of course, on the bridge, both of whom asked my permission to sit on the captain's chair.
Written by Patrick Stewart
As the captain, I was going to be having the dominant role in most of the episodes, and that was appealing. I wasn't interested in coming to Hollywood to sit around.
Written by Patrick Stewart
Being Captain of the Dodgers meant representing an organization committed to winning and trying to keep it going. We could have won every year if the breaks had gone right.
Written by Pee Wee Reese
Captain Kirk has been a source of pleasure and income for a long time.
Written by William Shatner
Tonight I am going to take a party to the headquarters of the fire department, where I have a cinch on the captain, a very nice fellow, who is unusually grateful for something I wrote about him and his men. They are going to do the Still Alarm act for me.
Written by Richard H. Davis
And it was where I learned how to play tennis and eventually became captain of the tennis team at the school and was on the Junior Davis Cup in New York City.
Written by Sanford I. Weill
Well, my transition into being a captain was easy.
Written by Mark Messier

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