#captain

Mr. Bird flung his food away and leaped to his feet, glaring around at no one in particular. 'I am not a dog!' he shouted agrily, his gold earrings flashing in the firelight. ↗

— Tim Powers

#nautical #ocean #pirate #pirates #seas

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. ↗

— Pee Wee Reese

#breaks #captain #committed #could #dodgers

The hallmark of a great captain is the ability to win the toss, at the right time. ↗

— Richie Benaud

#captain #great #hallmark #right #right time

Suddenly in the end when it's over, you feel a big weight on your shoulders. That's the role of the captain. Unfortunately, it's sometimes like that in sport. ↗

— Guy Forget

#captain #end #feel #in the end #like

The weather became so intensely cold that we sent for all the hunters who had remained out with captain Clarke's party, and they returned in the evening several of them frostbitten. ↗

— Meriwether Lewis

#captain #clarke #cold #evening #had

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. ↗

— Joseph C. Lincoln

#before #born #captain #earlier #father

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck. ↗

— Guy de Maupassant

#captain #duty #every #government #much

I was captain and should have set the example. I would lift a minimum of weights. Mine was natural physical strength. I always thought quickness and agility were much more important. ↗

— Merlin Olsen

#always #captain #example #i #i always

I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone forever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own, than when you broke it eight years and a half ago. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant. ↗

— Jane Austen

#jane-austen #persuasion #death

Was this love in its purest form, unrequited yet all-consuming and unselfish? ↗

— Jacqueline Patricks

#dreams-of-the-queen #love #dreams