Hammond Innes quotes

Hammond Innes quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“He who lets the sea lull him into a sense of security is in very grave danger.”
-- Hammond Innes

#Sea Quotes #Boat Quotes #Danger Quotes

“All the ingenuity, all the high-tech gear, all the jury-rigging sometimes the sea would rip it all away until there was only you, the Creator, and His mercy.”

Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.17, Thomas Nelson Inc
“I wanted freedom, open air and adventure. I found it on the sea.”
“I always lived very frugally. I flew around on a private jet. I had a boat. But I always lived very frugally.”
“We are a pivotal part of the European Union. Any destabilization of Greece would totally rock the boat.”

Source : Source: www.slate.com
“The Mexicans descend from the Aztecs; the Peruvians descend from the Incas; the Argentineans descend from the boats.”
“Keep in mind that whenever you are in a crisis, you are in the midst of danger as well as opportunity.”

Source : Adeline Yen Mah (2009). “Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter”, p.154, Laurel Leaf
“Truth is often attended with danger.”
“People who grow bored in their own company seem to me in danger.”
“...remember that the danger that is most to be feared is never the danger we are most afraid of.”
“Where cultural representations do not reach out beyond themselves, there is the danger that they will function as the surrogates for activism, that they will constitute both the beginning and the end of political practice.”

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