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• If I have a Sunday free, I'll go up the coast and spend some time on the beach. I scuba dive and swim and sail. A lot of the things I like are around the water.

  Parker Stevenson

  Beach, Sunday, Water

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• Am I more afraid Of taking a chance and learning I'm somebody I don't know, or of risking new territory, only to find I'm the same old me? There is comfort in the tried and true. Breaking ground might uncover a sinkhole, one impossible to climb out of. And setting sail in uncharted waters might mean capsizing into a sea monster's jaws. Easier to turn my back on these things than to try tjem and fail. And yet, a whisper insists I need to know if they are or aren't integral to me. Status quo is a swamp. And stagnation is slow death.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Mean, Sea, Uncharted Waters

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• It is a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel.

  Robert Bork

  Inspirational, Funny, Sailing

  Robert H. Bork (2008). “A time to speak: selected writings and arguments”, Intercollegiate Studies Institute

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• And if that is the Foremast, what do you think that sail might be called, Mr. Wheeler?" "The Foresail?" "Very good, Mr. Wheeler, and the next one up would be called..." ..."The Next Sail, Sir?" "Alas, no, Mr. Wheeler.

  L.A. Meyer

  Thinking, Might, Next

  L. A. Meyer (2007). “Under the Jolly Roger: Being an Account of the Further Nautical Adventures of Jacky Faber”, p.117, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It was inevitable the Titanic was going to set sail, but that doesn't mean it was a good idea to be on it.

  William Hague

  Mean, Ideas, Inevitable

  1998 In The Mail on Sunday,'Quotes of the Week', 11 Jan.

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• That stirring which had fluttered in her on first glimpsing the sea—that stirring landlocked children know so well—moved in her now, with the golden stars over head, and the green fireflies glinting on the wooded shore. She carefully unfolded the stirring that she had so tightly packed away. It billowed out like a sail, and she laughed, despite herself, despite hunger and hard things ahead.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Stars, Children, Firefly

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making”, p.176, Feiwel & Friends

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• This is largely the methodology I've used throughout my career - that is, starting with a question as to what might be the properties of a set of compounds that could be invented which were unusual and unpredictable. Many times I've felt a bit like Columbus setting sail.

  Donald Cram

  Inspirational, Funny, Careers

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• The world keeps turnin'
  It gets merry like a merry go 'round
  It gets cold like a frozen winter
  Well I change like summer fall
  But I know love is all in all
  Seeds we're always sowing
  The grace is always blowing
  We've just got to lift the sail
  And we're bound to hit the shore
  We'll finally calm this storm.

  Trevor Hall

  Summer, Christian, Fall

  Song: The World Keeps Turning

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• I wish I could get all the discourteous drivers on a ship and sail them away and make sure it's a really horrible, wavy journey and when they get to where they're going, keep them there.

  Alvin Martin

  Inspirational, Funny, Journey

  "Alvin Martin: 'Scousers and cockneys get on. It's the mickey-taking'". Interview With Jacob Steinberg, www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2011.

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• I'm saying your name in the grocery store, I'm saying your name on the bridge at dawn. Your name like an animal covered with frost, your name like a music that's been transposed, a suit of fur, a coat of mud, a kick in the pants, a lungful of glass, the sails in wind and the slap of waves on the hull.

  Richard Siken

  Animal, Glasses, Wind

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• When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue.

  Doris Lessing

  Thinking, Lakes, Lovely

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• Momma said that ghosts couldn't move over water. That's why Africans got trapped in the Americas.. They kept moving us over the water, stealing us away from our ghosts and ancestors, who cried salty rivers into the sand. That's where Momma was now, wailing at the water's edge, while her girls were pulled out of sight under white sails that cracked in the wind.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Girl, Moving, Sight

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• So much in life depends on our attitude. The way we choose to see things and respond to others makes all the difference. To do the best we can and then to choose to be happy about our circumstances, whatever they may be, can bring peace and contentment. We can't direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. For maximum happiness, peace, and contentment, may we choose a positive attitude.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Attitude, Wind, Differences

  "Living the Abundant Life" by Thomas S. Monson, www.lds.org. January 2012.

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• Human love, human trust, are always perilous, because they break down. The greater the love, the greater the trust, and the greater the peril, the greater the disaster. Because to place absolute trust on another human being is in itself a disaster, both ways, since each human being is a ship that must sail its own course, even if it go in company with another ship.... And yet, love is the greatest thing between human beings.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Love Is, Way, Ships

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Kangaroo”, p.201, Jester House Publishing

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• Very slowly he turned his head back to look at Shmuel, who wasn't crying anymore, merely staring at the floor and looking as if he was trying to convince his soul not to live inside his tiny body anymore, but to slip away and sail to the door and rise up into the sky, gliding through the clouds until it was very far away.'' -The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

  John Boyne

  Boys, Clouds, Doors

  John Boyne (2012). “The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas”, p.178, Random House

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• when you lose your sails, row.

  Karen White

  Loses

  Karen White (2011). “The Beach Trees”, p.31, Penguin

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• Oh, my darling, wish you were here! And my dark soul is happy again, because it does not know how to be anything else for very long, and because the pain is a deep dark sea in which I would drown if I did not sail my little craft steadily over the surface, steadily towards a sun which will never rise.

  Anne Rice

  Pain, Dark, Sea

  Anne Rice (1992). “The Tale of the Body Thief”, A.A. Knopf Canada

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• Man is the will, and woman the sentiment. In this ship of humanity, Will is the rudder, and Sentiment the sail; when woman affects to steer, the rudder is only a masked sail.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Humanity, Ships

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.19, University of Georgia Press

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• We are never without a pilot. When we know not how to steer, and dare not hoist a sail, we can drift. The current knows the way, though we do not. The ship of heaven guides itself, and will not accept a wooden rudder.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heaven, Pilots, Way

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.142, University of Georgia Press

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• I wanted to break the record, of course, and become the youngest person to sail around the world solo and unassisted.

  Abby Sunderland

  Records, World, Break

  Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.27, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Once we agree on the future, the present will be much easier. A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there. We have first to decide where we want to go, where we want to sail.

  Ami Ayalon

  Wind, Doe, Earth

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• If you were a cloud, and sailed up there, You'd sail on water as blue as air, And you'd see me here in the fields and say: 'Doesn't the sky look green today?

  A. A. Milne

  Clouds, Air, Blue

  When We Were Very Young "Spring Morning" l. 9 (1924)

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• So Columbus said, somebody show me the sunset and somebody did and he set sail for it, And he discovered America and they put him in jail for it, And the fetters gave him welts, And they named America after somebody else.

  Ogden Nash

  Sunset, America, Jail

  Ogden Nash (1941). “The Face is Familiar: The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash”, Garden City, N. Y : Garden City publishing Company, Incorporated

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• The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats; Chambers of the great are jails, And head-winds right for royal sails.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sweet, Hero, Heart

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.315, Harvard University Press

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• Those who spread their sails in the right way to the winds of the earth will always find themselves born by a current towards the open seas.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Opportunity, Wind, Sea

  "The Divine Milieu". Book by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, 1960.

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