Sail Quotes - Page 19

• At the happy ending of the Tempest, Prospero brings the kind back togeter with his son, and finds Miranda's true love and punishes the bad duke and frees Ariel and becomes a duke himself again. Everyone - except Caliban - is happy, and everyone is forgiven, and everyone is fine, and they all sail away on calm seas. Happy endings. That's how it is in Shakespeare. But Shakespeare was wrong. Sometimes there isn't a Prospero to make everything fine again. And sometimes the quality of mercy is strained.

  Gary D.

  Son, Sea, Quality

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• Sailing has given me some of the most pleasant and exciting moments of my life. It also has taught me something of the courage, resourcefulness, and strength of men who sail the seas in ships.

  John F. Kennedy

  Men, Sea, Sailing

  John F. Kennedy (2013). “The Letters of John F. Kennedy”, p.208, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I had no need of sails to drive me, nor oars nor wheels to push me, nor rails to give me a faster road. Air is what I wanted, that was all. Air surrounds me as water surrounds the submarine boat, and in it my propellers act like the screws of a steamer. That is how I solved the problem of aviation. That is what a balloon will never do, nor will any machine that is lighter than air.

  Jules Verne

  Air, Giving, Water

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• Well, then--our course is chosen--spread the sail--
  Heave oft the lead, and mark the soundings well--
  Look to the helm, good master--many a shoal
  Marks this stern coast, and rocks, where sits the Siren
  Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.

  Walter Scott

  Ambition, Men, Rocks

  Walter Scott, Sir Walter Scott (1841). “The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart”, p.686

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• When the winds of life don't hit your sails, you grab the oars of life and you start pushing.

  Greg Plitt

  Wind, Pushing, Oar

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• We need to stop burning fossil fuels and utilize only wind, water, and solar power with all generation of power coming from individual or small community units like windmills, waterwheels, and solar panels. Sea transportation should be by sail...Air transportation should be by solar powered blimps when air transportation is necessary.

  Paul Watson

  Air, Wind, Sea

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• Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.

  Euripides

  Happiness, Happy, Joy

  Euripides (1958). “Euripides: Rhesus, translated by R. Lattimore. The suppliant women, translated by F. Jones. Orestes, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Iphigenia in Aulis, translated by C. R. Walker”

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• What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness.

  Bernard Cornwell

  Inspirational, Funny, Ocean

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• Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Inspirational, Funny, Anchors

  Letter to H.S. Randall, May 23, 1857.

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• Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore.

  Thomas Campion

  Inspirational, Funny, Weather

  'Two Books of Airs' (1612/1613) no. 11

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• Fortunately the boat we rented had a motor in it You will definitely want this feature on your sailboat too, because if you put up the sails, the boat tips way over, and you could spill your beer.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Beer, Sailing

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, p.226, Ballantine Books

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• A satyagrahi may not ride two horses, truth and untruth, at the same time, nor, to change the metaphor, trim his sail to catch every breeze as you do in the name of communism.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Horse, Names, Two

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• Some might tell you there's no hope in hand
  Just because they feel hopeless
  But you don't have to be a thing like that
  You be a ship in a bottle set sail

  Dave Matthews

  Hands, Bottles, Might

  Song: Baby, Album: Some Devil, 2003

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• Have Jesus always for your patron, His Cross for a mast on which you must spread your resolutions as a sail. Your anchor shall be a profound confidence in Him, and you shall sail prosperously.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Jesus, Anchors, Profound

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]”, p.3282, Catholic Way Publishing

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• The anthropologist must relinquish his comfortable position in the long chair on the veranda of the missionary compound, Government station, or planter's bungalow, where, armed with pencil and notebook and at times with a whisky and soda, he has been accustomed to collect statements from informants.... He must go out into the villages, and see the natives at work in gardens, on the beach, in the jungle; he must sail with them to distant sandbanks and to foreign tribes.

  Bronislaw Malinowski

  Notebook, Beach, Garden

  Myth in Primitive Psychology ch. 5 (1926)

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• Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.

  John Calvin

  Fear, Sailing, Mind

  John Calvin (2007). “Letters of John Calvin”, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• The Atheist complains about the wind. The Christian prays for it to change. The Satanist adjusts his sails.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Christian, Atheist, Wind

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• Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird.

  Neil Armstrong

  Bird, Flying, Sailing

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• As soon as somebody demonstrates the art of flying, settlers from our species of man will not be lacking on the Moon and Jupiter. Who would have believed that a huge ocean could be crossed more peacefully and safely than the the narrow expanse of the Adriatic, the Baltic Sea or the English Channel? Given ships or sails adapted to the breezes of heaven, there will be those who will not shrink from even that vast expanse.

  Johannes Kepler

  Art, Ocean, Future

  "Kepler's Conversation with Galileo's Sidereal Messenger". Book by Edward Rosen, p. 39, 1965.

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• Ships and sails proper for the heavenly air should be fashioned. Then there will also be people, who do not shrink from the dreary vastness of space.

  Johannes Kepler

  Future, Air, Space

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• Pleasure is the rock which most young people split upon; they launch out with crowded sails in quest of it, but without a compassto direct their course, or reason sufficient to steer the vessel; for want of which, pain and shame, instead of pleasure, are the returns of their voyage.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Pain, Rocks, People

  Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.89, OUP Oxford

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• I sailed a bit as a child, but it wasn't until I was around 40, when I was halfway through Patrick O'Brian's 'Master and Commander' novels, that I had the sudden epiphany that I had to go sail on a square-rig ship.

  Billy Campbell

  Children, Squares, Ships

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A journalist is the lookout on the bridge of the ship of state. He notes the passing sail, the little things of interest that dot the horizon in fine weather. He reports the drifting castaway whom the ship can save. He peers through fog and storm to give warning of dangers ahead. He is not thinking of his wages or of the profits of his owners. He is there to watch over the safety and the welfare of the people who trust him.

  Joseph Pulitzer

  Thinking, Fog, Bridges

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• Me howling blasts drive devious, tempest-tossed, / Sails ripped, seams opening wide, and compass lost.

  William Cowper

  Compassion, Tempest, Lost

  William Cowper (1866). “The Poetical Works of William Cowper”, p.405

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• If hindrances obstruct the way, Thy magnanimity display. And let thy strength be seen: But O, if Fortune fill thy sail With more than a propitious gale, Take half thy canvas in.

  William Cowper

  Half, Way, Gale

  William Cowper (1874). “The poetical works of William Cowper, ed: with notes and biographical introd. by William Benham”, p.171

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