Sail Quotes - Page 25

• We cannot organize revival, but we can set our sails to catch the wind from Heaven when God chooses to blow upon His people once again

  G. Campbell Morgan

  Blow, Wind, People

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• The Dutchman sails as its captain commands!

  Davy Jones

  Captains, Command

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• I do know that when my children are older and telling their own children about their grandmother, they will be able to say that she stood in the storm...and when the wind did not blow her way - - and it surely has not - - she adjusted her sails.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Children, Grandmother, Blow

  Elizabeth Edwards (2010). “Resilience: The New Afterword”, p.213, Crown Archetype

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• I don't worry about the storms, I am learning to sail my own ship.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Fear, Worry, Storm

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• It is our philosophical set of the sail that determines the course of our lives. To change our current Direction, we have to change our philosophy, not our circumstances.

  Jim Rohn

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Currents

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• Mastery is the rudder, Mystery is the sail and Magic the wind to move you in your chosen direction.

  Jack White

  Moving, Wind, Magic

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• If you want to understand the jungle, you can't be content just to sail back and forth near the shore. You've got to get into it, no matter how strange and frightening it might seem.

  Carl Jung

  Want, Might, Matter

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• He rested sitting on the un-stepped mast and sail and tried not to think but only to endure.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Thinking, Sitting, Endure

  Ernest Hemingway, Nick Lyons, Jack Hemingway (2012). “Hemingway on Fishing”, p.204, Simon and Schuster

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• I’m not like most designers, who have to set sail on an exotic getaway to get inspired. Most of the time, it’s on my walk to work, or sitting in the subway and seeing something random or out of context.

  Alexander Wang

  Inspirational, Funny, Sailing

  "Alexander Wang Gang". Interview with Diane Von Furstenberg, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 18, 2010.

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• [on buying a private island] Money doesn't buy you happiness, but it buys you a big enough yacht to sail right up to it.

  Johnny Depp

  Islands, Buying, Enough

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.

  Jodi Picoult

  Love, Inspirational, Marriage

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Mercy”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

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• The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail.

  Ramakrishna

  Wind, Grace, Raises

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• I am not a yachting person, by nature, but I have just enough experience on the sea under sail to feel a certain nostalgia for it when I see a big white racing yacht heeled over at cruising speed on the ocean, and I can still tie a mean bowline knot on just about anything in less than 10 seconds.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Ocean, Mean, Sea

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.218, Pan Macmillan

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• Hoist up sail while gale doth last, Tide and wind stay no man's pleasure.

  Robert Southwell

  Inspirational, Funny, Men

  Robert Southwell (1856). “The poetical works of the rev. Robert Southwell, now first completely ed. by W. B. Turnbull”, p.60

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• When you sail on a boat you take with you the minimum of resources. You don't waste anything. You don't leave the light on; you don't leave a computer screen on... on land we take what we want

  Ellen MacArthur

  Light, Land, Want

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• God bless this tiny little boat, And me who travels in it. It stays afloat for years and years, And sinks within a minute. And so the soul in which we sail, Unknown by years of thinking, Is deeply felt and understood, The minute that it’s sinking.

  Michael Leunig

  Thinking, Years, Soul

  Michael Leunig (2006). “When I Talk to You: A Cartoonist Talks to God”, p.122, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• 'Tis the set of the sail that decides the goal, and not the storm of life.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Inspirational, Funny, Goal

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• Perchance, coming generations will not abide the dissolution of the globe, but, availing themselves of future inventions in aerial locomotion, and the navigation of space, the entire race may migrate from the earth, to settle some vacant and more western planet.... It took but little art, a simple application of natural laws, a canoe, a paddle, and a sail of matting, to people the isles of the Pacific, and a little more will people the shining isles of space. Do we not see in the firmament the lights carried along the shore by night, as Columbus did? Let us not despair or mutiny.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Art, Moon, Simple

  "Paradise (to Be) Regained" (1843)

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• The winds of grace blow all the time. All we need to do is set our sails.

  Ramakrishna

  Blow, Wind, Grace

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• 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, Contentment

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• I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas.

  Herman Melville

  Sea, Forbidden, Everlasting

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.15, Ballantine Books

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• Perhaps we cannot raise the winds. But each of us can put up the sail, so that when the wind comes we can catch it.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Wind, Climate Change, Raises

  "Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered". Book by E. F. Schumacher, 1973.

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• All of the wisdom of this world is but a tiny raft upon which we must set sail when we leave this earth. If only there was a firmer foundation upon which to sail, perhaps some divine word.

  Socrates

  Foundation, World, Earth

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• The same wind blows on us all. The economic wind, the social wind, the political wind. The same wind blows on everybody. The difference in where you arrive in one year, three years, five years, the difference in arrival is not the blowing of the wind but the set of the sail.

  Jim Rohn

  Blow, Years, Wind

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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... 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, Moon, Men

  Johannes Kepler (1965). “Kepler's Conversation with Galileo's Sidereal messenger”

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