Sail Quotes - Page 26

• I have walked with people whose eyes are full of light but who see nothing in sea or sky, nothing in city streets, nothing in books. It were far better to sail forever in the night of blindness with sense, and feeling, and mind, than to be content with the mere act of seeing. The only lightless dark is the night of darkness in ignorance and insensibility.

  Helen Keller

  Book, Ignorance, Eye

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• As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

  Herman Melville

  Inspirational, Life, Travel

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.12

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• Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.

  Richard Halliburton

  Graduation, Senior, Memorable

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• They will say I smoked cigarettes and marijuana, cursed hoarse as a crow in all my languages, and loved morphine and Demerol and tequila and pulque, women and men. I will shrug my illusion of shoulders and answer that I am a water woman, not a vessel, not something you can sail or charter. I am instead the tributary, the river, the fluid source, and the sea itself. I am all her rainy implications. And what do you, with your rusted compass, know of love?

  Kate Braverman

  Love, Men, Marijuana

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• Never had I understood that I command, with absolute authority, the ship of my life! I decide its mission and rules and discipline, at my word waits every tool and sail, every cannon, the strength of every soul on board. I'm master of a team of passionate skills to sail me through hell's own jaws the second I nod the direction to steer.

  Richard Bach

  Team, Skills, Discipline

  "Who is Sailing Your Ship?" by Dennis Merritt Jones, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2011.

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• It was the Lord who put into my mind that fact that it would be possible to sail from here to the Indies. All who heard of my project rejected it with laughter, ridiculing me. There is no question that the inspiration was from the Holy Spirit, because He comforted me with rays of marvelous inspiration from the Holy Scriptures.

  Christopher Columbus

  Laughter, Inspiration, Mind

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• The real skill is to raise the sails and to catch the power of the wind as it passes by.

  Thomas Berry

  Real, Wind, Skills

  Thomas Berry (2010). “Evening Thoughts”, p.136, Counterpoint

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• I cannot cause light; the most I can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam. It is possible, in deep space, to sail on solar wind. Light, be it particle or wave, has force: you can rig a giant sail and go. The secret of seeing is to sail on solar wind. Hone and spread your spirit till you yourself are a sail, whetted, translucent, broadside to the merest puff

  Annie Dillard

  Space, Light, Wind

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.35, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• There are only two good outcomes for a quest like this, the hope of the serendipitous savant — sail for Asia and stumble on America — and the hope of scarecrows and tin men: that you find out you had the thing you sought all along.

  Jess Walter

  Men, Two, America

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• If you meet a woman of whatever complexion who sails her life with strength and grace and assurance, talk to her! And what you will find is that there has been a suffering, that at some time she has left herself for hanging dead.

  Sena Jeter Naslund

  Inspirational, Women, Grace

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• I don't understand anything. Life is so strange. I feel like some one who's lived all his life by a duck-pond and suddenly is shown the sea. It makes me a little breathless, and yet it fills me with elation. I don't want to die, I want to live. I'm beginning to feel a new courage. I feel like one of those old sailors who set sail for undiscovered seas and I think my soul hankers for the unknown.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Thinking, Sea, Ducks

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• Sail on silver girl
  Sail on by
  Your time has come to shine
  All your dreams are on their way
  See how they shine
  Oh, if you need a friend
  I'm sailing right behind.

  Paul Simon

  Girl, Dream, Shining

  "Song: 'Bridge Over Troubled Water'". 1970.

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• A ship under sail and a big-bellied woman, Are the handsomest two things that can be seen common.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Mom, Pregnancy, Two

  Poor Richard's Almanack (1734)

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• The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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  You can't change the wind but you can set your sails.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Wind, Can't Change

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• Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Inspirational, Funny, Spiritual

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• Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the same horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men. Now, women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Life, Dream, Women

  Their Eyes Were Watching God ch. 1 (1937)

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• If you learn to set a good sail, the wind that blows will always take you to the dreams you want, the income you want, and the treasures of mind, purse, and soul you want.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Dream, Learning

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Sep 22, 2016

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• May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Inspirational, Life, Travel

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Adventure, Blow, Wind

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

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• In the pale light of daybreak the gravestones looked like so many white sails of boats anchored in a busy harbor. They were sails that would never again be filled with wind, sails that, too long unused and heavily drooping, had been turned into stone just as they were. The boats' anchors had been thrust so deeply into the dark earth that they could never again be raised.

  Yukio Mishima

  Dark, Light, Anchors

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• Sail the main course in a simple sturdy craft. Keep her well stocked with short stories and long laughs. Go fast enough to get there but slow enough to see. Moderation seems to be the key.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Simple, Keys, Long

  Song: Barometer Soup, Album: Barometer Soup, 1995

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• He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.

  William Osler

  Book, Practice Of Medicine, Sea

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• I can't control the wind but I can adjust the sail.

  Ricky Skaggs

  Inspirational, Funny, Wind

  Song: Can't Control the Wind, Album: Solid Ground, 2007

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