Sail Quotes - Page 5

• The night before Atlantis sank beneath the waves forever, the members of the MysterySchool set sail from their doomed continent in twelve boats, headed for twelve different points on the globe.

  Frederick Lenz

  Night, Forever, Atlantis

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• When all moves equally (says Pascal), nothing seems to move as in a vessel under sail; and when all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so. He that stops first, views as from a fixed point the horrible extravagance that transports the rest.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Running, Moving, Views

  Charles Caleb Colton (1828). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words Addressed to Those who Think”, p.39

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• One good reason for the popularity of "reductionism" among the philosophical outposts of the Western Establishment is that it can be, and is, used as a device for trying to take the wind, so to speak, out of the sails of Marxism. . . . In essence reductionism is a kind of anti-Marxist caricature of Marxist determinism. It is what anti-Marxists pretend that Marxist determinism is.

  Claud Cockburn

  Philosophical, Speaks Out, Wind

  Claud Cockburn (1981). “Cockburn Sums Up: An Autobiography”, Quartet Books (UK)

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• Farewell," they cried, "Wherever you fare till your eyries receive you at the journey's end!" That is the polite thing to say among eagles. "May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks," answered Gandalf, who knew the correct reply.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Farewell, Moon, Journey

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

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• I didn't choose to be a guitar player. That was something that felt like it was chosen for me. And with that blessing and curse, I, throughout my entire career, it's been my job to weave my convictions into my vocation. And whether I'm standing in the streets of Chicago or the Occupy Wall Street or in Madison, Wisconsin, my job is to steel the backbone of people on the frontlines of social justice struggles, and to put wind in sails of those struggles. And people who are fighting on a, on a daily basis, at a grass roots level, for the things that I believe in.

  Tom Morello

  Wall, Believe, Struggle

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Nor is it wiser to weep a true occasion lost, but trim our sails, and let old bygones be.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Acceptance, Bygones, Lost

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.656, Delphi Classics

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• Separately there was only wind, water, sail, and hull, but at my hand the four had been given purpose and direction.

  Lowell Thomas

  Inspirational, Funny, Hands

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• We were wavering around like a ship without a sail.

  Judy Holliday

  Inspirational, Funny, Sailing

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• A ship does not sail with yesterday's wind.

  Louis L'Amour

  Wind, Yesterday, Doe

  Louis L'Amour (2005). “The Walking Drum”, p.14, Bantam

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• Speaking as he unintentionally launched his farewell tour by announcing that the 2000 season would be his last before retirement: Honestly, I had never, ever in my wildest dreams believed I would ever do this. All I wanted to do was to play it out and when it was time to go, hang it up, take off and sail into the sunset somewhere.

  LaVell Edwards

  Dream, Retirement, Farewell

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• Nothing is here to stay
  Everything has to begin and end
  A ship in a bottle won't sail
  All we can do is dream that the wind will blow us across the water
  A ship in a bottle set sail

  Dave Matthews

  Dream, Blow, Wind

  Song: Baby, Album: Some Devil, 2003

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• Let passion fill your sails, but let reason be your rudder.

  Khalil Gibran

  Passion, Enthusiasm, Reason

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• Shrewd and crafty politicians, when they wish to bring about an unpopular measure, must not go straight forward to work, if they do they will certainly fail; and failures to men in power, are like defeats to a general, they shake their popularity. Therefore, since they cannot sail in the teeth of the wind, they must tack, and ultimately gain their object, by appearing at times to be departing from it.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Wind, Political

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.183

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• Mountains inspire awe in any human person who has a soul. They remind us of our frailty, our unimportance, of the briefness of our span on this earth. They touch the heavens, and sail serenely at an altitude beyond even the imaginings of a mere mortal.

  Elizabeth Aston

  Nature, Heaven, Inspire

  Elizabeth Aston (2006). “The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy: A Novel”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

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• Civilization sails prettily like a child's rubber balloon until it hits a sharp object; then it is likely to collapse like the balloon.

  Austin O'Malley

  Children, Civilization, Balloons

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• Gray sail against the sky, Gray butterfly! Have you a dream for going. Or are you the blind wind's blowing?

  Dana Burnet

  Dream, Butterfly, Wind

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• O my son! The dunya (world) is a deep ocean in which many have drowned! Let your ship be taqwallah (fear of Allah), and load your ship with Iman-billah (believe in Allah), and let her sail be tawakkal (trust) on Allah! Insha'Allah you will survive then.

  Luqman

  Believe, Ocean, Islamic

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• Public opinion is the pennant on a nation's mast which shows the politician and the editor how to trim the sails.

  Austin O'Malley

  Editors, Public Opinion, Politician

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• But who is this, what thing of sea or land,- Female of sex it seems,- That so bedeck'd, ornate, and gay, Comes this way sailing Like a stately ship Of Tarsus, bound for th' isles Of Javan or Gadire, With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Sails fill'd, and streamers waving, Courted by all the winds that hold them play, An amber scent of odorous perfume Her harbinger?

  John Milton

  Sex, Gay, Wind

  John Milton (1832). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.34

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• I would rather sail and hit a rock
  than sit and rot in dry dock.

  Lester Roloff

  Rocks, Dry, Docks

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• Let the winds blow! a fiercer gale
  Is wild within me! what may quell
  That sullen tempest? I must sail
  Whither, O whither, who can tell!

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Blow, Wind, May

  Edmund Clarence Stedman (1873). “The Poetical Works of Edmund Clarence Stedman”, p.80

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• If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Wind, Goal

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• My job is to steel the backbone of people on the frontlines of social justice struggles, and to put wind in sails of those struggles. And people who are fighting on a, on a daily basis, at a grass roots level.

  Tom Morello

  Struggle, Fighting, Justice

  "Tom Morello Leads The Occupy 'Guitarmy'". Interview with Diane Sweet, crooksandliars.com. May 22, 2012.

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• I had a dream about building a house on a dock, composed from 100 triangles. You'd have to sail from room to room. And maybe the entrance would be the mouth of a whale.

  Henrik Vibskov

  Dream, House, Building

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We don't control everything. There are genetic influences. There are environmental exposures we don't control. I cannot guarantee anyone I counsel that by following what I hope is the good advice I offer them, they will live long and prosper. That's what I'm hoping for but I can't guarantee that. What I can tell them is this: "Look, I can help you firmly grip the wheel, and you can steer the ship. You're never going to control the winds and you're never going to control the seas. But if you sail well you can get through just about anything."

  David Katz

  Long, Advice, Environmental

  Source: bigthink.com

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