Sail Quotes - Page 8

• A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment; and even obstacles and opposition will but make us "like the fabled specter-ships," which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mean, Wind, Overcoming

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• If I did not see that the Lord kept watch over the ship, I should long since have abandoned the helm. But I see Him! - through the storm, strengthening the tackling, handling the yards, spreading the sails - yes more, commanding the very winds! Should I not be a coward if I abandoned my post? Let Him govern, let Him carry us forward, let Him hasten or delay; we will fear nothing!

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Prayer, Wind

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• This is a modern fairytale. No happy endings. No wind in our sails. But I can't imagine a life without. Breathless moments.

  Selena Gomez

  Wind, Lovely, Fairytale

  Song: The Heart Wants What It Wants, Album: For You, 2014

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• We have known for a long time that Prince Charles' empty sails are so rigged as to be swelled by any passing waft or breeze of crankiness and cant. He fell for the fake anthropologist Laurens van der Post. He was bowled over by the charms of homeopathic medicine. He has been believably reported as saying that plants do better if you talk to them in a soothing and encouraging way

  Christopher Hitchens

  Stupid, Medicine, Long

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.772, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• There will certainly be no lack of human pioneers when we have mastered the art of flight....Let us create vessels and sails justed to the heavenly ether, and there will be plenty of people unafraid of the empty wastes. In the meantime we shall prepare, for the brave sky-travelers, maps of the celestial bodies.

  Johannes Kepler

  Art, Science, Sky

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• The wind of God's grace is incessantly blowing. Lazy sailors on the sea of life do not take advantage of it. But the active and strong always keep the sails of their minds unfurled to catch the favorable winds and thus reach their destination very soon.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Strong, Wind, Sea

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• In what rapt ether sails the world, of which the weariest will never weary?

  Herman Melville

  World, Weary

  Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.545, Velvet Element Books

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• One might better try to sail the Atlantic in a paper boat, than try to get to heaven on good works.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Heaven, Trying, Paper

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• To run over better waters the little vessel of my genius now hoists her sails, as she leaves behind her a sea so cruel.

  Dante Alighieri

  Running, Sea, Water

  Dante Alighieri (1902). “The Divine Comedy”

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• Sometimes a party must sail against the wind. We cannot heed the call of those who say it is time to furl the sail. The party that tore itself apart over Vietnam in the 1960s cannot afford to tear itself apart today over budget cuts in basic social programs.

  Edward Kennedy

  Party, Cutting, Wind

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• The Moon is our local port opening to the universe; in the future, it's through that port we will sail our ships to the coastless oceans.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Ocean, Moon, Ships

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• There are only two options for a ship: Either to sail to the sea and fight with the waves or rot in a port! The same is valid for the man!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Fighting, Men, Two

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• While local matters are happening around you, let your mind sail to the ocean of universal matters.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Ocean, Mind, Matter

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• ... everything in the world is a force, a pull or a push. In order for us to be pushed or pulled we need to be like a sail, like a kite in the wind. But if we have a hole in the middle of our luminosity, the force goes through it and never acts upon us.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Order, Wind, Needs

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• [I]f a man bred to the seafaring life, and accustomed to think and talk only of matters relating to navigation, enters into discourse upon any other subject; it is well known, that the language and the notions proper to his own profession are infused into every subject, and all things are measured by the rules of navigation: and if he should take it into his head to philosophize concerning the faculties of the mind, it cannot be doubted, but he would draw his notions from the fabric of the ship, and would find in the mind, sails, masts, rudder, and compass.

  Thomas Reid

  Men, Thinking, Mind

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• Never set a child afloat on the flat sea of life with only one sail to catch the wind.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Children, Wind, Sea

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.52, Cambridge University Press

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• If you have decided to sail to the sea with great courage and determination, even the storm on the horizon will step aside!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Determination, Sea, Storm

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• I prefer to sail in a bad ship with a good captain rather than sail in a good ship with a bad captain.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Captains, Ships

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• Since I was 10 years old, I knew I wanted to sail around the world.

  Laura Dekker

  Years, World, Wanted

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• Cultural wisdom says 'Don't quit your day job.' Yet I think these desires represent our psyche's stretch toward wholeness. And to be whole, as many religious tranditions teach, is to make manifest a unique face of God in the world. We don't want to be irresponsible, yet for every accountant who deserts his family and sails for Tahiti, ten American men have heart attacks at their desks, after hours.

  Mary Rose O'Reilley

  Religious, Jobs, Heart

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• Wisdom, health, life and love cannot be found in trying to control the wind, but rather in harnessing the wind in the sails of receptive engagement of the present moment.

  Martin Laird

  Life And Love, Wind, Trying

  Martin Laird (2006). “Into the Silent Land: A Guide to the Christian Practice of Contemplation”, p.61, Oxford University Press

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• I warn the marauder dragging plunder, chaotic, rich beyond all rights: he'll strike his sails, harried at long last, stunned when the squalls of torment break his spars to bits.

  Aeschylus

  Rights, Long, Lasts

  Aeschylus (1984). “The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides”, p.216, Penguin

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• The big man in a small village is the big ship in a small lake! Let him sail to the vast oceans!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Ocean, Men, Lakes

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• Genius is both the sail and the wind; that's why he continues his journey without stopping!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Journey, Wind, Stopping

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• Grief is like the wind. When it's blowing hard, you adjust your sails and run before it. If it blows too hard, you stay in the harbor, close the hatches and don't take calls. When it's gentle, you go sailing, have a picnic, take a swim.

  Barbara Ascher

  Running, Grief, Blow

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