Sailing Quotes - Page 10

• We are off! The courses and topsails are set: the coral-hung anchor swings from the bow: and together, the three royals are given to the breeze, that follows us out to sea like the baying of a hound.

  Herman Melville

  Swings, Anchors, Sea

  Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.536, Delphi Classics

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• Lines I die but when the grave shall press The heart so long endeared to thee When earthy cares no more distress And earthy joys are nought to me. Weep not, but think that I have past Before thee o'er the sea of gloom. Have anchored safe and rest at last Where tears and mouring can not come. 'Tis I should weep to leave thee here On that dark ocean sailing drear With storms around and fears before And no kind light to point the shore. But long or short though life may be 'Tis nothing to eternity. We part below to meet on high Where blissful ages never die.

  Emily Bronte

  Love, Ocean, Heart

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• I think the one advantage to a failed - recovering, but a pretty broken - economy, and a lot of broken promises, is that we've pulled the veils from our eyes way earlier than most people do, and realize "Hey, you know what, maybe I should try do this thing that I really care about, and why not spend the time now during my best years to get into knitting, or coding, or swamp boat sailing." And there's this resource called the Internet that's going to provide you with a stage and a library for all of those things.

  Alexis Ohanian

  Eye, Thinking, Knitting

  Source: thetartan.org

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• She watched the gap between ship and shore grow to a huge gulf. Perhaps this was a little like dying, the departed no longer visible to the others, yet both still existed, only in different worlds.

  Susan Wiggs

  Inspirational, Funny, Departed

  Susan Wiggs (2016). “Susan Wiggs The Calhoun Chronicles Books 1-3: The Charm School\The Horsemaster's Daughter\Halfway to Heaven”, p.70, MIRA

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• Regardless of how much you enjoy your work, you must accept that everything won't come easily. No one has clear sailing on their voyage to success. You will always meet obstacles to overcome. The attainment of real success isn't based on the absence of problems, but the extraordinary ability to deal with problems. Indeed, you will find greatest satisfaction in overcoming the toughest of problems thrown your way. And only by overcoming great difficulties can you achieve greatness in this world.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Real, Greatness, Overcoming

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• The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long head

  Herman Melville

  Games, Long, Sailor

  Herman Melville (1962). “Billy Budd, Sailor”, p.83, University of Chicago Press

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• Life isn't always smooth sailing and sometimes you're afraid of hurting somebody's feelings, or anything, but I think that the truer you can be to yourself the more you're going to kind of open your horizons to a really beautiful relationship.

  Dianna Agron

  Beautiful, Hurt, Thinking

  Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 7, 2010.

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• Success is a finished book, a stack of pages each of which is filled with words. If you reach that point, you have won a victory over yourself no less impressive than sailing single-handed around the world.

  Tom Clancy

  Book, Writing, Victory

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• This beginning motion, this first time when a sail truly filled and the boat took life and knifed across the lake under perfect control, this was so beautiful it stopped my breath.

  Gary Paulsen

  Inspirational, Funny, Beautiful

  Gary Paulsen (2007). “Caught by the Sea: My Life on Boats”, p.13, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• O skies, be calm! O winds, blow free - Blow all my ships safe home to me! But if thou sendest some a-wrack, To never more come sailing back, Send any - all that skim the sea, But bring my love-ship home to me.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Love, Home, Heart

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1912). “Picked Poems”

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• At the end of the day, no amount of investing, no amount of clean electrons, no amount of energy efficiency will save the natural world if we are not paying attention to it - if we are not paying attention to all the things that nature give us for free: clean air, clean water, breathtaking vistas, mountains for skiing, rivers for fishing, oceans for sailing, sunsets for poets, and landscapes for painters. What good is it to have wind-powered lights to brighten the night if you can't see anything green during the day? Just because we can't sell shares in nature doesn't mean it has no value.

  Thomas Friedman

  Ocean, Sunset, Mean

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• We clear the harbor and the wind catches her sails and my beautiful ship leans over ever so gracefully, and her elegant bow cuts cleanly into the increasing chop of the waves. I take a deep breath and my chest expands and my heart starts thumping so strongly I fear the others might see it beat through the cloth of my jacket. I face the wind and my lips peel back from my teeth in a grin of pure joy.

  L.A. Meyer

  Inspirational, Funny, Beautiful

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• Have I mentioned that I expect death around every turn, that every blue sky has a safe sailing out of it, that every bus runs me over, that every low, mean syllable uttered in my direction seems to intimate the violence of murder, that every family seems like an opportunity for ruin and every marriage a ceremony into which calamity will fall and hearts will be broken and lives destroyed and people branded by the mortifications of love?

  Rick Moody

  Love, Running, Fall

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• Let's get one thing clear right now, shall we? There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good story ideas seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky: two previously unrelated ideas come together and make something new under the sun. Your job isn't to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.

  Stephen King

  Jobs, Writing, Islands

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• Cuchulain stirred, Stared on the horses of the sea, and heard The cars of battle and his own name cried; And fought with the invulnerable tide.

  William Butler Yeats

  Horse, Sea, Names

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• People say that life is a cesspool of darkness and dispair. Well we of Van Halen are sailing through it in a yacht!

  David Lee Roth

  People, Darkness, Life Is

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• Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows.

  Charles Buxton

  Inspirational, Sea Breeze, Water

  Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1873). “Notes of Thought”, p.126

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• If, sir, men were all virtuous, I should with great alacrity teach them all to fly. But what would be the security of the good if the bad could at pleasure invade them from the sky? Against an army sailing through the clouds neither wall, nor mountains, nor seas could afford any security.

  Samuel Johnson

  Inspirational, Funny, Wall

  Samuel Johnson (2009). “Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings”, p.270, Harvard University Press

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• In the far corner, a tenor began to sing, Zsadist's crystal-clear voice sailing up toward the warrior paintings on the ceiling far, far above them all. At first John didn't know what the song was...although if he'd been asked what his name was, he would have said Santa Claus, or Luther Vandross, or Teddy Roosevelt. Maybe even Joan Collins.

  J.R. Ward

  Song, Warrior, Zsadist

  J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 5-8”, p.2960, Penguin

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• Sophia and Grandmother sat down by the shore to discuss the matter further. It was a pretty day, and the sea was running a long, windless swell. It was on days just like this--dog days--that boats went sailing off all by themselves. Large, alien objects made their way in from sea, certain things sank and others rose, milk soured, and dragonflies danced in desperation. Lizards were not afraid. When the moon came up, red spiders mated on uninhabited skerries, where the rock became an unbroken carpet of tiny, ecstatic spiders.

  Tove Jansson

  Running, Dog, Grandmother

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• Everything speaks: the flowing airstream and the sailing halycon, the blade of grass, the flower, the bud, the element; did you imagine the universe to be otherwise?

  Victor Hugo

  Flower, Bud, Elements

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• Now, as far as I knew, he (Luke) was still sailing around on his demon-infested cruise ship while the chopped-up Lord Kronos re-formed, bit by bit, in a golden sarcophagus, biding his time until he had enough power to challenge the Olympian gods. In demigod-speak, we call this a “problem.” - Percy, 'The Battle of the Labyrinth

  Rick Riordan

  Challenges, Labyrinth, Battle

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• Even if it is made up of gold, the sailing boat can go nowhere without the humble wind!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Humble, Wind, Gold

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• You seemed to me to be soaring far up in the blue - to be sailing in the bright light, over the heads of men. Suddenly some one tosses up a faded rosebud - a missile that should never have reached you - and down you drop to the ground.

  Henry James

  Men, Light, Blue

  Henry James (2015). “The Portrait of a Lady (Unabridged): From the famous author of the realism movement, known for The Turn of The Screw, The Wings of the Dove, The American, The Bostonian, The Ambassadors, What Maisie Knew…”, p.275, e-artnow

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• But God!Who could live like this , anyway, with the kind of guesswork that was enough to make a person crazy, just sailing along, taking bumps here and there, no course navigated whatsoever, with any big wave capable of just tipping and sinking you entirely. IT was madness, stipidity, and- (then I saw him)

  Sarah Dessen

  Crazy, Here And There, Bumps

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