Voyages Quotes - Page 12

• Never was a faithful prayer lost. Some prayers have a longer voyage than others, but then they return with their richer lading at last, so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer.

  William Gurnall

  Prayer, Journey, Waiting

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• Sink the Bible to the bottom of the ocean, and man's obligations to God would be unchanged. He would have the same path to tread, only his lamp and his guide would be gone; he would have the same voyage to make, but his chart and compass would be overboard!

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Bible, Ocean, Biblical

  "Life Thoughts".

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• To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go.

  Joshua Slocum

  Inspirational, Funny, Encouraging

  Joshua Slocum (1985). “The Voyages of Joshua Slocum”, p.381, Sheridan House, Inc.

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• To many people holidays are not voyages of discovery, but a ritual of reassurance.

  Phillip Adams

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

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• SPIRITUAL WARRIORS is a terrific voyage. A memorable journey through the light and dark of our lives and ultimately to hope. I loved it.

  Victor Salva

  Spiritual, Memorable, Warrior

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• Politics is not like an ocean voyage or a military campaign... something which leaves off as soon as reached. It is not a public chore to be gotten over with. It is a way of life.

  Plutarch

  Military, Ocean, Political

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• To become imperceptible oneself, to have dismantled love in order to become capable of loving. To have dismantled one's self in order finally to be alone and meet the true double at the other end of the line. A clandestine passenger on a motionless voyage. To become like everybody else; but this, precisely, is a becoming only for one who knows how to be nobody, to no longer be anybody. To paint oneself gray on gray.

  Gilles Deleuze

  Self, Order, Becoming

  Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari (2004). “EPZ Thousand Plateaus”, p.218, A&C Black

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• We are made of stellar ash. Our origin and evolution have been tied to distant cosmic events. The exploration of the cosmos is a voyage of self-discovery.

  Carl Sagan

  Discovery, Self, Events

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.348, Ballantine Books

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• The best stories I have heard were pointless, the best books those whose plot I can never remember, the best individuals those whom I never get anywhere with. Though it has been practised on me time and again I never cease to marvel how it happens that with certain individuals whom I know, within a few minutes after greeting them we are embarked on an endless voyage comparable in feeling and trajectory only to the deep middle dream which the practised dreamer slips into like a bone slips into its sockets

  Henry Miller

  Dream, Book, Feelings

  Henry Miller (1958). “The Colossus of Maroussi”, p.71, New Directions Publishing

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• When Providence favors, you can make a safe voyage on a twig.

  Publilius Syrus

  Favors, Safe, Twigs

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• Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit. The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Congratulations, Games, Spirit

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• Thanksgiving, when the Indians said, "Well, this has been fun, but we know you have a long voyage back to England".

  Jay Leno

  Thanksgiving, Fun, Long

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• For all my years in public life, I have believed that America must sail toward the shores of liberty and justice for all. There is no end to that journey, only the next great voyage. We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we make.

  Edward Kennedy

  Believe, Journey, Justice For All

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It was like that all the time, in those years: an endless trip, a gaudy voyage. But powers decay. Time leaches the colors from the best of visions. The world becomes grayer. Entropy beats us down. Everything fades. Everything goes. Everything dies.

  Robert Silverberg

  Color, Years, Vision

  Robert Silverberg (2009). “Dying Inside”, p.116, Macmillan

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• I know not how it is, but during a voyage I collect books as a ship does barnacles.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Book, Doe, Ships

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1967). “The Letters of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Volume I-II: 1814-1843”, p.469, Harvard University Press

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• To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go. The tales of rough usage are for the most part exaggerations, as also are the tales of sea danger. To face the elements is, to be sure, no light matter when the sea is in its grandest mood. You must then know the sea, and know that you know it, and not forget that it was made to be sailed over.

  Joshua Slocum

  Men, Light, Sea

  Joshua Slocum (1985). “The Voyages of Joshua Slocum”, p.381, Sheridan House, Inc.

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• Writing a novel is not so much a project as a journey, a voyage, an adventure.

  Tom Robbins

  Writing, Adventure, Journey

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• Not write what you know, but know what you write. If you write about a world before, after, or other than this one, enter that world completely. Search it to find your deepest longings and most terrible fears. Let imagination carry you as far as it may, as long as you recount the voyage with excitement and wonder. But this is the most important rule: write the book you most long to read.

  Steven Saylor

  Book, Writing, Imagination

  "Know thy subject" by Steven Saylor, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2002.

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• Sometimes, they wait. Sometimes, you see the dead come in to the harbor, and their old dogs are all along the docks, wagging their tails, for they have waited for their masters and mistresses for many years. You see mothers who have missed their sons. Fathers who had never spoken of love to their children, ready to embrace them as they voyage from the end of life. It shows the lies of this world, you see. We are wrong about so many things here. Mankind has done terrible things, yet we are forgiven.

  Douglas Clegg

  Mother, Dog, Children

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• To realize that one is really alone, gives new courage to the person. Discovery of truth is a journey, a voyage on which one has to launch alone. You cannot impose the inquiry of truth in the heart of your partner. You cannot compel your partner to have the same intensity or the same depth of inquiry. So irrespective of where you are, the voyage has to be launched upon alone. Taking the inward journey and arriving at silence, is a voyage in solitude.

  Vimala Thakar

  Heart, Journey, Discovery

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• To know the laws that govern the winds, and to know that you know them, will give you an easy mind on your voyage round the world; otherwise you may tremble at the appearance of every cloud.

  Joshua Slocum

  Clouds, Wind, Law

  Joshua Slocum, Applewood Books (CRT) (2006). “Sailing Alone Around the World”, p.146, Applewood Books

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• I am bold enough to say that a man-made Moon voyage will never occur regardless of all scientific advances.

  Lee De Forest

  Moon, Men, Enough

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• Every new search is a voyage to the Indies, a quest for buried treasure, a journey to the end of the rainbow; and whether or not at the end there shall be turned up a pot of gold or merely a delightful volume, there are always wonders along the way.

  Vincent Starrett

  Journey, Rainbow, Gold

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• Looking back at my life's voyage, I can only say that it has been a golden trip.

  Ginger Rogers

  Travel, Golden, Has Beens

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There is something about a voyage you are barely aware of while you are making it.

  H. M. Tomlinson

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