Sail Quotes - Page 11

• Great waves, and blaze with fire like them.In beauty, but do not condemn,The seamen who embark and fail,But only those who will not sail.

  John Piper

  Fire, Failing, Wave

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• Security in human systems we're told will always, always last. Emotions are the sail, and blind faith is the mast. Without the breath of real freedom we're getting nowhere fast.

  Sting

  Real, Lasts, Emotion

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• Well, well, the world must turn upon its axis, And all mankind turn with it, heads or tails, And live and die, make love and pay our taxes, And as the veering winds shift, shift our sails.

  Lord Byron

  Heads Or Tails, Axes, Wind

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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• It's coming to America first, The cradle of the best and of the worst. It's here they got the range And the machinery for change And it's here they got the spiritual thirst. It's here the family's broken And it's here the lonely say That the heart has got to open In a fundamental way: Democracy is coming to the U.S.A. O mighty Ship of State! To the Shores of Need Past the Reefs of Greed Through the Squalls of Hate Sail on, sail on.

  Leonard Cohen

  Spiritual, Lonely, Hate

  Leonard Cohen (2008). “The Lyrics of Leonard Cohen: Enhanced Edition”, p.66, Omnibus Press

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• Governments are the sails, the people the wind, the country is the ship and time is the sea.

  Ludwig Borne

  Country, Government, Wind

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• He enters the port with a full sail.

  Virgil

  Inspirational, Funny, Philosophical

  Virgil, C. Davidson (Translator of Virgil.) (1791). “The Works: Of Virgil, Translated Into English Prose, as Near the Original as the Different Idioms of the Latin and English Languages Will Allow. For the Use of Schools, as Well as of Private Gentlemen”, p.192

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• Age should fly concourse, cover in retreat defects of judgment, and the will subdue; walk thoughtful on the silent, solemn shore of that vast ocean it must sail so soon.

  Edward Young

  Ocean, Thoughtful, Silence

  Edward Young, John Doran, James Nichols (1854). “The Complete Works, Poetry and Prose of the Rev. Edward Young, LL.D.: Revised and Collated with the Earliest Editions. To which is Prefixed A Life of the Author”, p.82

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• I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Motivational, Lying, Moving

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• If some of these [Republican] folks were around when Columbus set sail, they must have been founding members of the 'flat earth society.' They would not believe that the world was round.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Earth, Columbus

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• The moral earth, too, is round! The moral earth, too, has its antipodes! The antipodes, too, have their right to exist! There is still another world to be discovered--and more than one! Set sail, you philosophers!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sailing, World, Earth

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• Herein is the explanation of the analogies, which exist in all the arts. They are the re-appearance of one mind, working in many materials to many temporary ends. Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakspeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it. Painting was called "silent poetry," and poetry "speaking painting." The laws of each art are convertible into the laws of every other.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Writing, Law

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.48, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

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• The shortest route is not the most direct one, but rather the one where the most favorable winds swell our sails:Mthat is the lesson that seafarers teach. Not to abide by this lesson is to be obstinate: here, firmness of character is tainted with stupidity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Character, Wind, Stupidity

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• Sweet and low, sweet and low, Wind of the western sea, Low, low, breathe and blow, Wind of the western sea! Over the rolling waters go, Come from the dying moon, and blow, Blow him again to me; While my little one, while my pretty one, sleeps. Sleep and rest, sleep and rest, Father will come to thee soon; Rest, rest, on mother's breast, Father will come to thee soon; Father will come to his babe in the nest, Silver sails all out of the west Under the silver moon: Sleep, my little one, sleep, my pretty one, sleep.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Mother, Sweet, Father

  'The Princess' (1847) pt. 3, song (added 1850)

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• As John Kerry sails toward the Democratic nomination, new questions are emerging about President Bush's service in the National Guard, like where he was for six months in 1972 and why he refused to take a routine physical. President Bush has vowed to get to the bottom of this right after Election Day.

  Craig Kilborn

  President, Routine, Six Months

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• A father is neither an anchor to hold us back, nor a sail to take us there, but a guiding light whose love shows us the way.

  Unknown

  Father, Son, Father Son

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• A bogus Congress register can never lead you to Swaraj any more than a paper boat can help you to sail across the Padma.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Paper, Helping, Boat

  Mahatma Gandhi (1939). “Collected Works”

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• The Bible goes equally to the cottage of the peasant, and the palace of the king. - It is woven into literature, and colors the talk of the street. The bark of the merchant cannot sail without it; and no ship of war goes to the conflict but it is there. It enters men's closets; directs their conduct, and mingles in all the grief and cheerfulness of life.

  Theodore Parker

  Kings, War, Grief

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• When ships to sail the void between the stars have been built, there will step forth men to sail these ships.

  Johannes Kepler

  Stars, Men, Void

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• Style is how you see the world and how the world sees you. It isn't today and it isn't tomorrow; it isn't a dress or a car or a shoe or a comment-it's the cut of your sail as you cross this crazy, uncharted sea. Far ahead, legions of boats have already made the crossing-some grander, some more sleek-and still newer boats are always coming up behind you. Style is the manner in which you navigate your one remarkable voyage.

  Carol Edgarian

  Crazy, Cutting, Sea

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• And he misses her Like a wind starved sail He sits knowing what direction to go But the current keeps pulling him Down river.

  Rumi

  Wind, Rivers, Knowing

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• I've always wanted to sail to the South Seas, but I can't afford it. What these men can't afford is not to go. They are enmeshed in the cancerous discipline of security. And in the worship of security we fling our lives beneath the wheels of routine — and before we know it our lives are gone.

  Sterling Hayden

  Men, Sea, Discipline

  Sterling Hayden (2015). “Wanderer”, p.42, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Why are all reflections lovelier than what we call reality? -- not so grand or so strong, it may be, but always lovelier? Fair as is the gliding sloop on the shining sea, the wavering, trembling, unresting sail below is fairer still...All mirrors are magic mirrors. The commonest room is a room in a poem when I turn to the glass...There must be a truth involved in it, though we may but in part lay hold of the meaning.

  George MacDonald

  Strong, Reflection, Reality

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• Stig: 'Of course, she'll sail rings around Wolfswind,' Hal: 'Then why didn't you tell him that?' Stig: 'I like my head where it is.

  John Flanagan

  Stig, Rings, Courses

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• Life is like stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Life hurls us like a stone, and we sail through the air saying, "look at me move.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Moving, Air, Looks

  Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith (2002). “The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa”, p.293, Grove Press

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