Sail Quotes - Page 13

• Lovely Arra Sails,
  nectar to all males,
  how I'd like to spear you like a whaler spears a whale!

  Darren Shan

  Whales, Lovely, Males

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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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• 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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• That's why we sail. So our children can grow up and be proud of whom they are. We are healing our souls by reconnecting to our ancestors. As we voyage we are creating new stories within the tradition of the old stories, we are literally creating a new culture out of the old.

  Nainoa Thompson

  Travel, Children, Growing Up

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• Let Beth Leonard inspire you to sail around the world, explore the high latitudes, or discover your own capacity for adventure. Each nugget in this 'dream becomes reality' series of revelations is worth a thousand pictures.

  Gary Jobson

  Dream, Adventure, Reality

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• The man who boldly transgresses, amassing a great heap unjustly--by force, in time, he will strike his sail, when trouble seizes him as the yardarm is splintered. He calls on those who hear nothing and he struggles in the midst of the whirling waters. The god laughs at the hot-headed man, seeing him, who boasted that this would never happen, exhausted by distress without remedy and unable to surmount the cresting wave. He wrecks the happiness of his earlier life on the reef of Justice, and he perishes unwept, unseen.

  Aeschylus

  Struggle, Men, Hot Headed

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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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• I can't believe that I would keep, keep you from flying And I would cry a thousand more if that's what it takes to sail you home.

  Tori Amos

  Believe, Home, Flying

  Song: 1000 Oceans

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• Stately as a galleon, I sail across the floor,Doing the military two-step, as in the days of yore.

  Joyce Grenfell

  Military, Two, Steps

  'Stately as a Galleon' (1978)

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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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• 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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• For me, my craft is sailing on,Through mists to-day, clear seas anon.Whate'er the final harbor be'T is good to sail upon the sea!

  John Kendrick Bangs

  Sea, Sailing, Finals

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• A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom; a republic is a raft which will never sink, but then your feet are always in the water.

  Fisher Ames

  Rocks, Feet, Water

  Attributed to Ames, speaking in the House of Representatives, 1795; quoted by R. W. Emerson in 'Essays' (2nd series, 1844) no. 7, but not traced in Ames's speeches

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• You read, move your lips, figure out the words, and it's like you're in two places at the same time: you're sitting or lying with your legs curled up, your hand groping in the bowl, but you can see different worlds, far-off worlds that maybe never existed but still seem real. You run or sail or race in a sleigh--you're running away from someone, or you yourself have decided to attack--your heart thumps, life flies by, and it's wondrous: you can live as many different lives as there are books to read.

  Tatyana Tolstaya

  Running, Real, Lying

  Tatyana Tolstaya (2016). “The Slynx”, p.127, New York Review of Books

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• In adversity be spirited and firm, and with equal prudence lessen your sail when filled with a too fortunate gale of prosperity.

  Horace

  Adversity, Gale, Prosperity

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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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• The right woman for you wouldn't want you to change anything about your life. She wouldn't rock your boat, she'd jump right in and sail it with you.

  Alice Clayton

  Rocks, Want, Boat

  Alice Clayton (2016). “The Cocktail Collection: Wallbanger, Rusty Nailed, and Screwdrivered”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

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• Writing is a vessel...with readers the ocean and authors as its sails.

  William Petersen

  Ocean, Writing, Reader

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• A man lies upon the floor, spreads his arms, and transforms himself into a ship of a thousand sails.

  Rick Yancey

  Lying, Men, Arms

  Rick Yancey (2012). “The Isle of Blood”, p.266, Simon and Schuster

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• The future of Japan's economic growth depends on us having the willpower and the courage to sail without hesitation onto the rough seas of global competition.

  Shinzo Abe

  Japan, Sea, Competition

  "Japan’s New Leader Takes On Old Order to Jolt Economy" by Martin Fackler, www.nytimes.com. March 6, 2013.

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• Marriage makes a man more vulnerable by doubling the expanse of sail exposed to the tempests of social life.

  Andre Maurois

  Men, Vulnerable, Tempest

  "The Art of Living". Book by Andre Maurois, 1939.

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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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• It is the tenderness that breaks our hearts. The loveliness that leaves us stranded on the shore, watching the boats sail away. It is the sweetness that makes us want to reach out and touch the soft skin of another person. And it is the grace that comes to us, undeserving though we may be.

  Robert Goolrick

  Heart, Grace, Skins

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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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• Those who can take that crabbed tree handsomely upon their back, and fasten it on cannily, shall find it such a burden as wings unto a bird, or sails to a ship.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Wings, Bird, Tree

  Samuel Rutherford (1857). “Letters”, p.18

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