Sail Quotes - Page 14

• 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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• 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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• Michael Bay and his team are experts in exciting tentpole-type film and television, and the combination of their film experience plus the great television writers that have come on will be really successful in bringing us something really unique. We are looking to put on these big canvas shows, and Black Sails is going to fit into that. The scripts have been terrific. Everything that we are trying to do is incredibly ambitious, and this is certainly in that category.

  Chris Albrecht

  Team, Successful, Unique

  Source: collider.com

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• Fiction does not invent out of a vacuum, but it invents; and what it invents is, first, the fabric and cadence of language, and then a slant of idea that sails out of these as a fin lifts from the sea.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Sea, Ideas, Vacuums

  Cynthia Ozick (2006). “The Din in the Head”, p.74, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• How many roads must a man walk down, Before you call him a man? How many seas must a white dove sail, Before she sleeps in the sand? Yes, and how many times must the cannon balls fly, Before they're forever banned?

  Bob Dylan

  Sleep, Men, Sea

  Song: Blowing In The Wind

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• The wind of divine grace is always blowing. You just need to spread your sail. Whenever you do anything, do it with your whole heart concentrated on it. Think day and night, I am of the essence of that Supreme Being-Consciousness-Bliss. What fear and anxiety have I?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Heart, Night, Thinking

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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 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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• We exist only by virtue of what we possess, we possess only what is really present to us, and many of our memories, our moods, our ideas sail away on a voyage of their own until they are lost to sight! Then we can no longer take them into account in the total which is our personality. But they know of secret paths by which to return to us.

  Marcel Proust

  Memories, Sight, Ideas

  Marcel Proust (1982). “Remembrance of Things Past: The captive. The fugitive. Time regained”, Vintage

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• No one's life is a smooth sail; we all come into stormy weather. But it's this adversity - and more specifically our resilience - that makes us strong and successful.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Strong, Adversity

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• The legislator is like the navigator of a ship on the high seas. He can steer the vessel on which he sails, but he cannot alter its construction, raise the wind, or stop the waves from swelling beneath his feet.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Wind, Sea, Feet

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• On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale; Nor God alone in the still calm we find, He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind.

  Alexander Pope

  Ocean, Passion, Wind

  Alexander Pope (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe”, p.69

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• The breeze of grace is always blowing on you. You have to open the sails and your boat will move forward.

  Ramakrishna

  Moving, Grace, Boat

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• I cannot predict the wind but I can have my sail ready.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Wind, Ready, I Can

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• My sailing system set sail, make it fast, no thoughts of energy or velocity, loll back, let boat drift.

  Albert Einstein

  Sailing, Energy, Velocity

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• Sail on! sail on! sail on! and on!

  Joaquin Miller

  Joaquin Miller (1923). “The Poetical Works of Joaquin Miller”

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• Sundown. The distressed sloop, its mainmast shattered by lightning, its sails ripped by the winds of the open sea, drifted into the small, quiet beach of a private island in the Lesser Antilles

  Robert Ludlum

  Beach, Islands, Wind

  Robert Ludlum (2009). “The Scorpio Illusion”, p.16, Hachette UK

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• Those who never sail stormy waters are the quickest and harshest judges of bad seamanship.

  Susan Glaspell

  Water, Judging, Criticism

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• He gained a world; he gave that world Its grandest lesson: "On! sail on!"

  Joaquin Miller

  Adventure, World, Lessons

  Joaquin Miller (1917). “The Building of the City Beautiful”

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• Evolution is fundamentally creative, and when we align ourselves with the evolutionary movements of consciousness, the universe itself puts wind in our sails. Quantum thinking goes beyond the thoughts we're aware of; it includes unconscious processing, which doesn't just expand our boundaries, but can also free us from the suffering that conscious processing (sometimes known as 'the monkey mind') creates.

  Amit Goswami

  Inspirational, Thinking, Wind

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• It's hard to tell / if we close our eyes or if night / opens in us other starred eyes, / if it burrows into the wall of our dream / till some other door opens. / But the dream is only the flitting costume of one moment, / is spent in one beat / of the darkness, / and falls at our feet, cast off / as the day stirs and sails away with us.

  Pablo Neruda

  Dream, Wall, Fall

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• But the 3% who have taken the time and exercised the discipline to decide on a destination and to chart a course sail straight and far across the deep oceans of life, reaching one port after another and accomplishing more in just a few years than the rest accomplish in a lifetime.

  Earl Nightingale

  Ocean, Taken, Years

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• Into the sunset's turquoise marge The moon dips, like a pearly barge; Enchantment sails through magic seas, To fairland Hesperides, Over the hills and away.

  Madison Cawein

  Sunset, Moon, Sea

  Madison Cawein (2017). “Kentucky Poems”, p.129, Litres

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