Sail Quotes - Page 3

• If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Prayer, Wings, Bird

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• If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death.

  Morgan Freeman

  Real, Believe, Ocean

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

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• He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.

  Walter Scott

  Inspirational, Success, Wind

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• There is a rule in sailing where the more maneuverable ship should give way to the less maneuverable craft. I think this is sometimes a good rule to follow in human relationships as well.

  Joyce Brothers

  Thinking, Giving, Sailing

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• Nature will not be conquered, but gives herself freely to her true lover - to him who revels with her, bathes in her seas, sails her rivers, camps in her woods, and with no mercenary ends, accepts all.

  John Burroughs

  Nature, Sea, Rivers

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• The hawk is aerial brother of the wave which he sails over and surveys, those his perfect air-inflated wings answering to the elemental unfledged pinions of the sea.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Brother, Air, Sea

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.103, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Every object is beautiful in motion; a ship under sail, trees gently agitated with the wind, and a fine woman dancing, are three instances in point

  Abigail Adams

  Beautiful, Nature, Wind

  Abigail Adams, John Adams (1840). “Letters of Mrs. Adams: The Wife of John Adams”, p.212

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• I am running through a snowfall which is her thighs, he dramatized in purple. Her thighs are filling up the street. Wide as a snowfall, heavy as huge falling Zeppelins, her damp thighs are settling on the sharp roofs and wooden balconies. Weather-vanes press the shape of roosters and sail-boats into the skin. The faces of famous statues are preserved like intaglios.

  Leonard Cohen

  Running, Fall, Purple

  Leonard Cohen (2011). “The Favourite Game”, p.95, Emblem Editions

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• Gray sail against the sky, Gray butterfly! Have you a dream for going. Or are you the blind wind's blowing?

  Dana Burnet

  Dream, Butterfly, Wind

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• The world is a globe — the farther you sail, the closer to home you are.

  Terry Pratchett

  Funny, Travel, Home

  "The Ghost Girl and the Naked Savage" by James Hynes, www.nytimes.com. December 05, 2008.

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• Let passion fill your sails, but let reason be your rudder.

  Khalil Gibran

  Passion, Enthusiasm, Reason

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• My parents were drawn to the idea that there was space and opportunity in Australia. For the meagre sum of £10, you could sail your entire family out to Australia, so that's what my father chose to do.

  Hugh Jackman

  Father, Opportunity, Ideas

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• He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.

  William Golding

  Patience, Sea, Sailing

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• Shrewd and crafty politicians, when they wish to bring about an unpopular measure, must not go straight forward to work, if they do they will certainly fail; and failures to men in power, are like defeats to a general, they shake their popularity. Therefore, since they cannot sail in the teeth of the wind, they must tack, and ultimately gain their object, by appearing at times to be departing from it.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Wind, Political

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.183

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• Civilization sails prettily like a child's rubber balloon until it hits a sharp object; then it is likely to collapse like the balloon.

  Austin O'Malley

  Children, Civilization, Balloons

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• But who is this, what thing of sea or land,- Female of sex it seems,- That so bedeck'd, ornate, and gay, Comes this way sailing Like a stately ship Of Tarsus, bound for th' isles Of Javan or Gadire, With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Sails fill'd, and streamers waving, Courted by all the winds that hold them play, An amber scent of odorous perfume Her harbinger?

  John Milton

  Sex, Gay, Wind

  John Milton (1832). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.34

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• In this particular tub, two knees jut up like icebergs, while minute brown hairs rise on arms and legs in a fringe of kelp; green soap navigates the tidal slosh of seas breaking on legendary beaches; in faith we shall board our imagined ship and wildly sail among sacred islands of the mad till death shatters the fabulous stars and makes us real.

  Sylvia Plath

  Beach, Stars, Real

  Sylvia Plath (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.4, Faber & Faber

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• Separately there was only wind, water, sail, and hull, but at my hand the four had been given purpose and direction.

  Lowell Thomas

  Inspirational, Funny, Hands

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• We were wavering around like a ship without a sail.

  Judy Holliday

  Inspirational, Funny, Sailing

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• He that hath the steerage of my course, Direct my sail.

  William Shakespeare

  Juliet, Courses, Direct

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.68, Classic Books Company

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• O my son! The dunya (world) is a deep ocean in which many have drowned! Let your ship be taqwallah (fear of Allah), and load your ship with Iman-billah (believe in Allah), and let her sail be tawakkal (trust) on Allah! Insha'Allah you will survive then.

  Luqman

  Believe, Ocean, Islamic

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• Mountains inspire awe in any human person who has a soul. They remind us of our frailty, our unimportance, of the briefness of our span on this earth. They touch the heavens, and sail serenely at an altitude beyond even the imaginings of a mere mortal.

  Elizabeth Aston

  Nature, Heaven, Inspire

  Elizabeth Aston (2006). “The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy: A Novel”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

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• Public opinion is the pennant on a nation's mast which shows the politician and the editor how to trim the sails.

  Austin O'Malley

  Editors, Public Opinion, Politician

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• I had to keep breathing. Even though there was no reason to hope... I stayed alive. I kept breathing. And one day my logic was proven all wrong because the tide came in, and gave me a sail. And now, here I am. Im back... Because now i know what I have to do now. I have to keep breathing. Because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?

  Tom Hanks

  Here I Am, Breathing, One Day

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