Voyages Quotes - Page 10

To those who view the voyage of life from the port of departure the bark that has accomplished any considerable distance appears already in close approach to the farther shore.

Ambrose Bierce

Life, Distance, Views

Ambrose Bierce (2015). “Can Such Things Be?”, p.3, Sheba Blake Publishing

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The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Lines, Ships, Hundred

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.266, Library of America

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The time will come when a spacecraft carrying human beings will leave the earth and set out on a voyage to distant planets - to remote worlds. Today this may seem only an enticing fantasy, but such in fact is not the case. The launching of the first two Soviet Sputniks has already thrown a sturdy bridge from the earth into space, and the way to the stars is open

Sergei Korolev

Stars, Bridges, Two

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Even now; with a thousand little voyages notched in my belt. I still feel a memorial chill on casting off.

E. B. White

Casting Off, Memorial, Nautical

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An uplifting, fat-tastic voyage to self-love, Read My Hips made me realize that I no longer need to be weighed down by constantly judging my body. I devoured this book-it's deliciously inspiring!

Hillary Carlip

Uplifting, Book, Self

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What Flaubert refers to as the “mélancholies du voyage” is like the sadness I feel as one season departs and another arrives.

Gretel Ehrlich

Sadness, Feels, Seasons

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Seldom does a storytelling talent come along as potent and fully mature as Mike Brotherton. His complex characters take you on a voyage that is both fiercely credible and astonishingly imaginative. This is Science Fiction.

David Brin

Character, Doe, Fiction

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When the wind is blowing and the sleet or rain is driving against the dark windows, I love to sit by the fire, thinking of what I have read in books of voyage and travel.

Charles Dickens

Rain, Book, Dark

Charles Dickens (2015). “The Long Voyage”, p.3, Booklassic

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IMDB is ridiculous... First of all, they had me down as my height being 5ft 7ins. I'm 5ft 10ins. But now they've got me down as 6ft 1ins and three quarters. They also have me down as doing Voyage of the Dawn Treader. I wish they had me down as doing Francis Ford Coppola's next film. That would be a great rumour.

Skandar Keynes

Wish, Dawn, Would Be

Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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No matter whose bed you die in
the bed will be yours
for your voyage
onto the surgical andiron
of God.

Anne Sexton

Faith, Bed, Matter

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My soul travels on the smell of perfume like the souls of other men on music.

Charles Baudelaire

Music, Travel, Men

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To Meath of the pastures,
From wet hills by the sea,
Through Leitrim and Longford,
Go my cattle and me.

Padraic Colum

Past, Sea, Hills

Padraic Colum (1989). “Selected Poems of Padraic Colum”, p.24, Syracuse University Press

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Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit ... The lesson that most of us on this voyage never learn, but can never quite forget, is that to win is sometimes to lose.

Richard M. Nixon

Change, Success, Time

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Pleasure is the rock which most young people split upon; they launch out with crowded sails in quest of it, but without a compassto direct their course, or reason sufficient to steer the vessel; for want of which, pain and shame, instead of pleasure, are the returns of their voyage.

Lord Chesterfield

Pain, Rocks, People

Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.89, OUP Oxford

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Man ever is and always shall be blessed; for he loves, and love is an onward current that never ebbs; and borne upon this current humanity will at last make its far, fair haven; and meanwhile, as it voyages, it will find the course not too rough, but glorified by frequent halcyon days and calm nights set with stars.

Frank C. Lockwood

Stars, Blessed, Night

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From beginning to end this is a wet and blood smeared voyage, this begetting and birthing and moving away.

Barbara Ascher

Moving, Blood, Birth

Barbara Lazear Ascher (1987). “Playing after dark”, Harpercollins

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We feel very celebratory and positive that we have created a voyage across the DMZ in peace and reconciliation that was said to be impossible.

Gloria Steinem

Peace, Impossible, Said

"Women activists cross DMZ between North and South Korea" by Jethro Mullen, Kathy Novak, www.cnn.com. May 24, 2015.

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Why is almost every robust healthy boy with a robust healthy soul in him, at some time or other crazy to go to sea? Why upon your first voyage as a passenger, did you yourself feel such a mystical vibration, when first told that you and your ship were now out of sight of land? Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did the Greeks give it a separate deity, and own brother of Jove? Surely all this is not without meaning.

Herman Melville

Brother, Crazy, Boys

Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.9

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I mean this record does not sound like somebody's maiden voyage.

George Duke

Mean, Journey, Sound

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After a prosperous, but to me very wearisome, voyage, we came at last into port. Immediately on landing I got together my few effects; and, squeezing myself through the crowd, went into the nearest and humblest inn which first met my gaze.

Adelbert von Chamisso

Journey, Together, Crowds

Theodor Storm, Adelbert von Chamisso, Adalbert Stifter (2005). “Famous German Novellas of the 19th Century”, p.36, Mondial

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For it goes without saying that this great recognition at this time will aid tremendously our efforts to find the necessarily large funds for the next voyage of exploration farther into the depths of the atom.

Ernest Lawrence

Journey, Effort, Depth

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I hope you will be ready to own publicly, whenever you shall be called to it, that by your great and frequent urgency you prevailed on me to publish a very loose and uncorrect account of my travels, with directions to hire some young gentleman of either university to put them in order, and correct the style, as my cousin Dampier did, by my advice, in his book called "A Voyage round the world."

Jonathan Swift

Cousin, Book, Order

Jonathan Swift (2015). “Gulliver's Travels”, p.4, Xist Publishing

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Night and day the river flows. If time is the mind of space, the River is the soul of the desert. Brave boatmen come, they go, they die, the voyage flows on forever. We are all canyoneers. We are all passengers on this little mossy ship, this delicate dory sailing round the sun that humans call the earth. Joy, shipmates, joy.

Edward Abbey

Night, Rivers, Space

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

Publilius Syrus

Favors, Safe, Twigs

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