Voyages Quotes - Page 14

• There are some people who cannot get onto a train without imagining that they are about to voyage into the significant unknown; as though the notion of movement were inseparably connected with the notion of discovery, as though each displacement of the body were a displacement of the soul.

  Margaret Drabble

  Travel, Discovery, People

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• The oft-heard comment that Leonardo [da Vinci]'s genius managed to transcend the culture of his time is amply justified. But his was not a science-fiction voyage into the future as much as a plunge into the past.

  Lucio Russo

  Past, Culture, Fiction

  "The Forgotten Revolution: How Science Was Born in 300 BC and Why It Had to Be Reborn". Book by Lucio Russo, 2004.

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• Regardless of how much you enjoy your work, you must accept that everything won't come easily. No one has clear sailing on their voyage to success. You will always meet obstacles to overcome. The attainment of real success isn't based on the absence of problems, but the extraordinary ability to deal with problems. Indeed, you will find greatest satisfaction in overcoming the toughest of problems thrown your way. And only by overcoming great difficulties can you achieve greatness in this world.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Real, Greatness, Sailing

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• I trust and believe that the time spent in this voyage ... will produce its full worth in Natural History; and it appears to me the doing what little we can to increase the general stock of knowledge is as respectable an object of life, as one can in any likelihood pursue.

  Charles Darwin

  Believe, Knowledge, Science

  Charles Darwin (1902). “Charles Darwin: His Life in an Autobiographical Chapter and in a Selected Series of His Published Letters”, p.267, Library of Alexandria

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• Every normal human being (and not merely the 'artist') has an inexhaustible store of buried images in his subconscious, it is merely a matter of courage or liberating procedures ... of voyages into the unconscious, to bring pure and unadulterated found objects to light.

  Max Ernst

  Artist, Light, Found Objects

  Max Ernst, Ian Turpin, Julian Stallabrass (1993). “Ernst”, Phaidon Press

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• A revolutionary career does not lead to banquets and honorary titles, interesting research and professorial wages. It leads to misery, disgrace, ingratitude, prison and a voyage into the unknown, illuminated by only an almost superhuman belief.

  Max Horkheimer

  Careers, Interesting, Doe

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• One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.

  Carl Sagan

  Book, Years, Voice

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• To read is to voyage through time.

  Carl Sagan

  Time, Rough Times

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• A home is much more than a house built of lumber, brick, or stone. A home is made of love, sacrifice, and respect. We are responsible for the homes we build. We must build wisely, for eternity is not a short voyage. There will be calm and wind, sunlight and shadows, joy and sorrow. But if we really try, our home can be a bit of heaven here on earth. The thoughts we think, the deeds we do, the lives we live not only influence the success of our earthly journey, they also mark the way to our eternal goals.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Home, Sacrifice, Thinking

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• No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.

  Aphra Behn

  Sea, Long, No Friends

  Aphra Behn, John Philip Kemble (1790). “Love in Many Masks: as altered by J. P. Kemble from Mrs. Behn's Rover [i.e. from the first part].”, p.8

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• Love is a dangerous thing. It comes in disguise to change our life... Lust is the deceiver. Lust wrenches our lives until nothing matters except the one we think we love, and under that deceptive spell we kill for them, give all for them, and then, when we have what we have wanted, we discover that it is all an illusion and nothing is there. Lust is a voyage to nowhere, to an empty land, but some men just love such voyages and never care about the destination. Love is a voyage too, a voyage with no destination except death, but a voyage of bliss.

  Bernard Cornwell

  Love Is, Men, Thinking

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• There is more time than there is expanse of the world and so any voyage at last will end.

  Ivan Doig

  World, Lasts, Ends

  Ivan Doig (2013). “The Sea Runners”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• In sex, man is driven into the very abyss which he flees. He makes a voyage to non-being and back.

  Camille Paglia

  Sex, Men, Driven

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.49, Canongate Books

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• If all do not join now to save the good old ship of the Union this voyage nobody will have a chance to pilot her on another voyage.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Unions, Pilots

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.216, Wildside Press LLC

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• Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling.

  Blaise Pascal

  Vanity, Sea, Curiosity

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• Having undertaken, for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith, and honor of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia, do by these presents solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God, and one of another, covenant and combine our selves together.

  William Bradford

  Christian, Country, Kings

  William Bradford (1952). “Of Plymouth Plantation, 1620-1647”, p.76, Rutgers University Press

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• Monsieur Franqulin, inventor of electricity. This
  illustrious savant, after having made several voyages around the
  world, died on the Sandwich Islands and was devoured by savages,
  of whom not a single fragment was ever recovered.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Islands, Savages, Sandwiches

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.64, University of Georgia Press

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• My steamboat voyage to Albany and back, has turned out rather more favorable than I had calculated. The distance from New York to Albany is one hundred and fifty miles; I ran it up in thirty-two hours, and down in thirty. I had a light breeze against me the whole way, both going and coming, and the voyage has been performed wholly by, the power of the steam engine. I overtook many sloops and schooners beating to windward and parted with them as if they had been at anchor. The power of propelling boats by steam is now fully proved.

  Robert Fulton

  New York, Distance, Light

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• I define coaching as launching the salesperson on a voyage of discovery by asking questions.

  Chris Lytle

  Asking Questions, Discovery, Coaching

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• It seems to me as natural and necessary to keep notes, however brief, of one's reading, as logs of voyages or photographs of one's travels. For memory, in most of us, is a liar with galloping consumption.

  F. L. Lucas

  Memories, Liars, Reading

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• Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any Cyclades or Islands of King Solomon, then there were promise in the voyage.

  Herman Melville

  Sweet, Kings, Pain

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