The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind. — William Falconer
There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea. — Joseph Conrad
Sail the main course in a simple sturdy craft. Keep her well stocked with short stories and long laughs. Go fast enough to get there but slow enough to see. Moderation seems to be the key. — Jimmy Buffett
There is little man has made that approaches anything in nature, but a sailing ship does. There is not much man has made that calls to all the best in him, but a sailing ship does. — Alan Villiers
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full. — Arthur Ashe
Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly rising o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes, Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm. — Thomas Gray
The ocean is a central image. It is the symbolism of a great journey. — Enya
What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics. — David Lloyd George
My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sailing Image Quotes
Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find." — Walt Whitman
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. — Dolly Parton
He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience. — William Golding
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjust the sails.
Sailing The Sea Quotes
You do not ask a tame seagull why it needs to disappear from time to time toward the open sea. It goes, that's all. — Bernard Moitessier
later down the road of life, i made the discovery that salt water was also good for the mental abrasions one inevitably acquires on land. — Jimmy Buffett
We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds. — Hanmer Parsons Grant
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came. — John F. Kennedy
The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea. — Ovid
Hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic. — Van Morrison
We cant direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
Any damn fool can navigate the world sober. It takes a really good sailor to do it drunk. — Francis Chichester
Until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore, you will not know the terror of being forever lost at sea. — Charlie Cook
I went to sea from the most tender age and have continued in a sea life to this day. Whoever gives himself up to this art wants to know the secrets of Nature here below. It is more than forty years that I have been thus engaged. Wherever any one has sailed, there I have sailed. — Christopher Columbus
My real log is written in the sea and sky; the sails talking with the rain and the stars amid the sounds of the sea, the silences full of secret things between my boat and me, like the times I spent as a child listening to the forest talk. — Bernard Moitessier
Sailing And Life Quotes
May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks. — J. R. R. Tolkien
To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest. — Sterling Hayden
My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea, and the heart of the great ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Be in a state of gratitude for everything that shows up in your life. Be thankful for the storms as well as smooth sailing.
People say that life is a cesspool of darkness and dispair. Well we of Van Halen are sailing through it in a yacht! — David Lee Roth
It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark. — Howard Ruff
I am in love with this world . . . I have climbed its mountains, roamed its forests, sailed its waters, crossed its deserts, felt the sting of its frosts, the oppression of its heats, the drench of its rains, the fury of its winds, and always have beauty and joy waited upon my goings and comings. — John Burroughs
I can't always change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
If you're going through difficult times today, hold steady. It will change soon. If you are experiencing smooth sailing and easy times now, brace yourself. It will change soon. The only thing you can be certain of is change. — James Dobson
An order given in battle, an instruction issued by the master of a sailing ship, a cry for help, are as powerful in modifying the course of events as any other bodily act...You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or prison. — Bronislaw Malinowski
You understand Teacher, don't you, that when you have a mother who's an angel and a father who is a cannibal king, and when you have sailed on the ocean all your whole life, then you don't know just how to behave in school with all the apples and ibexes. — Astrid Lindgren
If you meet a woman of whatever complexion who sails her life with strength and grace and assurance, talk to her! And what you will find is that there has been a suffering, that at some time she has left herself for hanging dead. — Sena Jeter Naslund
Sailors And The Sea Quotes
All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken. — Thomas Wolfe
And the voices in the waves are always whispering to Florence, in their ceaseless murmuring, of love - of love, eternal and illimitable, not bounded by the confines of this world, or by the end of time, but ranging still, beyond the sea, beyond the sky, to the invisible country far away! — Charles Dickens
Out of sight of land the sailor feels safe. It is the beach that worries him. — Charles Davis
We can't direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
Sailors, with their built in sense of order, service and discipline, should really be running the world. — Nicholas Monsarrat
There is but a plank between a sailor and eternity. — Thomas Gibbons
I don't know who named them swells. There's nothing swell about them. They should have named them awfuls. — Hugo Vihlen
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw of the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in you sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Bad cooking is responsible for more trouble at sea than all other things put together. — Thomas Fleming Day
I believe in living, I believe in birth, I believe in the sweat of love and in the fire of truth and I believe that a lost ship, steered by tired, sea sick sailors, can still be guided home to port — Assata Shakur
Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates. — Mark Twain
Sailing And Wind Quotes
Windmills, which are used in the great plains of Holland and North Germany to supply the want of falling water, afford another instance of the action of velocity. The sails are driven by air in motion - by wind. — Hermann von Helmholtz
She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails. — Elizabeth Edwards
Come dance with the west wind and touch on the mountain tops Sail o'er the canyons and up to the stars And reach for the heavens and hope for the future And all that we can be and not what we are. — John Denver
I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.
I can't control the wind but I can adjust the sail. — Ricky Skaggs
The questions that used to bother me at times, do not weigh anything before the immensity of a wake so close to the sky and filled with the wind of the sea — Bernard Moitessier
For one thing, I was no longer alone; a man is never alone with the wind-and the boat made three. — Hilaire Belloc
We cannot control the wind, but we can direct the sail
On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty. Today is such a day. — Rumi
Grief is like the wind. When it's blowing hard, you adjust your sails and run before it. If it blows too hard, you stay in the harbor, close the hatches and don't take calls. When it's gentle, you go sailing, have a picnic, take a swim. — Barbara Ascher
One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the way they go. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Sailing And Love Quotes
I sail with you on the ocean of my dreams
to a far away distant Place of great beauty and tranquility.
where suffering and pain do not exist,
where we give praises for our joy and happiness,
where our Love interwines with Love for all things. — Rumi
As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts. — Herman Melville
I grew up on the beaches of Southern California surfing and sailing and I've always loved horses so it was part of my dream that I was able to fulfill to have horses. — Bo Derek
I am not afraid of storm for I am learning how to sail my ship.
I love sailing and water sports; whether it's water skiing, body boarding or surfing or simply swimming in the ocean. — Karolina Kurkova
It's remarkable how quickly a good and favorable wind can sweep away the maddening frustrations of shore living. — Ernest K. Gann
I am driven out of fatherlands and motherlands. Thus I now love only my children's land, yet undiscovered, in the farthest sea; for this I bid my sails search and search. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Ay me! for aught that ever I could read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth. — William Shakespeare
There's a lot of women out there, some of whom are my age who've never been married and some who have been married and would like to be married again but think their ship has sailed, and I'm like, 'Oh no, honey, let Miss Niecy show you it is never too late for love!' — Niecy Nash
For hours, in fall days, I watched the ducks cunningly tack and veer and hold the middle of the pond, far from the sportsman;... but what beside safety they got by sailing in the middle of Walden I do not know, unless they love its water for the same reason that I do. — Henry David Thoreau
Give me a spirit that on this life's rough sea Loves t'have his sails filled with a lusty wind, Even till his sail-yards tremble, his masts crack, And his ship run on her side so low That she drinks water, and her keel plows air. — George Chapman
Boats And Sailing Quotes
Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit. — Brooks Atkinson
The ocean has always been a salve to my soul. — Jimmy Buffett
The breeze of grace is always blowing on you. You have to open the sails and your boat will move forward. — Ramakrishna
It's out there at sea that you are really yourself. — Vito Dumas
There is nothing like lying flat on your back on the deck, alone except for the helmsman aft at the wheel, silence except for the lapping of the sea against the side of the ship. At that time you can be equal to Ulysses and brother to him. — Errol Flynn
The only way to get a good crew is to marry one. — Eric Hiscock
A small craft in an ocean is, or should be, a benevolent dictatorship. — Tristan Jones
The goal is not to sail the boat, but rather to help the boat sail herself. — John Rousmaniere
Whenever your preparations for the sea are poor; the sea worms its way in and finds the problems. — Francis Stokes
Sailing Ships Quotes
What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul. — Corrie Ten Boom
Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire that urged adventurers of old to set forth in their sailing-ships for foreign lands. — Jean Batten
If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends. — John Enoch Powell
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
It isn't that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better. — Francis Drake
There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful. — Fernando Pessoa
A sailing ship is no democracy; you don't caucus a crew as to where you'll go anymore than you inquire when they'd like to shorten sail. — Sterling Hayden
To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go. — Joshua Slocum
Crossing at a ford occurs often in a man's lifetime. It means setting sail even though your friends stay in harbour, knowing the route, knowing the soundness of your ship and the favour of the day. — Miyamoto Musashi
I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way. — John Paul Jones
Sea And Sky Quotes
The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. — Kate Chopin
I am alone again and I want to be so; alone with the pure sky and open sea. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination and brings eternal joy to the soul. — Robert Wyland
The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace. — Kate Chopin
The lasting pleasures of contact with the natural world are not reserved for scientists but are available to anyone who will place himself under the influence of earth, sea and sky and their amazing life. — Rachel Carson
There is one spectacle grander than the sea, That is the sky. — Victor Hugo
A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by One after one; the sound of rain, and bees Murmuring; the fall of rivers, winds and seas, Smooth fields, white sheets of water, and pure sky - I've thought of all by turns, and still I lie Sleepless. — William Wordsworth
And when the day arrives I'll become the sky and I'll become the sea and the sea will come to kiss me for I am going home. Nothing can stop me now. — Trent Reznor
When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everthing in me that is bewildered and confused. — Rainer Maria Rilke
Limitless and immortal, the waters are the beginning and end of all things on earth. — Heinrich Zimmer
Oceans And Seas Quotes
The sea will grant each man new hope, and sleep will bring dreams of home. — Larry Ferguson
The future is in the hands of those who explore... and from all the beauty they discover while crossing perpetually receding frontiers, they develop for nature and for humankind an infinite love. — Jacques Yves Cousteau
The oceans deserve our respect and care, but you have to know something before you can care about it. — Sylvia Earle
Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark. — Bob Dylan
Our past, our present, and whatever remains of our future, absolutely depend on what we do now. — Sylvia Earle
The idea of seeing the sea - of being near it - watching its changes by sunrise, sunset, moonlight, and noonday - in calm, perhaps in storm - fills and satisfies my mind. — Charlotte Bronte
It is said by the Eldar that in water there lives yet the echo of the Music of the Ainur more than in any substance that is in this Earth; and many of the Children of Ilúvatar hearken still unsated to the voices of the Sea, and yet know not for what they listen. — J. R. R. Tolkien
When I open my eyes to the outer world I feel myself as a drop in the sea. But when I close my eyes and look within, I see the whole universe as a bubble raised in the ocean of my heart. — Hazrat Inayat Khan
Even if you never have the chance to see or touch the ocean, the ocean touches you with every breath you take, every drop of water you drink, every bite you consume. Everyone, everywhere is inextricably connected to and utterly dependent upon the existence of the sea. — Sylvia Earle
We must always remember with gratitude and admiration the first sailors who steered their vessels through storms and mists, and increased our knowledge of the lands of ice in the South. — Roald Amundsen
My piano is to me what a ship is to the sailor, what a steed is to the Arab. It is the intimate personal depository of everything that stirred wildly in my brain during the most impassioned days of my youth. It was there that all my wishes, all my dreams, all my joys, and all my sorrows lay. — Franz Liszt
Istanbul, a universal beauty where poet and archeologist, diplomat and merchant, princess and sailor, northerner and westerner screams with same admiration. The whole world thinks that this city is the most beautiful place on earth. — Edmondo De Amicis
A politician complaining about the media is like a sailor complaining about the sea. — Enoch Powell
Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause. — Abraham Lincoln
It’s similar to what sailors feel when they are out at sea – if they meet another ship, they probably feel some kind of brotherhood; it doesn’t matter which flag is on the ship. — Sergei Krikalev
He believed in it, as certain good women believe in the leviathan-by faith, not by reason. — Jules Verne
Ten geographers who think the world is flat will tend to reinforce each other's errors ... Only a sailor can set them straight. — John Ralston Saul
Ships At Sea Quotes
Good evening, Mr. and Mrs. America from border to border and coast to coast and all the ships at sea. Let's go to press. — Walter Winchell
Wind is to us what money is to life on shore. — Sterling Hayden
The days pass happily with me wherever my ship sails. — Joshua Slocum
When I forget how talented God is, I look to the sea. — Whoopi Goldberg
The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek. — Henry Adams
Spirits rise as the sails fill...
Gone is the sea's glassy surface, and with it the terrible glare.
Close the hatches and ports!
We're sailing again! — Jim Moore
When it comes to politics, one has to do as one at sea with a sailing ship, reach one's course having regard to prevailing winds. — William Lyon Mackenzie King
Men in a ship are always looking up, and men ashore are usually looking down. — John Masefield
All I ask is a tall ship and a star to sail her by. — John Masefield
The rain is falling all around, It falls on field and tree, It rains on the umbrellas here, And on the ships at sea. - Rain — Robert Louis Stevenson
Sailboat Quotes
Go with the wind, you know, like a sailboat. I think that's really important when it comes to peace… inner peace especially. You can't help anyone else if you don't have it together for yourself. — Jhene Aiko
I try to look at this music career thing as the means to an end. And really, at the end of it, I see myself on a sailboat, sailing off the edge of the world. — Michelle Shocked
I am happy because I want nothing from anyone. I do not care for money. Decorations, titles or distinctions mean nothing to me. I do not crave praise. The only thing that gives me pleasure, apart from my work, my violin and my sailboat, is the appreciation of my fellow workers. — Albert Einstein
I think we d like life to be like a train..but it turns out to be a sailboat. — Barbara Brown Taylor
The cabin of a small yacht is truly a wonderful thing; not only will it shelter you from a tempest, but from the other troubles in life, it is a safe retreat. — Lewis Francis Herreshoff
In a sailboat I become oblivious to everything else in the world. — Albert Einstein
In Western Australia they don't even know how to make that vital piece of sailboating equipment, the gin and tonic. — P. J. O'Rourke
I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat - a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second. — Nina Simone
I've been a river kayaker for a long time and I've done quite a few trips. I like kayaking and I like canoeing. I don't really like being on yachts or sailboats or cruise ships. I don't like anything that's large and not human-powered. — Misha Collins
Fortunately the boat we rented had a motor in it You will definitely want this feature on your sailboat too, because if you put up the sails, the boat tips way over, and you could spill your beer. — Dave Barry
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. — Mark Twain
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. — William Arthur Ward
The magnetic needle always points to the north, and hence it is that sailing vessel does not lose her direction. So long as the heart of man is directed towards God, he cannot be lost in the ocean of worldliness. — Ramakrishna
I am a citizen of the most beautiful nation on earth, a nation whose laws are harsh yet simple, a nation that never cheats, which is immense and without borders, where life is lived in the present. In this limitless nation, this nation of wind, light, and peace, there is no other ruler besides the sea. — Bernard Moitessier
It was the Lord who put into my mind that fact that it would be possible to sail from here to the Indies. All who heard of my project rejected it with laughter, ridiculing me. There is no question that the inspiration was from the Holy Spirit, because He comforted me with rays of marvelous inspiration from the Holy Scriptures. — Christopher Columbus
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if I touch near the fire the impalpable ash or the wrinkled body of the log, everything carries me to you, as if everything that exists, aromas, light, metals, were little boats that sail toward those isles of yours that wait for me. — Pablo Neruda
We cannot organize revival, but we can set our sails to catch the wind from Heaven when God chooses to blow upon His people once again — G. Campbell Morgan
The winds of grace blow all the time. All we need to do is set our sails. — Ramakrishna
You wouldn't think such a place as San Francisco could exist. The wonderful sunlight there, the hills, the great bridges, the Pacific at your shoes. Beautiful Chinatown. Every race in the world. The sardine fleets sailing out. The little cable-cars whizzing down The City hills. And all the people are open and friendly. — Dylan Thomas
Unfurl the sails, and let God steer us where He will. — Venerable Bede
My goal in sailing isn't to be brilliant or flashy in individual races, just to be consistent over the long run. — Dennis Conner
To adjust the sails according to the wind. — Icelandic Proverbs
It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go. — Jim Rohn
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