Sails Quotes

When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails

Smell the sea and feel the sky.

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.

How strange! You seek guidance, yet you do not tread its path, surely a boat does not sail on land.

I wanted freedom, open air and adventure. I found it on the sea.

I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.

The pessimist complains about the wind;

the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

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.

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.

The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail.

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.

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.

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.

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.

When the winds of life don't hit your sails, you grab the oars of life and you start pushing.

It is not the direction of the wind that determines your destination. It is the set of your sail.

At sea, I learned how little a person needs, not how much.

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.

My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea

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.

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

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.

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

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.

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

Solar sail - Solar sails (also called light sails or photon sails) are a method of spacecraft propulsion using radiation pressure exerted by sunlight on large mirrors

Sail (submarine) - In naval parlance, the sail (American usage) or fin (European/Commonwealth usage) of a submarine is the tower-like structure found on the dorsal (topside)

Sail (disambiguation) - A sail is any type of surface intended to move a vessel, vehicle or rotor by being placed in a wind. Sail or SAIL may also refer to: Windmill sail, the

Studding sail - A studding sail, studsail or stunsail (traditionally pronounced stuns'l /ˈstʌnsəl/) is an extra sail on a square rigged vessel or 1950s racing skiffs

Sail plan - A sail plan is a set of drawings, usually prepared by a naval architect which shows the various combinations of sail proposed for a sailing ship. Alternatively

Spanker (sail) - spanker is a gaff-rigged fore-and-aft sail set from and aft of the aftmost mast. Wilson, Charles (1843). The art of sail-making. London: Dennett. Crothers

Topgallant sail - a topgallant sail (topgallant alone pronounced "t'gallant", topgallant sail pronounced "t'garns'l") is the square-rigged sail or sails immediately above

Sail components - vessels Sail components include the features that define a sail's shape and function, plus its constituent parts from which it is manufactured. A sail may

Four Sail - Four Sail is the fourth album by the American rock band, Love, released in 1969. By mid-1968, Arthur Lee was the only remaining member of the Forever Changes

The winds of grace blow all the time. All we need to do is set our 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.

Unfurl the sails, and let God steer us where He will.

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.

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.

My goal in sailing isn't to be brilliant or flashy in individual races, just to be consistent over the long run.

May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.

If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.

Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit.