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The oceans are a way of life. We fish; we sail; we have a robust marine economy. — Sheldon Whitehouse

When his mouth snaps shut a third time, I splash water in his face. Are you going to say something or are you trying to catch wind and sail? — Anna Banks

All you know is
you must change sail
to catch it. — Stephanie Hemphill

The Dutchman sails as its captain commands! — Davy Jones

Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time. — Joseph Conrad

Set your sail to the big world, to the big ports but never forget your little world, your little port! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Hone and spread your spirit till you yourself are a sail, whetted, translucent, broadside to the merest puff. — Annie Dillard

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

Those who never sail stormy waters are the quickest and harshest judges of bad seamanship. — Susan Glaspell

He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea. — Thomas Fuller

I don't wanna die in a nuclear war, I want to sail away to a distant shore, and make like an apeman. — Ray Davies

Horses and mules, and even sail cars, made more rapid progress than did the earliest locomotive. — John Moody

Come all you thoughtless young men,
a warning take by me
And never leave your happy homes
to sail the raging sea. — Patrick O'Brian

The great pilot can sail even when his canvass is rent. — Seneca The Younger

A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there. — Ami Ayalon

The right woman for you wouldn't want you to change anything about your life. She wouldn't rock your boat, she'd jump right in and sail it with you. — Alice Clayton

All I ask is a tall ship and a star to sail her by. — John Masefield

I sail, scuba dive, play football, basketball. — Casper Van Dien

Sail on! sail on! sail on! and on! — Joaquin Miller

It was inevitable the Titanic was going to set sail, but that doesn't mean it was a good idea to be on it. — William Hague

Stig: 'Of course, she'll sail rings around Wolfswind,'
Hal: 'Then why didn't you tell him that?'
Stig: 'I like my head where it is. — John Flanagan

I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep. — James Elroy Flecker

It is better to go down on the great seas which human hearts were made to sail than to rot at the wharves in ignoble anchorage. — Hamilton Wright Mabie

Without fear we must set sail on the digital sea. — Pope Benedict XVI

Her mother could sail impervious through reversals and snubs that would have sunk another woman. But she was defenseless against her own thoughts — Carey Wallace

Life hurls us like a stone, and we sail through the air saying, look at me move. — Fernando Pessoa

Turn over the rudder in God's name, and sail with the wind heaven sends us. — Catherine Of Siena

A ship does not sail with yesterday's wind. — Louis L'Amour

I would like to sail across the Atlantic. I would like the experience of being that far away from land. — Peter Sarsgaard

As we sail through life towards death,
Bound unto the same port
heaven,
Friend, what years could us divide? — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

It's the set of the sail, and not the gale that determines the way they go. — Eugene H. Peterson

'Tis the set of the sail that decides the goal, and not the storm of life. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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

set sail on a voyage of your own titanic facts — Mary Pope Osborne

Well, it's not far down to paradise, at least it's not for me
And if the wind is right you can sail away and find tranquility ... — Christopher Cross

It is the weather, not work, that wears out sails. — Thomas Fleming Day

My heart rides the wind and my thoughts sail away - to a land below the horizon where I know you hide from me ... — John Geddes

I'm Lily Ivory, and this is my friend Sailor."
"You sail?"
"No. It's my name, not my avocation. — Juliet Blackwell

The white sail of his soul has rounded the promontory - death. — William Alexander

I used to own a dingy and can still sail one if pushed, but I like the pleasure boats. — John Dyer

Sweet Memory! wafted by thy gentle gale, Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail. — Samuel Rogers

The power chords in 'Come Sail Away' were super heavy to me as a kid. Metal? No. Hard rock? At times, for sure. — Eddie Trunk

It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in
the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman
dancing. — Honore De Balzac

He stared at her hard and long, as if he were gauging a cloudbank that might be worth the trouble to sail around rather than through. — A.S. Peterson

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 was never part of the sailing circle, but I enjoy when I'm invited to sail. — Philippe Petit

Instead of decaying in a safe harbour, sail to the unsafe oceans! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

When I go abroad I always sail from Boston because it is such a pleasant place to get away from. — Oliver Herford

I'm off to find my world, my dreams,
Carve my niche, sew my seams,
Remember, as I sail my streams-
I'll love you all the way. — Brooke Mueller

Perhaps we cannot raise the winds. But each of us can put up the sail, so that when the wind comes we can catch it. — E.F. Schumacher

Oh invade me with your scalding mouth,
search me if you like, with your nocturnal eyes,
but allow me to sail and sleep upon your name. — Pablo Neruda

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, Sr.

Sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Lovers navigating with different moral compasses causes the relation ship to sail in circles. — Khang Kijarro Nguyen

The wind is rising and we must make sail. Anchors aweigh! We must be off! — Amitav Ghosh

The breeze of God's grace is blowing continually. You have to set your sail to catch that breeze. — Swami Prabhavananda

Hoist the sails of your own spirit to catch the winds of God. — Ralph Washington Sockman

Your Honour, unless your Honour, without a moment's loss of time, makes sail for the nearest shore, this is a doomed ship, and her name is the Coffin! — Charles Dickens

O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let the winds blow! a fiercer gale
Is wild within me! what may quell
That sullen tempest? I must sail
Whither, O whither, who can tell! — Edmund Clarence Stedman

I sail on the ocean of possibilities with the wind of hope and the current of desires moving me to the shore of uncertainty. — Debasish Mridha

To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all. — William Osler

It is better to sail with a moody good captain than a laughing bad one. — Herman Melville

Whitecaps in profusion all around me, but somehow in your eyes I found the strength to sail upon that raging sea. — Gordon Lightfoot

I can't control the wind but I can adjust the sail. — Ricky Skaggs

Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore. — Thomas Campion

There was a man
Who made a boat
To sail away
And it sank. — J.P. Donleavey

How strange! You seek guidance, yet you do not tread its path, surely a boat does not sail on land. — Al-Shafi'i

Hoist up sail while gale doth last, Tide and wind stay no man's pleasure. — Robert Southwell

Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to sail right up along side it. — David Lee Roth

For a sailor to sail around the world, the thought is just, sometimes, too much. Thus, one simply goes from port to port in the same direction. — Hal Moore

Life is like stepping into a boat that is about to sail out to sea and sink. - SHUNRYU SUZUKI ROSHI A — Pema Chodron

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

When ships to sail the void between the stars have been built, there will step forth men to sail these ships. — Johannes Kepler

One ship goes East another West, By the self-same winds that blow; 'Tis the set of the sail and not the gale Which determines the way they go. — Eric Butterworth

Up anchor! Up anchor!
Set sail and away!
The ventures of dreamland
Are thine for a day. — Silas Weir Mitchell

Sail through the good days, and on bad days pick a spot of blue sky to steer toward. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Though the harbor is safe, ships were made to sail the sea. The same can be said for you and me. — Julie-Anne

If you want to sail your pretty little rowboat down the Nile and take in the scenery, then I'm not going to be the one to stop you. — L. H. Cosway

I don't worry about the storms, I am learning to sail my own ship. — Louisa May Alcott

What if others suffer shipwreck, yet none that sail with Jesus have ever been stranded yet. — Charles Spurgeon

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail. — David Hare

Setting sail using different moral compasses causes a relationship to go in circles. — Khang Kijarro Nguyen

He who has suffered shipwreck, fears to sail Upon the seas, though with a gentle gale. — Robert Herrick

Desert winds blow hard at me
Till we reach the shining sea.
And borne away across the waves
My lover's life I'll sail to save. — Anthony Ryan

The Moon is our local port opening to the universe; in the future, it's through that port we will sail our ships to the coastless oceans. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Music is the sweetest language for hearts, kindest prayer for souls, peaceful breeze for minds, and a magical sail for imaginations. — Debasish Mridha

Everybody Sails alone, but we can travel side by side — KT Tunstall

She is the swelling sail, trim rigging and bust sunlit deck of our matrimonial yacht. I am the low hull, with the invisible ballast and keel. — Alasdair Gray

If you have decided to sail to the sea with great courage and determination, even the storm on the horizon will step aside! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship — Giovanna Fletcher

A headland, a ship, a sail upon the billows. Farewell. A lovely girl, her veil awave upon the wind upon the headland, wind around her. — James Joyce

come on mama, let's rent us a boat
sail down that gibraltar moat
shed a tear every time we pass tangier — Townes Van Zandt

Great waves, and blaze with fire like them.
In beauty, but do not condemn,
The seamen who embark and fail,
But only those who will not sail. — John Piper

Just because a person successfully steers a voyage through hell doesn't mean he ever wants to sail that route again. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Melancholy and remorse forms the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality. — Cyril Connolly

To reach a port we must set sail — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Ah, only he who knows where he sails, knows what wind is good, and a fair wind for him. — Friedrich Nietzsche

On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale. — Alexander Pope

I'll never reach my destination, If I never try, So I will sail my vessel, 'Til the river runs dry. — Garth Brooks