Sails Quotes
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Sails Quotes & Sayings
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Like mighty eagle soaring light. O'er antelopes on Alpine height. The anchor heaves, the ship swings free, The sails swell full. To sea, to sea!
— Thomas Lovell Beddoes
The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind.
— William Falconer
I felt like time was a great sea, and I was floating on the back of a turtle, and no sails broke the horizon.
— Janet Fitch
The Dutchman sails as its captain commands!
— Davy Jones
Civilization sails prettily like a child's rubber balloon until it hits a sharp object; then it is likely to collapse like the balloon.
— Austin O'Malley
Wow. Every time I think I've seen the far horizon of her lunacy, she sails right on over it ...
— Ari Marmell
Writing is a vessel ... with readers the ocean and authors as its sails ...
— William Petersen
You cannot change the wind, but you can adjust the sails.
— Elizabeth Edwards
Trying to have wisdom without application is like trying to catch the winds without raising the sails!
— Thomas Russell
She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails.
— Elizabeth Edwards
Had we taken ten sails, and let the eleventh to escape, being able to get at her, I could never have called it well done.
— Horatio Nelson
Unfurl the sails, and let God steer us where He will.
— Venerable Bede
How fast does time travel, how short are the trails, when friends and good companions put wind in one's sails!
— Heimdall Thunderhammer
The Atheist complains about the wind. The Christian prays for it to change. The Satanist adjusts his sails.
— Anton Szandor LaVey
The programmers decided the steps everyone on board Hyperion would need to take to do everything from dimming the lights to raising the sails.
— Michael Lewis
But they all recognized the steady, no-nonsense influence Jack had had on Truman; he was the ballast to Truman's airy sails.
— Melanie Benjamin
I'm a TV junkie, so it's hard to choose just one. Currently I'm a slave to 'Black Sails,' 'Vikings,' 'Game of Thrones' and 'The Mindy Project.'
— Victoria Aveyard
Words are wind, and the only good wind is that which fills our sails.
— George R R Martin
Perfection may be an island out of reach, but setting your sails toward it makes for a magnificent voyage.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
Let passion fill your sails, but let reason be your rudder.
— Khalil Gibran
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
— Dolly Parton
When you can't change the direction of the wind - adjust your sails
— H. Jackson Brown Jr.
There is no trophy for the team that sails the most.
— James Spithill
He talks softly, patiently, as I sit on the window ledge and watch boats with colorful triangles for sails scratch the ocean.
— Lauren DeStefano
To run over better waters the little vessel of my genius now hoists her sails, as she leaves behind her a sea so cruel.
— Dante Alighieri
You can choose right now to change the way you are experiencing a windstorm. Adjust your sails.
— John Assaraf
But only a fool sails into combat with nature
— Robert Harris
It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.
— Jim Rohn
May tropic winds fill your sails
— Gordon England
When the moon sails outwith a hundred faces all the same,
the coins made of silver
break out in sobs in the pocket. — Federico Garcia Lorca
Governments are the sails, the people the wind, the country is the ship and time is the sea.
— Ludwig Borne
I was reminded of a proverb: 'When a clay Buddha statue sails across the river, it can hardly protect itself.
— Qiu Xiaolong
One sometimes must sail with the wind and sometimes against it, but the important thing is to keep your sails full.
— Mark Beauregard
When I meet a wind I cannot fight , I can do naught but set my sails to let it take me where it will.
— Susanna Kearsley
When the winds of life don't hit your sails, you grab the oars of life and you start pushing.
— Greg Plitt
This is a modern fairytale. No happy endings. No wind in our sails. But I can't imagine a life without. Breathless moments.
— Selena Gomez
Set your sails now but the ocean is very rough and treacherous ... if you keep going you will get there.
— Jesse Taylor
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
— William Arthur Ward
Don't go getting full of yourself becuase once you do, somebody's going to come and let the wind out of your sails
— Sharon G. Flake
Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink.
— Erin Morgenstern
A man lies upon the floor, spreads his arms, and transforms himself into a ship of a thousand sails.
— Rick Yancey
I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
— Jimmy Dean
O'er Ocean, with a thousand masts, sails forth the stripling bold-One boat, hard rescued from the deep, draws into port the old! — Friedrich Schiller
Everybody Sails alone, but we can travel side by side
— KT Tunstall
Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows.
— Charles Buxton
He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
— William Golding
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
Ah, only he who knows where he sails, knows what wind is good, and a fair wind for him.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Nothing beats a private visit to Number Ten or Chequers to take the wind out of rebellious sails.
— Andy Coulson
There's not a ship that sails the ocean, But every climate, every soil, Must bring its tribute, great or small, And help to build the wooden wall!
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Ships and sails proper for the heavenly air should be fashioned. Then there will also be people, who do not shrink from the dreary vastness of space.
— Johannes Kepler
we might as well be afloat as earthbound, the heave and fall beneath me the rise of planking, and the sound of the pines the wind in our sails.
— Diana Gabaldon
Our body is a ship that sails on deep blue waters. What is our goal? To be shipwrecked!
— Nikos Kazantzakis
Those who spread their sails in the right way to the winds of the earth will always find themselves born by a current toward the open seas.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
I am the highway and a peregrine and all the sails that ever went to sea
— Robert James Waller
A strong man sails by ash breeze!
— Jean Lee Latham
Lovely Arra Sails,nectar to all males,
how I'd like to spear you like a whaler spears a whale! — Darren Shan
Love / is turning out the lights when others do, a curfew we / would take / for sails.
— Jorie Graham
My road leads me seawards To the white dipping sails.
— John Masefield
What sinks the devil sails the Christian.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
You know reviewers, they are the wind in their own sails.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Me howling blasts drive devious, tempest-tossed, / Sails ripped, seams opening wide, and compass lost.
— William Cowper
What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul. — Corrie Ten Boom
when you lose your sails, row.
— Karen White
If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.
— Enoch Powell
Hoist the sails of your own spirit to catch the winds of God.
— Ralph Washington Sockman
She stood in the storm, & when the wind did not blow her away, she adjusted her sails.
— Elizabeth Edwards
The strong man swims across a river and saves himself.The wise man builds a boat and sails across saving himself and others. — Matshona Dhliwayo
The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats; Chambers of the great are jails, And head-winds right for royal sails.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The winds of grace are always blowing, but it is you that must raise your sails.
— Rabindranath Tagore
It is the weather, not work, that wears out sails.
— Thomas Fleming Day
