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In what rapt ether sails the world, of which the weariest will never weary? — Herman Melville

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

Never defend yourself; agree with your critics, it takes the wind out of their sails. — Fay Weldon

Wow. Every time I think I've seen the far horizon of her lunacy, she sails right on over it ... — Ari Marmell

You can't change the wind. But you can adjust the sails to reach your destination — Paulo Coelho

The best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle. — Ben Jonson

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

Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails. — Euripides

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

Tell all who will hear, the Reaper sails to Mars. And he calls for an Iron Rain. — Pierce Brown

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

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

The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way. — Voltaire

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

We cannot change the wind, we can only adjust our sails. — Del Suggs

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.

Better to Die in Honour than to live in Shame. -Arra Sails — Darren Shan

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 out
with a hundred faces all the same,
the coins made of silver
break out in sobs in the pocket. — Federico Garcia Lorca

You can't always control the wind, but you can control your sails. — Tony Robbins

Arsenal have the wind in their sails and they need to put their foot to the floor. — Andy Townsend

Quit fighting the sails and let the wind move the boat-drift on faith for a while. — Lisa Wingate

Governments are the sails, the people the wind, the country is the ship and time is the sea. — Ludwig Borne

As your soul sails life's stormy sea,
only courage and love will set you free. — Ian Macgill

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

A sail boat that sails backwards can never see the sun rise. — Bill Cosby

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

The winds of God's grace are always blowing, it is for us to raise our sails. — Ramakrishna

Besides, a long poem is a test of invention, which I take to be the Polar star of Poetry, as Fancy is the sails - and Imagination the rudder. — John Keats

Light dresses, blue eyes, the tinkling of glasses, the sea, the white sails. We sang snatches of song. And our cheeks became rosy. — Knut Hamsun

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

You can't change the wind but you can set your sails. — Green Day

It seems whenever we have a little adversity, the emotions drop. We've fallen out of the race, and it kind of takes the wind out of your sails. — Wes Walz

Nothing beats a private visit to Number Ten or Chequers to take the wind out of rebellious sails. — Andy Coulson

If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable. — Seneca.

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

Never had Safi seen so many furled sails. Or circling sea gulls.
Cursed birds. — Susan Dennard

When life takes the wind out of your sails, it is to test you at the oars. — Robert Breault

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

I am an ark in the swift flood of time, and my companions, a fellowship. Who throws in with us sails into light. — Rumi

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

I just about prevent myself from laughing, but the information that coffee is basically faery Viagra just totally took the wind out of my sails. — Liz De Jager

when you lose your sails, row. — Karen White

May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks. — J.R.R. Tolkien

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

I awoke at dawn, thrown up on a rock, the skeleton of a ship choked in its own sails. — Anais Nin

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

The real skill is to raise the sails and to catch the power of the wind as it passes by. — Thomas Berry

He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all — William Osler