Sail Quotes

If you want to build a boat, do not instruct the men to saw wood, stitch the sails, prepare the tools and organize the work, but make them long for setting sail and travel to distant lands.

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.

If you want to sail your ship in a different direction, you must turn one degree at a time.

Gray sail against the sky, Gray butterfly! Have you a dream for going. Or are you the blind wind's blowing?

The Dutchman sails as its captain commands!

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

It was a storm in a tea cup, but in politics we sail in paper boats.

And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!

She must find a boat and sail in it. No guarantee of shore. Only a conviction that what she wanted could exist, if she dared to find it.

It is our philosophical set of the sail that determines the course of our lives. To change our current Direction, we have to change our philosophy, not our circumstances.

Everybody Sails alone, but we can travel side by side

Since I was 10 years old, I knew I wanted to sail around the world.

Sail on, sail on, o' might Ship of State. To the shores of need, past the reefs of greed, through the squalls of hate. Sail on, sail on, sail on.

set sail on a voyage of your own titanic facts

If I have a Sunday free, I'll go up the coast and spend some time on the beach. I scuba dive and swim and sail. A lot of the things I like are around the water.

He enters the port with a full sail.

My ties and ballasts leave me - I travel - I sail - My elbows rest in the sea-gaps. I skirt the sierras. My palms cover continents - I am afoot with my vision.

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.

My sailing system set sail, make it fast, no thoughts of energy or velocity, loll back, let boat drift.

Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.

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

As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.

The two most beautiful sights I have witnessed in my life are a full blown ship at sail and the round-bellied pregnant female.

I sail, scuba dive, play football, basketball.

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.

He rested sitting on the un-stepped mast and sail and tried not to think but only to endure.

Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.

The youth may build or plant or sail, only let him not be hindered from doing that which he tells me he would like to do.

Sail on ship of state, sail on, I union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, with all its hopes of future years, is hanging on thy fate!

In adversity be spirited and firm, and with equal prudence lessen your sail when filled with a too fortunate gale of prosperity.

Set your sails now but the ocean is very rough and treacherous... if you keep going you will get there.

For me, my craft is sailing on,Through mists to-day, clear seas anon.Whate'er the final harbor be'T is good to sail upon the sea!

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

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

Security in human systems we're told will always, always last. Emotions are the sail, and blind faith is the mast. Without the breath of real freedom we're getting nowhere fast.

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

Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore.

I can't wait for the oil wells to run dry, for the last gob of black, sticky muck to come oozing out of some remote well. Then the glory of sail will return.

If hindrances obstruct the way, Thy magnanimity display. And let thy strength be seen: But O, if Fortune fill thy sail With more than a propitious gale, Take half thy canvas in.

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast. Yet it must be confessed that wit given an edge to sense, and recommends it extremely.

I wish I could get all the discourteous drivers on a ship and sail them away and make sure it's a really horrible, wavy journey and when they get to where they're going, keep them there.

Ships are safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for. So set sail on the stormy sea of love. You're going to get soaked at times, but at least you'll know you're alive.

I had a dream about building a house on a dock, composed from 100 triangles. You'd have to sail from room to room. And maybe the entrance would be the mouth of a whale.

Sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great.

If this was a sandalwood pyre she would have thrown herself in and this paper she'd become would have caught fire and she and him could sail away like two birds.

Without fear we must set sail on the digital sea.

Man is the will, and woman the sentiment. In this ship of humanity, Will is the rudder, and Sentiment the sail; when woman affects to steer, the rudder is only a masked sail.

...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.

It is the weather, not work, that wears out sails.

Every object is beautiful in motion; a ship under sail, trees gently agitated with the wind, and a fine woman dancing, are three instances in point