quotes about Sail
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Hone and spread your spirit till you yourself are a sail, whetted, translucent, broadside to the merest puff.
-- Annie Dillard -
A sail boat that sails backwards can never see the sun rise.
-- Bill Cosby -
You can't change the wind but you can set your sails.
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I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas ...
-- Carl Sagan -
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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. SchumacherSource : "Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered". Book by E. F. Schumacher, 1973.
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He rested sitting on the un-stepped mast and sail and tried not to think but only to endure.
-- Ernest Hemingway -
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Never defend yourself; agree with your critics, it takes the wind out of their sails.
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When the winds of life don't hit your sails, you grab the oars of life and you start pushing.
-- Greg Plitt -
I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep.
-- James Elroy FleckerSource : 'Old Ships' (1915)
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Set your sails now but the ocean is very rough and treacherous... if you keep going you will get there.
-- Jesse Taylor -
Sail on! sail on! sail on! and on!
-- Joaquin MillerSource : Joaquin Miller (1923). “The Poetical Works of Joaquin Miller”
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The days pass happily with me wherever my ship sails.
-- Joshua Slocum -
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when you lose your sails, row.
-- Karen WhiteSource : Karen White (2011). “The Beach Trees”, p.31, Penguin
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Everybody Sails alone, but we can travel side by side
-- KT TunstallSource : Song: Heal Over, Album: Eye to the Telescope, 2004
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set sail on a voyage of your own titanic facts
-- Mary Pope Osborne -
Without fear we must set sail on the digital sea.
-- Pope Benedict XVI -
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The winds of God's grace are always blowing, it is for us to raise our sails.
-- Ramakrishna -
The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail.
-- Ramakrishna -
I can remain on shore, paralyzed with fear, or I can raise my sails and dip and soar in the breeze.
-- Richard Bode -
I can't control the wind but I can adjust the sail.
-- Ricky SkaggsSource : Song: Can't Control the Wind, Album: Solid Ground, 2007
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But only a fool sails into combat with nature
-- Robert Harris -
He who has suffered shipwreck, fears to sail Upon the seas, though with a gentle gale.
-- Robert HerrickSource : Robert Herrick (1852). “Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine”
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I am the highway and a peregrine and all the sails that ever went to sea
-- Robert James Waller -
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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 -
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 KearsleySource : Susanna Kearsley (2016). “The Susanna Kearsley Collection”, p.178, Allison & Busby Ltd
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It is the weather, not work, that wears out sails.
-- Thomas Fleming Day -
Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find."
-- Walt Whitman -
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The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind.
-- William FalconerSource : William Falconer (2012). “Falconers Marine Dictionary (1780)”, p.253, BoD – Books on Demand
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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.
-- William Penn -
Writing is a vessel...with readers the ocean and authors as its sails...
-- William Petersen -
Since I was 10 years old, I knew I wanted to sail around the world.
-- Laura Dekker -