Sail Quotes

On this page you will find all the quotes on the topic "Sail". There are currently 649 quotes in our collection about Sail. Discover the TOP 10 sayings about Sail!
The best sayings about Sail that you can share on Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook and other social networks!
  • Some sit and watch the life; some sail to the sea and the life watches them!

    Life   Sea   Watches  
  • By the plain form of my delirium I will blast the obstruction of every form around me into something barely called shadow. I sail. I swim to you. I know the water.

    Water   Swim   Shadow  
    Steve Erickson (2013). “Rubicon Beach: A Novel”, p.77, Open Road Media
  • Life hurls us like a stone, and we sail through the air saying, "look at me move.

    Moving   Air   Looks  
    Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith (2002). “The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa”, p.293, Grove Press
  • A woman is never so happy as when she is being wooed. Then she is mistress of all she surveys, the cynosure of all eyes, until that day of days when she sails down the aisle, a vision in white, lovely as the stefanotis she carries, borne translucent on her father's manly arm to be handed over to her new father-surrogate. If she is clever, and if her husband has the time and the resources, she will insist on being wooed all her life; more likely she will discover that marriage is not romantic, that husbands forget birthdays and aniversaries and seldom pay compliments, are often perfunctory.

  • I like the idea of my art being a covetable object; I like preciousness. A lot of art seems to flaunt its throw-away character... But you have to sail out into the dangerous sea of fine art with these crafted works.

    Art   Character   Sea  
  • When I had youth I had no money; now I have the money I have no time; and when I get the time, if I ever do, I shall have no health to enjoy life. I suppose it's the discipline I need; but it's rather hard to love the things I do, and see them go by because duty chains me to my galley. If I ever come into port with all sails set, that will be my reward perhaps.

    Louisa May Alcott (2015). “Civil War Memoirs of Louisa May Alcott (Unabridged): Including Letters, Hospital Sketches & Biography of the Author – Autobiographical account of the author from the time she worked as a volunteer nurse for the Union Army during the American Civil War”, p.187, e-artnow
  • He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.

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

    Funny   Travel   Home  
    "The Ghost Girl and the Naked Savage" by James Hynes, www.nytimes.com. December 05, 2008.
  • A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusty, but as wide as eye Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of masts; a wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy; A huge, dun cupola, like a fools-cap crown On a fool's head - and there is London Town.

    Dirty   Eye   Sight  
  • The best marriages, like the best lives, were both happy and unhappy. There was even a kind of necessary tension, a certain tautness between the partners that gave the marriage strength, like the tautness of a full sail. You went forward on it.

    Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Joseph Viertel, Fletcher Knebel, Paul De Kruif, Charles Waldo Bailey (1962). “Reader's digest condensed books”
  • Throughout our history, the words of the Declaration have inspired immigrants from around the world to set sail to our shores. These immigrants have helped transform 13 small colonies into a great and growing nation of more than 300 people.

    People   World   Growing  
  • They are fruit and transport: ripening melons, prairie schooners journeying under full sail.

  • Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in.

    Romance   Ships   Sail  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.202, Penguin
  • In this particular tub, two knees jut up like icebergs, while minute brown hairs rise on arms and legs in a fringe of kelp; green soap navigates the tidal slosh of seas breaking on legendary beaches; in faith 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.

    Beach   Stars   Real  
    Sylvia Plath (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.4, Faber & Faber
  • Fiction does not invent out of a vacuum, but it invents; and what it invents is, first, the fabric and cadence of language, and then a slant of idea that sails out of these as a fin lifts from the sea.

    Sea   Ideas   Vacuums  
    Cynthia Ozick (2006). “The Din in the Head”, p.74, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • 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, Thomas Forbes Kelsall, Charles Dacres Bevan (1851). “The Poems, Posthumous and Collected: Death's jest-book. The brides' tragedy”, p.11
  • Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.

  • This beginning motion, this first time when a sail truly filled and the boat took life and knifed across the lake under perfect control, this was so beautiful it stopped my breath.

    Gary Paulsen (2007). “Caught by the Sea: My Life on Boats”, p.13, Delacorte Books for Young Readers
  • The night before Atlantis sank beneath the waves forever, the members of the MysterySchool set sail from their doomed continent in twelve boats, headed for twelve different points on the globe.

    Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars
  • If you meet a woman of whatever complexion who sails her life with strength and grace and assurance, talk to her! And what you will find is that there has been a suffering, that at some time she has left herself for hanging dead.

  • I wanted to break the record, of course, and become the youngest person to sail around the world solo and unassisted.

    Records   World   Break  
    Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.27, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.

    Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7”, p.248, Best Books on
  • True prayer is the trading of the heart with God, and the heart never comes into spiritual commerce with the ports of heaven until God the Holy Ghost puts wind into the sails and speeds the ship into its haven.

    Charles Spurgeon (1998). “Spurgeon on Prayer & Spiritual Warfare (6 In 1 Anthology)”, p.28, Whitaker House
  • We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing; those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind?....... We make our own destiny.

    Swami Vivekananda (1962). “What Religion is: In the Words of Swami Vivekananda”
  • The future of Japan's economic growth depends on us having the willpower and the courage to sail without hesitation onto the rough seas of global competition.

    Japan   Sea   Competition  
    "Japan’s New Leader Takes On Old Order to Jolt Economy" by Martin Fackler, www.nytimes.com. March 6, 2013.
  • Writers dream of sentences that sail through the waters of thought. We try to control their shape and size, and we struggle to let them glide, rather than thrash at sea.

    Dream   Struggle   Sea  
  • Sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great.

    Strong   America   Unions  
    "The Building of the Ship" l. 378 (1849)
  • I sail with you on the ocean of my dreams to a far away distant Place of great beauty and tranquility. where suffering and pain do not exist, where we give praises for our joy and happiness, where our Love interwines with Love for all things.

    Dream   Pain   Ocean  
  • Mountains inspire awe in any human person who has a soul. They remind us of our frailty, our unimportance, of the briefness of our span on this earth. They touch the heavens, and sail serenely at an altitude beyond even the imaginings of a mere mortal.

    Nature   Heaven   Inspire  
    Elizabeth Aston (2006). “The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy: A Novel”, p.103, Simon and Schuster
  • In political activity, then, men sail a boundless and bottomless sea; there is neither harbour for shelter nor floor for anchorage, neither starting-place nor appointed destination. The enterprise is to keep afloat on an even keel.

    Men   Sea   Political  
    "Political Education". Essay by Michael Joseph Oakeshott, 1951.
Page 1 of 22
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • ...
  • 21
  • 22
  • We hope our collection of Sail quotes has inspired you! Our collection of sayings about Sail is constantly growing (today it includes 649 sayings from famous people about Sail), visit us more often and find new quotes from famous authors!
    Share our collection of quotes on social networks – this will allow as many people as possible to find inspiring quotes about Sail!