When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
You think I love flattery (says Dr. Johnson), and so I do; but a little too much always disgusts me: that fellow… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Well, once you get the groove of your life and you sort out the aspects of your life that you prefer, and… — Robert Plant Copy Share Image
The Thames is a wretched river after the Mersey and the ships are not like Liverpool ships and the docks are barren… — John Masefield Copy Share Image
The world keeps turnin' It gets merry like a merry go 'round It gets cold like a frozen winter Well I change… — Trevor Hall Copy Share Image
The best marriages, like the best lives, were both happy and unhappy. There was even a kind of necessary tension, a certain… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Like the wind that carries one ship east and another west, the law of autosuggestion will lift you up or pull you… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
I'll never reach my destination, If I never try, So I will sail my vessel, 'Til the river runs dry. — Garth Brooks Copy Share Image
You can't change the wind. But you can adjust the sails to reach your destination — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
That stirring which had fluttered in her on first glimpsing the sea—that stirring landlocked children know so well—moved in her now, with… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Melancholy and remorse form the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality; we run aground sooner… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Candlesticks and incense not being portable into the maintop, the sailor perceives these decorations to be, on the whole, inessential to a… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Gray sail against the sky, Gray butterfly! Have you a dream for going. Or are you the blind wind's blowing? — Dana Burnet Copy Share Image
One of the world's most tiresome questions is what object one would bring to a desert island,because people always answer "a deck… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Whither, O splendid ship, thy white sails crowding,Leaning across the bosom of the urgent West,That fearest nor sea rising, nor sky clouding,Whither… — Robert Bridges Copy Share Image
I've got a fetish about motors on sail boats. Sailboats were meant to sail. — Sterling Hayden Copy Share Image
I sail and play tennis, and I don't smoke or drink caffeine. — Princess Michael of Kent Copy Share Image
It is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, ina government ship, with five hundred men and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It was inevitable the Titanic was going to set sail, but that doesn't mean it was a good idea to be on… — William Hague Copy Share Image
To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years,… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
At last the anchor was up, the sails were set, and off we glided. It was a sharp, cold Christmas; and as… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“The strongest storms make the best sailors. The strongest games make the best players. Tougher challenges make the best leaders.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
...Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled Upon the wharves… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
