Our desire must be like a slow and stately ship, sailing across endless oceans, never in search of safe anchorage. Then suddenly,… — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
“But in a gale, the silent machinery of a sailing-ship would catch not only the power, but the wild and exulting voice… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Since my childhood I learned that to understand the world we need to go further and take the risks of sailing in… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Deep down, all the while, she was waiting for something to happen. Like a sailor in distress, she kept casting desperate glances… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
In typical sailing races a long time ago, you'd come in and go out, and the first thing you'd do is probably… — James Spithill Copy Share Image
Some things cannot be spoken or discovered until we have been stuck, incapacitated, or blown off course for awhile. Plain sailing is… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
The cabin of a small yacht is truly a wonderful thing; not only will it shelter you from a tempest, but from… — Lewis Francis Herreshoff Copy Share Image
When I was 11 years old, my parents wanted me to do something besides get in trouble. So they enrolled me in… — David Crosby Copy Share Image
“You got the makings of greatness in you, but you gotta take the helm and chart your own course! Stick to it,… — John Silver Copy Share Image
Maybe you're getting into the rhythm of sailing life," says James. He looks out at the waves that are rolling in to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty. Today… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Aeronautics confers beauty and grandeur, combining art and science for those who devote themselves to it. . . . The aeronaut, free… — Georges Besancon Copy Share Image
“My galley, charged with forgetfulness, Thorough sharp seas in winter nights doth pass 'Tween rock and rock; and eke mine enemy, alas,… — Thomas Wyatt Copy Share Image
The Indians on board said that thence to Cuba was a voyage in their canoes of a day and a half; these… — Christopher Columbus Copy Share Image
Perhaps there lives some dreamy boy, untaught In schools, some graduate of the field or street, Who shall become a master of… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I would never talk just to be social. Now, to sit down with a bunch of engineers and talk about the latest… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
Tessa had lain down beside him and slid her arm beneath his head, and put her head on his chest,listening to the… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“In the middle distance, sails were gliding like butterflies, and farther away, ships dotted the mouth of the bay between Awa and… — Haruo Shirane Copy Share Image
Governments are the sails, the people the wind, the country is the ship and time is the sea. — Ludwig Borne Copy Share Image
What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale… — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
The key to all strange things is in thy heart..../ My spirit has come home, that sailed the doubtful seas. — Countee Cullen Copy Share Image
