For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail? — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Out of sight of land the sailor feels safe. It is the beach that worries him. — Charles Davis Copy Share Image
Three fishers went sailing away to the west,/ Away to the west as the sun went down. — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails. — Elizabeth Edwards Copy Share Image
And the winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
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… — John Kendrick Bangs Copy Share Image
Men go back to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
For one thing, I was no longer alone; a man is never alone with the wind-and the boat made three. — Hilaire Belloc 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
hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic... — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
E.B. White's essays are the best things I've read about Maine - especially the one in which he's not sure if he… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. — Jimmy Dean Copy Share Image
I can remain on shore, paralyzed with fear, or I can raise my sails and dip and soar in the breeze. — Richard Bode Copy Share Image
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The leading non-establishment Republican candidate for president, Donald Trump, is just sailing past [establishment Republican candidates] in the polls. He is still… — Melissa Harris-Perry Copy Share Image
I shared this insight with some other boat owners, and they all agreed that, definitely, putting your boar into the water is… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
The hair of his face, on the contrary, carroty and flaming, resembled a growth of copper wire clipped short to the line… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I am a citizen of the most beautiful nation on earth, a nation whose laws are harsh yet simple, a nation that… — Bernard Moitessier Copy Share Image
On the manufacturing side, surfing was a lot harder than sailing. You had to find guys who could shape, who could glass,… — Hobart Alter Copy Share Image
What is realisation? Realisation is my conscious and constant sailing with my Inner Pilot in His Golden Boat towards the uncharted land,… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
To the sea, to the sea! The white gulls are crying, The wind is blowing, and the white foam is flying. West,… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Huge waves, a mile from crest to crest, roared down upon the pygmies that were to be their prey; sometimes the entire… — Nicholas Monsarrat Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say our relationship is always smooth sailing. In a fun sort of way, this publicizing of some feud has brought… — Stephanie Zimbalist Copy Share Image
So far, I've only sailed in the Caribbean. I've sailed the Virgin Island and The Grenadines. I liked all that. We charted… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
“She was an ocean full of storms and sailing in her would have made him lose his path forever. But he was… — Akshay Vasu Copy Share Image
I'll find you, Will!" Then the wind filled the big, square sail of the wolfship and she heeled away from the shore,… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
Sometimes I’d get mad because things didn’t work out so well, I’d spoil a flapjack, or slip in the snowfield while getting… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Regardless of how much you enjoy your work, you must accept that everything won't come easily. No one has clear sailing on… — Ernie J Zelinski Copy Share Image
I love sailing and water sports; whether it's water skiing, body boarding or surfing or simply swimming in the ocean. — Karolina Kurkova Copy Share Image
The cloudlets are lazily sailing O'er the blue Atlantic sea; And mid the twilight there hovers A shadowy figure o'er me... — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
I must go down to the sea again For the call of the running tide It's a wild call and a clear… — John Masefield Copy Share Image
The more difficult the obstacle, the stronger one becomes after hurdling it. The winds of grace are always blowing; all we need… — Punkinhead Abhishek Copy Share Image
Life in the ocean makes Earth hospitable. We are sailing along in the universe and we have a blue engine that is… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
Sailing heart-ships through broken harbors out on the waves of the night, still the searcher must ride the dark horse racing alone… — Neil Young Copy Share Image
Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“When all seems to be against you, remember, a ship sometimes has to sail against the current, not with it.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
There are a lot of mysterious things about boats, such as why anyone would get on one voluntarily. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image