Sail Quotes

512 Sail quotes by 385 unique authors

There are only two good outcomes for a quest like this, the hope of the serendipitous savant — sail for Asia and stumble on America… — Jess Walter
Best not to look back. Best to believe there will be happily ever afters all the way around - and so there may be; who… — Stephen King
Weeks passed like boats waiting to sail into the starless dawn, we were full of aimless endless darkness. — Jonathan Safran Foer
It’s better to think of my life like that— part miracle, part madness. It’s better if I accept that I can’t control any of the… — Jeanette Winterson
Most helmsmen would’ve been satisfied with a pilot’s wheel or a tiller. Leo had also installed a keyboard, monitor, aviation controls from a Learjet, a… — Rick Riordan
Defeat I can endure with cheerfulness, my lady. But betrayal is like taking the wind from my sails, or the earth from beneath my feet.… — Margaret George
They would find this House of Hades. They'd take the Doors of Death. And by the gods, if Leo had to design a grabber arm… — Rick Riordan
Yeah." He took one last look at the cityscape of Rome, turning bloodred in the sunset. "Festus, raise the sails. We've got some friends to… — Rick Riordan
The ship's boards were still sticky with new resin. We leaned over the railing to wave our last farewell, the sun-warm wood pressed against our… — Madeline Miller
Our dreams have been doctored.We belong no where. We sail unanchored on troubled seas.We may never be allowed ashore. Our sorrows will never be sad… — Arundhati Roy
And he misses her Like a wind starved sail He sits knowing what direction to go But the current keeps pulling him Down river. — Unknown Author
Why are all reflections lovelier than what we call reality? -- not so grand or so strong, it may be, but always lovelier? Fair as… — George MacDonald
Stig: 'Of course, she'll sail rings around Wolfswind,' Hal: 'Then why didn't you tell him that?' Stig: 'I like my head where it is. — John Flanagan
Life is like stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink. — Shunryu Suzuki
Life hurls us like a stone, and we sail through the air saying, "look at me move. — Fernando Pessoa
I'll find you, Will!" Then the wind filled the big, square sail of the wolfship and she heeled away from the shore, moving faster and… — John Flanagan
Now my charms are all o'erthrown, And what strength I have's mine own, - Which is most faint: now, 'tis true, I must be here… — William Shakespeare
Like the wind that carries one ship east and another west, the law of autosuggestion will lift you up or pull you down according to… — Napoleon Hill
You can't always control the wind, but you can control your sails. — Tony Robbins
If you want to build a boat, do not instruct the men to saw wood, stitch the sails, prepare the tools and organize the work,… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail? — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars. — Richard Halliburton
Think of life as a voyage. The truest liver of the truest life is like a voyager who, as he sails, is not indifferent to… — Phillips Brooks
The great pilot can sail even when his canvass is rent. — Seneca the Younger
When life takes the wind out of your sails, it is to test you at the oars. — Robert Breault

Who Wrote These Sail Quotes

385 authors contributed a total of 512 Sail Quotes, led by these top contributors: