Sail Quotes

512 quotes by 385 authors

My real log is written in the sea and sky; the sails talking with the rain and the stars amid the sounds of the sea,… — Bernard Moitessier
The passion for the story is the wind in your narrative sails. Begin at the heart. We must hear the heartbeat of the story. Love… — Patricia Lee Gauch
It is the tenderness that breaks our hearts. The loveliness that leaves us stranded on the shore, watching the boats sail away. It is the… — Robert Goolrick
The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail. — Ramakrishna
Those who can take that crabbed tree handsomely upon their back, and fasten it on cannily, shall find it such a burden as wings unto… — Samuel Rutherford
The two most beautiful sights I have witnessed in my life are a full blown ship at sail and the round-bellied pregnant female. — Benjamin Franklin
Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever. — Anthony Doerr
I can't wait for the oil wells to run dry, for the last gob of black, sticky muck to come oozing out of some remote… — Tristan Jones
Never had I understood that I command, with absolute authority, the ship of my life! I decide its mission and rules and discipline, at my… — Richard Bach
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… — Swami Vivekananda
A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I did not see that the Lord kept watch over the ship, I should long since have abandoned the helm. But I see Him!… — Martin Luther
It was the Lord who put into my mind that fact that it would be possible to sail from here to the Indies. All who… — Christopher Columbus
This is a modern fairytale. No happy endings. No wind in our sails. But I can't imagine a life without. Breathless moments. — Selena Gomez
It is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, ina government ship, with five hundred men and boys to assist… — Henry David Thoreau
We have known for a long time that Prince Charles' empty sails are so rigged as to be swelled by any passing waft or breeze… — Christopher Hitchens
There will certainly be no lack of human pioneers when we have mastered the art of flight....Let us create vessels and sails justed to the… — Johannes Kepler
There is a point of no return after which warming becomes unstoppable - and we are probably going to sail right through it. It is… — Gwynne Dyer
There is nothing as relaxing as being out on the open sea, listening to the waves and the wind and the sails and voices downstairs… — Dave Barry
Fortunately the boat we rented had a motor in it You will definitely want this feature on your sailboat too, because if you put up… — Dave Barry

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