Sail Quotes
512 Sail quotes by 385 unique authors
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My God, this novel makes me break out in a cold sweat! Do you know how much I've written in five months, since the end…
— Gustave Flaubert
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I don't worry about the storms, I am learning to sail my own ship.
— Louisa May Alcott
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Nature will not be conquered, but gives herself freely to her true lover - to him who revels with her, bathes in her seas, sails…
— John Burroughs
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The winds of grace blow all the time. All we need to do is set our sails.
— Ramakrishna
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Unfurl the sails, and let God steer us where He will.
— Venerable Bede
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While love takes on itself impossible tasks, yet it finds that love lightens all loads. It is the same burden that wings are to a…
— E. Stanley Jones
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He is wisest, who only gives, True to himself, the best he can: Who drifting on the winds of praise, The inward monitor obeys. And…
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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Can the child within my heart rise above Can I sail through the changing ocean tides Can I handle the seasons of my life Well,…
— Stevie Nicks
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Of course, an exhausting day at sail lines and nets left little energy to expend on running or laughing. Perhaps that was why her parents…
— Anne McCaffrey
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I had to keep breathing. Even though there was no reason to hope... I stayed alive. I kept breathing. And one day my logic was…
— Tom Hanks
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We sail across dominions barely seen, washed by the swells of time. We plow through fields of magnetism. Past and future come together on thunderheads…
— Norman Mailer
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I had been feeling a little rum. I didn't think it was anything serious because years ago I felt a lump and it was benign.…
— Maggie Smith
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I've always wanted to sail to the South Seas, but I can't afford it. What these men can't afford is not to go. They are…
— Sterling Hayden
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Style is how you see the world and how the world sees you. It isn't today and it isn't tomorrow; it isn't a dress or…
— Carol Edgarian
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Hone and spread your spirit till you yourself are a sail, whetted, translucent, broadside to the merest puff.
— Annie Dillard
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Throughout our history, the words of the Declaration have inspired immigrants from around the world to set sail to our shores. These immigrants have helped…
— George W. Bush
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I sail, scuba dive, play football, basketball.
— Casper Van Dien
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The despondency that follows makes me feel somewhat like a shipwrecked man who spies a sail, sees himself saved, and suddenly remembers that the lens…
— Jean Genet
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Though essaying but a sportive sail, I was driven from my course by a blast re sistless; and ill-provided, young, and bowed by the brunt…
— Herman Melville
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The cross of Christ is the sweetest burden that I ever bore; it is such a burden as wings are to a bird, or sails…
— Samuel Rutherford
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When ships to sail the void between the stars have been built, there will step forth men to sail these ships.
— Johannes Kepler
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We're seeing the reality of a lot of the North Pole starting to evaporate, and we could get to a tipping point. Because if it…
— Henry Waxman
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But who is this, what thing of sea or land,- Female of sex it seems,- That so bedeck'd, ornate, and gay, Comes this way sailing…
— John Milton
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Public opinion is the pennant on a nation's mast which shows the politician and the editor how to trim the sails.
— Austin O'Malley
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O my son! The dunya (world) is a deep ocean in which many have drowned! Let your ship be taqwallah (fear of Allah), and load…
— Unknown Author
Who Wrote These Sail Quotes
385 authors contributed a total of 512 Sail Quotes, led by these top contributors: