Sail Quotes

512 Sail quotes by 385 unique authors

The art of writing fiction is to sail as dangerously close to the truth as possible without sinking the ship — Kinky Friedman
Don't let the storm take the wind out of your sails. — Unknown Author
I am an ark in the swift flood of time, and my companions, a fellowship. Who throws in with us sails into light. — Unknown Author
Sweet Memory! wafted by thy gentle gale, Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail. — Samuel Rogers
A ship under sail and a big-bellied woman, Are the handsomest two things that can be seen common. — Benjamin Franklin
Young sailors once stood under a square sail, gazing wonderingly across the water to where a strange shore rose about the sea - a New… — Helge Ingstad
For the truth is that I already know as much about my fate as I need to know. The day will come when I will… — Richard Bode
Languages are fluffy big pillows stuffed between nations - what others say is muffled and nearly lost in them, and when we speak their grammar… — Richard Bach
It is better to go down on the great seas which human hearts were made to sail than to rot at the wharves in ignoble… — Hamilton Wright Mabie
How easy 'tis, when Destiny proves kind, With full-spread sails to run before the wind! — John Dryden
Every sailor knows that you can't sail a ship that isn't moving forward, strong leaders understand that to change direction, you first have to create… — John C. Maxwell
A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom; a republic is a raft… — Fisher Ames
You read, move your lips, figure out the words, and it's like you're in two places at the same time: you're sitting or lying with… — Tatyana Tolstaya
Writers dream of sentences that sail through the waters of thought. We try to control their shape and size, and we struggle to let them… — Constance Hale
Sail Forth- Steer for the deep waters only. Reckless O soul, exploring. I with thee and thou with me. For we are bound where mariner… — Walt Whitman
If you learn to set a good sail, the wind that blows will always take you to the dreams you want, the income you want,… — Jim Rohn
The right woman for you wouldn't want you to change anything about your life. She wouldn't rock your boat, she'd jump right in and sail… — Alice Clayton
Writing is a vessel...with readers the ocean and authors as its sails... — William Petersen
A man lies upon the floor, spreads his arms, and transforms himself into a ship of a thousand sails. — Rick Yancey
I am the highway and a peregrine and all the sails that ever went to sea — Robert James Waller
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

Who Wrote These Sail Quotes

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