Sailing Quotes
331 Sailing quotes by 258 unique authors
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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 water, or one…
— Jack Kerouac
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I challenge you to a duel!†screamed the cat, sailing over their heads on the swinging chandelier.
— Mikhail Bulgakov
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Any chance he’s turned a new leaf and taken up sailing for real?†“About as likely as me doing it.†Hadrian eyed Royce for a…
— Michael J. Sullivan
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I am sailing with thee through the dizzy sky! How beautiful thou art!
— John Keats
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...now and then a giggling trail of mermaids appeared in our wake. We fed them oatmeal.
— Tove Jansson
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Always sailing, sailing, sailing...never quite reaching.
— Cressida Cowell
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That's what sailing is, a dance, and your partner is the sea. And with the sea you never take liberties. You ask her, you don't…
— Michael Morpurgo
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Tessa had lain down beside him and slid her arm beneath his head, and put her head on his chest,listening to the ever-weakening beat of…
— Cassandra Clare
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There are always moments when one feels empty and estranged.
 Such moments are most desirable, 
for it means the soul has cast its moorings and…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable.
— Seneca the Younger
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If you don't know what port you are sailing to, no wind is favourable.
— Seneca the Younger
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Honest hope has an edge. It's messy. It requires that we let go of all pat answers, all preconceived formulas, all confidence that our sailing…
— Frances Moore Lappé
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What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we cannot cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?
— Thomas Merton
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The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
— Unknown Author
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I just thank God I don't live in a trailer.
— Jimmy Buffett
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The house was built on the highest part of the narrow tongue of land between the harbor and the open sea. It had lasted through…
— Ernest Hemingway
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...arranging the journey was so difficult. Getting home again was much easier.
— Thor Heyerdahl
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Man marks the earth with ruin - his control stops with the shore.
— Lord Byron
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...surely these victims of the sea...had rushed willingly down the hills to the water, only to find themselves caught in the wrong place at the…
— John Rousmaniere
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If you're not getting close to capsize, you're provably not pushing hard enough
— James Spithill
Who Wrote These Sailing Quotes
258 authors contributed a total of 331 Sailing Quotes, led by these top contributors: