Sails Quotes

180 quotes by 150 authors

Ships and sails proper for the heavenly air should be fashioned. Then there will also be people, who do not shrink from the dreary vastness… — Johannes Kepler
As soon as somebody demonstrates the art of flying, settlers from our species of man will not be lacking [on the Moon and Jupiter]. .… — Johannes Kepler
In this age of inventive wonders all men have come to believe that in some genius' brain sleeps the solution of the grand problem of… — Mark Twain
In the pale light of daybreak the gravestones looked like so many white sails of boats anchored in a busy harbor. They were sails that… — Yukio Mishima
Well, once you get the groove of your life and you sort out the aspects of your life that you prefer, and youâ€™ve performed all… — Robert Plant
It is the weather, not work, that wears out sails. — Thomas Fleming Day
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable. — Seneca the Younger
I do know that when my children are older and telling their own children about their grandmother, they will be able to say that she… — Elizabeth Edwards
Nor is it wiser to weep a true occasion lost, but trim our sails, and let old bygones be. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Since you are now studying geometry and trigonometry, I will give you a problem. A ship sails the ocean. It left Boston with a cargo… — Gustave Flaubert
The Dutchman sails as its captain commands! — Davy Jones
We cannot organize revival, but we can set our sails to catch the wind from Heaven when God chooses to blow upon His people once… — G. Campbell Morgan
Don't let the storm take the wind out of your sails. — Deborah Jackson
I am an ark in the swift flood of time, and my companions, a fellowship. Who throws in with us sails into light. — Rumi
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
How easy 'tis, when Destiny proves kind, With full-spread sails to run before the wind! — John Dryden
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
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

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