Sails Quotes

180 quotes by 149 authors

What makes a good editor is staying the hell out of the way as much as possible. ... If you're a DC or Marvel or… — Mark Waid
At last the anchor was up, the sails were set, and off we glided. It was a sharp, cold Christmas; and as the short northern… — Herman Melville
Trying to have wisdom without application is like trying to catch the winds without raising the sails! — Thomas Russell
And more than once in the course of time, the same theme reappears: among the mystics of the fifteenth century, it has become the motif… — Michel Foucault
... the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle. — Ben Jonson
She sent him a warm and gentle wind, and Lord Odysseus was happy as he set his sails to catch the breeze. He sat beside… — Homer
As soon as somebody demonstrates the art of flying, settlers from our species of man will not be lacking on the moon and Jupiter... Given… — Johannes Kepler
Walking aft a few feet we stand at the steering gear of the ship. There is no cozy; wheel-house on the bridge for the quartermaster… — Paul J. H. Schoemaker
I heave the basketball; I know it sails in a parabola, exhibiting perfect symmetry, which is interrupted by the basket. It's funny, but it is… — Michael Jordan
This is the day of wonders. The land is covered with trees like a head with hair and behind the ship the sun rises tipping… — Alice Munro
We must reset our sails to take advantage of these changing winds and prosper as a business and individual. You can make the most of… — Harry S. Dent
The real skill is to raise the sails and to catch the power of the wind as it passes by. — Thomas Berry
You can't change the wind. But you can adjust the sails to reach your destination — Paulo Coelho
Had we taken ten sails, and let the eleventh to escape, being able to get at her, I could never have called it well done. — Horatio Nelson
The wind of God's grace is incessantly blowing. Lazy sailors on the sea of life do not take advantage of it. But the active and… — Mahatma Gandhi
The same wind blows on us all; the winds of disaster, opportunity and change. Therefore, it is not the blowing of the wind, but the… — Jim Rohn
But you have to understand, American democracy is not like the system you have. We're not an ocean liner that sails across the ocean from… — Colin Powell
You can choose right now to change the way you are experiencing a windstorm. Adjust your sails. — John Assaraf
In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and… — Beverly Cleary
...those experiments be not only esteemed which have an immediate and present use, but those principally which are of most universal consequence for invention of… — Francis Bacon

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