Sails Quotes

180 quotes by 149 authors

If one sins against the laws of proportion and gives something too big to something too small to carry it - too big sails to… — Plato
Jesus built a ship to sing a song to, it sails the rivers and it sails the tide. Some of my friends don't know who… — Gram Parsons
Those who spread their sails in the right way to the winds of the earth will always find themselves born by a current toward the… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
I am standing on the seashore. A ship spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the ocean. I stand watching her… — Henry Scott Holland
The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats; Chambers of the great are jails, And head-winds right for royal sails. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There's not a ship that sails the ocean, But every climate, every soil, Must bring its tribute, great or small, And help to build the… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
She comes majestic with her swelling sails, The gallant Ship: along her watery way, Homeward she drives before the favouring gales; Now flirting at their… — Robert Southey
Me howling blasts drive devious, tempest-tossed, / Sails ripped, seams opening wide, and compass lost. — William Cowper
The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the wind… — Joseph Conrad
It's hard to tell / if we close our eyes or if night / opens in us other starred eyes, / if it burrows into… — Pablo Neruda
Sundown. The distressed sloop, its mainmast shattered by lightning, its sails ripped by the winds of the open sea, drifted into the small, quiet beach… — Robert Ludlum
Praise be to Nero's Neptune The Titanic sails at dawn And everybody's shouting "Which Side Are You On?" And Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot Fighting… — Bob Dylan
Into the sunset's turquoise marge The moon dips, like a pearly barge; Enchantment sails through magic seas, To fairland Hesperides, Over the hills and away. — Madison Cawein
Windmills, which are used in the great plains of Holland and North Germany to supply the want of falling water, afford another instance of the… — Hermann von Helmholtz
Evolution is fundamentally creative, and when we align ourselves with the evolutionary movements of consciousness, the universe itself puts wind in our sails. Quantum thinking… — Amit Goswami
Set your sails now but the ocean is very rough and treacherous... if you keep going you will get there. — Jesse Taylor
Fighting has taught me that the caterpillar takes a while to turn into a majestic butterfly! Patience, hard work, dedication, never giving up, rising to… — Jesse Taylor
A long poem is a test of invention which I take to be the Polar star of poetry, as fancy is the sails, and imagination… — John Keats
Some people may say my curved panels look like sails. Well, I am a sailor, so I guess I probably do use that metaphor in… — Frank Gehry
He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience. — William Golding

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149 authors contributed a total of 180 Sails Quotes, led by these top contributors: