Sails Quotes

180 quotes by 150 authors

There is no stability in this world. Who is to say what meaning there is in anything? Who is to foretell the flight of a… — Virginia Woolf
Where lies the final harbor, whence we unmoor no more? In what rapt ether sails the world, of which the weariest will never weary? Where… — Herman Melville
We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing; those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it,… — Swami Vivekananda
The woman will sit eternally in the tall black armchair. I will be the one woman you will never have...excessive living weighs down the imagination:… — Anais Nin
The American mirror, said the voice, the sad American mirror of wealth and poverty and constant useless metamorphosis, the mirror that sails and whose sails… — Roberto Bolano
I do what I've trained my whole life to do. I watch the ball. I keep my eye on the ball. I never stop watching.… — Barry Lyga
The music enchanted the air. It was like the south wind, like a warm night, like swelling sails beneath the stars, completely and utterly unreal...… — Erich Maria Remarque
...Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled Upon the wharves of sorrow, and… — William Butler Yeats
May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks. — J.R.R. Tolkien
You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read, since I first came here, the… — Charles Dickens
We clear the harbor and the wind catches her sails and my beautiful ship leans over ever so gracefully, and her elegant bow cuts cleanly… — L.A. Meyer
And I will now rock the brown basin from side to side so that my ships may ride the waves. Some will founder. Some will… — Virginia Woolf
To course across more kindly waters now my talent's little vessel lifts her sails, leaving behind herself a sea so cruel; and what I sing… — Dante Alighieri
You know reviewers, they are the wind in their own sails. — Barbara Kingsolver
When you canâ€™t change the direction of the wind â€” adjust your sails — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
O you, who in some pretty boat, Eager to listen, have been following Behind my ship, that singing sails along Turn back to look again… — Dante Alighieri
Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can't change the wind but you can set your sails. — Billie Joe Armstrong
when you lose your sails, row. — Karen White
But only a fool sails into combat with nature — Robert Harris

Who Wrote These Sails Quotes

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