Sails Quotes
180 quotes by 146 authors
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When I meet a wind I cannot fight , I can do naught but set my sails to let it take me where it will.
— Susanna Kearsley
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Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink.
— Erin Morgenstern
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Farewell," they cried, "Wherever you fare till your eyries receive you at the journey's end!" That is the polite thing to say among eagles. "May…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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We can’t direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. For maximum happiness, peace, and contentment, may we choose a positive attitude.
— Thomas S. Monson
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So much in life depends on our attitude. The way we choose to see things and respond to others makes all the difference. To do…
— Thomas S. Monson
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So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and there that the sea and sky looked all one fabric, as if…
— Virginia Woolf
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Momma said that ghosts couldn't move over water. That's why Africans got trapped in the Americas.. They kept moving us over the water, stealing us…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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I’m saying your name in the grocery store, I’m saying your name on the bridge at dawn. Your name like an animal covered with frost,…
— Richard Siken
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She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails.
— Elizabeth Edwards
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It’s better to think of my life like that— part miracle, part madness. It’s better if I accept that I can’t control any of the…
— Jeanette Winterson
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Most helmsmen would’ve been satisfied with a pilot’s wheel or a tiller. Leo had also installed a keyboard, monitor, aviation controls from a Learjet, a…
— Rick Riordan
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Defeat I can endure with cheerfulness, my lady. But betrayal is like taking the wind from my sails, or the earth from beneath my feet.…
— Margaret George
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They would find this House of Hades. They'd take the Doors of Death. And by the gods, if Leo had to design a grabber arm…
— Rick Riordan
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Yeah." He took one last look at the cityscape of Rome, turning bloodred in the sunset. "Festus, raise the sails. We've got some friends to…
— Rick Riordan
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The ship's boards were still sticky with new resin. We leaned over the railing to wave our last farewell, the sun-warm wood pressed against our…
— Madeline Miller
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Now my charms are all o'erthrown, And what strength I have's mine own, - Which is most faint: now, 'tis true, I must be here…
— William Shakespeare
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Like the wind that carries one ship east and another west, the law of autosuggestion will lift you up or pull you down according to…
— Napoleon Hill
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You can't always control the wind, but you can control your sails.
— Tony Robbins
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If you want to build a boat, do not instruct the men to saw wood, stitch the sails, prepare the tools and organize the work,…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Think of life as a voyage. The truest liver of the truest life is like a voyager who, as he sails, is not indifferent to…
— Phillips Brooks
Who Wrote These Sails Quotes
146 authors contributed a total of 180 Sails Quotes, led by these top contributors: