Best Voyage Quotes
225 Voyage quotes by 173 unique authors
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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the…
— Samuel Johnson
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They are wrong who think that politics is like an ocean voyage or a military campaign, something to be done with some particular end in…
— Plutarch
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Whether your characters journey daily to a distant moon or just down the street to the corner bar, what matters to the reader is the…
— Peter Selgin
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The symbolic display seen by the abductees is identical to the type of initiation ritual or astral voyage that is imbedded in the [occult] traditions…
— Jacques Vallee
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For me, it's a voyage of self-discovery. I'm able to go on a set and to explore situations, personalities, people and characters that are close…
— Robert Carlyle
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To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest. Otherwise, you are doomed to a routine…
— Sterling Hayden
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There is something dreamlike about the points that provide a view of the other side, but they belong not so much to the dreamtime as…
— Cesar Aira
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Style is how you see the world and how the world sees you. It isn't today and it isn't tomorrow; it isn't a dress or…
— Carol Edgarian
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Every day is not just another assignment; it is a small, but contained voyage of discovery.
— David Doubilet
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This is my maiden voyage. My first speech since I was the president of the United States and I couldn't think of a better place…
— George W. Bush
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If zoos are like arks, then rare animals are like passengers on a voyage of the damned, never to find a port that will let…
— Peter Singer
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Integrity and firmness is all I can promise; these, be the voyage long or short, never shall forsake me though I be deserted by all…
— George Washington
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Into this wild Abyss/ The womb of Nature, and perhaps her grave--/ Of neither sea, nor shore, nor air, nor fire,/ But all these in…
— John Milton
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A revolutionary career does not lead to banquets and honorary titles, interesting research and professorial wages. It leads to misery, disgrace, ingratitude, prison and a…
— Max Horkheimer
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A talk is a voyage. It must be charted. The speaker who starts nowhere, usually gets there.
— Dale Carnegie
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Here the people could stand it no longer and complained of the long voyage; but the Admiral cheered them as best he could, holding out…
— Christopher Columbus
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I suppose it was that in courtship everything is regarded as provisional and preliminary, and the smallest sample of virtue or accomplishment is taken to…
— George Eliot
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Our health is a voyage and every illness is an adventure story.
— Unknown Author
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The planning stage of a cruise is often just as enjoyable as the voyage itself, letting one's imagination loose on all kinds of possibilities. Yet…
— Unknown Author
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As, however, the port in reality lies in thirty-two degrees thirty-four minutes, according to the observations that have been made, they went much beyond it,…
— Junipero Serra
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Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people…
— Eugene McCarthy
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Thanksgiving, when the Indians said, "Well, this has been fun, but we know you have a long voyage back to England".
— Jay Leno
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For all my years in public life, I have believed that America must sail toward the shores of liberty and justice for all. There is…
— Edward Kennedy
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If the Spray discovered no continents on her voyage, it may be that there were no more continents to be discovered. She did not seek…
— Joshua Slocum
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It is not wise for a man who can get seasick in a rowboat on a mill-pond to attack a Japanese dinner just after a…
— Unknown Author
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