Best Voyages Quotes
229 Voyages quotes by 176 unique authors
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Every book that anyone sets out on is a voyage of discovery that may discover nothing. Any voyager may be lost at sea, like John…
— Wallace Stegner
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The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer. The dictionary, a new word, a voyage, an encounter, a talk on…
— Anais Nin
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A home is much more than a house built of lumber, brick, or stone. A home is made of love, sacrifice, and respect. We are…
— Thomas S. Monson
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Le veritable voyage de decouverte ne consiste pas a chercher de nouveaux paysages, mais a avoir de nouveaux yeux. (The real voyage of discovery consists…
— Marcel Proust
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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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The Mississippi and its paddle boats, and the rivers of Bengal and their gleaming steamers evoked a similar atmosphere of romance, of long, song-filled voyages,…
— Qurratulain Hyder
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Every normal human being (and not merely the 'artist') has an inexhaustible store of buried images in his subconscious, it is merely a matter of…
— Max Ernst
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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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