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229 Voyages quotes by 176 unique authors
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I have never met with a friend who furnished me sea-room. I have only tacked a few times and come to anchor - not sailed…
— Henry David Thoreau
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My voyage was never a well-conceived plan, nor will it ever be. I have made it up as I went along.
— Jimmy Buffett
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Mystery of mysteries, water and air are right there before us in the sea. Every time I view the sea, I feel a calming sense…
— Hiroshi Sugimoto
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Faith is not an easy virtue; but, in the broad world of a person's total voyage through time to eternity, faith is not only a…
— Theodore Hesburgh
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We should, I believe, beware of the pitfalls described by Taine: 'Imagine a man who sets out on a voyage equipped with a pair of…
— Robert Kennedy
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At two-tenths the speed of light, dust and atoms might not do significant damage even in a voyage of 40 years, but the faster you…
— Isaac Asimov
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Many a green isle needs must be In the deep wide sea of Misery, Or the mariner, worn and wan, Never thus could voyage on.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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The journey, not the arrival, matters; the voyage, not the landing.
— Paul Theroux
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Formerly Milton's Paradise Lost had been my chief favourite, and in my excursions during the voyage of the Beagle, when I could take only a…
— Charles Darwin
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The way the world works now, the way the rules of engagement operate, you can't claim to make sense out of the exterior without booking…
— Seth Godin
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The voyage of the Beagle has been by far the most important event in my life and has determined my whole career; yet it depended…
— Charles Darwin
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Most really good fiction is compelled into being. It comes from a kind of uncalculated innocence. You need not have your ending in mind before…
— Tom Robbins
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This is the patent-age of new inventions For killing bodies, and for saving souls, All propagated with the best intentions; Sir Humphrey Davy's lantern, by…
— Lord Byron
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Mankind's journey into space, like every great voyage of discovery, will become part of our unending journey of liberation. In the limitless reaches of space,…
— Ronald Reagan
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Where do you put a form? It will move all around, bellow out and shrink, and sometimes it winds up where it was in the…
— Philip Guston
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If we persist in our restless desire to know everything about the universe and ourselves, then we must not be afraid of what the artist…
— Herbert Read
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Our guests have an insatiable curiosity for up close and personal worldwide adventures - whether one is taking a segment of the World Cruise or…
— Bill Smith
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I am an artist, and, through my eye, must confess to a tremendous bias. In my purely literary voyages my eye is always my compass.
— Wyndham Lewis
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Shortly after Christopher Columbus and his sailors returned from their voyage to the New World, a horrifying new disease began to make its way around…
— Peter Lewis Allen
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A young sailor boy came to see me to-day. It pleases me to have these lads seek me on their return from their first voyage,…
— Maria Mitchell
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Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of 'creature comforts,' a sea-voyage would be delightful.
— Bayard Taylor
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That's why we sail. So our children can grow up and be proud of whom they are. We are healing our souls by reconnecting to…
— Nainoa Thompson
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I think life is self-examination. Certainly the voyage that one takes.
— Richard Gere
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There's really one character for every actor. The voyage is to find that one character.
— Richard Gere
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For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.
— Christopher Columbus
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