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229 Voyages quotes by 176 unique authors
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For this purpose I determined to keep an account of the voyage, and to write down punctually every thing we performed or saw from day…
— Christopher Columbus
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Sailed this day nineteen leagues, and determined to count less than the true number, that the crew might not be dismayed if the voyage should…
— Christopher Columbus
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What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth.
— Norman Cousins
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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
— George William Curtis
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What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is…
— Thomas Merton
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The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no…
— Agnes de Mille
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
— Michel de Montaigne
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If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things…
— Blaise Pascal
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
— Marcel Proust
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Looking back at my life's voyage, I can only say that it has been a golden trip.
— Ginger Rogers
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It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with…
— Frederick Sanger
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There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life…
— William Shakespeare
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Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers…
— W. Clement Stone
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And what classical music does best and must always do more, is to show this kind of transformation of moods, to show a very wide…
— Michael Tilson Thomas
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My Olympic voyage has continued because it is so rewarding.
— Bill Toomey
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Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
— Arnold J. Toynbee
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Like Andy Warhol and unlike God Almighty, Larry King does not presume to judge; all celebrities are equal in his eyes, saints and sinners alike…
— James Wolcott
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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a…
— H P Lovecraft
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To be whole is to be part; true voyage is return.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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Touch and away, Jack?’ asked Stephen. ‘Touch and away? Do you not recall that I have important business there? Enquiries of the very first interest?’…
— Patrick O'Brian
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I am the son of the road , my country is a caravan and my life is the most unexpected of voyages. i belong to…
— Amin Maalouf
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Permit me voyage, love, into your hands...
— Hart Crane
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.
— Tennessee Williams
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Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and…
— Winston Churchill
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We've all led raucous lives, some of them inside, some of them out. But only the poem you leave behind is what's important. Everyone knows…
— Charles Wright
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