"A sailor chooses the wind that takes the……" — Avi
"A sailor chooses the wind that takes the ship from a safe port. Ah, yes, but once you're abroad, as you have seen, winds have a mind of their own. Be careful, Charlotte, careful of the wind you choose."
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30 Quotes by Avi
Avi has 30 quotes on this site.
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The more men see of the world, the bigger their hearts
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It seems to me that you won't have had a proper series of adventures, unless you've gone through thick and…
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I kept asking myself if I felt different, if I was different. The answer was always yes. I was no…
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The cure for unhappiness...It's this: What a person needs is always more than they say.
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I took a deep breath. 'For you I've got something better than love.' What's that?' I...trust you.' Why?' You'll never…
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A sailor may choose the wind to ride out of seaport, but the wind has a mind of it's own.
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Now give me a kiss, say you love me and off you go." "Sure, Aunt Lu," I said, and I…
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There is a limit to how much a seer wishes to see.
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All I can think is that when you torment a person...the soul dies. When the soul dies, I suppose mercy…
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For heaven's sake, don't write writing. Write reading!
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It all depends on you. If you want it to be different,it will be different. Don't look at the world…
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There are those who'd rob a blind man of his eyelashes if they could.
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More Abroad Quotes
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one of 501 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long…
— Saint Augustine
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By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.
— Saint Augustine
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Cheney is a terrorist. He terrorizes our enemies abroad and innocent citizens here at home indiscriminately.
— Alec Baldwin
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America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.
— John Quincy Adams
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It could be argued that, in Thailand, many foreigners have come and gone, and the number of people who are…
— Bhumibol Adulyadej
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I wish I could adjust my voice, but it's just what's happened to me. It's because I've lived abroad for…
— Bill Bryson
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Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
— Samuel Butler
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The two things I was positive about in life were that I was going to be a teacher at a…
— Tucker Carlson
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Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly…
— William Ellery Channing
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When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own…
— Winston Churchill
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Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to…
— Kofi Annan
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We should strengthen our immigration laws to prevent the importation of foreign wages and working conditions. We should make it…
— Edward Kennedy
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