Sailing Quotes
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My sailing system set sail, make it fast, no thoughts of energy or velocity, loll back, let boat drift.
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But America is a great, unwieldy Body. Its Progress must be slow. It is like a large Fleet sailing under Convoy. The fleetest Sailors must wait for the dullest and slowest. Like a Coach and six-the swiftest Horses must be slackened and the slowest quickened, that all may keep an even Pace.
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No question it's repairable. We'll be sailing again before the trials and everything will be fine. We're extremely fortunate.
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A dugout is much superior to a conventional manufactured canoe because you can get soaking wet without bothering to capsize it.
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It so happened that I was on a German sailing vessel on the way to Australia when the ship was captured, and on the high seas I was made prisoner by the French.
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I grew up in England, went to a nice public school, then didn't want to go to university, so I thought I would wander around. I did a season skiing, a bit of sailing, typical spoilt brat stuff. I ended up in the Caribbean. I was having a blast.
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Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and water as well as with the very heart and soul of the boat itself. Sailing teaches alertness and courage, and gives in return a joyousness and peace that but few sports afford.
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The sailing flight of birds is the only form of flight which is carried on for some length of time without the expenditure of power.
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In typical sailing races a long time ago, you'd come in and go out, and the first thing you'd do is probably have a cold beer. The first thing we do now is have a protein shake and our recovery drink.
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Nothing comes sailing by itself.
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Where great whales come sailing by, Sail and sail, with unshut eye, Round the world for ever and aye? When did music come this way? Children dear, was it yesterday?
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Get the Titanic sailing correctly before you worry about the deck chairs.
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Sailing is a completely new sport for me and I wasn't sure what to expect but I've definitely got the bug.
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I love cities that are on the water. I love the water element, specifically the sea. I grew up on the sea and I grew up sailing - I love sailing - and the presence of the sea gives the air and the light a very special quality that I absolutely adore.
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I was a weird teenager. My mother was actually worried because I didn't have any interest in dating in my teenage years. I had all this desire to pursue my passions like ballet, then sailing, then music, so I didn't have any emptiness to fill.
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The fleet being thus more inclosed will more readily observe the signals, and with greater facility form itself into the line of battle a circumstance which should be kept in view in every order of sailing.
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The house was built on the highest part of the narrow tongue of land between the harbor and the open sea. It had lasted through three hurricanes and it was built solid as a ship.
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I wanted to be a doctor in sports medicine; I was into sailing and all that sort of thing.
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Columbus's doom-burdened caravels
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Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
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People spend money on sports, and I just don't do golf, I hate it. But I love sailing and the technology aspect.
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The sooner we learn to be jointly responsible, the easier the sailing will be.
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Sometimes I feel like I'm sailing on a sunken dream...
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... strike the words "white male" from all your constitutions, and then, with fair sailing, let us sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish together.
