Sail Quotes
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Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.
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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
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Gray sail against the sky, Gray butterfly! Have you a dream for going. Or are you the blind wind's blowing?
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Money doesn't buy you happiness, but it buys you a big enough yacht to sail right up to it.
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If I wasn't acting, I would sail professionally. Nowhere specific, but I'd sail to Bermuda, South Africa, ya know, get paid to race in Regattas, I think that'd be pretty rad.
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When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
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When I go abroad I always sail from Boston because it is such a pleasant place to get away from.
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Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast. Yet it must be confessed that wit given an edge to sense, and recommends it extremely.
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Since I was 10 years old, I knew I wanted to sail around the world.
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There is a lot of stuff I like. I love backpacking. I love going to an island where I can just sit on the beach and read or scuba dive and sail. I do a lot of that. I still go backpacking around Europe in the summers and staying in hostels. I love that.
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When ships to sail the void between the stars have been built, there will step forth men to sail these ships.
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I'm kind of a jock. I sail, I ride a bike, I hike, I pump iron. I just love to be active.
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And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and there that the sea and sky looked all one fabric, as if sails were stuck high up in the sky, or the clouds had dropped down into the sea.
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George W. Bush was a silver spoon dolt with no record to speak of other than bankruptcy and selling tropical plants, and we let him sail into the White House, but Barack talks about religious fundamentalism and guns being prevalent in poor areas, and we roast him for weeks?
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But oars alone can ne'er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
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If you want to sail your ship in a different direction, you must turn one degree at a time.
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Me howling blasts drive devious, tempest-tossed, / Sails ripped, seams opening wide, and compass lost.
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He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.
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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
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There is no beauty or romance or mystery in the sea except for the men that sail abroad upon it, and those who stay at home and dream of them.
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'Tis the set of the sail that decides the goal, and not the storm of life.
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We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.
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If hindrances obstruct the way, Thy magnanimity display. And let thy strength be seen: But O, if Fortune fill thy sail With more than a propitious gale, Take half thy canvas in.
