Sail Quotes

• You can sail in the desert with a ship of fools. You can smuggle in Moses and his book of rules. But you can't take a mother and give her back her son. What kind of freedom is bought with a gun? People like to build their prison walls when they're afraid to look inside... a thousand points of light are the muzzle flashes in the night. And the freedoms you profess to hold won't bring the dead back from the cold.

  

  Bruce Dickinson Iron Maiden
  • Desert
  • Fools
  • Ship

• This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Distraction
  • Sail
  • Wing

• Sail on silver girl Sail on by Your time has come to shine All your dreams are on their way See how they shine Oh, if you need a friend I'm sailing right behind.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Friend
  • Shine
  • Sail

• A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there.

  

  Ami Ayalon
  • Earth
  • Wind
  • Captain

• God bless this tiny little boat, And me who travels in it. It stays afloat for years and years, And sinks within a minute. And so the soul in which we sail, Unknown by years of thinking, Is deeply felt and understood, The minute that it’s sinking.

  

  Michael Leunig
  • Soul
  • Boat
  • Understood

• We know ourselves as part and as crowd, in an unknown that does not terrify. We cry our cry of poetry. Our boats are open, and we sail them for everyone.

  

  Edouard Glissant
  • Poetry
  • Crowd
  • Terrify

• It's time we put thoughts of lack behind us. It's time for us to discover the secrets of the stars, to sail to an uncharted land, to open up a new heaven where our spirits can soar. But first we'll have to make changes. And lasting change does not happen overnight. Lasting change happens in infinitesimal increments: a day, an hour, a minute, a heartbeat at a time...

  

  Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • Change
  • Heaven
  • Spirit

• Writing is a vessel...with readers the ocean and authors as its sails.

  

  William Petersen
  • Writing
  • Ocean
  • Sail

• The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind.

  

  William Falconer
  • Funny
  • inspirational
  • Wind

• He rested sitting on the un-stepped mast and sail and tried not to think but only to endure.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Thinking
  • Endure
  • Sitting

• We were wavering around like a ship without a sail.

  

  Judy Holliday
  • Ships
  • Sail
  • Wavering

• Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.

  

  William Penn
  • Funny
  • inspirational
  • Judgment

• Still a dreamer, yet more of a realist than ever before, I knew this was my time to sail. On the horizon I saw the shining future, as before. The difference now was that I felt the wind at my back. I was ready.

  

  Chris Gardner
  • Differences
  • Shining
  • Dreamer

• Sail the main course in a simple sturdy craft. Keep her well stocked with short stories and long laughs. Go fast enough to get there but slow enough to see. Moderation seems to be the key.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Long
  • Simple
  • Enough

• I can't imagine being sixty years of age and playing music I wrote when I was in my twenties. I would rather sail the sea of consequence to new lands. Laps around the shallow end of the pool, not for me.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Age
  • Imagine
  • Pool

• Stately as a galleon, I sail across the floor,Doing the military two-step, as in the days of yore.

  

  Joyce Grenfell
  • Step
  • Sail
  • Floor

• Now my charms are all o'erthrown, And what strength I have's mine own, Which is most faint: now, 'tis true, Or sent to Naples. Let me not, Since I have my dukedom got And pardon 'd the deceiver, dwell In this bare island by your spell; I must be here confined by you, But release me from my bands With the help of your good hands: Gentle breath of yours my sails Must fill, or else my project fails, Which was to please: now I want Spirits to enforce, art to enchant, And my ending is despair, Unless I be relieved by prayer, Which pierces so, that it assaults Mercy itself, and frees all faults. As you from crimes would pardon'd be, Let your indulgence set me free.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Art
  • Spirit
  • Helping

• It was inevitable the Titanic was going to set sail, but that doesn't mean it was a good idea to be on it.

  

  William Hague
  • Mean
  • Ideas
  • Inevitable

• On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty. Today is such a day.

  

  Rumi
  • World
  • Day
  • Wind

• Wow. Every time I think I've seen the far horizon of her lunacy, she sails right on over it...

  

  Ari Marmell
  • Seen
  • Sail
  • Lunacy

• I sail, scuba dive, play football, basketball.

  

  Casper Van Dien
  • Play
  • Football
  • inspirational

• How strange! You seek guidance, yet you do not tread its path, surely a boat does not sail on land.

  

  Al-Shafi‘i
  • Strange
  • Guidance
  • Sail

• Who sail on stormy seas; And that's the way I get my bread -- A trifle, if you please.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Bread
  • Sail
  • Trifle

• There is this blessing, that while life has but one entrance, it has exits innumerable, and as I choose the house in which I live, the ship in which I will sail, so will I choose the time and manner of my death.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • House
  • Blessing
  • Atheism

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