Sail Quotes
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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
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This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction.
Lord Byron
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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
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The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind.
William Falconer
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Writing is a vessel...with readers the ocean and authors as its sails.
William Petersen
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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
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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
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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
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Stately as a galleon, I sail across the floor,Doing the military two-step, as in the days of yore.
Joyce Grenfell
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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
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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
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Wow. Every time I think I've seen the far horizon of her lunacy, she sails right on over it...
Ari Marmell
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How strange! You seek guidance, yet you do not tread its path, surely a boat does not sail on land.
Al-Shafi‘i
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Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find.
Walt Whitman
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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
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Who sail on stormy seas;
And that's the way I get my bread --
A trifle, if you please.
Lewis Carroll
