Sail Quotes

Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird.

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.

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.

When I go abroad I always sail from Boston because it is such a pleasant place to get away from.

To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.

I used to own a dingy and can still sail one if pushed, but I like the pleasure boats.

On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

If the Spray discovered no continents on her voyage, it may be that there were no more continents to be discovered. She did not seek new worlds, or sail to pow-wow about the dangers of the sea.

I sail, scuba dive, play football, basketball.

We were wavering around like a ship without a sail.

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

If a prospective Presidential approach can't be explained clearly enough to be understood well, it probably hasn't been thought through well enough. If not well understood by the American people, it probably won't "sail" anyway. Send it back for further thought.

Separately there was only wind, water, sail, and hull, but at my hand the four had been given purpose and direction.

Horses and mules, and even sail cars, made more rapid progress than did the earliest locomotive.

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.

I'm not like most designers, who have to set sail on an exotic getaway to get inspired. Most of the time, it's on my walk to work, or sitting in the subway and seeing something random or out of context.

I wish I could get all the discourteous drivers on a ship and sail them away and make sure it's a really horrible, wavy journey and when they get to where they're going, keep them there.

There is a Japanese proverb that literally goes 'Raise the sail with your stronger hand,' meaning you must go after the opportunities that arise in life that you are best equipped to do.

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way.

Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.

If I have a Sunday free, I'll go up the coast and spend some time on the beach. I scuba dive and swim and sail. A lot of the things I like are around the water.

The white sail of his soul has rounded the promontory - death.

To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.

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.

Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.

Thus, I steer my bark, and sail On even keel, with gentle gale.

We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came.

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

This is largely the methodology I've used throughout my career - that is, starting with a question as to what might be the properties of a set of compounds that could be invented which were unusual and unpredictable. Many times I've felt a bit like Columbus setting sail.