Best 159 quotes in «sailing quotes» category

The questions that used to bother me at times, do not weigh anything before the immensity of a wake so close to the sky and filled with the wind of the sea

There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.

The suffix 'naut' comes from the Greek and Latin words for ships and sailing. Astronaut suggests 'a sailor in space.' Chimponaut suggests 'a chimpanzee in sailor pants'.

There is but a plank between a sailor and eternity.

There is nothing -- absolutely nothing -- half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. In or out of 'em, it doesn't matter. Nothing seems really to matter, that's the charm of it. Whether you get away, or whether you don't; whether you arrive at your destination or whether you reach somewhere else, or whether you never get anywhere at all, you're always busy, and you never do anything in particular; and when you've done it there's always something else to do, and you can do it if you like, but you'd much better not.

There's precious little to say between day and dark, Perhaps a few words on the implacable will Of time sailing like a magic barque Or something as fine for the amenities.

The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long head

The sea drives truth into a man like salt.

There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.

The sea finds out everything you did wrong.

The S.S. Sierra was a ten-thousand-ton vessel. Today, lifeboats bigger than the Sierra are found on the Queen Mary and other luxury liners.

The thing I realized this last few days is that the earth is a big place.

The world is like a vast sea: mankind like a vessel sailing on its tempestuous bosom. ... [T]he sciences serve us for oars.

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

Three fishers went sailing away to the west, Away to the west as the sun went down; Each thought on the woman who loved him the best, And the children stood watching them out of the town.

To my crew: Please be reasonable and do it my way. The Captain

Waves are not measured in feet or inches, they are measured in increments of fear.

We are off! The courses and topsails are set: the coral-hung anchor swings from the bow: and together, the three royals are given to the breeze, that follows us out to sea like the baying of a hound.

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

To expel hunger and thirst there is no necessity of sitting in a palace and submitting to the supercilious brow and contumelious favour of the rich and great there is no necessity of sailing upon the deep or of following the camp What nature wants is every where to be found and attainable without much difficulty whereas require the sweat of the brow for these we are obliged to dress anew j compelled to grow old in the field and driven to foreign mores A sufficiency is always at hand

Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we cannot cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?

We wanted a musical number that would capture the exhilaration of being out on a boat as they were and sailing with the stars and all that. So that's the origin of We Know the Way. From very early on we said, for an audience that doesn't know this, what we need a song that can really have the kind of sweep and the, you know, pull you in. So that was early on, we conceived of like that should be a musical moment [in Maona].

We were wavering around like a ship without a sail.

When I forget how talented God is, I look to the sea.

Whenever your preparations for the sea are poor; the sea worms its way in and finds the problems.

When it comes to politics, one has to do as one at sea with a sailing ship, reach one's course having regard to prevailing winds.

Where great whales come sailing by, Sail and sail, with unshut eye, Round the world for ever and aye.

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

Wisdom sails with wind and time.

You have no right to own a yacht if you ask that question.

You are uneasy; you never sailed with me before, I see.

You saw Britain back in the early days of sailing ships. They were the sea power, the controlled the seas and they had colonies all over the world and then you can look at history and watch the way that their empire kind of crumbled. I certainly don't want that to happen to the United States in space technology.

Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment

A soft landing covers a multitude of sins.

All right boys, let’s sail away! Show those bastards how airship pirates fly a ship!

And I shall watch the ferry boats, and they'll get high, On a bluer ocean against tomorrow's sky, And I will never grow so old again, And I will walk and talk, in gardens all wet with rain. - Sweet Thing

A sailor is not defined as much by how many seas he has sailed than by how many storms he has overcome.

A ship on the port always waits for you to sail to the oceans!

But that's how it is on a sailing ship, and in this respect its journey parallels that of life: simply knowing where you want to go isn't enough, because life is a windblown voyage, consisting mainly of the detours imposed by alternating calm and storm.

A true sailor is one who finds love in every port.

At the end of the day…we are anchoring into the peaceful lagoon, smiling at the majestic sun and its flirting rays, slowly slipping into the glittering ballroom of immense night skies, sipping on the platinum moon liquor under the blues of rippling waves kissing my golden foot hanging over the board of gently rocking boat, and diving into the bed of galaxies whispering magical stories of their eternal lives connecting souls…till the dawn…

Dinner for two; save a booth, lace your boots, fondue and fondles, smiles and smooches. We sailed at sunset; skin and snuggles, moon and moans. I've lost myself in you.

Charter boats are like books with no covers.

Cold November nights. It feels as if summer never happened. The beauty of setting sun, moon, and stars. Sailing to nowhere, but finding happiness in our togetherness. Never forget what we are. Stranded hearts." Fidelis O. Mkparu (2016), author of 'Love's Affliction' (and soon to be published 'Tears before Exaltation')

Her eyes betrayed no shock at the sights of the quay as they unfolded – not the sweating deckhands, the prostitutes crowding the ship, the hubbub of stalls, including one where three slaves were for sale, their ankles manacled. She might as well have been walking through a country garden as she moved inexorably away from the water.

Evelyn continued to hold the wheel, recognizing the sensation of being in control of the rudder, while Martin explained how the direction of the wind was key, and how all the elements worked together to affect speed. "It's physics," she said, becoming fascinated by the complexity of the air and water flow working together, and comprehending how the shape of the hull and sails and the size of the keel all played an important part in the boat's movement.

Hark, now hear the sailors cry, Smell the sea, and feel the sky, Let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic. - Into the Mystic

For I say there is no other thing that is worse than the sea is for breaking a man, even though he may a very strong one.

He stared at her hard and long, as if he were gauging a cloudbank that might be worth the trouble to sail around rather than through.