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Quotes About Rudder

I had dispensed with a rudder on the principal that fate must be given a chance.
~ Walter Moers
Wildcats could carry a light bomb load too. Their pilots, however, found to their dismay that the bombs could be difficult to drop: a pilot had not only to pull the bomb release but also to jerk the plane's rudder back and forth, shaking the plane in midflight to dislodge the bombs from their notoriously sticky mountings.
~ James D. Hornfischer
Man is the will, and woman the sentiment. In this ship of humanity, Will is the rudder, and Sentiment the sail; when woman affects to steer, the rudder is only a masked sail.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
By viewing nature, nature's handmaid art, Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow: Thus fishes first to shipping did impart, Their tail the rudder, and their head the prow.
~ John Dryden
A man without religion or spiritual vision is like a captain who finds himself in the midst of an uncharted sea, without compass, rudder and steering wheel. He never knows where he is, which way he is going and where he is going to land.
~ William J. H. Boetcker
The past can be a rudder that guides you or an anchor tha hinders you. Leave your mistakes with God and look to the future by faith.
~ Warren W. Wiersbe
Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment
~ Owen Feltham
A long poem is a test of invention which I take to be the Polar star of poetry, as fancy is the sails, and imagination the rudder.
~ John Keats
After Watergate, America was a ship without a rudder. Vietnam was left to its own devices, drifting along towards its fate.
~ Nguyen Cao Ky
If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasent waters for our old age.
~ Freya Stark
The pilot was military, so he was using the rudder. Civilian pilots avoid using the rudder. Using the rudder makes the plane slew, like a car skids. Passengers don't like the feeling. So civilian pilots turn by juicing the engines on one side and backing off on the others. Then the plane comes around smoothly.
~ Lee Child
The pilot was military, so he was using the rudder. Civilian pilots avoid using the rudder. Using the rudder makes the plane slew, like a car skids. Passengers don't like the feeling. So civilian pilots turn by juicing the engines on one side and backing off on the others. Then
~ Lee Child
He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasant waters for our old age.
~ Freya Stark
These great turning-days of life cast no shadow before, slip by unconsciously. Only a trifle, a little turn of the rudder, and the ship goes to heaven or hell.
~ Rebecca Harding Davis
To change your world, you must change your words. It's the rudder (James 3:4-5) of your life.
~ Rick Warren
Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder.
~ Edvard Munch
For Rhime the Rudder is of Verses, With which like Ships they steer their courses.
~ Samuel Butler
Without love our life is ... a ship without a rudder ... like a body without a soul.
~ Sholom Aleichem
Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder.
~ Edvard Munch
Now that I'm out and I'm shouting in doorways Freed from a love more like murder I should be singing but in liberation Feel like a ship with no rudder.
~ Andy Partridge
The person who has some awareness of the past knows how to fashion a rudder and which direction land is.
~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasent waters for our old age.
~ Freya Stark
Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind. With such persons, gullibility, which they call faith, takes the helm from the hand of reason, and the mind becomes a wreck.
~ Thomas Jefferson