Quotes About Sail

The breeze of God's grace is blowing continually. You have to set your sail to catch that breeze.

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

Then sail, my fine lady, on the billowing wave - The water below is as dark as the grave, And maybe you'll sink in your little blue boat - It's hope, and hope only, that keeps us afloat

It isn't that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better.

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.

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

Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore.

A sail boat that sails backwards can never see the sun rise.

She could hear again the ripple of water, the flapping sail. She could see the glint of the moon upon the bay, and could feel the soft, gusty beating of the hot south wind. A subtle current of desire passed through her body, weakening her hold upon the brushes and making her eyes burn.

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.

Here is my journey's end, here is my butt,And very sea-mark of my utmost sail.

The sea being smooth,How many shallow bauble boats dare sailUpon her patient breast.

Tie telltales (made from yarn) to the shrouds as high up as possible.

One legend has it that Ferdinand was himself right in the middle of a chess game when Christopher Columbus approached the court with his plan to sail west in search of the Indies; at that moment, victory came to Ferdinand on the chess-board, putting him in such a good mood that he quickly approved Columbus's request.

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

The despondency that follows makes me feel somewhat like a shipwrecked man who spies a sail, sees himself saved, and suddenly remembers that the lens of his spyglass has a flaw, a blurred spot -- the sail he has seen.

Lieutenant Cranston, sitting across the tavern table from him, looked startled. "Something amiss, Captain?" "It's as I feared—we've been called back to sea early. We set sail in less than a

She was a barkentine—three masts

her hull was altogether too rounded for most of those on board her.

Dare to believe. Dare to live. Dare to act. Dare to fact. Dare to sail. Dare to fail. Dare to give. Dare to forgive.

Music is the sweetest language for hearts, kindest prayer for souls, peaceful breeze for minds, and a magical sail for imaginations.

I had no idea that "letting go" would be so complicated; that it would sometimes feel liberating and other times more sorrowful and lonely. In the long run, most of it was like standing on the shore, watching your family set sail for America, and they're smiling and waving good-bye, and getting smaller and smaller, but you are still the same size with no one to talk to.

Oh! it is better to live on the sea and let other men raise your crops and cook your meals. A house smells of smoke, a ship smells of frolic. From a house you see a sooty roof, from a ship you see Valhalla.

on a boat, the better.