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Quotes About Sail

The ARPAnet/PDP-10 culture, wedded to LISP and MACRO and TOPS-10 and ITS and SAIL. The Unix and C crowd with their PDP-11s and VAXen and pokey telephone connections. And an anarchic horde of early microcomputer enthusiasts bent on taking computer power to the people.
~ Eric S. Raymond
Oh, how long were the days of a man. When he strode upon the broken land. He sailed as far as a man could steer. And he never wished to lose his fear. For the fear of man is a thing untold. It keeps him safe, and it proves him bold! Don't let fear make you cease to strive, for that fear it proves you remain alive! I will walk this broken road, and I will carry a heavy load! So come at me with your awful lies, I'm a man of truth and I'll meet your eyes!
~ Robert Jordan
We do not lealve the shore of the known in search of adventure or suspense or because of the failure of reason to answer our questions, We sail because our mind is like a fantastic seashell, and when applying our ear to its lips we hear a perpetual murmur from the waves beyond the shore.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
Cherbourg was leaving Liverpool, the ship
~ Erik Larson
The sail was patched with flour sacks and, furled, it looked like the flag of permanent defeat.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Abigail Adams, who did not set sail until November, seemed miffed by the enforced southward shift, swearing that she would try to enjoy Philadelphia but that "when all is done it will not be Broadway.
~ Ron Chernow
It all began when the Beagle's previous captain, Pringle Stokes, shot himself in the head and, after the bullet didn't kill him, died of gangrene.
~ Leonard Mlodinow
VIEWING HEAVEN'S GATE MOUNTAINS The River Chu cuts through the middle of heaven's gate, The green water flowing east reaches here then swirls. On either bank the blue hills face towards each other, The flatness of a lonely sail comes from by of the sun.
~ Li Bai
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
I'm Noah, and you are the ship coasting along the banks and as long as you are my valentine I will sail between your eyes..
~ Adel Abouhana
As o'er the stormy sea of human Life We sail, until our anchor'd spirits rest In the far haven of Eternity.
~ Robert Montgomery
THREE SHEETS TO THE WIND (Nautical term): A reference to the sheets (ropes) of a sail becoming loosened, rendering the sail useless (drunk)
~ Jinx Schwartz
taking in a main mast, shortening the
~ Fern Michaels
Whitecaps in profusion all around me, but somehow in your eyes I found the strength to sail upon that raging sea.
~ Gordon Lightfoot
A ship there is and she sails the sea, She's loaded deep as deep can be, But not so deep as the love I'm in I know not if I sink or swim. The water is wide, I cannot get o'er it And neither have I wings to fly Give me a boat that will carry two And both shall row, my Love and I.
~ Alice Hoffman
The two most beautiful sights I have witnessed in my life are a full blown ship at sail and the round-bellied pregnant female.
~ Benjamin Franklin
There was a ship came from the north country,And the name of the ship was the Golden Vanity.And they feared she might be taken by the Turkish enemy,That sails upon the Lowland, Lowland, Lowland,That sails upon the Lowland sea.
~ Anonymous: Shanties
Boats motor back and forth, unzipping the water.
~ Anthony Doerr
Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.
~ Anthony Doerr
it must sail away as soon as possible, even if doing so meant risking battle with Sextus.
~ Anthony Everitt
for that Ghast ship
~ Anthony James
I heard word Of bellied sailcloth, Creak of oars, And gold in Eastland. Then I smelled A smell remembered: Salt of spray And black-pitched boat's keel.
~ Frans G. Bengtsson
Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.
~ David Hare
if the Persian fleet was left intact to sail round and take the infantrymen from the rear.
~ Roderick Beaton