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Quotes About Navigation

Policemen are numbered in case they get lost.
~ Spike Milligan
Three lights should be fine." - Zachary"Aye, well if it wis me, I'd want a bloody lighthoose beacon comin' oot o' my arse." - True MacDonald
~ Steve Alten, The Loch
When you come to a detour, take it.
~ Jack Dancer, Detour Paris
Men. They don't ask for directions, but they'll ask a demon for a favor.-Nina
~ Karen Greco, Tainted Blood
Ish #109 "If MapQuest says make a right, go straight. You'll get there quicker.
~ Regina Griffin
The difference between a man and a woman is whether to ask for directions.
~ Edward Harris
Any damn fool can navigate the world sober. It takes a really good sailor to do it drunk.
~ Francis Chichester
Out of sight of land the sailor feels safe. It is the beach that worries him.
~ Charles Davis
The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind.
~ William Falconer
There are routes not to be followed, armies not to be attacked, citadels not to be besieged, territory not to be fought over.
~ Sun Tzu
Keep your hand on the helm.
~ Matt Goldman
The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.
~ Blaise Pascal
No wind favors he who has no destined port.
~ Michel de Montaigne
If you don't know what port you are sailing to, no wind is favourable.
~ Seneca the Younger
I used to own a dingy and can still sail one if pushed, but I like the pleasure boats.
~ John Dyer
I am sailing on a ship bound for life. a line in a song
~ Phil Wickham
What if there's no town for fifty kilometers?" Said Enoch."The we'll walk for fifty-one kilometers. But I know we weren't blown that far off course.
~ Ransom Riggs, Hollow City
Kurt pick his way around testing for heat before taking each step and avoiding places where the ash was heaps up.
~ Nick Hastings
On land there was no choice. You conformed to the rigid structures others had left behind. But out there on the bay, it was different. Everything was fluid. Go here, go there. No signs, no narrow lanes, no walls, no paths worn into the water. Out there you were restricted only by the draft of your boat, your energy and will. Your imagination.
~ James W. Hall
Don't get lost in the Forrest, never lose direction.
~ Jan Jansen Easy Branches
its Easy for going with every wind but if go the wrong direction, we ourselves will have to embarked the sails tightening for to go in a different and Good direction.
~ Jan Jansen Easy Branches
No way to long, impossible to lose direction.
~ Jan Jansen Easy Branches
I looked around my boat and sighed. "When the corpses outnumber the living, you know your boat has taken a hard turn in the wrong direction.
~ Jana Deleon