Quotes About Navigation

Thus when I shun Scylla, your father, I fall into Charybdis, your mother.

1. Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at.2. Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas….5. A free, open-minded, and absolutely impartial adjustment of all colonial claims.

Can we actually "know" the universe? My God, it's hard enough finding your way around in Chinatown.

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

There is clearly a rule at O'Hare that, no matter what flight you come in on, your connecting flight must be at a gate as far away as possible. And,

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

Hay gente que hace de su ingenuidad su bote de navegación por el mar tormentoso.

if you give directions for a living, then it's pretty hard to follow them.

I don't think I could find the Philippines on a map." "Yes you could, the maps have all of the countries labeled. That's literally what a map is for.

And for the information of young hunters, I will just say, in this place, that whenever a fellow gets bad lost, the way home is just the way he don't think it is. This rule will hit nine times out of ten.

We need more moral compasses and less Sat Navs

We cannot change the wind, we can only adjust our sails.

I like structure - like driving: go past the school on the street, stay on the right side, no hitting the car, go in right, you'll see a big church, stop and take a left, and you'll have it. By doing this I'm giving a structure of life, a path of light, and showing what happens between me and me, which is something very beautiful.

De toutes les industries de l'être humain, la navigation me parut la plus audacieuse. Chevaucher les flots, livrer son sort à l'errance du vent et aux turbulences des eaux, partir en direction de rien avec l'espoir, sinon la certitude, d'y rencontrer quelque chose, ces activités de marins me semblaient être le fruit de rêves plus fous encore que les miens.

Se le vie marittime non si lasciano circoscrivere facilmente forse è perché sono intrecciate di racconti e le leggende: le carte su cui sono state segnate sono forse immaginarie, gli scritti che le accompagnano inventati

Every single roundabout I come to is going to have five ways out of it, to Little Puddleby, and Upper Slaughter, and Something Parva,

I've learned how to navigate my own disappointment without plummeting too far into death spirals of shame, rage, or inertia. That's because, by this point in my life, I have come to understand what part of me is suffering when I fail: It's just my ego.

They rowed for about ten minutes, then Shackleton spotted a small cove in the cliffs to starboard.

By the time they reached the boat her rudder had already been torn off.

The Endurance sailed from Plymouth five days later. She set a course for Buenos Aires

press on around the coast to Leith Harbor. But the Caird's rudder was now lost.

Shackleton came to the conclusion that instead of sailing to Leith Harbor

By land it was a scant 29 miles in a straight line.

She was a barkentine—three masts