Quotes About Navigation

Proceeding by loops and zig-zags, we now and then arrive just where we ought to be.

Starting a long way off the true point by loops and zigags, we now and then arrive just where we ought to be.

Every path hath a puddle.

The Tigris in parts is wonderfully tortuous, and at one great bend, 'The Devil's Elbow,' a man on foot can walk the distance in less than an hour which takes the steamer four hours to accomplish.

People are using GPS systems to find millions of little hidden objects throughout the world - often as simple as a piece of Tupperware hidden in the woods. You go to a website, you get the latitude and longitude to get the specific location of a certain specific hiding space, and then you go there and see if you can find it.

Surface streets are probably a hundred to a thousand times more complicated than highways.

We must always remember with gratitude and admiration the first sailors who steered their vessels through storms and mists, and increased our knowledge of the lands of ice in the South.

There is so much to sailing a ship. There's about a thousand different lines on a brig ship, and knowing what each one of those does, it takes a long time, and that's why you have these cabin boys that start on the ship, and they learn throughout the years, and that's why it takes so long to captain one.

The fleet being thus more inclosed will more readily observe the signals, and with greater facility form itself into the line of battle a circumstance which should be kept in view in every order of sailing.

The fairways were so narrow you had to walk down them single file

For Rhime the Rudder is of Verses, With which like Ships they steer their courses.

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

Your heart is not the compass that God steers by.

Venture through the thick of all things after Christ, and lose not your Master, Christ, in the throng of this great market.

The VOC was interested in Sri Lanka because of its cinnamon production and strategic location, since control of Sri Lanka implied an improved ability to check navigation between the western Indian Ocean and the Bay of Bengal. In

If you want to sail your ship in a different direction, you must turn one degree at a time.

Why do I ask for directions? Because I hate wasting time.

I'm sort of like a rat in a maze - I'm moving forward, and any choice I make at the time seems like the only one I can make.

The people got daily worse from the cold and the bad water, and they must all have perished if they had not discovered the port about the time they did.

There was a great difference in boats, of course. For a long time I was on a boat that was so slow we used to forget what year it was we left port in.

Just follow that one road the whole time!... I hope they don't get lost, I'm so bad at giving directions.

You can't go east and west at the same time.

In the distance I see a lighthouse. The light washes over us and continues on its rotation. This time, I don't know where the light will guide us.

But—it's too dark a night to walk with your eyes closed, as my people say." Tanis sighed and nodded.