Quotes About Navigation

War was like sailing. You could learn about clouds, wind direction, and currents, but the sea remained forever unpredictable. All you could do was adapt to it and try to return home alive.

But that's how it is on a sailing ship, and in this respect its journey parallels that of life: simply knowing where you want to go isn't enough, because life is a windblown voyage, consisting mainly of the detours imposed by alternating calm and storm.

If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there

If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there

A great ship asks deep water.

There were no aisles, so to get to the empty cot I had to climb over other senators. The first was Ted Kennedy. He was a big man, and at that moment he looked to me like Mount Everest.

the original route, whether called U. S. 40 or something else, will furnish the main-traveled road until someone disproves the geometrical proposition that a straight line is the shortest distance between points.

Sometimes the storm winds blow so strong a man has no choice but to furl his sails.

A smuggler must know the tides and when to seize them.

In his smuggling days, Davos had often jested that he knew the waterfront at King's Landing a deal better than the back of his hand, since he had not spent a good part of his life sneaking in and out of the back of his hand.

Columbus found a world, and had no chart, Save one that faith deciphered in the skies.

Don't make yourself so special," the dwarf said with a snort. "As if getting lost was some trick that only women knew. I've known men who could get lost in their own bedrooms. The only difference is that men with no sense of direction don't brag about it, the way women do.

When Columbus started out he didn't know where he was going, when he got there he didn't know where he was, and when he got back he didn't know where he had been.

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not improve.

O pilot! 'tis a fearful night, There's danger on the deep.

Thus, I steer my bark, and sail On even keel, with gentle gale.

Like ships, men flounder time and time again.

Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.

Every path has its puddle.

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

All I had to do was keep turning left.

The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.

Only sign we have now to know which way we're going, is ducks.

Thanks to Twitter, iPads, BlackBerrys, voice-activated in-dash navigation systems, and a hundred other technologies that offer distraction anywhere, anytime, boredom has loosened its grip on us at last - that once-crushing 'weight' has become, for the most part, a memory.