Quotes About Navigation

At last you have come, threading your way through the endless passages of the maze.

He determinado para la luna fases, hasta que se pone como la palma seca. No le está bien al sol alcanzar a la luna, ni a la noche adelantar al día: cada uno navega en su propia órbita»

There are different kinds of being lost, ranging from momentary disorientation to the complete, all-out, am-I-even-on-planet-Earth variety.

The discovery of America, the rounding of the Cape, opened up fresh ground for the rising bourgeoisie. The East Indian and Chinese markets, the colonization of America, trade with the colonies, the increase in the means of exchange and in commodities generally, gave to commerce, to navigation, to industry, an impulse never before known, and thereby, to the revolutionary element in the tottering feudal society, a rapid development.

But I will tell you that it's maddening to me that men seem to know which way is north, and which way is west—and are always overweeningly proud about that accomplishment, by the way—and yet still you all more than likely will manage to get us poor women lost." "Are you referring to all men, or to your father and brother?" "My father, brother and you," she corrected sweetly.

A man may own a ship, but unless he is captain of a crew he goes where the ship goes.

Hoist up sail while gale doth last, Tide and wind stay no man's pleasure.

Man on the dubious waves of error toss'd.

Ships are but boards, sailors but men.

Familiarity with danger makes a brave man braver, but less daring. Thus with seamen: he who goes the oftenest round Cape Horn goes the most circumspectly.

No man ever got lost on a straight road.

Ships are to little purpose without skillful Sea Men.

Man ... feels lost without the direction-finder provide by progress.

Every man has to learn the points of the compass again as often as he awakes, whether from sleep or any abstraction.

Financial planning is like navigation. If you know where you are and where you want to go, navigation isn't such a great problem. It's when you don't know the two points that it's difficult.

Second star to the right and straight on 'til morning.

But, as my mother used to tell me, two wrongs don't make a right. But I soon figured out that three left turns do.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.

Music… is a memory bank for finding one's way about the world.

Where lies your landmark, seamark, or soul's star?

The word "landmark" is from the old English "landmearc", meaning 'an object in the landscape which, by its conspicuousness, serves as a guide in the direction of one's course.

Life is learning how to deal with traffic. It requires patience, a good sense of timing, and sometimes not giving in to the traffic but reshaping your life.

See your road through.