Quotes About Navigation

Two wrongs don't make a right but Three lefts do.

the thought occurred to him that life was like a river. Some people sailed on it slowly, some quickly, and some capsized. (Hemulen)

I suppose I'm the one who's going to be figuring out where we are and how to get back?" I asked. "That's right, Dora. You're the map.

They played, not beautifully but deep, ignoring their often discordant strings and striking right into the heart of the music they knew best, the true notes acting as their milestones. On the poop above their heads, where the weary helmsmen tended the new steering-oar and Babbington stood at the con, the men listened intently; it was the first sound of human life that they had heard, apart from the brief Christmas merriment, for a time they could scarcely measure.

If she is still there in the morning – if she has not run into the lee of Norfolk Island – and if there is no extraordinary change in the weather, I shall have to heave to. To stop,' he added, for a person who could call a cutter a ship after so many years at sea might need even simpler terms explained.

It would be strange if the weather-gage had to be explained to so old a sea-dog; though I must confess that there was a time when I confused it with that thing which creaks on the roof, showing which way the wind is blowing. Yet could you not obtain this valuable gage by some less arduous means than running a hundred miles and hiding behind a more or less mythical island which no one has ever seen, and that in the dark, a perilous proceeding if ever there was one?

Stephen, what is the French for a double sister-block, coaked? With a pair of them and a proper hold-fast, I could raise the Temple.' 'A double sister-block, coaked? The Dear alone can tell. I do not even know what it is in English.

Now, Polychrests,' he said, 'now we are going to crack on until she groans again. Stuns'ls aloft and alow, royals, and, damn me, royal stuns'ls and skys'ls if she'll bear 'em. The sooner we're there, the sooner we're home. Topmen, upperyardmen, are you ready?' 'Ready, aye ready, sir.' A comfortable, good body of sound – relief, thankfulness? 'Then at the word, up you go. Lay aloft!

you're rowing by wordlight

When we don't know where life is taking us, we are never lost.

Everything depends on which path you take.

When we venture in that unfamiliar sea, we trust blindly in those who guide us, believing that they know more than we do.

Geography is the art of the mappable.

Today, the latitude and longitude lines govern with more authority than I could have imagined forty-odd years ago, for they stay fixed as the world changes it's configuration underneath them—with continents adrift across a widening sea, the national boundaries repeatedly redrawn by war or peace.

Los vientos y las olas siempre favorecen a los navegantes más hábiles. —EDWARD GIBBON

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. —Edward Gibbon At

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

the parking lot out there, the right and left are reversed.

scanning all compass points

You've been away from home too long if you can get lost on the way from the harbor to the palace.

Scoprì immediatamente che, se manovrava le vele nel modo giusto, l'Albatro tagliava le onde come un coltello bene arrotato. Le corde scricchiolavano piacevolmente e la prora affilata sembrava sibilare, mentre puntava dritta a nord.

mentre io ero giù al porto a persuadere l'Albatro che doveva navigare, e non volare.

What's interesting to Hal Incandenza about his take on Struck, sometimes Pemulis, Evan Ingersoll, et al. is that congenital plagiarists put so much more work into camouflaging their plagiarism than it would take just to write up an assignment from conceptual scratch. It usually seems like plagiarists aren't lazy so much as kind of navigationally insecure. They have trouble navigating without a detailed map's assurance that somebody has been this way before them.

He that hath the steerage of my course, Direct my sail.