Quotes About Navigation

Let him smell his way to Dover!

Life's an Unceartian Voyage

he dug the paddle into the water first on one side of the canoe, then on the other.

Yo estaba acostumbrado desde hacia ya mucho tiempo a escribir todas mis notas con tinta encarnada; Fisher empleaba corrientemente un lápiz verde. Cito sus palabras: «Eran las luces de babor y estribor». En tanto estas brillaran juntas, todo iría bien. Habíamos montado una combinación, que en tanto subsistiera, no podía ser vencida ni por intrigas interiores ni por el enemigo en el mar.

Ich möchte Leuchtturm sein in Nacht und Wind – für Dorsch und Stint, für jedes Boot – und ich bin doch selbst ein Schiff in Not!

My GPS, accurate as a racetrack tout, steered me off course, and instead of heading toward Bucks County, I was approaching Niagara Falls.

Separated from Hellas by more than a thousand miles, they had not even a guide to point the way.

Without a driver this bus is lost.

I gave up trying to find out. Any knowledge I might gain was useless. I had no means of controlling where I was going - no rudder, no sails, no motor, some oars, but insufficient brawn.

How could the stars, sparkle as they might, help me find my way if they kept moving?

Il fatto di aver perso fiducia negli ufficiali della nave non è una ragione per affidarne la rotta a agente che crede ai naufragi come questione di principio o fa della pirateria un affare.

Caballo había pasado tantos años navegando estos caminos que tenía apodos para las piedras que encontraba bajo sus pies: algunas eran «ayudantes», porque te permitían dar el paso con potencia hacia delante; otras eran «embusteras», porque parecían ayudantes pero rodaban a traición cuando despegabas; y algunas eran «chingoncitos», pequeños cabrones listos para hacerte caer. —

In our lives and in our careers, whether we are aware of it or not, we are constantly navigating a path by deciding between our deliberate strategies and the unanticipated alternatives that emerge.

You are only lost if you knew where you were going.

Any question will be sensible when you are driving at the right course.

We're not lost," he said in a cheery tone. "We're just locationally deficient and directionally challenged at the moment.

The secret of walking on water is knowing where the stones are.

Ieder idioot kan met een trein rijden. Het is altijd rechtdoor.

For practical purposes, I think the way to get the most out of celestial navigation can be stated in five rules. 1. Take five and average. 2. Non decimalis carborundum. (Don't drown in the decimals.) 3. Keep your altitudes between 10° and 70°. 4. Use a calculator for sight reduction from your DR. 5. Don't pass up a sight because it doesn't fit the rules.

Steep are the seas and savaging and cold In broken waters terrible to try; And vast against the winter night the wold, And harbourless for any sail to lie. But you shall lead me to the lights, and I Shall hymn you in a harbour story told. This is the faith that I have held and hold, And this is that in which I mean to die.

within weeks, you can run up and down easily, your feet knowing exactly where to go. But only in your own house. On another man's steps, look out.

Being a mother was like being a ship's figurehead: you had to keep moving forward through the waves and weather, your head high, even when an iceberg was clearly on the horizon, too big to go around.

Their ships are swift as a bird or a thought.

Second star to the right-" "-and straight on till morning? Yeah, I've heard that one before. Lit of the Ancient Homeworlds 101....