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Sail Quotes

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A sailing ship is no democracy; you don't caucus a crew as to where you'll go anymore than you inquire when they'd like to shorten sail.
Sterling Hayden

And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o'er silent seas again.
Thomas Moore

Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird.
Neil Armstrong

He enters the port with a full sail.
Virgil

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

Horses and mules, and even sail cars, made more rapid progress than did the earliest locomotive.
John Moody

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
Louisa May Alcott

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
Marjorie Holmes

I sail, scuba dive, play football, basketball.
Casper Van Dien

I used to own a dingy and can still sail one if pushed, but I like the pleasure boats.
John Dyer

I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way.
John Paul Jones

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.
Louisa May Alcott

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.
Aeschylus

If a prospective Presidential approach can't be explained clearly enough to be understood well, it probably hasn't been thought through well enough. If not well understood by the American people, it probably won't "sail" anyway. Send it back for further thought.
Donald Rumsfeld

If I have a Sunday free, I'll go up the coast and spend some time on the beach. I scuba dive and swim and sail. A lot of the things I like are around the water.
Parker Stevenson

If the Spray discovered no continents on her voyage, it may be that there were no more continents to be discovered. She did not seek new worlds, or sail to pow-wow about the dangers of the sea.
Joshua Slocum

If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasent waters for our old age.
Freya Stark

Instead of sailing off into the sunset, he hopes to sail into the next century.
Dave Anderson

It is a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel.
Robert Bork

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.
William Penn

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