All of our Quotes

When a man comes to like a sea life, he is not fit to live on land.
—Samuel Johnson sailing

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

A small craft in an ocean is, or should be, a benevolent dictatorship.
—Tristan Jones

The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire.
—Carl Jung life

Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
—Franz Kafka life

Hypocrisy in anything may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.
—Anna Karenina government

When I'm all grown up, come what may, I'll build a boat to carry me away.
—Guy Gavriel Kay / Tigana

Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can.
—Danny Kaye

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
—Helen Keller life

Some people do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions; and conclusions are not always pleasant.
—Helen Keller life

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
—Helen Keller life

While we shall negotiate feely, we shall not negotiate freedom.
—John F. Kennedy freedom government

I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it's because in addition to the fact that the sea changes, and the light changes, and ships change, it's because we all came from the sea. And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea - whether it is to sail or to watch it - we are going back from whence we came.
—John F. Kennedy / Remarks at the Dinner for the America's Cup Crews sailing

You cannot negotiate with people who say what's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable.
—John F. Kennedy government

Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart. Until in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom.
—Robert F. Kennedy life

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.
—Jack Kerouac

Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.
—Jack Kerouac life travel

Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in an office or mowing your lawn. Climb that Goddamn mountain.
—Jack Kerouac life travel

Be happy for this moment— this moment is your life.
—Omar Khayyam

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
—Søren Kierkegaard life philosophy