Quotes tagged with 'sailing'

All great adventures have moments that are really crap.
—Ellen Potter life sailing

Raise your sail one foot, and you get ten feet of wind.
—Chinese Proverb sailing

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
—Syrus Pubilius life sailing

The desire to build a house is the tired wish of a man content thenceforward with a single anchorage. The desire to build a boat is the desire of youth, unwilling yet to accept the idea of a final resting place.
—Arthur Ransome sailing

We could say that the government spends money like drunken sailors. But that would be unfair to drunken sailors, because the sailors are spending their own money.
—Ronald Reagan government sailing

She holds you like a whore in the night, but she'll take your soul and not think twice.
—Michael Rivers / The Black Witch life sailing

The same wind blows on us all. The difference in arrival is not the blowing of the wind, but the set of the sail.
—Jim Rohn sailing

Ah…don't worry, boss. If anything's gonna happen it's gonna happen out there.
—Captain Ron sailing

To reach a port we must set sail. Sail, not tie at anchor. Sail, not drift.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt sailing

The goal is not to sail the boat, but rather to help the boat sail herself.
—John Rousmaniere sailing

I woke up this morning a bit disoriented...where am I again? Peering out my window I'm suddenly reminded: ah, giant grey waves..right.
—Tracy S. sailing

So why is it then? Why is it that people still come out here? Out into the middle of the middle of nowhere, a place that isn't even a place at all but just liquid space filled with nothingness...why is it then that such a nonexistent point that can only be properly designated with numbers, as it has no discernible geography by which to be otherwise identified, why then of all the parts of this planet does the sea tend to draw out a person's inner most thoughts and feelings about everything the world is and everything a person could possibly find themselves made of? Seems silly doesn't it? Maybe it is, but that's what happens eventually...to anyone who is ready for it
—Tracy S. adventure sailing

The most dangerous thing on any boat is the calendar.
—Art S. sailing

I've never seen as many wrecks in one place as in the islands of the San Blas.
—Tracy S. sailing

It's now reached the point that when I step onto solid ground I become unstable, my senses have reversed, as far as my body is concerned, the land has become a foreign place full of odd sensations; five months at sea is a long time.
—Tracy S. sailing

Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze.
—Carl Sagan / Pale Blue Dot sailing

Life's roughest storms prove the strength of our anchors.
—Unknown Sailor life sailing

No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.
—Unknown Sailor sailing

Your nose... just follow it; and the sun - and, when these 2 have failed... the stars...
—Unknown Sailor sailing

There's no thrill in easy sailing when the skies are clear and blue, there's no joy in merely doing things which any one can do. But there is some satisfaction that is mighty sweet to take, when you reach a destination that you never thought you'd make.
—Unknown Sailor sailing