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Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and water as well as with the very heart and soul of the boat itself. Sailing teaches alertness and courage, and gives in return a joyousness and peace that but few sports afford. -- George Matthew Adams
Sailing really forces you to be present and in the moment. You kind of forget about the bullshit of life. Your thoughts go away because you're focused on making sure everything's working. I like being in that place. -- Daria Werbowy
I can't control the wind but I can adjust the sail. -- Ricky Skaggs
It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage. -- George William Curtis
The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind. -- William Falconer
I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full. -- Arthur Ashe
What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous. -- Thomas Merton
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel. -- Augustus Hare
I wanted freedom, open air and adventure. I found it on the sea. -- Alain Gerbault
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable. -- Seneca the Younger
Waves are not measured in feet or inches, they are measured in increments of fear. -- Buzzy Trent
We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end. -- Blaise Pascal
To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. -- Kenneth Grahame
What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we cannot cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? -- Thomas Merton
It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go. -- Jim Rohn
We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds. -- Aristotle Onassis
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all. -- William Osler
Men go back to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the sea they must face up. -- Henry David Thoreau
Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came. -- John F. Kennedy
The cabin of a small yacht is truly a wonderful thing; not only will it shelter you from a tempest, but from the other troubles in life, it is a safe retreat. -- Lewis Francis Herreshoff
To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for. -- Henry Van Dyke
Sailing is necessary, living is not necessary. -- Fernando Pessoa
Sailing, the most expensive way to travel 3rd class -- Buzzy Trent
My soul to-day Is far away Sailing the Vesuvian Bay. -- Thomas Buchanan Read
Say, it's only a paper moon, / Sailing over a cardboard sea. -- Yip Harburg
Drifting, On a sea of forgotten teardrops, On a lifeboat, Sailing for Your love -- Jimi Hendrix
If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends. -- Enoch Powell
Sailing to an island unknown Failing to find your way home you walk under a sea leagues beneath us -- Maggie Stiefvater
Sailing is a completely new sport for me and I wasn't sure what to expect but I've definitely got the bug. -- Kirsty Gallacher
Home is like the ship at sea, Sailing on eternally; Oft the anchor forth we cast, But can never make it fast. -- Charles Dickens
Say, it's only a paper moon, Sailing over a cardboard sea, But it wouldn't be make believe, If you believed in me. -- Billy Rose
Sailing is just the bottom line, like adding up the score in bridge. My real interest is in the tremendous game of life. -- Dennis Conner
I'm sort of known in the comedy community as 'Smooth Sailing,' just 'cause everything always goes great. I've always had success at every turn. -- Jon Glaser
Sailing heart-ships through broken harbors out on the waves of the night, still the searcher must ride the dark horse racing alone in his fright. -- Neil Young
Sailing has given me some of the most pleasant and exciting moments of my life. It also has taught me something of the courage, resourcefulness, and strength of men who sail the seas in ships. -- John F. Kennedy
Sailing became one of the mainstreams of my life. I suppose my father was an influence. I remember seeing a photo of him at home sailing a big boat to Bermuda in his 20s. I still have it. -- David Crosby
Sailing is a big outlet for me. It's one of the key things I've been able to do by commingling science with sailing and my love of the sea. Also, I have several motorcycles, and I like to go on motorcycle trips. -- Craig Venter
Sailing is the closest I can get to nature - it's adrenaline, fear, a constant challenge and learning experience, an adventure into the unknown. And of course there is nothing better than wearing the same T-shirt for days and not brushing my hair for weeks. -- Daria Werbowy
Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price. -- Amelia Earhart
Nothing comes sailing by itself. -- Alexander Dale Oen
don't just sit theresail something! -- chery fee
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Keep your hand on the helm. -- Matthew Goldman
Go small, go simple, go now -- Larry Pardey
too young to live, too old to die -- Jeffrey Rasley
A soft landing covers a multitude of sins. -- Katherine Starbird
Design has taken the place of what sailing used to be. -- Dennis Conner
Never a ship sails out of bay but carries my heart as a stowaway. -- Roselle Mercier Montgomery
Instead of sailing off into the sunset, he hopes to sail into the next century. -- Dave Anderson
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Turn over the rudder in God's name, and sail with the wind heaven sends us. -- Catherine of Siena
...now and then a giggling trail of mermaids appeared in our wake. We fed them oatmeal. -- Tove Jansson
Just because I am paranoid does not mean that someone is not out to get me -- Don Darkes
Now I remembered a captain's honor and his only duty: to bring his crew back alive. -- Carsten Jensen
When I'm all grown up, come what may,I'll build a boat to carry me away -- Guy Gavriel Kay
Thing about boats is, you can always sell them if you don't like them. Can't sell kids. -- Lin Pardey
She holds you like a whore in the night, but she'll take your soul and not think twice. -- Micheal Rivers
Be patient with your boaters and let them rant. Most of them will get over it come December. -- Matthew Goldman
We of the sea come to know each other quickly; our loves, like our hates, are born of sudden dangers. -- Lew Wallace
Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars. -- Richard Halliburton
hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic... -- Van Morrison
One takes what the river offers, both good and bad. The joy of living by running water far outweighs the sorrow. -- Matthew Goldman
My goal in sailing isn't to be brilliant or flashy in individual races, just to be consistent over the long run. -- Dennis Conner
The only ship you can truly steer in this ocean is the one you're sailing. Quit trying to alter the winds; harness them. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
What is time to a water rat? What is time to the river? Only we humans obsess over days and minutes, hours and seasons. -- Matthew Goldman
If lighthouse becomes a burning candle, flickered upon ocean's insanity.Your sailing heart there anchors to handle the obsessed breeze towards sand dune's vanity. -- Munia Khan
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
With this idea, being a man with long experience of the sea (and they certainly have a great advantage over other men in any sort of task)... -- Garcilaso de la Vega
Life is a voyage across troubled waters where our days are often spent clinging to the top of the highest mast, scouting for a comforting glimpse of shore. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
I grew to judge every purchase by how many bronze screws I could buy for the boat if I didn't spend on this or made do without that. -- Lin Pardey
Clouds do not really look like camels or sailing ships or castles in the sky. They are simply a natural process at work. So too, perhaps, are our lives. -- Roger Ebert
So exquisitely perfect was the darkness of the heavens above that one would have difficulty believing it was a prison to the passengers and crew of The Black Witch. -- Micheal Rivers
The cruising life isn't for all of us. It isn't even for mostof us, but it is for some of us, and for a few of us it is essential to survival. -- Jim Trefethen
...this beginning motion, this first time when a sail truly filled and the boat took life and knifed across the lake under perfect control, this was so beautiful it stopped my breath... -- Gary Paulsen
One of the reasons there are so many terms for conditions of ice is that the mariners observing it were often trapped in it, and had nothing to do except look at it. -- Alec Wilkinson
When I work, I work very hard. When I don't work, I have to do something where my endeavor can totally take me off what I do professionally, like sailing. It takes all your attention. -- Helmut Jahn
The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email! -- Noam Chomsky
She watched the gap between ship and shore grow to a huge gulf. Perhaps this was a little like dying, the departed no longer visible to the others, yet both still existed, only in different worlds. -- Susan Wiggs
If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death. -- Morgan Freeman
A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
She loved the sea. She liked the sharp salty smell of the air, and the vastness of the horizons bounded only by a vault of azure sky above. It made her feel small, but free as well. -- George R. R. Martin
When a great adventure is launched with a powerful thrust, fatigue in the muscles and doubts in the mind are swept away by a fullness that moves life along like a breath from the depths of the soul. -- Bernard Moitessier
and I shall watch the ferry boats, and they'll get high, on a bluer ocean against tomorrow's sky. and i will never grow so old again, and i will walk and talk, in gardens all wet with rain... -- Van Morrison
Possibly a man who hates the land should dwell on shore forever. Alienation and the long voyages at sea will compel him once again to dream of it, torment him with the absurdity of longing for something that he loathes. -- Yukio Mishima
In typical sailing races a long time ago, you'd come in and go out, and the first thing you'd do is probably have a cold beer. The first thing we do now is have a protein shake and our recovery drink. -- James Spithill
I use filming as an excuse to take classes. I got my certification in sailing for 'Wedding Crashers,' and now I can handle a 26-foot boat. I played a seamstress once, so I took sewing classes. I love dipping into these other lives. -- Rachel McAdams
Whether or not you discover your talents and passions is partly a matter of opportunity. If you've never been sailing, or picked up an instrument, or tried to teach or to write fiction, how would you know if you had a talent for these things? -- Ken Robinson
I was a weird teenager. My mother was actually worried because I didn't have any interest in dating in my teenage years. I had all this desire to pursue my passions like ballet, then sailing, then music, so I didn't have any emptiness to fill. -- Kiesza
What she really loved was to hang over the edge and watch the bow of the ship slice through the waves. She loved it especially when the waves were high and the ship rose and fell, or when it was snowing and the flakes stung her face. -- Kristin Cashore
That's what sailing is, a dance, and your partner is the sea. And with the sea you never take liberties. You ask her, you don't tell her. You have to remember always that she's the leader, not you. You and your boat are dancing to her tune. -- Michael Morpurgo
The hair of his face, on the contrary, carroty and flaming, resembled a growth of copper wire clipped short to the line of the lip; while, no matter how close he shaved, fiery metallic gleams passed, when he moved his head, over the surface of his cheeks. -- Joseph Conrad
If the Lord says to give more than you think you are able to give, know that He will provide for you. Whether things are sailing smoothly or the bottom has dropped out, He is always trustworthy. You can count on Almighty God to keep His everlasting Word. -- Charles Stanley
Aside from what it teaches you, there is simply the indescribable degree of peace that can be achieved on a sailing vessel at sea. I guess a combination of hard work and the seemingly infinite expanse of the sea - the profound solitude - that does it for me. -- Billy Campbell
Listen, Miss, boats are supposed to float. Even if they break up, they usually still float and show up on a shore somewhere. There have been no reports of wreckage or abandoned boats. At this point, no news is still good news. Don't worry. It's too early to worry. -- Cathy Ostlere
Most sailing ships take what they call trainees, who pay to be part of the crew. The Picton Castle takes people who are absolutely raw recruits. But you can't just ride along. You're learning to steer the ship, navigation; you're pulling lines, keeping a lookout; in the galley you're cooking. -- Billy Campbell
I love cities that are on the water. I love the water element, specifically the sea. I grew up on the sea and I grew up sailing - I love sailing - and the presence of the sea gives the air and the light a very special quality that I absolutely adore. -- Connie Nielsen
I love sailing but hate cruise ships. -- Garrett Neff
Always sailing, sailing, sailing...never quite reaching. -- Cressida Cowell
It is always fair sailing, when you escape evil. -- Sophocles
It's not always plain sailing , especially when you're flying -- Brendan Rodgers
Sometimes I feel like I'm sailing on a sunken dream -- Robbie Williams
I grew up flying over oceans and moving and sailing. -- Jane Alison
Living without an aim, is like sailing without a compass. -- John Ruskin
I love sailing. I like it more when I am winning. -- Larry Ellison
I'll do business with anyone, but I'll only go sailing with gentlemen. -- J. P. Morgan
I'd love to have a proper sailing boat and go around the world. -- Jonathan Powell
You mustn't miss the moment. There's only one first sailing into Rio harbor. -- Bette Davis
Trees quiver in the wind,sailing on a sea of mistout of earshot. -- Dag Hammarskjold
I was sailing from tedium to apathy with a side trip to torpor. -- Peggy Noonan
I am sailing with thee through the dizzy sky! How beautiful thou art! -- John Keats
The sooner we learn to be jointly responsible, the easier the sailing will be. -- Ella Maillart
I found it to be smooth sailing - 100 percent smooth sailing my whole career. -- Mindy Kaling
We enjoy sailing small boats, two of which I have designed and built myself. -- Martin Ryle
If you don't know what port you are sailing to, no wind is favourable. -- Seneca the Younger
Life is like sailing. You can use any wind to go in any direction. -- Robert Breault
Equestrian and sailing are sports for people growing up on the mean streets of Connecticut. -- Craig Ferguson
Even though I grew up surfing and sailing in Southern California, I was born horse crazy. -- Bo Derek

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