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Everybody Sails alone, but we can travel side by side -- KT Tunstall
Me howling blasts drive devious, tempest-tossed, / Sails ripped, seams opening wide, and compass lost. -- William Cowper
Lovely Arra Sails,nectar to all males,how I'd like to spear you like a whaler spears a whale! -- Darren Shan
Wisdom sails with wind and time. -- John Florio
There is no trophy for the team that sails the most. -- James Spithill
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. -- Dolly Parton
Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails. -- Euripides
He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience. -- William Golding
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. -- William Arthur Ward
If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends. -- Enoch Powell
Nothing beats a private visit to Number Ten or Chequers to take the wind out of rebellious sails. -- Andy Coulson
I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. -- Jimmy Dean
The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind. -- William Falconer
It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go. -- Jim Rohn
Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows. -- Charles Buxton
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
One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the way they go. -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Some people may say my curved panels look like sails. Well, I am a sailor, so I guess I probably do use that metaphor in my work - though not consciously. -- Frank Gehry
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
In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and leaping about in the midst of the sails of ships! -- Beverly Cleary
You run the risk, whenever you build your story around a central mystery, of either letting it go too long, or revealing it too soon and then taking the wind out of the sails of the narrative. -- Jeff Lemire
When you do a record like 'Talk,' and you're happy with it, and it reaches your ambitions and then doesn't sell as well as you wanted, it kind of takes the wind out of your sails a little. -- Trevor Rabin
Windmills, which are used in the great plains of Holland and North Germany to supply the want of falling water, afford another instance of the action of velocity. The sails are driven by air in motion - by wind. -- Hermann von Helmholtz
I wanted to make sure that 'Up' wasn't a 3D movie about a man who sails his house to South America. It's a movie about an old man who sails his house to South America that also happens to be in 3D. So the first thing is always the story. -- Pete Docter
I had been feeling a little rum. I didn't think it was anything serious because years ago I felt a lump and it was benign. I assumed this would be too. It kind of takes the wind out of your sails, and I don't know what the future holds, if anything. -- Maggie Smith
I'm not a big fan of kids' movies that have this knowing snarkiness to them or this post-modern take on storytelling. I think that sails right over the heads of most kids. There's something to be said for a well-told fairy tale. There's a reason that these mythic stories stay with us. -- John C. Reilly
I've always loved the songs of the sea. I was first introduced to them back in 1957, at the Old Town School of Folk Music. I used to go to Pete Seeger concerts, and he would do songs like 'Ruben Ranzo' and talk about how the sailors sang songs to do their work - to raise the anchors, pull up the sails and that sort of thing. -- Roger McGuinn
when you lose your sails, row. -- Karen White
The Dutchman sails as its captain commands! -- Davy Jones
But only a fool sails into combat with nature -- Robert Harris
The days pass happily with me wherever my ship sails. -- Joshua Slocum
My road leads me seawards To the white dipping sails. -- John Masefield
It is the weather, not work, that wears out sails. -- Thomas Fleming Day
Let passion fill your sails, but let reason be your rudder. -- Khalil Gibran
You know reviewers, they are the wind in their own sails. -- Barbara Kingsolver
You can't change the wind but you can set your sails. -- Billie Joe Armstrong
Unfurl the sails, and let God steer us where He will. -- Venerable Bede
Don't let the storm take the wind out of your sails. -- Deborah Jackson
A sail boat that sails backwards can never see the sun rise. -- Bill Cosby
You can't always control the wind, but you can control your sails. -- Tony Robbins
Hoist the sails of your own spirit to catch the winds of God. -- Ralph Washington Sockman
When you can't change the direction of the wind "? adjust your sails -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
... the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle. -- Ben Jonson
Writing is a vessel...with readers the ocean and authors as its sails... -- William Petersen
In what rapt ether sails the world, of which the weariest will never weary? -- Herman Melville
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable. -- Seneca the Younger
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable. -- Seneca the Younger
Never a ship sails out of bay but carries my heart as a stowaway. -- Roselle Mercier Montgomery
The hope of heaven under troubles is like wind and sails to the soul. -- Samuel Rutherford
You can't change the wind. But you can adjust the sails to reach your destination -- Paulo Coelho
How easy 'tis, when Destiny proves kind, With full-spread sails to run before the wind! -- John Dryden
Never defend yourself; agree with your critics, it takes the wind out of their sails. -- Fay Weldon
The winds of God's grace are always blowing, it is for us to raise our sails. -- Ramakrishna
May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
I am the highway and a peregrine and all the sails that ever went to sea -- Robert James Waller
Sometimes the storm winds blow so strong a man has no choice but to furl his sails. -- George R. R. Martin
When life takes the wind out of your sails, it is to test you at the oars. -- Robert Breault
Arsenal have the wind in their sails and they need to put their foot to the floor. -- Andy Townsend
Money can't buy happiness but it can buy a huge yacht that sails right next to it. -- David Lee Roth
You can choose right now to change the way you are experiencing a windstorm. Adjust your sails. -- John Assaraf
The winds of grace blow all the time. All we need to do is set our sails. -- Ramakrishna
What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul. -- Corrie Ten Boom
Trying to have wisdom without application is like trying to catch the winds without raising the sails! -- Thomas Russell
The Atheist complains about the wind. The Christian prays for it to change. The Satanist adjusts his sails. -- Anton Szandor LaVey
She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails. -- Elizabeth Edwards
Governments are the sails, the people the wind, the country is the ship and time is the sea. -- Ludwig Borne
Nor is it wiser to weep a true occasion lost, but trim our sails, and let old bygones be. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
A man lies upon the floor, spreads his arms, and transforms himself into a ship of a thousand sails. -- Rick Yancey
When the winds of life don't hit your sails, you grab the oars of life and you start pushing. -- Greg Plitt
Ah, only he who knows where he sails, knows what wind is good, and a fair wind for him. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Whoever you are, motion and reflection are especially for you, The divine ship sails the divine sea for you. -- Walt Whitman
The real skill is to raise the sails and to catch the power of the wind as it passes by. -- Thomas Berry
Set your sails now but the ocean is very rough and treacherous... if you keep going you will get there. -- Jesse Taylor
I can remain on shore, paralyzed with fear, or I can raise my sails and dip and soar in the breeze. -- Richard Bode
The breeze of grace is always blowing on you. You have to open the sails and your boat will move forward. -- Ramakrishna
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Don't go getting full of yourself becuase once you do, somebody's going to come and let the wind out of your sails -- Sharon G. Flake
This is a modern fairytale. No happy endings. No wind in our sails. But I can't imagine a life without. Breathless moments. -- Selena Gomez
O'er Ocean, with a thousand masts, sails forth the stripling bold- One boat, hard rescued from the deep, draws into port the old! -- Friedrich Schiller
We can't direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. For maximum happiness, peace, and contentment, may we choose a positive attitude. -- Thomas S. Monson
Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink. -- Erin Morgenstern
I am an ark in the swift flood of time, and my companions, a fellowship. Who throws in with us sails into light. -- Rumi
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To run over better waters the little vessel of my genius now hoists her sails, as she leaves behind her a sea so cruel. -- Dante Alighieri
When I meet a wind I cannot fight , I can do naught but set my sails to let it take me where it will. -- Susanna Kearsley
I felt like time was a great sea, and I was floating on the back of a turtle, and no sails broke the horizon. -- Janet Fitch
How violently do rumors blow the sails of popular judgments! How few there be that can discern between truth and truth-likeness, between shows and substance! -- Philip Sidney
Into the sunset's turquoise marge The moon dips, like a pearly barge; Enchantment sails through magic seas, To fairland Hesperides, Over the hills and away. -- Madison Cawein
Like mighty eagle soaring light. O'er antelopes on Alpine height. The anchor heaves, the ship swings free, The sails swell full. To sea, to sea! -- Thomas Lovell Beddoes
Had we taken ten sails, and let the eleventh to escape, being able to get at her, I could never have called it well done. -- Horatio Nelson
The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats; Chambers of the great are jails, And head-winds right for royal sails. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We cannot organize revival, but we can set our sails to catch the wind from Heaven when God chooses to blow upon His people once again -- G. Campbell Morgan
Spirits rise as the sails fill... Gone is the sea's glassy surface, and with it the terrible glare. Close the hatches and ports! We're sailing again! -- Jim Moore
Yeah." He took one last look at the cityscape of Rome, turning bloodred in the sunset. "Festus, raise the sails. We've got some friends to save. -- Rick Riordan
Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The American mirror, said the voice, the sad American mirror of wealth and poverty and constant useless metamorphosis, the mirror that sails and whose sails are pain. -- Roberto Bolano
The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way. -- Voltaire
Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it." -- Shakespeare
A long poem is a test of invention which I take to be the Polar star of poetry, as fancy is the sails, and imagination the rudder. -- John Keats
Self-love is always the mainspring, more or less concealed, of our actions; it is the wind which swells the sails, without which the ship could not go. -- Emilie du Chatelet
Ships and sails proper for the heavenly air should be fashioned. Then there will also be people, who do not shrink from the dreary vastness of space. -- Johannes Kepler
There's not a ship that sails the ocean, But every climate, every soil, Must bring its tribute, great or small, And help to build the wooden wall! -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Those who spread their sails in the right way to the winds of the earth will always find themselves born by a current toward the open seas. -- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The hawk is aerial brother of the wave which he sails over and surveys, those his perfect air-inflated wings answering to the elemental unfledged pinions of the sea. -- Henry David Thoreau
It seems whenever we have a little adversity, the emotions drop. We've fallen out of the race, and it kind of takes the wind out of your sails. -- Wes Walz
The passion for the story is the wind in your narrative sails. Begin at the heart. We must hear the heartbeat of the story. Love your characters into existence. -- Patricia Lee Gauch
I heave the basketball; I know it sails in a parabola, exhibiting perfect symmetry, which is interrupted by the basket. It's funny, but it is always interrupted by the basket. -- Michael Jordan
By arts, sails, and oars, ships are rapidly moved; arts move the light chariot, and establish love. [Lat., Arte citae veloque rates remoque moventur; Arte levis currus, arte regendus Amor.] -- Ovid
I warn the marauder dragging plunder, chaotic, rich beyond all rights: he'll strike his sails, harried at long last, stunned when the squalls of torment break his spars to bits. -- Aeschylus
Wisdom, health, life and love cannot be found in trying to control the wind, but rather in harnessing the wind in the sails of receptive engagement of the present moment. -- Martin Laird
No man ever sailed over exactly the same route that another sailed over before him; every man who starts on the ocean of life arches his sails to an untried breeze. -- William Mathews
I am driven out of fatherlands and motherlands. Thus I now love only my children's land, yet undiscovered, in the farthest sea; for this I bid my sails search and search. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
There is nothing as relaxing as being out on the open sea, listening to the waves and the wind and the sails and voices downstairs yelling "HOW DO YOU FLUSH THESE TOILETS?" -- Dave Barry
Those who can take that crabbed tree handsomely upon their back, and fasten it on cannily, shall find it such a burden as wings unto a bird, or sails to a ship. -- Samuel Rutherford
Whither, O splendid ship, thy white sails crowding,Leaning across the bosom of the urgent West,That fearest nor sea rising, nor sky clouding,Whither away, fair rover, and what thy quest? -- Robert Bridges
Think of life as a voyage. The truest liver of the truest life is like a voyager who, as he sails, is not indifferent to all the beauty of the sea around him. -- Phillips Brooks
Sundown. The distressed sloop, its mainmast shattered by lightning, its sails ripped by the winds of the open sea, drifted into the small, quiet beach of a private island in the Lesser Antilles -- Robert Ludlum
One of the things that's complicated about writing anything is that it's an act of narcissism, and then of course once it sails out into the world, you have to let go of it. -- Bill Ayers
Like the wind that carries one ship east and another west, the law of autosuggestion will lift you up or pull you down according to the way that you set your sails of thought. -- Napoleon Hill
Seeking support from friends and and family is like having people gathered around at your deathbed. It's nice, but when the ship sails, all they can do is stand on the dock waving goodbye. -- Steven Pressfield

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