If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
Seneca
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We set sail on this new sea because there is knowledge to be gained.
John F. Kennedy
Greatness is not in were we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind, and somtimes agaisnt it - but sail we must. And not drift, nor lie at anchor.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind.
Chinese Proverb
Flying may not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.
Amelia Earhart
I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
Helen Keller
Give a man a horse he can ride, give a man a boat he can sail; and his rank and wealth, his strength and health on sea nor shore shall fail.
James Thomson
And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o'er silent seas again.
Thomas Moore
It felt like you were throwing in a tunnel. Even though there were nets between the cages, every so often a ball would sail right at you from the cage next to you. You knew it wasn't going to hit you, but you still saw it out of the corner of your eye.
Matt Thornton
Imagine hoisting a sail and being out there in space. It's a beautiful idea, and it conjures up the idea of the great sailing ships and whole notion of exploration.
Louis Friedman
Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.
William Penn
I sail, scuba dive, play football, basketball.
Casper Van Dien
Who is staring at the sea is already sailing a little.
Paul Carvel
Don't set sail on someone else's star.
African Proverb
You've got a Republican White House; you've got Republicans in control of Congress. It should be smooth sailing.
Chris Black
It's really tough. You have no control over the wind. That's what makes sailing so fun.
Bill Kleysteuber
There is nothing as beautiful as Chandra sailing off on its way to work. We were almost too excited to video.
Cady Coleman
I'd just like to say I'm sailing with the Rock and I'll be back like 'Independence Day' with Jesus, June 6, like the movie, big mother ship and all. I'll be back.
Aileen Wuornos
We will have to work very hard to sail to our rating.
Jim Madden
Let's change the law so that the governor can't just sail in and change the leadership at the Committee of Consumer Services.
Roger Ball
We would sail to a particular location and stay there for 24 hours at a time, and one or two of these pups would swim up to us, and the poor little guys would just bark at us for hours on end. It was really awful. I wouldn't go outside.
Carin Ashjian
He (Freeman) told me about his love of sailing, but also his early desire to be a pilot. After going on a sailing trip, I didn't want to sail anymore, but I renewed his interest in flying.
Bill Luckett
The budget showed that there is division [among conservatives] and it is not plain sailing for him. It is too early to judge whether he has been able to deliver on his promises or not.
Baqer Moin
[In one of these Wheeler, in a preface, looked back at the advice he was once given by director-general Hugh Carleton Greene:] Sail as close to the wind as possible… as long as you get it right. ... Say what you think as well as what you know, as a result of being where you are.
Charles Wheeler
Key West is the absolute best place to sail. I try not to ever miss this regatta.
Dave Ullman
I try to look at this music career thing as the means to an end. And really, at the end of it, I see myself on a sailboat, sailing off the edge of the world.
Michelle Shocked
That took the wind out of our sail, that's for sure. You'd like it not to, but that's a pretty big hit by that kid. He did a good job. I think he was on base all day.
Derek Avery
We've just been focusing on the sailing and what we have to do out on the water.
Peter Gilmour
The record is on definitely. It will go with this forecast. I reckon we will be about four hours behind the first two. They are a generation in front and if we sail the race of our life we will be behind them.
Sean Langman
The message received was 'In the interest of the safety of my crew, I have decided to sail to Christmas Island and disembark the survivors.
Ben Mitchell
It's always been a dream of mine to be involved in the America's Cup. I remember when I was a kid sailing Optimists down in Cornwall and there was a British America's Cup challenge that was training in Falmouth.
Ben Ainslie
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving - we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
It's been tough since we left Wellington, but we've done some amazing sailing. I think the guys did an awesome job.
Mike Sanderson
Another very slow night, most of the time two to four knots of breeze, and sailing most of the time with a drifter up.
Bouwe Bekking
It's an open feeling, a sense of freedom, a sense of contentment in knowing what you're doing is for nature. There's a oneness with nature. You feel like you're working with nature, not just sailing over it.
Beth Phelan
If you want to talk about luck, we're normally sailing where it's 600 meters (2,000 feet) deep ... The good news is no one was hurt. The crew hardly got wet.
Dennis Conner
I expect another quantum leap in racing performance from our sailing team this year. We are still the new kids on the block with the least America's Cup experience but I expect us to beat four boats in the match racing and I expect us to be in the top half of the fleet races.
Paul Standbridge
We're still sailing right now. We've done nothing yet.
Verron Haynes
We had wind from all directions and boats were sailing on different sides of the course. They had their spinnakers up and were going in different directions, causing a lot of confusion.
Graeme Robinson
The biggest danger in sailing is not the open ocean. It's hitting things. So if I have a thousand miles between me and land, a storm doesn't really upset me. If the boat's set up right, you get beat up a little bit, but the boat's going to handle it fine.
John Moffitt
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
Napoleon Hill
Don't sail out farther than you can row back.
Danish Proverb
Racing with Russell Coutts has been the greatest sailing experience of my life. He is so cool and relaxed.
Vincenzo Onorato
No one has ever done this before. These results would not have been possible without newly developed ultralight, high-temperature sail materials and beamed-energy propulsion methods.
William Henry Harrison
It's a part of history. Where we lived in Ireland these boats plied the waters like for hundreds of years. We used to sail them as kids, nearly everybody had one of these boats only smaller.
Steve Mulkerrins
We believe that NZL 60 is still the fastest America's Cup Class boat in the world at the moment and so it is a great opportunity for us to sail against them in our ex-Nippon boats.
David Barnes
As you know, this is Columbus Day. And so, like Columbus, we have a reliable system of navigation. We are sailing in a craft in which we have confidence.
Terry Nichols
This fleet is really tough and this is our first time sailing together. We'll try our best and see what happens.
Russell Coutts
It is different; there's no way to replace the Sail Inn. But once the music starts, the shoes come off and everyone starts dancing, the vibe is the same. And that's what brings the people back - the vibe. The surroundings don't matter as long as they can feel the vibe from the music.
Gina Lombardi
[It is] a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel.
Robert H. Bork
The organization is great, I liked the sailing centre but the race conditions were very difficult. I am very happy that I could cope with the wind and win.
Ben Ainslie
We're still just a bunch of guys who love to sail.
Craig Smith
The captain made a distress call and later switched off the radio communication to avoid being traced by the hijackers. He told us that they were safe and were sailing to destination.
Andrew Mwangura
The white sail of his soul has rounded The promontory - death.
William Alexander
Brando clearly was imagining himself as that person. There are several aspects of it that fit with Brando very well; that kind of loner, interested in sailing and the South Seas, drawn to Asian women and eating and drinking.
David Thomson
There is a Japanese proverb that literally goes 'Raise the sail with your stronger hand,' meaning you must go after the opportunities that arise in life that you are best equipped to do.
Soichiro Honda
I was due to sail tomorrow but I'm staying home this time.
David Mitchell
I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.
Louisa May Alcott
Once we got out of Jackson, it was pretty smooth sailing.
Kris Edwards
Sail on, Silver girl Sail on by Your time has come to shine All your dreams are on their way See how they shine.
Paul Simon
We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.
Aristotle Onassis
I told them that we have to treat this like a championship series and that it's going to be smooth sailing after this.
Kelly Robinson
Thus, I steer my bark, and sail On even keel, with gentle gale.
Matthew Green
We could only put out three buoys to sail around and were very close to the shoreline. We were having some fierce competition and we needed to expand our race site.
George Domenech
There is a lot of talent in this fleet and any of the participants can win. It will be real tight racing and our goal is to sail to our best potential.
Philippe Kahn
The company has taken extraordinary measures to minimize the effect of the virus on our guests, which was limited the number of affected guests and crew on the current sailing. Our commitment is to ensuring the comfort and safety of Amsterdam guests.
Daryn Kagan
I am confident of sailing through. You can expect a miracle to happen by Jan 27.
Dharam Singh
If you're on with your short game, which I happened to be earlier this morning with the wedges and so forth, I was able to get them in close. A lot of those were kick ins. All of a sudden you make a couple of long putts, you're up and sailing.
Graham Marsh
It's the next step for someone like me who has come from small boats to try to make it into the America's Cup. It's the pinnacle of big boat sailing really.
Ben Ainslie
Sail her well, ... I am ready to be relieved.
Bill Shepherd
Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore.
Thomas Campion
When they visit us they enjoy our ocean just as much as we enjoy their Alps. We have lots of family and friends who visit from far away, and they all love to sail in our sailboat from Nahant south to Boston Harbor, to George's Island with its historic fort, to Little Brewster with the oldest lighthouse in America, around Outer Brewster and back past Graves Light to Nahant.
Polly Bradley
To study the phenomenon of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.
Sir William Osler
No question it's repairable. We'll be sailing again before the trials and everything will be fine. We're extremely fortunate.
Dennis Conner
What makes the program unique is how the club is inclusive of people of all abilities in the ASU community. Disabled and able-bodied sailors sail side-by-side as one team.
Jake Geller
Design has taken the place of what sailing used to be.
Dennis Conner
It was a really late goal. It was crazy. Garrett (Jackson) took the throw in and made a deep throw. The ball seemed like it was up there forever. It was sailing. I just jumped up, and headed it in.
Brooks Hickman
Twenty-four hours after the ball drops, it'll sail.
Chris Bonura
That's still the ultimate goal, to sail across the Atlantic in the Viking-style.
Robert Mcdonald
One of the other really nice things about sailing is you have all these young guys, then old guys like us, and you can really have a lot of fun with a mixed age group.
Bill Kleysteuber
It has always been our aim to increase the spread of medals. We have directed our funding towards sports where we felt we could improve our performances leading into Beijing (the 2008 Olympics). We are also encouraged by the way sailing and equestrian have bounced back after disappointing results in Athens.
John Coates
Some things cannot be spoken or discovered until we have been stuck, incapacitated, or blown off course for awhile. Plain sailing is pleasant, buy you are not going to explore many unknown realms that way.
David Whyte
The industry is right on course and sailing smoothly. The only clouds we see are ASPs (average selling prices) continuing to fall, but the industry is adapting well by lowering manufacturing costs and branching out into added-value markets.
Bob Willis
[The most challenging sailing was in the Southern Ocean. But the leadership challenge was comparatively easy.] It was muck and bullets -- battleground leadership, ... These guys were hanging on by their fingernails. As long as I was technically competent, leading was pretty straightforward.
Simon Walker
My prediction this morning will be this nomination will sail through but not without a lot of questions, and the sooner the better.
Alabama Republican
The ride was fantastic, nearly all the boats were doing 30 knots, the sun was shining, you can't wish for anything better for sailing.
Bouwe Bekking
It's great to have Betsy Alison, an athlete of such high caliber, working with the members of the US Disabled Sailing Team. Our disabled athletes have been achieving great results in major international competitions and we look forward to continuing these successes as Betsy expands her responsibilities.
Dean Brenner
We have only just several ships that can really sail and some subs that can go out, but the really operational part of the navy is only a small fraction of the entire inventory that they have.
Pavel Felgengauer
His quick thinking and knowledge of the system onboard Ericsson enabled him to lock the keel in the middle and keep sailing the boat to Cape Town ... the safety of the crew and boat were in his hands and he did us proud.
Neal Mcdonald
I don't want to see more development on the waterfront. Knock it down, put some benches in there, some grass, a little area for the sailing operation. I don't want to see condos or some recreational center.
Kevin Barry
The chance to sail with Iain is very attractive, a big draw.
Brian Walker
I was a little leery on the bus ride to the state pier and I could tell most of the kids felt the same way because a lot of them, I'm sure, had never even been on a boat before. This wasn't exactly one of those picturesque days to go sailing.
Rob Pimental
It isn't lost on me that sailing with guys like Iain is pretty awesome, ... Ben's sailing with me in Sardinia. It's good that we all get on; it's a big contrast to British sailing 20 years ago.
Brian Walker
I think to a large extent, the sailing crew selects the sailing crew, and that's what's happened with James over the past few months.
Peter Gilmour
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
Our guys had to walk up 19 floors. Pieces (of glass) were sailing like a kite to the ground. I was so happy no one was hurt by flying glass.
Phil Saunders
When I go abroad I always sail from Boston because it is such a pleasant place to get away from.
Oliver Herford
It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
George William Curtis
In another two months, we'll feel a little more comfortable that he's sailing along.
Thomas Fishbein
'Tis the set of the sail that decides the goal, and not the storm of life.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Written in blood - and Bigotry may swell. The sail he spreads for Heav'n with blasts from hell!
Edward Moore
I have no interest in sailing around the world. Not that there is any lack of requests for me to do so.
Edward Heath
Say, it's only a paper moon, / Sailing over a cardboard sea.
E. Y. Harburg
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