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  • There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.

    Life   Ocean   Army  
    Joseph Conrad (1905). “Lord Jim”, p.7, McClure, Phillips & Company
  • He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.

  • The desert is so vast that no one can know it all. Men go out into the desert, and they are like ships at sea; no one knows when they will return.

    Men   Sea   Desert  
    J.M.G Le Clézio (2010). “Desert”, p.117, Atlantic Books Ltd
  • For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It's always our self we find in the sea.

    E. E. Cummings, “Maggie And Milly And Molly And May”
  • A life without an objective is much like a ship at sea with no port in mind. It drifts with the waves or storms, or with the whim of the captain. They are tempted to ask, amidst the battles of life, "Is the struggle worth-while?" That attitude lessens the joy of living. They who say that there is no purpose in life are not unhappy, but become dangerous to themselves and others, for they have no safe guide for their actions. Indeed, life has not objective save physical satisfactions, it is empty and valueless.

    Attitude   Struggle   Sea  
  • To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.

    Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7”, p.248, Best Books on
  • Alas, by what rude fate Our lives, like ships at sea, an instant meet, Then part forever on their courses fleet.

    Fate   Sea   Rude  
    Edmund Clarence Stedman (1873). “The Poetical Works of Edmund Clarence Stedman”, p.199
  • Good evening, Mr. and Mrs. America from border to border and coast to coast and all the ships at sea. Let's go to press.

    America   Sea   Borders  
  • I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

    "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
  • A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

    1987 Address at Trinity College, Washington. Reported in Time, 22 Jun.
  • If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

  • He who lets the sea lull him into a sense of security is in very grave danger.

    Sea   Sailing   Nautical  
  • We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

    Hope   Wind   Sea  
  • O Captain my Captain! our fearful trip is done, / The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won

    "O Captain! My Captain!" l. 1 (1871)
  • The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

  • All I ask is a tall ship and a star to sail her by.

    Stars   Sea   Sailing  
    John Masefield, “Sea Fever”
  • The days pass happily with me wherever my ship sails.

  • He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

    Love   Math   Reality  
  • There is nothing like lying flat on your back on the deck, alone except for the helmsman aft at the wheel, silence except for the lapping of the sea against the side of the ship. At that time you can be equal to Ulysses and brother to him.

    Brother   Lying   Sea  
  • For one thing, I was no longer alone; a man is never alone with the wind-and the boat made three.

    Men   Wind   Sailing  
    Hilaire Belloc (1996). “Hills and the Sea”, p.126, Northwestern University Press
  • At sea, I learned how little a person needs, not how much.

    Sea   Sailing   Nautical  
  • Whoever you are, motion and reflection are especially for you, The divine ship sails the divine sea for you.

    Reflection   Sea   Ships  
    Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.269, NYU Press
  • And the winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

    "History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire". Volume 6,
  • There is little man has made that approaches anything in nature, but a sailing ship does. There is not much man has made that calls to all the best in him, but a sailing ship does.

    Men   Sea   Sailing  
  • 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.

    Sea   Sailing   Nautical  
  • 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.

  • I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way.

    Life   Fear   Military  
    Letter to Le Ray de Chaumont, 16 Nov. 1778
  • I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.

    Lonely   Stars   Sea  
    "Sea Fever" l. 1 (1902).
  • A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company

    Men   Jail   Sailing  
    In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 1, p. 348 (16 March 1759).
  • Home is like the ship at sea, Sailing on eternally; Oft the anchor forth we cast, But can never make it fast.

    Home   Anchors   Sea  
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