Sailing Quotes - Page 2

I don't know who named them swells. There's nothing swell about them. They should have named them awfuls.

Layering and changeability: this is the key, the combination that is worked into most of my buildings. Occupying one of these buildings is like sailing a yacht; you modify and manipulate its form and skin according to seasonal conditions and natural elements, and work with these to maximize the performance of the building.

Whenever your preparations for the sea are poor; the sea worms its way in and finds the problems.

Being hove to in a long gale is the most boring way of being terrified I know.

Let the business of the world take care of itself... My business is to get the world saved; if this involves the standing still of the looms and the shutting up of the factories, and the staying of the sailing of the ships, let them all stand still. When we have got everybody converted they can go on again, and we shall be able to keep things going then by working half time and have the rest to spend in loving one another and worshipping God.

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.

If you're going through difficult times today, hold steady. It will change soon. If you are experiencing smooth sailing and easy times now, brace yourself. It will change soon. The only thing you can be certain of is change.

I’m not like most designers, who have to set sail on an exotic getaway to get inspired. Most of the time, it’s on my walk to work, or sitting in the subway and seeing something random or out of context.

Be in a state of gratitude for everything that shows up in your life. Be thankful for the storms as well as the smooth sailing. What is the lesson or gift in what you are experiencing right now? Find your joy not in what's missing in your life but in how you can serve.

Money can't buy you happiness but it can pay for the plastic surgery.

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

There never was a great man yet who spent all his life inland.

When I forget how talented God is, I look to the sea.

Wisdom sails with wind and time.

Not so much two ships passing in the night as two ships sailing together for a time but always bound for different ports.

I know enough about Satan to realize that he will have all his weapons ready for determined opposition. He would be a missionary simpleton who expected plain sailing in any work of God.

Every year I spend one month just sailing, but I still work when Im on the boat. You never separate work from leisure. A boat is like a magic world, like a little island.

Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.

The sea finds out everything you did wrong.

To the question, "When were your spirits at the lowest ebb?" the obvious answer seemed to be, "When the gin gave out."

Men in a ship are always looking up, and men ashore are usually looking down.

You mustn't miss the moment. There's only one first sailing into Rio harbor.

When it comes to politics, one has to do as one at sea with a sailing ship, reach one's course having regard to prevailing winds.

There is nothing -- absolutely nothing -- half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. In or out of 'em, it doesn't matter. Nothing seems really to matter, that's the charm of it. Whether you get away, or whether you don't; whether you arrive at your destination or whether you reach somewhere else, or whether you never get anywhere at all, you're always busy, and you never do anything in particular; and when you've done it there's always something else to do, and you can do it if you like, but you'd much better not.

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