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

Aristotle Onassis

Hope Sea Sail Free Rest Learn

Acting very quickly became a dream of mine, but the acting game privileges youth. It takes a while to build credits and, because of that, it's not the kind of career you can jump into in your 40s or 50s. The ship sets sail by then.

Sail Youth Game Ship You Acting

I am not a yachting person, by nature, but I have just enough experience on the sea under sail to feel a certain nostalgia for it when I see a big white racing yacht heeled over at cruising speed on the ocean, and I can still tie a mean bowline knot on just about anything in less than 10 seconds.

Hunter S. Thompson

Nature Sea Experience Ocean Sail

I sailed a bit as a child, but it wasn't until I was around 40, when I was halfway through Patrick O'Brian's 'Master and Commander' novels, that I had the sudden epiphany that I had to go sail on a square-rig ship.

Sail Child Ship Go Master Epiphany

Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Sail Constitution Anchor Your

What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness.

Bernard Cornwell

Life Happiness Mountains Sail Mean

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, Sr.

Sail People Flag Will Take Willing

The power chords in 'Come Sail Away' were super heavy to me as a kid. Metal? No. Hard rock? At times, for sure.

Power Sail Me Rock Hard Kid

I used to own a dingy and can still sail one if pushed, but I like the pleasure boats.

Sail Pleasure Own Used Still Like

Once we agree on the future, the present will be much easier. A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there. We have first to decide where we want to go, where we want to sail.

Future Sail Wind Present Earth Know

There's this misconception that the Navy is this cruise ship, and you get to go out and sail around, and every now and then, you have to swab the deck. But, no, it is a very impressive group of young people that live at sea, in this place that's very uncomfortable. They exude a pride that is well-deserved.

Live Sea Sail People Pride Ship

I grew up with a concept of cinema as a directorial thing, meaning the director is allowed to sail the ship. Not a dictatorial thing.

Luca Guadagnino

Sail Ship Meaning Cinema Director

When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue.

Peace Sail Think You Lake Young

When I review Xerxes' achievements, I praise him, not for having yoked the Hellespont, but for having crossed it. But I can see that Nero will neither sail through the Isthmus nor complete his digging.

Apollonius of Tyana

Sail I Can Will Praise Him See

And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o'er silent seas again.

Pain Sail Silent Again Soon Part

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.

Good Happiness Service Sail World

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.

Sail Uncertainty End Within Driven

I would never talk just to be social. Now, to sit down with a bunch of engineers and talk about the latest concrete forming systems, that's really interesting. Talking with animal behaviorists or with someone who likes to sail, that's interesting. Information is interesting to me. But talking for the sake of talking, I find that quite boring.

Animal Sail Me Interesting Talking

I didn't know how to act, but I was open to learning. I was not delusional that looks would help me sail through.

Learning Sail Me Help Looks Know

I'm kind of a jock. I sail, I ride a bike, I hike, I pump iron. I just love to be active.

Laura Schlessinger

Love Ride Bike Sail Kind Active

I used to sail a lot in all kinds of weather, competing on small sailboats in the ocean. And I travel a lot in Iceland on horses every summer, through the wild areas where there's no inhabitants and there are volcanoes.

Baltasar Kormakur

Ocean Travel Sail Weather Small

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

Sea Ocean Sail Back Go Going

I wish I could get all the discourteous drivers on a ship and sail them away and make sure it's a really horrible, wavy journey and when they get to where they're going, keep them there.

Journey Sail Ship Wish I Wish Going

It is a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel.

Great Sail Ship Shallow Deal Very

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