I wanted to sail when I was in grammar school and well remember memorizing the names of the sails from the Merriam-Webster's ponderous dictionary in the library. Now I am actually at sea - as a passenger, of course, but at sea nevertheless - and bound for Ecuador.
Jim Elliot
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Among the seascapes, I am doing the regattas of Le Havre with many figures on the beach and the outer harbor covered with small sails.
Claude Monet
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If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.
Enoch Powell
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I'm a TV junkie, so it's hard to choose just one. Currently I'm a slave to 'Black Sails,' 'Vikings,' 'Game of Thrones' and 'The Mindy Project.'
Victoria Aveyard
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It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.
Jim Rohn
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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
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Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
Euripides
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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
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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
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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
William Golding
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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
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Nothing beats a private visit to Number Ten or Chequers to take the wind out of rebellious sails.
Andy Coulson
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What is there more unruly than the sea, with its winds, its tornadoes, and its tempests? And yet in what department of her works has Nature been more seconded by the ingenuity of man than in this, by his inventions of sails and of oars?
Pliny the Elder
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Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows.
Charles Buxton
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Wisdom sails with wind and time.
John Florio
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Although I loved 'Black Sails,' 'Lost in Space' was like holiday camp after that.
Toby Stephens
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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
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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
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You don't want to throw out a good idea and have nobody get excited about it. It takes the wind out of your sails.
Kevin Nealon
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The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind.
William Falconer
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We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
Dolly Parton
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There is no trophy for the team that sails the most.
James Spithill
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The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
William Arthur Ward
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Whenever I get in a car and I'm going to or from the airport or the train station, I put on a TED Talk using the TED app. It makes the trip go by super fast, and it fills my sails.
Christina Tosi
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