Sailing And Wind Quotes (page 2)

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• prayer
• silence
• dark

What's prayer? It's shooting shafts into the dark. What mark they strike, if any, who's to say? It's reaching for a hand you cannot touch. The silence is so fathomless that prayers like plummets vanish into the sea. You beg. You whimper. You load God down with empty praise. You tell him sins that he already knows full well. You seek to change his changeless will. Yet Godric prays the way he breathes, for else his heart would wither in his breast. prayer is the wind that fills his sail. Else... Frederick Buechner

• style
• wind
• beauty

I envision a style: a style that would be beautiful, that someone will invent some day, ten years or ten centuries from now, one that would be rhythmic as verse, precise as the language of the sciences, undulant, deep-voiced as a cello, tipped with flame: a style that would pierce your idea like a dagger, and on which your thought would sail easily ahead over a smooth surface, like a skiff before a good tail wind. Gustave Flaubert

• time
• light
• no time

You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her decks? I have no time for such nonsense. Napoleon Bonaparte

• great
• watch
• sea

In the love of narrow souls I make many short voyages but in vain–I find no sea room—but in great souls I sail before the wind without a watch, and never reach the shore. Henry David Thoreau

• sunset
• bear
• she

Deep down, all the while, she was waiting for something to happen. Like a sailor in distress, she kept casting desperate glances over the solitary waster of her life, seeking some white sail in the distant mists of the horizon. She had no idea by what wind it would reach her, toward what shore it would bear her, or what kind of craft it would be? tiny boat or towering vessel, laden with heartbreaks or filled to the gunwhales with rapture. But every morning when she awoke she hoped that today... Gustave Flaubert

• wind
• beauty
• world

On a daywhen the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty. Today is such aday. Rumi

• waves
• facing fear
• water

blessing the boats (at saint mary’s) may the tide that is entering even now the lip of our understanding carry you out beyond the face of fear may you kiss the wind then turn from it certain that it will love your back may you open your eyes to water water waving forever and may you in your innocence sail through this to that Lucille Clifton

• power
• vote
• powerful

Politicians trim and tack in their quest for power, but they do so in order to get the wind of votes in their sails. Ian Gilmour

• sailing
• lies
• sometimes

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor. Oliver Wendell Holmes

• water
• wind
• great

Windmills, which are used in the great plains of Holland and North Germany to supply the want of falling water, afford another instance of the action of velocity. The sails are driven by air in motion - by wind. Hermann von Helmholtz

• sea
• bird
• sailing

The most ordinary conditions for observing sailing birds are then the wind and sea are both aft. Lawrence Hargrave

• knowledge
• thoughts
• sailing

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail. David Hare