Boat Sail Quotes

#1. The goal is not to sail the boat, but rather to help the boat sail herself.

John Rousmaniere

#2. Truth is ... You wouldn't want to sail your boat backwards, so why would you want to sail backwards with your life? Prosperity is always ahead of you & never behind!
Bullying Ben

Timothy Pina

#3. It takes a lot of wind to sail a leaky boat.

Tom Morrison

#4. She was thinking how all those paths and the lawn, thick and knotted with the lives they had lived there, were gone: were rubbed out; were past; were unreal, and now this was real; the boat and the sail with its patch; Macalister with his earrings; the noise of the waves
all this was real.

Virginia Woolf

#5. Lucullus certainly couldn't sail the boat. Cats make lousy sailors.

Manel Loureiro

#6. If you have a boat to sail, land becomes a choice! If you do not have a boat to sail, land becomes a fate! Create different choices so that you can have different fates!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#7. Perhaps this isn't your boat. Perhaps it doesn't sail where you want to go.

Jessica Brockmole

#8. She must find a boat and sail in it. No guarantee of shore. Only a conviction that what she wanted could exist, if she dared to find it.

Jeanette Winterson

#9. A sail boat that sails backwards can never see the sun rise.

Bill Cosby

#10. One might better try to sail the Atlantic in a paper boat, than try to get to heaven on good works.

Charles Spurgeon

#11. The right woman for you wouldn't want you to change anything about your life. She wouldn't rock your boat, she'd jump right in and sail it with you.

Alice Clayton

#12. How strange! You seek guidance, yet you do not tread its path, surely a boat does not sail on land.

Al-Shafi'i

#13. The Bane
... where coxswain's dirt
and seaman's shirts
brushed bawdily upon her chest ...

Muse

#14. When we join The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, we board the Good Ship Zion and sail with her wherever she goes until she comes into that millennial port. We stay in the boat, through squalls and stills, through storms and sunburn, because that is the only way to the promised land.

Jeffrey R. Holland

#15. God bless this tiny little boat, And me who travels in it. It stays afloat for years and years, And sinks within a minute. And so the soul in which we sail, Unknown by years of thinking, Is deeply felt and understood, The minute that it's sinking.

Michael Leunig

#16. We could build a boat, you and I, and sail to the moon and back.

Mette Jakobsen

#17. come on mama, let's rent us a boat
sail down that gibraltar moat
shed a tear every time we pass tangier

Townes Van Zandt

#18. A bogus Congress register can never lead you to Swaraj any more than a paper boat can help you to sail across the Padma.

Mahatma Gandhi

#19. In order to read one must sit down, usually indoors. I am restless and would rather sail a boat than crack a book. I've never had a very lively literary curiosity, and it has sometimes seemed to me that I am not really a literary fellow at all. Except that I write for a living.

E.B. White

#20. If you want to build a boat, do not instruct the men to saw wood, stitch the sails, prepare the tools and organize the work, but make them long for setting sail and travel to distant lands.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#21. Life is like stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink.

Shunryu Suzuki

#22. Sometimes, after shedding all the loads with the view of making your heavy and sinking boat lighter so that you can sail and move on with the journey of purposeful life, you realize that there is one more thing to offload: disobedience, and there is one more thing to load: absolute faith!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#23. Then sail, my fine lady, on the billowing wave -
The water below is as dark as the grave,
And maybe you'll sink in your little blue boat -
It's hope, and hope only, that keeps us afloat

Margaret Atwood

#24. There was a man
Who made a boat
To sail away
And it sank.

J.P. Donleavey

#25. Life is a sail boat ride. Wind, the destiny. But dammit, you are the sailor!

Tapan Ghosh

#26. But that's one lifetime." Yeah." But while doing that one I'd want to be able to have done other stuff. Whole other lives- the one where I sail-" I know, on a boat you made yourself.

Dave Eggers

#27. Framed in black moldings on the wall, other works of arts, conceived and committed on the premises, by the young ladies; being grim black-and-white crayons; landscapes, mostly: lake, solitary sail-boat, petrified clouds, pre-geological trees on shore, anthracite precipice;

Mark Twain

#28. When you sail on a boat you take with you the minimum of resources. You don't waste anything. You don't leave the light on; you don't leave a computer screen on ... on land we take what we want

Ellen MacArthur

#29. With my wolf's hunger
I haul my lamb's body
down like a sail
I am like
the wretched boat
and the lascivious sea

Giuseppe Ungaretti

#30. Life is like stepping into a boat that is about to sail out to sea and sink. - SHUNRYU SUZUKI ROSHI A

Pema Chodron

#31. What's in a life without Camaraderie? For setting sail on a ship with a band of merry brothers by your side is much more gratifying than drifting aimlessly on a boat lost alone at sea.

Saim .A. Cheeda

#32. The storm had come out of nowhere, tossing the ship like a toy on the waves. The sea had played along until it had tired of the game, and dragged their boat under in a tangle of rope and sail and screaming men.

Leigh Bardugo

#33. I've always wanted to sail around the world in a handmade boat, and I built a boat.

Will Ferrell

#34. Loki in 'Thor' is the most incredible springboard into a sort of excavation of the darker aspects of human nature. So that was thrilling, coming back knowing that I'd built the boat and now I could set sail into choppier waters.

Tom Hiddleston

#35. This beginning motion, this first time when a sail truly filled and the boat took life and knifed across the lake under perfect control, this was so beautiful it stopped my breath ...

Gary Paulsen

#36. My sailing system set sail, make it fast, no thoughts of energy or velocity, loll back, let boat drift.

Albert Einstein

#37. I know that you are not a man content to wait behind and just watch as the ferry chugs away. But perhaps this isn't your boat. Perhaps it doesn't sail where you want to go. You'll make the right decision. I think you already know what it is. E

Jessica Brockmole

#38. If you asked why the post had not come, or why the boat did not sail for England, or why your coffee was cold, or why your boots were not cleaned, or why your window was shut, or why the canary didn't sing,-you would always be sure to be told, c'est la guerre!

Louise Mack

#39. She's not the kind of person to watch someone else build a boat and set sail without her.

Ally Condie