Cape Horn Quotes

#1. I would not have shied away from an assignment to sail a canoe around Cape Horn or to take charge of the government of Afghanistan.

Jan Valtin

#2. No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.

Van Wyck Brooks

#3. Historically, maritime travelers had to pass around the entire mass of North and South America, including the bottom tip, the tempestuous Cape Horn, which was littered with shipwrecks.

Alan Huffman

#4. Off Cape Horn there are but two kinds of weather, neither one of them a pleasant kind.

John Masefield

#5. I'm one-hundred-fifty miles off Cape Horn, both autopilots are broken, and my boat is drifting toward one of the nastiest chunks of ocean on the face of the earth.

Abby Sunderland

#6. Familiarity with danger makes a brave man braver, but less daring. Thus with seamen: he who goes the oftenest round Cape Horn goes the most circumspectly.

Herman Melville

#7. There are a number of places on marine charts where even the most weathered sailors point and say, "Right there, nothing can go wrong. Everything has to go right." One place is the turbulent passage south of Cape Horn. Another is the dead center of the Indian Ocean.

Abby Sunderland

#8. The feelings I had for my sister were jumbled together, like the monkeys in a barrel game we'd had as children. All the brightly colored monkeys with their curved arms tangled and entwined, so convoluted that it was almost impossible to separate them.

Karen White

#9. The best student in the world can only be as good as their teacher

Joshua Teya

#10. You know, I hate to give advice because my life has been so odd that almost nothing that's happened to me can apply.

William Joyce

#11. I should tell. I know I should. But he's mine. I don't want him getting the chance to walk away. I want him to pay and I want to be the one who decides how.

Katja Millay

#12. As a little girl, I had huge fantasies about music.

Lou Doillon

#13. When a religion or ideology becomes dominant, the lack of controls will result in widening spirals of license leading to degradation and corruption.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#14. Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like wild beasts. Then it is that they might well covet those wonderful properties of the Indians of the prairies - their quick intelligence, their ingenious cunning, their scent of the enemy.

Jules Verne

#15. Holy crap," Mindy whispered.
"Jesus Christ," Brody muttered.
"Oh my God," I breathed.
"What the fuck?" Max clipped.

Kristen Ashley

#16. I don't really play a lot of games.

Chris Jericho

#17. In response to our fast-food culture, a 'slow food' movement appeared. Out of hurried parenthood, a move toward slow parenting could be growing. With vital government supports for state-of-the-art public child care and paid parental leave, maybe we would be ready to try slow love and marriage.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

#18. Successful business people became successful because they took risks. The biggest risk is that once successful, they stop taking risks.

G.R. Gopinath