Good Sailor Quotes

#1. You can no longer just be a good sailor. You have to be an incredible athlete as well. Having said that, you can be a great athlete, the strongest guy in the world, but if you can't anticipate and make decisions under stress and exhaustion and think ahead, then you won't be able to cut it, either.

James Spithill

#2. A great mind is a good sailor, as a great heart is.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3. A good sailor knows everything is always changing.

Luanne Rice

#4. Calm seas never made a good sailor

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#5. Any damn fool can navigate the world sober. It takes a really good sailor to do it drunk.

Francis Chichester

#6. We must stop being the stupid party.

Bobby Jindal

#7. I am a good runner. There are many faster, but not so many for whom it has been as necessary to learn to become nothing but flight.

Peter S. Beagle

#8. ... you don't reach Serendib by plotting a course for it. You have to set out in good faith for elsewhere and lose your bearings ... serendipitously.
The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor

John Barth

#9. My career in racing started at a very young age in California.

Jeff Gordon

#10. Felicity was more romantic. She's waiting for her lover. He's a sailor and she's watching for his ship to come in. Nobody's dared tell her it's been wrecked and her lover is at the bottom of the sea. She'll go on waiting and waiting until her red hair turns as white as his bones- Good.

Vivien Alcock

#11. One sailor will do us more good than two soldiers.

John Adams

#12. The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

Christopher Morley

#13. Good work ain't cheap, cheap work ain't good.

Sailor Jerry

#14. His body is changing. He will strip down and start getting even bigger and stronger over the next few seasons and, seriously, how scary is that? He will be unstoppable. He has just got to realise how good he is and what he can do in the game if he puts his mind to it.

Wendell Sailor

#15. There's a sureness to good writing even when what's being written about doesn't make all that much sense. It's the sureness of the so-called seat of an accomplished horseback rider or a sailor coming about in a strong wind. The words have both muscle and grace, familiarity and surprise.

Anne Bernays

#16. Which relationship would you try harder to keep; one that allows you to be yourself and enjoy the things you like, or one where you have to hide your desires and live in fear? When

Benjamin Burns

#17. It feels like I've fallen in love with you for the first time all over again

Jay McLean

#18. The one good thing about our school was the Cadets; I chose to be in the Navy, purely for the sailor's outfit. A pity we had to give them back.

David Walliams

#19. His life rushes onward in such torrential rhythm that ... only angels and devils can catch the tempo of it.

Anais Nin

#20. The office of president requires the constitution of an athlete, the patience of a mother, the endurance of an early Christian.

Harold Wilson

#21. They don't take the Bible as a general thing, sailors don't; though I will say that I never saw the man at sea who didn't give it the credit of being an uncommon good yarn.
("Kentucky's Ghost")

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

#22. I've been aware of the work I do as an actor being directorial in feel.

Iain Glen

#23. We cannot resist change, but we can choose the direction of change.

Kennon Callahan

#24. You must be a light unto yourself.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#25. It was if another planet were calling. The call, embodied, issued in liquid syllables from the mouth of the Arab sailor who, on the prow of the Vestra each sun-up, looked toward the East and sang the Persian song:
Hearken unto dawn, oh, my soul ...
Let good come unto the world.

Robert Edison Fulton Jr.

#26. A life without a storm would lack drama. Pounding waves of a tempestuous sea test a person's mettle. A fearless sailor climbs the rigging and shouts out at the top of their lungs into the wind and rain whipping across their face that they will not go quietly into the good night without a fight.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#27. For a moment David was tempted to think that perhaps there were no good people at all outside concentration camps, but then he reminded himself of the sailor and Angelo and the English people who might have been ignorant but were certainly not bad.

Anne Holm

#28. I'm no robin hood, I enjoy making the money.

Carl Icahn

#29. He was a seer of visions and a dreamer of dreams, unconsciously charming and unfailingly kind.

Anne Rice

#30. There is an eighth color that we don't have the sense apparatus to see or experience.

Krishna Das

#31. Nobody is so heartily despised as a pusillanimous, lazy, good-for-nothing, land-lubber; a sailor has no bowels of compassion for him.

Herman Melville

#32. I'm telling you this - if Stone Cold comes back out, somebody's going to get their ass whipped!

Stone Cold Steve Austin

#33. There's nothing gives you so much courage as good reasons," continued the sailor;

Alexandre Dumas

#34. What I condemn are our system of values and the men who don't acknowledge how great, difficult, but ultimately beautiful women's share in society is.

Anne Frank

#35. What if you quit making excuses, quit playing it safe, and quit hedging your bets?

Mark Batterson

#36. Bold simplicity is the keynote to good design.

Sailor Jerry

#37. Then I figured it would be a good plan to hire a few sailors to work for me, get them out to my yacht, get them drunk, commit sodomy on them, rob them and then kill them. This I done.

Carl Panzram