Quotes About Wind In Your Sails

#1. I'm a one-hundred-percent, made-in-Florida, dope-smugglin', time-sharin', spring-breakin', log-flumin', double-occupancy discount vacation. I'm a tall glass of orange juice and a day without sunshine. I'm the wind in your sails, the sun on your burn and the moon over Miami. I am the native.

Tim Dorsey

#2. A woman could be the wind beneath a man's sails or a gale to send him into uncharted waters. She could be an anchor in stormy seas, or she could let him drift into the rocks.

Francine Rivers

#3. Don't let the storm take the wind out of your sails.

Deborah Jackson

#4. Wisdom, health, life and love cannot be found in trying to control the wind, but rather in harnessing the wind in the sails of receptive engagement of the present moment.

Martin Laird

#5. There is nothing as relaxing as being out on the open sea, listening to the waves and the wind and the sails and voices downstairs yelling "HOW DO YOU FLUSH THESE TOILETS?"

Dave Barry

#6. I just about prevent myself from laughing, but the information that coffee is basically faery Viagra just totally took the wind out of my sails.

Liz De Jager

#7. You know reviewers, they are the wind in their own sails.

Barbara Kingsolver

#8. People say write what you know, but I say write about what makes your blood race. Write about that, and your words will become sails filled with a strong wind.

Ellery Adams

#9. The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

William Arthur Ward

#10. You can't change the wind. But you can adjust the sails to reach your destination

Paulo Coelho

#11. We must reset our sails to take advantage of these changing winds and prosper as a business and individual. You can make the most of this downturn and position yourself for the next boom that's going to follow.

Harry S. Dent

#12. It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

Jim Rohn

#13. Quit fighting the sails and let the wind move the boat-drift on faith for a while.

Lisa Wingate

#14. You cannot change the wind, but you can adjust the sails.

Elizabeth Edwards

#15. You can't change the wind but you can set your sails.

Green Day

#16. When life takes the wind out of your sails, it is to test you at the oars.

Robert Breault

#17. May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#18. The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way.

Voltaire

#19. 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

#20. The passion for the story is the wind in your narrative sails. Begin at the heart. We must hear the heartbeat of the story. Love your characters into existence.

Patricia Lee Gauch

#21. Grief is like the wind. When it's blowing hard, you adjust your sails and run before it. If it blows too hard, you stay in the harbor, close the hatches and don't take calls. When it's gentle, you go sailing, have a picnic, take a swim.

Barbara Ascher

#22. How fast does time travel, how short are the trails, when friends and good companions put wind in one's sails!

Heimdall Thunderhammer

#23. When you can't change the direction of the wind - adjust your sails

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#24. I do know that when my children are older and telling their own children about their grandmother, they will be able to say that she stood in the storm ... and when the wind did not blow her way - - and it surely has not - - she adjusted her sails.

Elizabeth Edwards

#25. Give me a spirit that on this life's rough sea Loves t'have his sails filled with a lusty wind, Even till his sail-yards tremble, his masts crack, And his ship run on her side so low That she drinks water, and her keel plows air.

George Chapman

#26. She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails.

Elizabeth Edwards

#27. We cannot change the wind, we can only adjust our sails.

Del Suggs

#28. The real skill is to raise the sails and to catch the power of the wind as it passes by.

Thomas Berry

#29. Behold the threaden sails,
Borne with the invisible and creeping wind,
Draw the huge bottoms through the furrow'd sea,
Breasting the lofty surge

William Shakespeare

#30. Words are wind, and the only good wind is that which fills our sails.

George R R Martin

#31. It seems whenever we have a little adversity, the emotions drop. We've fallen out of the race, and it kind of takes the wind out of your sails.

Wes Walz

#32. I do feel my fan base, my community understands me and appreciates me very deeply, and that is the wind in my sails to keep doing what I am doing. I know that my work really inspires people and they tell me that all the time, and so that's wonderful.

Ondi Timoner

#33. its Easy for going with every wind but if go the wrong direction, we ourselves will have to embarked the sails tightening for to go in a different and Good direction.

Jan Jansen

#34. So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and there that the sea and sky looked all one fabric, as if sails were stuck high up in the sky, or the clouds had dropped down into the sea.

Virginia Woolf

#35. Wisdom sails with wind and time.

John Florio

#36. Defeat I can endure with cheerfulness, my lady. But betrayal is like taking the wind from my sails, or the earth from beneath my feet. It chills my spirits like a rainy day, and all I can do is draw the curtains and cry into my pillow.

Margaret George

#37. The Atheist complains about the wind. The Christian prays for it to change. The Satanist adjusts his sails.

Anton Szandor LaVey

#38. The wind of God's grace is incessantly blowing. Lazy sailors on the sea of life do not take advantage of it. But the active and strong always keep the sails of their minds unfurled to catch the favorable winds and thus reach their destination very soon.

Mahatma Gandhi

#39. The hope of heaven under troubles is like wind and sails to the soul.

Samuel Rutherford

#40. you can't control the wind, but you can adjust your sails. It was his way of reminding us that you can't control most of what happens in life. You can only control your reaction to it.

Kristen Proby

#41. Nothing beats a private visit to Number Ten or Chequers to take the wind out of rebellious sails.

Andy Coulson

#42. press-ganged', 'taking the wind out of your sails', 'shot across the bows', 'loose cannon', 'shipshape', 'batten down the hatches' belong more obviously to the sea. Others such as 'close quarters', 'cut and run', 'fathoming' something, 'broad in the beam' and the 'cut of your jib' take a moment

Ben Wilson