Sailor Navigation Quotes

#1. I don't know, I can't quite get it."
"Don't try. It's just words."
"Just words?"
"Just words! We love them so much, you and me. But in the end, they fail us. Because there are truths beyond words.

Aidan Chambers

#2. Though hand-to-hand combat has become rare, much modern warfare continues to involve physical strain such as those who have not engaged in it can scarcely imagine.

Martin Van Creveld

#3. You must always remember that you are Kurien's second wife. His first wife is the dairy. Don't ever forget that and don't make yourself miserable by being jealous. And never, never try to snatch your husband away from his first wife.

Verghese Kurien

#4. Navigation is easy. If it wasn't, they wouldn't be able to teach it
to Sailors.

James Lawrence

#5. If we don't know what we're supposed to be doing, we do lesser things, squandering ourselves on unworthy pursuits and trying to narcotize ourselves from the nagging feeling that life is essentially empty.

Robert J. Morgan

#6. Conscienceless efficiency is no match for efficiency quickened by conscience.

Kelly Miller

#7. A young sailor boy came to see me today. It pleases me to have these lads seek me on their return from their first voyage, and tell me how much they have learned about navigation.

Maria Mitchell