Smooth Sail Quotes

#1. No one's life is a smooth sail; we all come into stormy weather. But it's this adversity - and more specifically our resilience - that makes us strong and successful.

Tony Robbins

#2. Education should be so revolutionized as to answer the wants of the poorest villager, instead of answering those of an imperial exploiter.

Mahatma Gandhi

#3. A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.

Oscar Wilde

#4. It's because you're like that that you're still a virgin, you know.

Natsuki Takaya

#5. God ... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.

Ayn Rand

#6. Instead of exhorting you to augment your charity, I will rather utter an exhortation, or at least a supplication, that you may not abuse your charity by misapplying it.

Cotton Mather

#7. It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because it was possible to find them.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

#8. Oh, good gigantic smile o' the brown old earth, This autumn morning! How he sets his bones To bask i' the sun, and thrusts out knees and feet. From the ripple to run over in its mirth

Robert Browning

#9. She turned left when everyone else turned right.

Jerry Spinelli

#10. We can't wave a magic wand and get rid of any of these people's problems, but what they want is they want to be heard.

Jamie Foxx

#11. What I can't do anywhere is be with you.

Tammara Webber

#12. My mother was an authority on pig sties. This is the worst looking pigsty I have ever seen in my life, and I want it cleaned up right now.

Bill Cosby

#13. what matters most is not the decision I make but how I throw myself into executing it well.

John Ortberg

#14. The worst kind of poison for despots: truth.

Kay Kenyon

#15. A picture-perfect moment, except for the fact that we were about to die and the world was going to end.

Rick Riordan

#16. An image of Mia flashes before my eyes. Seventeen years old, those dark eyes full of love, intensity, fear, music, sex, magic, grief.

Gayle Forman