#sail

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#face #knows #loves #man #open

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship. ↗

— Aeschylus

#afraid #i #learning #sail #ship

Their elegant shape, showy colours, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great that they form quite a feature in the physiognomy of the forest, compensating for the scarcity of flowers. ↗

— Henry Walter Bates

#colours #elegant #feature #flight #flowers

One of the things that makes our military the best in the world is the certain knowledge of each soldier, sailor, airman, and Marine that they can always count on their comrades should they need help - that they will never be abandoned. ↗

— Jon Kyl

#always #best #certain #comrades #count

I'm what you call a Depression sailor. ↗

— Ernest Borgnine

#depression #i #sailor #you

It is a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel. ↗

— Robert Bork

#great #great deal #keel #sail #shallow

Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails. ↗

— Euripides

#batters #brief #god #sails #stay

Without the brave efforts of all the soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines and their families, this Nation, along with our allies around the world, would not stand so boldly, shine so brightly and live so freely. ↗

— Lane Evans

#allies #along #around #boldly #brave

Why are men talking about what clothes they're wearing? It's so unmanly, I think. It's like Versailles before the Revolution, without the style. ↗

— Rupert Everett

#before #clothes #i #i think #like

The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind. ↗

— William Falconer

#direction #effect #judicious #produced #sailing