#sail

A sailing ship is no democracy; you don't caucus a crew as to where you'll go anymore than you inquire when they'd like to shorten sail. ↗

— Sterling Hayden

#caucus #crew #democracy #go #inquire

I have no interest in sailing around the world. Not that there is any lack of requests for me to do so. ↗

— Edward Heath

#around #i #interest #lack #me

He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles. ↗

— Walter Scott

#exact #fewest #greatest #motive #obstacles

It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean. ↗

— John Locke

#depths #fathom #great #his #know

And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o'er silent seas again. ↗

— Thomas Moore

#pain #part #sail #seas #silent

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds. ↗

— Aristotle Onassis

#ever #free #high #learn #must

To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all. ↗

— William Osler

#disease #go #patients #phenomena #sail

As a cabin boy on a Norwegian sailing ship I earned five kronen a week in addition to my keep. ↗

— Fritz Sauckel

#boy #cabin #earned #five #i

I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat - a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second. ↗

— Nina Simone

#first #first love #give #give me #him

All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken. ↗

— Thomas Wolfe

#earth #fences #field #forsaken #hollow