#sail

The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion. ↗

— Barbara Tuchman

#base #discretion #fleet #glory #headed

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. ↗

— Jimmy Dean

#adjust #always #change #destination #direction

I sail, scuba dive, play football, basketball. ↗

— Casper Van Dien

#dive #football #i #play #play football

I would point out that Japan's proposal at the Versailles Peace Conference on the principle of racial equality was rejected by delegates such as those from Britain and the United States. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

#conference #delegates #equality #i #japan

I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those are just song prerequisites. ↗

— Tom Waits

#i #i think #just #names #sailors

Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain. ↗

— Edmund Waller

#poor #prayed #rain #sailors #shepherds

The one good thing about our school was the Cadets; I chose to be in the Navy, purely for the sailor's outfit. A pity we had to give them back. ↗

— David Walliams

#back #chose #give #good #good thing

Our soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen volunteer to protect and defend this country and all its citizens, and do so with honor, integrity and excellence. Our nation continually asks them to do more and more, with less and less. ↗

— Allen West

#asks #citizens #coast #continually #country

The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed. ↗

— Nathaniel Parker Willis

#caution #feels #guilt #innocence #more

I would never talk just to be social. Now, to sit down with a bunch of engineers and talk about the latest concrete forming systems, that's really interesting. Talking with animal behaviorists or with someone who likes to sail, that's interesting. Information is interesting to me. But talking for the sake of talking, I find that quite boring. ↗

— Temple Grandin

#animal #boring #bunch #concrete #down