#sail

I'm not going to let people who work in the United States Department of Justice have their characters be assailed without any basis. ↗

— Eric Holder

#assailed #basis #characters #department #going

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#anchor #drift #lie #must #port

Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#flag #most #mount #people #rudder

But the idea of a man making his living by writing seemed, in that hardy environment, so fantastic that even today I am sometimes myself assailed by a feeling of unreality. ↗

— Robert E. Howard

#assailed #environment #even #fantastic #feeling

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. ↗

— William Arthur Ward

#about #adjusts #change #complains #expects

All Marines, sailors and civilian Marines, regardless of sexual orientation, are Marines first. Every Marine is a valued member of our war-fighting team. ↗

— James F. Amos

#every #first #marine #marines #member

Politicians trim and tack in their quest for power, but they do so in order to get the wind of votes in their sails. ↗

— Ian Gilmour

#order #politicians #power #quest #sails

I have the mouth of a sailor. ↗

— Kristen Bell

#mouth #sailor

But it's been a great, humbling - and I've been very honored to have the opportunity to serve and to lead and to be the representative of our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who are in Washington. And it's been the greatest honor of my life. ↗

— Hugh Shelton

#been #great #greatest #honor #honored

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#been #called #had #mariner #old