#sails

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go. ↗

— Jim Rohn

#direction #go #sails #set #way

Wisdom sails with wind and time. ↗

— John Florio

#time #wind #wisdom

He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience. ↗

— William Golding

#must #nile #rides #sails #sea

Lovely Arra Sails, nectar to all males, how I'd like to spear you like a whaler spears a whale! ↗

— Darren Shan

#darren-shan #humor #innuendo #larten-crepsley #mr-crepsley

I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full. ↗

— Arthur Ashe

#best #boat #dark #doing #full

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

— Euripides

#batters #brief #god #sails #stay

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

Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows. ↗

— Charles Buxton

#breeze #first #joyous #rustle #sails

Windmills, which are used in the great plains of Holland and North Germany to supply the want of falling water, afford another instance of the action of velocity. The sails are driven by air in motion - by wind. ↗

— Hermann von Helmholtz

#afford #air #another #driven #falling

In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and leaping about in the midst of the sails of ships! ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#allowance #back #douglas #grammar #grammar school