Top 1200 Setting Sail Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

I'm never more courageous than when I'm embracing imperfection, embracing vulnerabilities, and setting boundaries with the people in my life.

We stole countries with the cunning use of flags. Just sail around the world and stick a flag in. "I claim India for Britain!" They're going "You can't claim us, we live here! Five hundred million of us!" "Do you have a flag …? "No..." "Well, if you don't have a flag, then you can't have a country. Those are the rules... that I just made up!

You are not the same person working alone as you are in a group; in a romantic setting versus an educational one; when you are with close friends or in an anonymous crowd; or when you are traveling abroad as when at home base.

I love the standard fantasy setting of Medieval England and Medieval Europe, but I wanted to go somewhere different.

The idea that feminism is a 'battle of the sexes' about blaming all men and setting up a 'gender war' is a handy, controversial media hook. But it doesn't reflect reality.

Night and gin and music-the right setting for peeling off the thin clinging layers of bullshit and finding one's way down closer to the essential self.

Setting a tone of inclusiveness and ensuring protection for all begins at the top, whether from the White House or the State House.

It's hard for me to believe that a shy, bespectacled college graduate like Brad Meltzer who's a novelist and a father is a really setting out to be weirdly misogynistic.

The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself

I think setting a goal, getting a visual image of what it is you want. You've got to see what it is you want to achieve before you can pursue it.

I'm a teller of stories. I put bloody skins on my back and dance around the fire, and I say what the hunt was like. It's not erudite; it's not intellectual. I sail, run dogs, ride horses, play professional poker, and tell stories about the stuff I've been through. And I'm still a romantic; I still want Bambi to make it out of the fire.

Food not only connects us at the idyllic dinner table setting with family and friends: it is also part of our mundane, daily transit to and from work.

Goal setting should be part of your daily and weekly routines and should not be based on a calendar year or month.

In the same way that a mundane object can have a personality somehow, I try to suggest that a mundane setting can have some menace behind it.

The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself.

Make each day count by setting specific goals to succeed, then putting forth every effort to exceed your own expectations.

Mundra Port remains committed towards setting up of world-class port infrastructure and facilities in India.

The magician to some degree is trying to drive him or herself mad in a controlled setting, within controlled laws.

Finnish is not a language, it is a way of setting at the end of the bench with your fur cap pulled over your ears.

I'm always my toughest critic. I'm setting the expectations for myself, and that's enough pressure. I don't need to worry about the haters or the Twitter trolls or what everybody else thinks.

I'm a junkie for exhaustion, and I'm a junkie for setting up my expectations too high and then trying to meet them.

Leadership means setting an example. When you find yourself in a position of leadership, people follow your every move.

In my mind, declaring that an unfamiliar task will yield low-hanging fruit is almost always an admission that you have little insight about what you're setting out to do.

The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs

I debated whether or not to pin the setting down to a particular date but in the end I decided to leave things vague. It depends how fast technology improves.

On stage it's just a wild setting - we have a big screen - hecklers, I'm fighting. It's entertainment, but I want to pierce [the audience's] souls and have them think about what I have to say.

Goal setting has traditionally been based on past performance. This practice has tended to perpetuate the sins of the past.

'One Leg Too Few' by Peter Cook is a perfect sketch. The setting is ridiculous, the language is beautiful, and the performances make the most of every syllable and movement.

The characters that populate my books are global nomads in their own right, keeping multiple homes around the world and constantly jet-setting to new places.

Architecture is not all about the design of the building and nothing else, it is also about the cultural setting and the ambience, the whole affair.

Also, as an author, character has always been what I'm most interested in - much more so than plot or setting, although those are good things too.

We're seeing the reality of a lot of the North Pole starting to evaporate, and we could get to a tipping point. Because if it evaporates to a certain point - they have lanes now where ships can go that couldn't ever sail through before. And if it gets to a point where it evaporates too much, there's a lot of tundra that's being held down by that ice cap.

God created us equal. Money and talent might be seen as setting us apart. But underneath, we're all the same.

A mathematical idea should not be petrified in a formalised axiomatic setting, but should be considered instead as flowing as a river.

He sees no need for setting apart one day in seven as a holy day, since to him all days are God's.

You can't substitute promise after promise with known violators of prior promises at the expense of protecting ourselves or setting an example.

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.

He (Pres. Bush) rightly decided that it was far better to return all Haitians than to encourage, deliberately or not, tens of thousands of people to take to the open ocean in unseaworthy, overcrowded boats.... When the Haitians sense the door has been cracked open, they will once again prepare their rag-tag armada and set sail for the land of plenty - America.

We absolutely thrive on the live setting. Even when we're in the studio, we make sure the songs we create are something we can do live passionately.

We cannot let Obamacare expand geographically by setting up state exchanges, nor can we extend Obamacare's unlawful subsidies.

Some modern scholars contend that in terms of what "religion" was in that [Roman-era setting], you can't even call Christianity a religion.

Exploring many different avenues, especially setting new challenges, has always fueled my passion for learning something new.

I don't think I could write a good play if I was setting out to write about the death of the American middle class.

Whatsoever stirs the stagnant currents, setting these flowing in wholesome directions, promotes brisk spirits and productive thinking. The less of routine, the more of life.

I think that the essential instruction of the Bible is very much topical. The sole problem is that with every change of historical setting, you need to readjust the interpretation of the message.

The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs.

I'm a firm believer in goal setting. Step by step. I can't see any other way of accomplishing anything.

One of the admirable features of British novelists is that they have no scruple about setting their stories in foreign settings with wholly foreign personnel.

There's a part of me that still hates everything, and my natural view default setting is still very cynical and dark

I've always been interested in setting my stories against a big event, the importance of which my younger readers are slowly becoming aware of as they move into their teens.

But injustice breeds injustice; the fighting with shadows and being defeated by them necessitates the setting up of substances to combat.

We are setting a new standard for coal ash management and implementing smart, sustainable solutions for all of our ash basins.

It's very difficult to set a film in one setting without giving the audience some intensity and some relief.

There is nothing better than getting something in front of an audience in a less stressful setting than previews!

I walked about 55 kilometers and was awake for 25 hours. Now I have to think about setting a sleeping record.

As a group, we want to follow good and green strategy. Setting targets is one element of that. The second part is to design products which meet environmental goals.

There's something intrinsically therapeutic about choosing to spend your time in a wide, open park-like setting that non-golfers can never truly understand.

In consigning Elian back to slavery without a hearing, this administration is setting back the cause of freedom -- in this country and in Cuba.

I have walked with people whose eyes are full of light but who see nothing in sea or sky, nothing in city streets, nothing in books. It were far better to sail forever in the night of blindness with sense, and feeling, and mind, than to be content with the mere act of seeing. The only lightless dark is the night of darkness in ignorance and insensibility.

Setting is the bedrock of your story. If you choose a real-world backdrop, be certain you get your facts straight.