Top 1200 Setting Sail Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I sail and play tennis, and I don't smoke or drink caffeine.

Like the vital rudder of a ship, we have been provided a way to determine the direction we travel. The lighthouse of the Lord beckons to all as we sail the seas of life. Our home port is the celestial kingdom of God. Our purpose is to steer an undeviating course in that direction. A man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder—never likely to reach home port. To us comes the signal: Chart your course, set your sail, position your rudder, and proceed.

If you are ever completely satisfied with something you have written, you are setting your sights too low. But if you can't let go of your material even after you have done the best that you can with it, you are setting your sights too high.

I'm desperate to learn how to sail a boat.

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

I believe that every character is a setting, a world with moving parts, and on the other hand, every setting is, in fact, a character - a living breathing thing with personality and backstory. The way stories come to life, at least for me, is when these elements commune in relationship to one another.

He that hath the steerage of my course, Direct my sail.

Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.

I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep.

We were wavering around like a ship without a sail.

The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail.

When I'm writing a book, generally I start with the mood and setting, along with a couple of specific images?things that have come into my head, totally abstracted from any narrative, that I've fixated on. After that, I construct a world, or an area, into which that general setting, that atmosphere, and the specific images I've focused on can fit.

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

Instead of decaying in a safe harbour, sail to the unsafe oceans!

Without fear we must set sail on the digital sea.

It is time to be old To take in sail.

Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in.

The white sail of his soul has rounded the promontory - death.

That is because at the close of the day the ship we sail in is the soul, not the body.

Your first ritual that you do during the day is the highest leveraged ritual, by far, because it has the effect of setting your mind, and setting the context, for the rest of your day.

If I'm one that's afflicted with same-gender attraction, I should strive to see myself in a much broader context... seeing myself as a child of God with whatever my talents may be, whether intellect, or music, or athletics, or somebody that has a compassion to help people, to see myself in a larger setting and thus to see my life in that setting.

Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find."

Setting goals for your game is an art. The trick is in setting them at the right level - neither too low nor too high. A good goal should be lofty enough to inspire hard work, yet realistic enough to provide solid hope of attainment.

Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.

If we are all strong, stable, we can set our sail with any wind in the world that comes along. We make up our own direction. If we are not strong, we are like a leaf in the wind and the world's winds will take us where they wish, not where we wish. So we meditate, every day, regularly, and gain transcendental being in our everyday life and then we are strong. When we are all infused with Being, we need not think which course is right, we just take the one that is automatically. Being is the wind-resister and the sail-setter.

In order to describe a particular subculture, you might want to portray people who are typical or representative of that subculture; but to dramatize it, to make it an interesting setting for a story, you want to bring someone anomalous into that setting, to see how she conforms to it, and it to her.

When one is the type of writer who cares about the meaning of the historically specific setting, the history itself is not something that I would call backdrop. It's not window dressing for a timeless relationship about love and betrayal. For me, the setting and the specific history are active co-agents with me in trying to form the novel.

I can't control the wind but I can adjust the sail.

Come, my love, we have oceans to sail.

I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

He enters the port with a full sail.

The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone. Shadows of evening fall around us, and the world seems but a dim reflection - itself a broader shadow. We look forward into the coming lonely night. The soul withdraws into itself. Then stars arise, and the night is holy.

All I ask is a tall ship and a star to sail her by.

A ship does not sail with yesterday's wind.

Human beings either function as individuals or as members of a pack. There's a switch inside us, deep in our spirit, that you can turn one way or the other. It's almost always the case that our worst behaviour comes out when we're switched to the mob setting. The problem with a lot of software designs is that they switch us to that setting.

God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.

The world is a globe — the farther you sail, the closer to home you are.

I like to sail. My son Caden and I are avid sailors.

It is a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel.

I sail, scuba dive, play football, basketball.

The great pilot can sail even when his canvass is rent.

'Tis the set of the sail that decides the goal, and not the storm of life.

This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction.

It's been a very interesting exercise as a writer - writing a little family group, like The Incredibles or The Simpsons or something like that, and setting it in a big Star Wars-type setting. It's been really fun, definitely different from the kind of thing I normally do.

Sail on! sail on! sail on! and on!

I think if you just eat healthy, you're active, and you don't beat yourself up, you're setting yourself up to win rather than setting yourself up for failure.

O friend, never strike sail to a fear!

Each of us has an inner thermostat setting that determines how much love, success, and creativity we allow ourselves to enjoy. When we exceed out inner thermostat setting, we will often do something to sabotage ourselves, causing us to drop back into the old, familiar zone where we feel secure.

set sail on a voyage of your own titanic facts

I think you can get happiness through making a real difference in other people's lives by setting out to make other people's lives better and setting out to right the wrongs in the world.

It was a storm in a tea cup, but in politics we sail in paper boats.

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.

I cannot predict the wind but I can have my sail ready.

To reach a port we must set sail

For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?

Magical realism is a blending of the unusual or supernatural into an otherwise ordinary setting. And, to me, this perfectly describes the South. 'The Sugar Queen' involves a lot of magical happenings, but in a very down-home Southern setting. It's full of things that could almost be true.

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

I was never part of the sailing circle, but I enjoy when I'm invited to sail.

Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.

I had acquired the skills to sail a ship; I didn't acquire the knowledge.