Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness. – John Calvin
Our flying squirrel is in no proper sense a flyer. On the ground, he is more helpless than a chipmunk, because less agile. He can only sail or slide down a steep incline from the top of one tree to the foot of another. – John Burroughs
I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm’s way. – John Paul Jones
We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch – we are going back from whence we came. – John F. Kennedy
George W. Bush was a silver spoon dolt with no record to speak of other than bankruptcy and selling tropical plants, and we let him sail into the White House, but Barack talks about religious fundamentalism and guns being prevalent in poor areas, and we roast him for weeks? – Adam McKay
I sailed a bit as a child, but it wasn’t until I was around 40, when I was halfway through Patrick O’Brian’s ‘Master and Commander’ novels, that I had the sudden epiphany that I had to go sail on a square-rig ship. – Billy Campbell
A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there. – Ami Ayalon
What if others suffer shipwreck, yet none that sail with Jesus have ever been stranded yet. – Charles Spurgeon
Gliders, sail planes, they’re wonderful flying machines. It’s the closest you can come to being a bird. – Neil Armstrong
The power chords in ‘Come Sail Away’ were super heavy to me as a kid. Metal? No. Hard rock? At times, for sure. – Eddie Trunk
I’ve always been a very careful sailor. I know, me and being careful – doesn’t really sound right, does it? But when I sail, I take it seriously and take along spares for everything. You have to be careful when you’re 1,500 miles from land. There’s no one you can call. You’re on your own. – David Crosby
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal. – Napoleon Hill
Laws were changed and regulations repealed until an Enron can set sail without responsibility, supervision, or accountability. – Molly Ivins
If I wasn’t acting, I would sail professionally. Nowhere specific, but I’d sail to Bermuda, South Africa, ya know, get paid to race in Regattas, I think that’d be pretty rad. – Jack Falahee
If the Spray discovered no continents on her voyage, it may be that there were no more continents to be discovered. She did not seek new worlds, or sail to pow-wow about the dangers of the sea. – Joshua Slocum
Horses and mules, and even sail cars, made more rapid progress than did the earliest locomotive. – John Moody
I’m kind of a jock. I sail, I ride a bike, I hike, I pump iron. I just love to be active. – Laura Schlessinger
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, Sr.
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, Sr.
