Avi Quotes

A sailor may choose the wind to ride out of seaport, but the wind has a mind of it's own.

Those who spread their sails in the right way to the winds of the earth will always find themselves born by a current towards the open seas.

"Would you, do you, my dear?" rejoined the Captain ... "I don't know. It's difficult navigation. She's very hard to carry on with, my dear. You never can tell how she'll head, you see. She's full one minute, and round upon you next."

We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.

I don't like spontaneity; there you go. I'm wary of it.

We know there is no such thing as freedom without the risk of failure.

Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and water as well as with the very heart and soul of the boat itself. Sailing teaches alertness and courage, and gives in return a joyousness and peace that but few sports afford.

If you make enough decisions in life, you’re bound to make some of them wrong.

The power of uncontrollable decision is of the most delicate and dangerous nature.

I hope, George, that you know what you're doing.

Tis easy to see, hard to foresee.

Freedom always deals with 'the possible'; this gives freedom its great flexibility, its fascination, and its dangers.

You can never assume that something is going to do well.

It's a crazy game. It's a game we all choose to play.

We always want to keep a clean sheet, but there are situations we can't control.

If you create a place where anything can happen, anything will happen.

Sailing is such a variable sport. There could be no wind, or there could be 25 knots. You never know what you're going to get.

But God!Who could live like this , anyway, with the kind of guesswork that was enough to make a person crazy, just sailing along, taking bumps here and there, no course navigated whatsoever, with any big wave capable of just tipping and sinking you entirely. IT was madness, stipidity, and- (then I saw him)

Niall: We're tossed by the winds of fate. Once we end where they blow us, we make of ourselves that we will.

Take one, and you cannot take the other. But neither path is safe. Which way would you walk — the way of hard truths or the way of fine lies?

There is no safer. There’s not even safe, never has been.

Choices are easy when you have nothing to lose.

Sailing is necessary, living is not necessary.