It is time to be old To take in sail.
Your [the American] constitution is all sail and no anchor.
1st Baron Macaulay
Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find."
For what avail the plough or sail, / Or Land or life, if freedom fail?
Also inscribed inside the pedestal of the Statuary of Liberty.
When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails
Your Honour, unless your Honour, without a moment's loss of time, makes sail for the nearest shore, this is a doomed ship, and her name is the Coffin!
The great pilot can sail even when his canvass is rent.
But only a fool sails into combat with nature
set sail on a voyage of your own titanic facts
Come, my love, we have oceans to sail.
If you learn to set a good sail, the wind that blows will always take you to the dreams you want, the income you want, and the treasures of mind, purse, and soul you want.
I can't believe that I would keep, keep you from flying And I would cry a thousand more if that's what it takes to sail you home.
The wind of God is always blowing... but you must hoist your sail.
Hoist the sails of your own spirit to catch the winds of God.
O friend, never strike sail to a fear!
My road leads me seawards To the white dipping sails.
Hone and spread your spirit till you yourself are a sail, whetted, translucent, broadside to the merest puff.
It is a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel.
I cannot predict the wind but I can have my sail ready.
Without fear we must set sail on the digital sea.
He that hath the steerage of my course, Direct my sail.
As ships becalmed at eve, that lay With canvas drooping, side by side, Two towers of sail, at dawn of day Are scarce, long leagues apart, descried.
Everybody Sails alone, but we can travel side by side
But oars alone can ne'er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
Like wind-- In it, with it, of it. Of it just like a sail, so light and strong that, even when it is bent flat, it gathers all the power of the wind without hampering its course. Like light-- In light, lit through by light, transformed into light. Like the lens which disappears in the light it focuses. Like wind. Like light. Just this--on these expanses, on these heights.