Sea Yacht Quotes & Sayings

Tears only dry up as a result of hardness of the heart, and the hearts only harden as a result of frequent sinning. — Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S

Great-Uncle Merry, coming back towards the car from the Grey House, had suddenly stopped in his tracks in the middle of the road. He was gazing down at the sea; and she realised that he had caught sight of the yacht. What startled her was the expression on his face. Standing there like a craggy towering statue, he was frowning, fierce and intense, almost as if he were looking and listening with senses other than his eyes and ears. He could never look frightened, she thought, but this was the nearest thing to it that she had ever seen. Cautious, startled, alarmed . . . what was the matter with him? Was there something strange about the yacht? Then — Susan Cooper

The incident emphasizes once more that beauty is something to be found, rather than passively encountered, that it requires us to pick up on certain details, to identify the whiteness of a cotton dress, the reflection of the sea on the hull of a yacht, or the contrast between the color of a jockey's coat and his face. — Alain De Botton

If we know that our own men are in a condition to attack, but are unaware that the enemy is not open to attack, we have gone only halfway towards victory. — Sun Tzu

A Wired reader told me once, Get a life, which I read from the back of a yacht in the Aegean, while eating fresh sea urchins and drinking terrific Montrachet. — Nicholas Negroponte

Don't be intimidated and at the same time don't intimidate. — Archibald Marwizi

Wisely improve the Present. It is thine. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It is a great paradox - almost everyone wants to improve his circumstances but almost no one wants to improve himself. — Sterling W. Sill

From the sea came a boat with some Israeli commando soldiers who took me by the commando boat to the yacht and put me on the yacht. In the yacht I asked people, who are you. And they said we are Israelis, French and British. — Mordechai Vanunu

The marriage is over; counseling is the eulogy. The relationship autopsy is the wake. — Suzanne Finnamore

A prisoner's shackles would always be a lawyers joy. — Dennis E. Adonis

Is it my power ripening or the natural will of a man to want to control what he thinks is his? It didn't matter. Blood would paint the streets if another touched her. — Kenya Wright

You should not quarrel with your neighbour, for he will remain where he is, but your high handedness will become the talk of the people. — Abu Bakr

In 2006 it was a horrible election year, and, you know, I lost. But I lost because I continued to be a constant conservative, and the last six years I was someone who was a national figure in the sense that I was the third ranking Republican in leadership and I had just run President Bush's campaign in Pennsylvania. — Rick Santorum

Africa is God's country, and He can have it. — Groucho Marx

I am not a yachting person, by nature, but I have just enough experience on the sea under sail to feel a certain nostalgia for it when I see a big white racing yacht heeled over at cruising speed on the ocean, and I can still tie a mean bowline knot on just about anything in less than 10 seconds. — Hunter S. Thompson

Life is a mystery, not a riddle. It has to be lived, not solved. — Osho

What a silly thing love is! It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything and it is always telling one things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true. — Oscar Wilde

The boxing game has been good, so we need to give back. We have to teach young men how to be men. — Joe Frazier

The cabin of a small yacht is truly a wonderful thing; not only will it shelter you from a tempest, but from the other troubles in life, it is a safe retreat. — Lewis Francis Herreshoff