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It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.
Jim Rohn
Brainy
Will
Wind
Way
Determines
Direction
Sails
Go
Which
Set
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
Dolly Parton
Wind
We Cannot
Adjust
Direct
Sails
Cannot
He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
William Golding
Patience
Nile
Must
Woven
He
Sails
Sea
Who
Rides
I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.
Arthur Ashe
Best
Dark
Wind
Steady
Passage
Am
Sailing
Sails
Doing
Middle
Boat
Full
Keep
If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.
Enoch Powell
Journey
My Journey
Bends
Sight
River
Simply
Sails
Ship
Ends
Mean
Means
He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.
William Osler
Medicine
Books
Uncharted
Studies
He
Without
Does
Sails
Go
Patients
Sea
Who
One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the way they go.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Other
Way
East
Winds
Determines
Drives
Sails
Go
West
Ship
Blow
Same
Set
Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
Euripides
Happiness
God
Will
Stay
Sails
Brief
Wisdom sails with wind and time.
John Florio
Wisdom
Time
Wind
Sails
What is there more unruly than the sea, with its winds, its tornadoes, and its tempests? And yet in what department of her works has Nature been more seconded by the ingenuity of man than in this, by his inventions of sails and of oars?
Pliny the Elder
Nature
Man
Winds
More
Inventions
Unruly
Sails
Been
His
Than
Department
Ingenuity
Sea
Works
Her
In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and leaping about in the midst of the sails of ships!
Beverly Cleary
School
Back
About
Allowance
School Years
Leaping
Sails
Years
Ships
Grammar
Grammar School
Midst
Movies
Used
Douglas
Saturday
Whenever I get in a car and I'm going to or from the airport or the train station, I put on a TED Talk using the TED app. It makes the trip go by super fast, and it fills my sails.
Christina Tosi
Car
Airport
Station
Super
Trip
Put
Talk
Makes
Sails
Go
Train
Get
Going
Whenever
App
Using
Fills
Fast
Ted
There is no trophy for the team that sails the most.
James Spithill
Trophy
Most
Sails
Team
I'm not a big fan of kids' movies that have this knowing snarkiness to them or this post-modern take on storytelling. I think that sails right over the heads of most kids. There's something to be said for a well-told fairy tale. There's a reason that these mythic stories stay with us.
John C. Reilly
Big
Think
Kids
Stay
Something
Take
Mythic
Over
Tale
Heads
Most
Knowing
Fairy
Fairy Tale
Said
Sails
Big Fan
Fan
Stories
Movies
Storytelling
Them
Us
Reason
Right
I had been feeling a little rum. I didn't think it was anything serious because years ago I felt a lump and it was benign. I assumed this would be too. It kind of takes the wind out of your sails, and I don't know what the future holds, if anything.
Maggie Smith
Future
Wind
Feeling
Think
Assumed
Too
Benign
Rum
Out
Kind
Would
Would-Be
Had
Takes
Know
Because
Felt
Sails
Been
Years
Years Ago
Anything
Holds
Little
Your
Serious
Lump
I'm a TV junkie, so it's hard to choose just one. Currently I'm a slave to 'Black Sails,' 'Vikings,' 'Game of Thrones' and 'The Mindy Project.'
Victoria Aveyard
Game
Black
Project
TV
Sails
Just
Currently
Just One
Game Of Thrones
Hard
Choose
Slave
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