#sails

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. ↗

— William Arthur Ward

#about #adjusts #change #complains #expects

Politicians trim and tack in their quest for power, but they do so in order to get the wind of votes in their sails. ↗

— Ian Gilmour

#order #politicians #power #quest #sails

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

#does #go #medicine #patients #sails

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. ↗

— Dolly Parton

#cannot #direct #sails #we cannot #wind

If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends. ↗

— Enoch Powell

#ends #journey #mean #means #my journey

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go. ↗

— Jim Rohn

#direction #go #sails #set #way

Wisdom sails with wind and time. ↗

— John Florio

#time #wind #wisdom

He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience. ↗

— William Golding

#must #nile #rides #sails #sea

Lovely Arra Sails, nectar to all males, how I'd like to spear you like a whaler spears a whale! ↗

— Darren Shan

#darren-shan #humor #innuendo #larten-crepsley #mr-crepsley

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 #boat #dark #doing #full