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"Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit The lesson that most of us on this voyage never learn, but can never quite forget, is that to win is sometimes to lose." »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"Life's a voyage that's homeward bound." »Herman Melville
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"Journal writing is a voyage to the interior." »Christina Baldwin
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"It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage." »Henry Ward Beecher
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"The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." »Marcel Proust
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"Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor." »Arnold Toynbee
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"The real voyage of discovery consists, not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." »Marcel Proust
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"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." »Marcel Proust
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"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." »Marcel Proust
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"Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers, that the mind can never break off from the journey." »Pat Conroy
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"One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time." »Carl Sagan
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""Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life. "" »Seneca, Epistulae Morales
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"He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many foulder in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale." »Johnson
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"There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries." »William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
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"There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries." »William Shakespeare
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"There is a tide in the affairs of men
Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries." »William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 4 scene 3
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"Saying we should keep the two-party political system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life rafts." »Eugene McCarthy
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"Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family!" »Joachim Du Bellay, Sonnet de Regrets
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"Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family" »Joachim du Bellay
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"Like the winds of the sea are the winds of fate As we voyage along through life, Tis the set of the soul That decides its goal And not the calm or the strife." »Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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"Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solved each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They kept going regardless of the obstacles they met." »Clement Stone
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"Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any Cyclades or Islands of King Solomon, then there were promise in the voyage." »Herman Melville, Moby Dick
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"Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events." »Winston Churchill
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"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." »H.P. Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"
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