"For me, my craft is sailing on,Through mists to-day, clear seas anon.Whate'er the final harbor be'T is good to sail upon the sea!"

-- John Kendrick Bangs

#Sea Quotes #Sailing Quotes #Finals Quotes

“I am in flight from my story every day, and it dogs me like a faithful stray.”
“Faith does not rely on knowing anything with certainty. It requires only the courage to accept that whatever happens is for the highest good.”
“All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.”
“" ... What if?" Through the alchemy of those two words, something new comes into the world.”
“I picture the vast realm of the sciences as an immense landscape scattered with patches of dark and light. The goal towards which we must work is either to extend the boundaries of the patches of light, or to increase their number. One of these tasks falls to the creative genius; the other requires a sort of sagacity combined with perfectionism.”
“Someone is going to win and someone is going to lose. That's also what happens in almost every movie - someone is going to win and someone is going to lose.”
“The greatest pleasure in life is love.”

Source : Sir William Temple, Jonathan Swift, Lady Martha Giffard (1740). “The life and character of Sir William Temple, written by a particular friend [his sister Lady Giffard] Observations upon the United provinces of the Netherlands. Miscellanea. Memoirs, the third part, from the peace concluded 1679 to the time of the author's retirement from publick business. Memoirs of what past in Christendom from the war begun 1672, to the peace concluded 1679”, p.309
“I survived, but it's not a happy ending.”

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