40 Quotes About Voyages


  • Author Joseph Conrad
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    Oh the glamour of youth! Oh the fire of it, more dazzling than the flames of the burning ship, throwing a magic light on the wide earth, leaping audaciously to the sky, presently to be quenched by time, more cruel, more pitiless, more bitter than the sea—and like the flames of the burning ship surrounded by an impenetrable night.

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  • Author Peter Lewis Allen
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    Shortly after Christopher Columbus and his sailors returned from their voyage to the New World, a horrifying new disease began to make its way around the Old. The "pox," as it was often called, erupted with dramatic severity.

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  • Author James A. Baldwin
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    You go into a book and you're in the dark, really. You go in with a certain fear and trembling. You know one thing. You know you will not be the same person when this voyage is over. But you don't know what's going to happen to you between getting on the boat and stepping off.

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  • Author Jimmy Buffett
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    My voyage was never a well-conceived plan, nor will it ever be. I have made it up as I went along.

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  • Author Dale Carnegie
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    A talk is a voyage. It must be charted. The speaker who starts nowhere, usually gets there.

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