180 Degrees From Ordinary

Leadership is a choice, not a position. - Stephen Covey

A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor. - English Proverb

I have always had the sea as my playground. - Alexander D. Oen

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. - Publilius Syrus

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us. - Franz Kafka

Trade unions are islands of anarchy in a sea of chaos. - Aneurin Bevan

Who is staring at the sea is already sailing a little. - Paul Carvel

A man can't be to careful in his choice of enemies. - Oscar Wilde

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. - George Eliot

God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him. - Jim Elliot

I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship. - Louisa May Alcott

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both. - Oscar Wilde

The world is a globe. The farther you sail, the closer to home you are. - Terry Pratchett

Integrity, the choice between what's convenient and what's right. - Tony Dungy

We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it's a continuing choice. - John C. Maxwell

How poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees. - William Shakespeare

Politicians who complain about the media are like sailors who complain about the sea. - Enoch Powell

Is this chicken or is this fish? I know it's tuna but it says chicken of the sea. - Jessica Simpson

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice! - Dwight D Eisenhower

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor. - Samuel Butler

Goals allow you to take control. Instead of living life by chance, you live by choice. - Kam Knight

As a man in a relationship, you have a simple choice: You can be right or you can be happy. - Ralphie May

If you can't do anything extraordinary, then do something ordinary extraordinarily well. - Unknown

We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean. - Anna Freud

If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level. - Rita Dove

The choice to become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is. - Oprah Winfrey

You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories, and we made the funny choice. - John Green

How do we persevere when we're adrift at sea, severed from wherever or whomever is our 'home'? - Lois Anderson

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice. - Stephen Covey

Love one another, but make not a bond of love. Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. - Kahlil Gibran

One machine can do the work of a hundred ordinary men, but no machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. - Elbert Hubbard

I'll sail to Ka-Troo. And bring back an It-Kutch a Preep and a Proo. A Nerkle a Nerd and a Seersucker, too. - Theodor Seuss Geisel

Sea spaghetti looks like dark fettuccine and has a similar texture - you can get it in health food stores or online. - Yotam Ottolenghi

You can never make the same mistake twice because the second time you make it, it's not a mistake, it's a choice. - Unknown

A father is neither an anchor to hold us back nor a sail to take us there, but a guiding light whose love shows us the way. - Unknown

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. - Iris Murdoch

Boat Anchor: 1. Thrown out when you need it, and taken in when you don't; 2. An old computer so useless that it needs to go to sea. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense. - Joseph Addison

I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy. - Bertrand Russell

Our ancestors ... possessed a right, which nature has given to all men, of departing from the country in which chance, not choice has placed them. - Thomas Jefferson