{"quotes":[{"text":"First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can.","author":"Horatio Nelson","tags":["air-force","airmen","army","battle","battlefield","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","maurus-macgregor","motivation","motivational","motivational","pilot","raf","royal-navy","sailors","soldiers","us-air-force","us-army","us-navy","usaf","war"],"id":8154,"author_id":"Horatio+Nelson"},{"text":"O Sailor!It’s the way I want to beIt’s beyond the pale for meIt’s what being unknown is all aboutIt’s the path I choose to takeIt’s the destiny I makeIt’s my life now – the only way outOut of circulation in another dimensionI carry you right inside my heartAs we’re one, moulded togetherAlways and forever, never apartIt’s a world where I’m aloneIt’s a place where I can atoneIt’s a severing of all ties I knowI feel so free and yet I’m boundI’m invisible and yet aroundI know I’ve got to go with the flowMy life now is like a sailboat ride,Destiny is the wind – with you by my side,I’m the sailor, who sets the course,Empowered by an incredible force.","author":"Tapan Ghosh","tags":["life-poem","life-poetry","poems","sailors"],"id":9646,"author_id":"Tapan+Ghosh"},{"text":"I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out of me with steel pipes.","author":"Patton Oswalt","tags":["femininity","gender","humor","masculinity","romance","romance-novels","sailors","violence","writing"],"id":67493,"author_id":"Patton+Oswalt"},{"text":"One captain, seizing the line-knife from his broken prow, had dashed at the whale, as an Arkansas duelist at his foe, blindly seeking with a six-inch blade to reach the fathom-deep life of the whale. That captain was Ahab.","author":"Herman Melville","tags":["ahab","anger","arkansas","hate","madness","moby-dick","rage","sailors","sea","whale"],"id":107867,"author_id":"Herman+Melville"},{"text":"A fight is like the perfect storm. It is risky and dangerous. But, as the African proverb goes, Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. Fights are often learning opportunities—if we’re willing to dig deep enough past our own egos.","author":"lauren klarfeld","tags":["communication","communication","ego","egocentrism","fighting","hardship","learning","relationships","sailors","sea","self-awareness","self-improvement","working-together"],"id":108027,"author_id":"lauren+klarfeld"},{"text":"You must be a light unto yourself.","author":"Jiddu Krishnamurti","tags":["air-force","airman","airmen","army","battle","battlefield","evil","good","inspiration","inspirational","marine","marines","motivation-motivational","navy","sailor","sailors","soldier","soldiers","war"],"id":134363,"author_id":"Jiddu+Krishnamurti"},{"text":"Victory is a thing of the will.","author":"Marshal Foch","tags":["airmen","army","battle","battlefield","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","maurus-macgregor","motivation","motivational","motivational","sailors","soldiers","us-army","war"],"id":159088,"author_id":"Marshal+Foch"},{"text":"They don't take the Bible as a general thing, sailors don't; though I will say that I never saw the man at sea who didn't give it the credit of being an uncommon good yarn.('Kentucky's Ghost').","author":"Elizabeth Stuart Phelps","tags":["bible","sailor","sailors"],"id":197116,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Stuart+Phelps"},{"text":"The Bane...Where coxswain's dirtand seaman's shirtsbrushed bawdily upon her chest...","author":"Muse","tags":["boat","fairy-tale","flying-dutchman","freedom","make-believe","mythology","nautical","navy","neptune","pirates","poem","poetry","poseidon","prose","sail","sailors","sea-faring","ship","water"],"id":207792,"author_id":"Muse"},{"text":"Live for something rather than die for nothing.","author":"George S. Patton Jr.","tags":["airmen","army","battle","battlefield","george-s-patton","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","maurus-macgregor","motivation","motivational","motivational","sailors","soldiers","us-army","war","ww2","ww2-history"],"id":226989,"author_id":"George+S.+Patton+Jr."}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":20,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}