World Sailing Speed

Famous quotes containing the words world, sailing and/or speed:

    In a world of universal poverty
    The philosophers alone will be fat
    Against the autumn winds
    In an autumn that will be perpetual.
    Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    I saw three ships come sailing by,
    Come sailing by, come sailing by,
    I saw three ships come sailing by,
    On Christmas Day in the morning.
    —Unknown. As I Sat on a Sunny Bank. . .

    Oxford Book of Light Verse, The. W. H. Auden, ed. (1938)

    The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man’s adjustment to it—the speed of his acceptance.
    —E.B. (Elwyn Brooks)