Charles Dickens Quotes

A sailor chooses the wind that takes the ship from a safe port. Ah, yes, but once you're abroad, as you have seen, winds have a mind of their own. Be careful, Charlotte, careful of the wind you choose.

But God!Who could live like this , anyway, with the kind of guesswork that was enough to make a person crazy, just sailing along, taking bumps here and there, no course navigated whatsoever, with any big wave capable of just tipping and sinking you entirely. IT was madness, stipidity, and- (then I saw him)

A good sailor knows everything is always changing.

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end. When we think to attach ourselves to any pointand to fasten to it, it wavers and leaves us; and if we follow it, it eludes our grasp, slips past us, and vanishes for ever. Nothing stays for us.

Seasons just don't go easy all the way through.

Nothing is a guarantee at all.

Sailing is such a variable sport. There could be no wind, or there could be 25 knots. You never know what you're going to get.

Sometimes you think things are going to be forever, and then... of course, they're not.

In this industry, it's very fickle; you don't know where you are.

I do have in the back of my head that you never know how long it lasts.

I often compare my voice to an old car you're only 50% sure will turn on when you need it to.

The future is a fog that is still hanging out over the sea, a boat that floats home or does not. The trade winds blow me, and I do not know where the land is; the waves fold over each other; they are in love with themselves; sleeping in their own skin; and I float over them and I do not know about tomorrow.

Success is unpredictable and fragile.

Nothing is ever certain.

All the ways of this world are as fickle and unstable as a sudden storm at sea.

Man (in good earnest) is a marvellous vain, fickle, and unstable subject, and on whom it is very hard to form any certain and uniform judgment.

If you have wind it becomes more difficult than you think.

There is absolutely nothing that can be taken for granted in this world.

One thing you can rely on is that there will always be uncertainty.

I take this evanescence and lubricity of all objects, which lets them slip through our fingers then when we clutch hardest, to be the most unhandsome part of our condition.

Even money, which shines so much, spits sometimes.

Me being an actor was an accident, and not something I wanted to do, because I knew what happened eventually. Yeah, maybe you'd get famous, but then you wouldn't be famous anymore. Then you'd have to scramble to get back to where you were, and chances are, you wouldn't.

Never depend on the multitude, full of instability and whims; always take precautions against it.

No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.

Woody [Allen] is a fascinating character to be around. You don't really know what he's going to want. You're on your toes, but you're on your heels too, if you know what I mean.