There is a feeling among sailors that borders on fatalism. It is born
of the belief that a ship can never get lost. When you run out of
water, you always run into land. It may not be the right land; but
then, if it were, America would still be undiscovered.
-- Robert E. Mirvish
Related:
So Richard and I decided to try to catch [the small shark].
With a great deal of strategy and effort and shouting, we managed to
maneuver the shark, over the course of about a half-hour, to a sort of
corner of the lagoon, so that it had no way to escape other than to
flop up onto the land and evolve....
