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Sail beyond the horizon; gentle waves await your bravery.
Author:
Marina Taylor
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The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety.
Author:
Edward Young
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Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere.
Author:
Brigham Young
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The North Sea was supposed to run out in the 1980s. Then in the 1990s. And now production is still on-line.
Author:
Daniel Yergin
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About fifteen miles above New Orleans the river goes very slowly. It has broadened out there until it is almost a sea and the water is yellow with the mud of half a continent. Where the sun strikes it, it is golden.
Author:
Frank Yerby
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At night, when the sky is full of stars and the sea is still you get the wonderful sensation that you are floating in space.
Author:
Natalie Wood
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All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken.
Author:
Thomas Wolfe
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The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind.
Author:
Woodrow Wilson
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We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.
Author:
John Wheeler
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I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
Author:
H. Wells
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The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Civil War-when I really think about them they all seem about as likely as the parting of the Red Sea.
Author:
Sarah Vowell
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As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God.
Author:
Swami Vivekananda
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He like a rock in the sea unshaken stands his ground.
Author:
Virgil
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Throughout the ages, stories with certain basic themes have recurred over and over, in widely disparate cultures; emerging like the goddess Venus from the sea of our unconscious.
Author:
Joan Vinge
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I was at sea the other day and loads of meat floated past. It was a bit choppy.
Author:
Tim Vine
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From the sea came a boat with some Israeli commando soldiers who took me by the commando boat to the yacht and put me on the yacht. In the yacht I asked people, who are you. And they said we are Israelis, French and British.
Author:
Mordechai Vanunu
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The sea has now changed from it's natural, to river coloured water, the probable consequence of some streams falling into the bay, or into the ocean to the north of it, through the low land.
Author:
George Vancouver
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Seeing that our thirst was increasing and the water was killing us, while the storm did not abate, we agreed to trust to God, Our Lord, and rather risk the perils of the sea than wait there for certain death from thirst.
Author:
Alvar Vaca
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Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
Author:
John Updike
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The interior of Mexico consists of a mass of volcanic rocks, thrust up to a great height above the sea-level.
Author:
Edward Tylor
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Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies' in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal.
Author:
Desmond Tutu
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The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.
Author:
Mao Tung
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The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.
Author:
Barbara Tuchman
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You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens and crowned with the stars.
Author:
Thomas Traherne
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We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.
Author:
Paul Tillich
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It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.
Author:
Hunter Thompson
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I wanted to go to sea when I graduated from high school but my folks talked me out of it.
Author:
William Thomas
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The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea.
Author:
John Templeton
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We have found that morals are not, like bacon, to be cured by hanging; nor, like wine, to be improved by sea voyages; nor, like honey, to be preserved in cells.
Author:
William Taylor
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The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.
Author:
Rabindranath Tagore
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You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
Author:
Rabindranath Tagore
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Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents - but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea.
Author:
William Taft
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Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Author:
Publilius Syrus
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A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, he said, for he will be going out on a day he shouldn't. But we do be afraid of the sea, and we do only be drownded now and again.
Author:
John Synge
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It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation in this rude canvas canoe of a model that has served primitive races since men first went to sea.
Author:
John Synge
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For fear of dropping the troops in the sea, the pilots tended to drop them too far inland - some of them actually in the British lines. The weapon containers often fell wide of the troops, which was another handicap that contributed to our excessive casualties.
Author:
Kurt Student
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If I read not amiss, this powerful race will move down upon Mexico, down upon Central and South America, out upon the islands of the sea, over upon Africa and beyond. And can any one doubt that the results of this competition of races will be the "survival of the fittest?"
Author:
Josiah Strong
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Suffering from dysentery at sea was no picnic.
Author:
Pamela Stephenson
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I once saw a lump of Greenland breaking off into the sea and moving south, which of course will affect the atmosphere and us generally, and it'll happen more and more.
Author:
Ralph Steadman
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All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full.
Author:
King Solomon
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Today, human civilization is drowning in a sea of lies.
Author:
L. Smith
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The sea complains upon a thousand shores.
Author:
Alexander Smith
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The storm came. Lives were washed away. Ancient pains resurfaced. Now it is time for a sea of change.
Author:
Tavis Smiley
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If the Spray discovered no continents on her voyage, it may be that there were no more continents to be discovered. She did not seek new worlds, or sail to pow-wow about the dangers of the sea.
Author:
Joshua Slocum
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On this day there was soon wind enough and to spare. The same might have been said of the sea. The Spray was in the midst of the turbulent Gulf Stream itself. She was jumping like a porpoise over the uneasy waves.
Author:
Joshua Slocum
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Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck on the bottom of the sea of criticism.
Author:
Josef Skvorecky
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Is this chicken, what I have, or is this fish? I know it's tuna, but it says 'Chicken of the Sea.'
Author:
Jessica Simpson
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I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat - a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second.
Author:
Nina Simone
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The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea.
Author:
Navjot Sidhu
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Anybody can pilot a ship when the sea is calm.
Author:
Navjot Sidhu
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Many corpses will be floating in the sea.
Author:
Thaksin Shinawatra
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Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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Here I found those who had set out before me, both by sea and land, except those who have died.
Author:
Junipero Serra
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Slowly but surely the sea is freezing over.
Author:
Robert Scott
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There is the churning and the boiling of the sea, and the foam on top of it and that is what man is, churning and foam together.
Author:
Simone Schwarz-Bart
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Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.
Author:
Carl Schurz
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Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.
Author:
Arthur Schopenhauer
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When you live by the sea, there are definite seasons when you can see the weather coming and going, which lends itself to photography.
Author:
Graeme Saux
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When she became very ill with heart trouble, I saw that it would be impossible for my parents to provide for my studies, and I obtained their permission to go to sea to make a career for myself there.
Author:
Fritz Sauckel
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The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.
Author:
Jose Saramago
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The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
Author:
Carl Sandburg
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It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner.
Author:
Jonas Salk
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If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
Author:
Antoine Saint-Exupery
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There are no signposts in the sea.
Author:
Vita Sackville-West
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The German Air Force was not sufficient to protect the sea crossing on its own. While the leading part of the forces might have landed, there was the danger that they might be cut off from supplies and reinforcements.
Author:
Gerd Rundstedt
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The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.
Author:
Franklin Roosevelt
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Next door to Ethiopia spreading out along the strategic Red Sea coastline is Eritrea, a relatively new country, and a place that few Americans seem to fully understand.
Author:
Dana Rohrabacher
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And when the day arrives I'll become the sky and I'll become the sea and the sea will come to kiss me for I am going home. Nothing can stop me now.
Author:
Trent Reznor
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One of the unique things is that whether we were out at sea or in the middle of the water tank, a lot of times you just couldn't leave. Especially when we were out at sea.
Author:
John Reilly
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My wife and I just prefer Seattle. It's a beautiful city. Great setting. You open your front door in the morning and the air smells like pine and the sea, as opposed to bus exhaust.
Author:
Ron Reagan
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I am really a sea creature. Just a mammal that lost its fins.
Author:
Kathleen Quinlan
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The sea change that has come is the information age. We don't have to just read The New York Times anymore. We can pull up something on the Internet and get any news that we like.
Author:
Pete Pont
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You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.
Author:
Laurence Peter
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Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.
Author:
Pericles
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If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!
Author:
Blaise Pascal
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It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them.
Author:
Gilbert Parker
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In a still hot morning, the tide went out and didn't come back in. This was not a spectacular event. The sea did not roll up like a scroll, like the sky in Revelations. It quietly withdrew.
Author:
Ruth Park
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And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, while the earth bears a plant, or the sea rolls its waves.
Author:
Robert Paine
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But The Same Sea is set precisely in this Israel, which never makes it to the news headlines anywhere. It is a novel about everyday people far removed from fundamentalism, fanaticism nationalism, or militancy of any sort.
Author:
Amos Oz
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I wrote The Same Sea not as a political allegory about Israelis and Palestinians. I wrote it about something much more gutsy and immediate. I wrote it as a piece of chamber music.
Author:
Amos Oz
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One of the things I wanted to introduce in The Same Sea beyond transcending the conflict, is the fact that deep down below all our secrets are the same.
Author:
Amos Oz
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The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
Author:
Ovid
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Down below the broad, roaring waves of the sea break against the deep foundation of the rock. But high above the mountain, the sea, and the peaks of rock the eternal ornamentation blooms silently from the dark depths of the universe.
Author:
Rudolf Otto
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He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.
Author:
William Osler
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We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.
Author:
Aristotle Onassis
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There's been a sea change in our focus on corporate ethics. We've made more progress in the last three years than the previous 30.
Author:
Steve Odland
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In my judgment, if we had pursued this course, the zones would have been of short duration. England would have been compelled to take her mines out of the North Sea in order to get any supplies from our country.
Author:
George Norris
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We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our government is becoming, and for some decent chance of stopping a Dinosaur Killer asteroid.
Author:
Larry Niven
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I shall go the way of the open sea, to the lands I knew before you came, and the cool ocean breezes shall blow from me the memory of your name.
Author:
Adela Nicolson
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I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Author:
Isaac Newton
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Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.
Author:
Horatio Nelson
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Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port; but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year.
Author:
Horatio Nelson
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There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over a sea of blood and under a horizon blazing with fire.
Author:
Gamal Nasser
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I believe that Palestine is an occupied land from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River, and this is the right of the entire Palestinian people, this land.
Author:
Hassan Nasrallah
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The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.
Author:
Vladimir Nabokov
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The ethics of editorial judgement, however, began to go though a sea change during the late 1970s and '80s when the Carter and Reagan Administrations de-regulated the television industry.
Author:
Roger Mudd
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I was so keen to get back to sea. I was rattled.
Author:
Lord Mountbatten
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The sea is not rising. It hasn't risen in 50 years.
Author:
Nils-Axel Morner
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The late 20th century sea level rise rate lacks any sign of acceleration. Satellite altimetry indicates virtually no changes in the last decade.
Author:
Nils-Axel Morner
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It has been popular to threaten "small islands and low-lying coasts" with scenarios of disastrous future flooding. The Maldives has been the most utilised target. We have undertaken a careful analysis of actual sea level changes in the Maldives. No rise has been recorded either in the present or the past centuries.
Author:
Nils-Axel Morner
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All handling by IPCC of the Sea Level questions have been done in a way that cannot be accepted and that certainly not concur with modern knowledge of the mode and mechanism of sea level changes.
Author:
Nils-Axel Morner
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Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.
Author:
Thomas Moore
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It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back.
Author:
Marianne Moore
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Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk.
Author:
John Milton
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Direct access to sea is an essential part of foreign policy.
Author:
Carlos Mesa
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At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect.
Author:
Herman Melville
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There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.
Author:
Herman Melville
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The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.
Author:
Golda Meir
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But having said that, there's also a sea change in attitude towards media.
Author:
Robert McChesney
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I'm glad I am a woman who once danced naked in the Mediterranean Sea at midnight.
Author:
Mercedes McCambridge
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I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.
Author:
John Masefield
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Well, I think, I certainly used backward music in Sea of Monsters. I can't remember in the Sea of Time. I would tend to do that all the time, you know? I tended to do all sorts of weird things. Just to get effects.
Author:
George Martin
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When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?
Author:
Ralph Marston
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Once there were two brothers: one ran away to sea, the other was elected Vice-President-and nothing was ever heard from either of them again.
Author:
Thomas Marshall
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I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it seems it will engulf everything. Wait a moment, another current will appear and bring the first one to naught.
Author:
Jacques Maritain
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Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.
Author:
Harold MacMillan
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It has long been a fact familiar to geologists, that, both on the east and west coasts of the central part of Scotland, there are lines of raised beaches, containing marine shells of the same species as those now inhabiting the neighbouring sea.
Author:
Charles Lyell
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Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
Author:
John Lubbock
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There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.
Author:
James Lowell
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I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of dead money that went sliding off into the sea.
Author:
Federico Lorca
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Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
Author:
Henry Longfellow
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The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.
Author:
Titus Livius
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I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.
Author:
Anne Lindbergh
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The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness.
Author:
Anne Lindbergh
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The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.
Author:
Anne Lindbergh
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My father was a sea captain, so was his father, and his father before him, and all my uncles. My mother's people all followed the sea. I suppose that if I had been born a few years earlier, I would have had my own ship.
Author:
Joseph Lincoln
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Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea.
Author:
Mikhail Lermontov
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Shaw is like a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one's place. But Shakespeare is like bathing in the sea - one swims where one wants.
Author:
Vivien Leigh
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It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, but from the fear of it: such a base as we had in the Red Sea Parts, the desert, or in the minds of the men we converted to our creed.
Author:
T. Lawrence
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More needs to be done to take the fight to the enemy and secure our borders against the terrorist threat. We need more protection on land, sea and air.
Author:
Nick Lampson
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All loose things seem to drift down to the sea, and so did I.
Author:
Louis L'Amour
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We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came.
Author:
John Kennedy
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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
Author:
John Keats
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A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.
Author:
Franz Kafka
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A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.
Author:
Franz Kafka
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That the sea is one of the most beautiful and magnificent sights in Nature, all admit.
Author:
John Joly
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As soon as the news of the Cabot voyages reached the King of Portugal he arranged to send an expedition of discovery to the far north-west, perhaps to find a northern sea route to Eastern Asia.
Author:
Harry Johnston
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When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.
Author:
Samuel Johnson
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I'm just a simple guy swimming in a sea of sharks.
Author:
Don Johnson
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The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.
Author:
Douglas Jerrold
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
Author:
Thomas Jefferson
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
Author:
Thomas Jefferson
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Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law. Understand that we are you. Understand that if we decide to have sex whether safe, safer, or unsafe, it is our decision and you have no rights in our lovemaking.
Author:
Derek Jarman
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An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
Author:
Washington Irving
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Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.
Author:
Muhammad Iqbal
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There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.
Author:
Thomas Huxley
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I wanted to be an artist. I was studying art. I wanted to be a great painter. When I went into the Navy, there wasn't much to draw at sea. So I began writing, and I began reading a lot.
Author:
Evan Hunter
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There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.
Author:
Victor Hugo
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
Author:
Victor Hugo
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A sea setting us upon the ice has brought us close to danger.
Author:
Henry Hudson
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We have already significant sums of money in our petroleum fund, a fund created by law that includes all the revenues received from the Timor Sea, and invests in conservative, safe, long-term investment portfolios - right now in US Treasury Bonds.
Author:
Jose Horta
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I didn't go nightclubbing much as a teenager in Bournemouth because my friends and I didn't have the money - but we spent a lot of time on the beach, having barbecues, and running into the sea in the middle of the night.
Author:
Amanda Holden
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There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
Author:
Alfred Hitchcock
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Civilization grew in the beginning from the minute that we had communication - particularly communication by sea that enabled people to get inspiration and ideas from each other and to exchange basic raw materials.
Author:
Thor Heyerdahl
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I grew up in Newquay, on the Atlantic coast and there developed a love of the sea and boats.
Author:
Antony Hewish
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He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.
Author:
George Herbert
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Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.
Author:
Robert Henri
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Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually.
Author:
Jimi Hendrix
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Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.
Author:
Heinrich Heine
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The most ordinary conditions for observing sailing birds are then the wind and sea are both aft.
Author:
Lawrence Hargrave
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The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.
Author:
Robert Hamilton
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If you want to go anywhere in modern war, in the air, on the sea, on the land, you must have command of the air.
Author:
William Halsey
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Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea.
Author:
Granville Hall
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In front of us lay a smooth sandy beach, beyond which rose gradually a high wooded country, and behind us was the sea, studded with numerous islands of every variety of form.
Author:
George Grey
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On embarking to return we could perceive no sign of One Tree Island; and as we swept down towards the sea the leafy top of a tree seen in the clear water under the boat was the only evidence of its existence; though a few hours ago it had formed so prominent an object.
Author:
George Grey
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Sunrise offered a very beautiful spectacle; the water was quite unruffled, but the motion communicated by the tides was so great that, although there was not a breath of air stirring, the sea heaved slowly with a grand and majestic motion.
Author:
George Grey
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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
Author:
William Golding
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Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions.
Author:
Nikolai Gogol
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The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
Author:
Vincent Gogh
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We are as near to heaven by sea as by land.
Author:
Humphrey Gilbert
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But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Author:
Khalil Gibran
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Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Author:
Khalil Gibran
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Estuaries are coastal bays, harbors, sounds and lagoons, places where rivers meet the sea.
Author:
Jim Gerlach
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What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.
Author:
David George
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The most desirable aspects of the Law of the Sea Treaty pertain to navigational rights.
Author:
Frank Gaffney
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Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.
Author:
Thomas Fuller
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The naturalists of our own time hold equal faith in the wonders of the sea, but seek therein rather for the links of nature's chain than for apparent exceptions.
Author:
Edward Forbes
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At the end of all this, Russia held in her hands a vast belt of land running from the Baltic sea in the north to the Black Sea in the south, comprising eleven nations with a population of 100 million people.
Author:
John Flynn
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Praise the sea, on shore remain.
Author:
John Florio
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I think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homer's sea in houses that were, in one case, shaken by the impact of the Mediterranean winter storms on the rocks below.
Author:
Robert Fitzgerald
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Naturally enough, I couldn't have foreseen the vast sea change which has come upon that scene as a result of German reunification and associated events.
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Brian Ferneyhough
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I don't know if you saw the parting of the Red Sea with the chariots on the horses, I did stuff like that.
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Richard Farnsworth
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Hence a ship is said to head the sea, when her course is opposed to the setting or direction of the surges.
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William Falconer
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A long sea implies an uniform and steady motion of long and extensive waves; on the contrary, a short sea is when they run irregularly, broken, and interrupted; so as frequently to burst over a vessel's side or quarter.
Author:
William Falconer
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I deep sea fish a lot.
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John Entwistle
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With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you're connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live.
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Sylvia Earle
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I love the sea's sounds and the way it reflects the sky. The colours that shimmer across its surface are unbelievable. This, combined with the colour of the water over white sand, surprises me every time.
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John Dyer
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The most amazing thing to me about the sea is the tide. A harbour like St. Ives is totally transformed in a very short space of time by the arrival or departure of the sea.
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John Dyer
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If I had my will I would live in a ship on the sea, and never come nearer to humanity than that!
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Eleonora Duse
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The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.
Author:
Isak Dinesen
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I don't expect that we're going to become the biggest craze. If it happened, I'd be really shocked. I think people will dig it, but there will be a sea of people who just don't get it.
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Dustin Diamond
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When I wrote the song, I had the sea near Bombay in mind. We stayed at a hotel by the sea, and the fishermen come up at five in the morning and they were all chanting. And we went on the beach and we got chased by a mad dog - big as a donkey.
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Ray Davies
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Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.
Author:
Edward Dahlberg
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But the revolutions and changes which are responsible for the present state of the earth are not limited to the upsetting of the ancient strata and to the ebbing of the sea after the formations of new layers.
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George Cuvier
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The lowest and most level land areas show us, especially when we dig there to very great depths, nothing but horizontal layers of material more or less varied, which almost all contain innumerable products of the sea.
Author:
George Cuvier
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While the hollow oak our palace is, Our heritage the sea.
Author:
Allan Cunningham
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I think the sea has thrown itself upon me and been answered, at least in part, and I believe I am a little changed - not essentially, but changed and transubstantiated as anyone is who has asked a question and been answered.
Author:
Hart Crane
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The bottom of the sea is cruel.
Author:
Hart Crane
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God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
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William Cowper
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Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
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Jacques Cousteau
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No aquarium, no tank in a marine land, however spacious it may be, can begin to duplicate the conditions of the sea. And no dolphin who inhabits one of those aquariums or one of those marine lands can be considered normal.
Author:
Jacques Cousteau
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A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.
Author:
Jacques Cousteau
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The sea is the universal sewer.
Author:
Jacques Cousteau
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We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about - farming replacing hunting.
Author:
Jacques Cousteau
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The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
Author:
Jacques Cousteau
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The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.
Author:
Jacques Cousteau
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If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them down.
Author:
John Cotton
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On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea.
Author:
Patricia Cornwell
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I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more.
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Barry Cornwall
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Beautiful isle of the sea, Smile on the brow of the waters.
Author:
George Cooper
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For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed for it, for all the celebrations it has been the object of in prose and song, the sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
Author:
Joseph Conrad
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A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway.
Author:
Joseph Conrad
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A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavor to do, he drowns.
Author:
Joseph Conrad
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The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
Author:
Joseph Conrad
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The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
Author:
Joseph Conrad
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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
Author:
Charles Colton
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As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.
Author:
Marcus Cicero
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Let me state what the official IPCC prediction is: Sea levels could go up as much as three-quarters of a meter in this century, but there is a reasonable probability it could be much higher than that.
Author:
Steven Chu
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I know my own soul, how feeble and puny it is: I know the magnitude of this ministry, and the great difficulty of the work; for more stormy billows vex the soul of the priest than the gales which disturb the sea.
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John Chrysostom
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The sea has neither meaning nor pity.
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Anton Chekhov
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O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.
Author:
Chanakya
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It was really cool going to Sea World. We had an amazing time. They were amazing to us. We got to swim with the dolphins, and it was really special.
Author:
Sarah Chalke
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I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
Author:
Miguel Cervantes
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We lived within two hundred yards of the sea, and its voice was in our ears night and day.
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Edward Carpenter
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When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.
Author:
Eric Cantona
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The sea hath fish for every man.
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William Camden
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There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
Author:
George Byron
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Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.
Author:
Richard Burton
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When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.
Author:
George Burns
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It was both necessary and desirable for us to be so strong at sea that no Sea Power could attack us without risk, so that we might be free to protect our oversea interests, independently of the influence and the choice of other Sea Powers.
Author:
Bernhard Bulow
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There are millions of ways for people to die, if you number each vital organ, each ways it can fail, all the poisons from the earth and the sea which can cause these failures.
Author:
Steven Brust
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We tried burying the waste at sea and the concrete cannisters that held it cracked open.
Author:
David Brower
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Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.
Author:
Hermann Broch
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Sea Hunt was the first time anyone tackled a show that took place underwater. The stories were sort of exciting for kids, like cops and robbers underwater.
Author:
Lloyd Bridges
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One of the guys that used to run it - for some reason I've no idea why he used to call me the Sea Monster and I was just looking around for a name and thought that'll do. That lasted for a couple of years probably.
Author:
Jo Brand
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Even in our day, science suspects beyond the Polar seas, at the very circle of the Arctic Pole, the existence of a sea which never freezes and a continent which is ever green.
Author:
H. Blavatsky
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In the islands of the Aegean Sea, every island is full of graves.
Author:
James Bent
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In every island of the Aegean Sea are found abundant traces of a vast prehistoric empire.
Author:
James Bent
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I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
Author:
Alan Bennett
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I've never been hurt by a sea creature, except for jellyfish and sea urchins.
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Peter Benchley
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Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it.
Author:
Samuel Beckett
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Sea Change was so specific. From the beginning it was set what it was going to be. All the other ideas that I had at the time I had to put to the side.
Author:
Beck
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There's 40 or 50 songs that nobody's heard that I've done in between albums. There's a whole evolution from Midnite Vultures to Sea Change that's never been released.
Author:
Beck
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I still love to walk in the mountains or be on the sea. I like to be in nature. Sometimes I bicycle. It's important to feel good with your body. The body is extremely important. If you feel good, you have more energy in your singing.
Author:
Cecilia Bartoli
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I want to go to sea.
Author:
Joshua Barney
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The work to me is everything, and I would throw every rule overboard and send them to the bottom of the sea tomorrow, if I felt there were a more excellent way.
Author:
Thomas Barnardo
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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
Author:
Honore Balzac
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It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest.
Author:
Robert Ballard
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There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude.
Author:
Robert Ballard
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Often extinctions in the ocean occur at the same time as those on land. Then again, the ice age extinctions lost many big animals, but not many sea faring ones.
Author:
Robert Bakker
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I do not yet know why plants come out of the land or float in streams, or creep on rocks or roll from the sea. I am entranced by the mystery of them, and absorbed by their variety and kinds. Everywhere they are visible yet everywhere occult.
Author:
Liberty Bailey
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The sea from Dunkirk to Dover during these days of the evacuation looked like any coastal road in England on a bank holiday. It was solid with shipping.
Author:
Douglas Bader
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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
Author:
Francis Bacon
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Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
Author:
Saint Augustine
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On the 17th of May, the Delos put out to sea. I was immediately affected with sea-sickness, which, however, lasted but a short time. I remained on deck constantly, forcing myself to exercise.
Author:
John Audubon
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Pier Angeli was in the movie called Sea of Sand that Guy Green directed where this idea came up.
Author:
Richard Attenborough
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One fifth of human kind depend on fish to live. Today now 70 percent of the fish stock are over-exploited. According to FAO if we don't change our system of fishing the main sea resources will be gone in 2050. We don't want to believe what we know.
Author:
Yann Arthus-Bertrand
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I think the concept of the sea is very important.
Author:
Alejandro Amenabar
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Sea ice conditions have remained stable in Antarctica generally.
Author:
Ian Allison
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Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert islands, but the mission was called off on the eve of the attack.
Author:
Jack Adams
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The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.
Author:
Henry Adams
