Pacific Quotes · Page 3

“It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.”

— Abigail Adams

Death has always been the first sign of European civilization when introduced in the Pacific.

— Jose Rizal

If I'm in Malibu driving up and down Pacific Coast Highway, my '68 Dodge Charger usually is what I like to drive.

— Brody Jenner

I would love to have more original material developed. 'Pacific Rim' has made that slightly more possible.

— Travis Beacham

The Asia-Pacific Partnership is a climate suicide pact. It is playing Russian roulette with six bullets in your gun.

— Joseph J. Romm

The only regrets I have are rather prosaic - like I wish I went for a swim in the Pacific.

— Paul Allen

'South Pacific' has a definite heaviness that people don't realize. It's got a seriousness and a message.

— Kelli O'Hara

“Mom said we should all live near the Pacific Ocean at least once in our lives, so we kept going all the…

— Jeannette Walls

The facts are - I did say I hoped it [Trans-Pacific Partnership] would be a good deal, but when it was negotiated…

— Hillary Clinton

My greatest fear in working is always the end. Lately I have taken to tricking myself into finishing by leaving a hole…

— Twyla Tharp

I wonder what it's like to be from a state that is spread across a few islands way out in the Pacific…

— Henry Rollins

Hillary Clinton wants to approve the Trans-Pacific Partnership; that deal will be a disaster for North Carolina, for every state. Your state.

— Donald Trump

For where Kingman is located, the coral cover is unique in the world. I refer to it as a universe of hard…

— Brian Skerry

When 'The Pacific' came around, I had to audition the old-fashioned way. It was the casting director and then the producer and…

— Joseph Mazzello

In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of…

— Wilfred Burchett

The Pacific no longer represents menacing avenues of approach for a prospective invader. It assumes, instead, the friendly aspect of a peaceful…

— Douglas MacArthur

The truth of the matter is that for all the drive-in movie references, what Weston Ochse has really created in Multiplex Fandango…

— Jeff Mariotte

Often, when following the trail which meanders over the hills, I pull myself up in an effort to encompass the glory and…

— Henry Miller

Whether our forebears were strangers who crossed the Atlantic or the Pacific or the Rio Grande, we are here only because this…

— Barack Obama

It is impossible not to feel stirred at the thought of the emotions of man at certain historic moments of adventure and…

— Alfred North Whitehead

Either the Anglo-Saxon race will possess the Pacific slope or the Mongolians will possess it. We have this day to choose... whether…

— James G. Blaine

It's surreal to think that I own this beautiful island. It doesn't feel like anyone can own Lanai. What it feels like…

— Larry Ellison

The irony of environmental opposition to the Keystone XL project is that stopping the pipeline to the U.S. will not stop production…

— John Hoeven

“Vast tracts of ocean, whether Polynesia, Micronesia or Melanesia, contain island populations that remain outside the modern world. They know about it,…

— Andrew Rayner

“Thus mysterious divine Pacific zones the world's whole bulk about; makes all coasts one Bay to it; seems heart-beating heart of earth.”

— Herman Melville

Well, the United States is a Pacific power. And we have always had a presence in the Pacific.

— Leon Panetta

The Snake and Columbia river system is vital to the Pacific Northwest.

— Cathy McMorris Rodgers

We're starting with the North Pacific gyre simply because it is the largest accumulation of plastic.

— Boyan Slat

I have one love - Canada; one purpose - Canada's greatness; one aim - Canadian unity from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

— John Diefenbaker

My Sunday mornings are spent in a recovery meeting in Pacific Palisades.

— Buzz Aldrin

Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'.

— Steven Spielberg

Maybe it is the last chance for Europe to influence standards for world trade. Next it will be between the US and…

— Sigmar Gabriel

“A convergence exists in the search for human excellence on both sides of the Pacific Ocean.”

— Patrick Mendis

“Andy Dufresne who had waded in shit and came out clean on the other side, Andy Dufresne, headed for the Pacific. •”

— Stephen King

Chinas development is an opportunity for the international community, for Japan and for the Asia-Pacific.

— Yoshihiko Noda

I'm against Trans-Pacific Partnership now. I'll be against it after the election. I'll be against it when I'm president.

— Hillary Clinton

Alongside the iconic 'South Pacific,' I absolutely loved working on 'Bright Star' with Steve Martin and Edie Brickell.

— Carmen Cusack

I joined the Navy hoping to be submariner and ended up in the sub service aboard a tender in the Pacific.

— Tony Curtis

Water, water, everywhere, Atlantic and Pacific. But New York City's got them beat, Our aqua is terrific!

— Ed Koch

The United States has renewed our leadership in the Asia-Pacific, prime Minister Abe is leading Japan to a new role on the…

— Shinzo Abe