The reason territorial monarchs failed time after time against maritime powers was not that absolutist, non-consensual governments were incapable of building great… — Peter Padfield Copy Share Image
The sun's champagne streamed from one body into another. And there was a couple on the green silk of the grass, covered… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
It might be that some day I shall be drowned by the sea, or die of pneumonia from sleeping out at night,… — Janet Reno Copy Share Image
Over this country, when the giant Eagle flings the shadow of his wing, the land is darkened. So compact is it that… — Hugh Walpole Copy Share Image
It is the dissenter, the theorist, the aspirant, who is quitting this ancient domain to embark on seas of adventure, who engages… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
Give me mine angle, we'll to th' river: there, My music playing far off, I will betray Tawny-finned fishes. My bended hook… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I traveled to Israel in a small party assembled by Marty Peretz, the editor-in-chief of 'The New Republic.' Other guests included Senator… — Nell Scovell Copy Share Image
It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For an instant she felt them, their identities, almost their substance, pass over her head like a wave. At some time she… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
What Brighton's got is a major sea port on either side, good for importing drugs, great for exporting cash, stolen cars, stolen… — Peter James Copy Share Image
We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to women as freely as to men.… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
I have crossed the seas, I have left cities behind me, and I have followed the source of rivers towards their source… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The selective winnowing of time leaves only a few recognizable individuals behind for the historian to light on. Thus the historian who… — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
Time was something that largely happened to other people; he viewed it in the same way that people on the shore viewed… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The voice of the special rebels and prophets, recommending discontent, should, as I have said, sound now and then suddenly, like a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
