“You're Sappho, I'm Phaon, agreed. But there's one thing still troubling me: You don't know your way to the sea.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Out of sight of land the sailor feels safe. It is the beach that worries him. — Charles Davis Copy Share Image
There are so many traps. There are so many opportunities. Life is a river and we take our boat and we go… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“If men could fit water into their pockets, the ocean would be empty.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
As the river surrenders itself to the ocean, what is inside me moves inside you. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Water isn't shaped like a river or ocean; it mists invisibly against metal and glass” — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
An entire body of water the size of the Pacific Ocean cant sink a ship unless it gets inside the ship. Similarly,… — Rashida Rowe Copy Share Image
A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf,… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Managers think of themselves as captains of a ship on a stormy sea. Risk for them is danger, but they are fighting… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
I did go into the Amazonian region of Brazil. They have prehistoric river fish that weigh in at around 600 pounds, which… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
We live, in North America in general, if I'm given the indulgence of selling us down the river, in a culture of… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
“And so, in the space of a few yards, the sacred springs of Gafsa, those laughing, chattering, amorous waters of the Romans… — Charles Sprawson Copy Share Image
“we shall board our imagined ship and wildly sail among sacred islands of the mad till death shatters the fabulous stars and… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
The Okavango Delta is an astonishing sight: the great Okavango River, rather than flow towards the sea, flows inland, into the sands… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Sometimes river flows very strong, sometimes it flows very small, but it makes no difference to the ocean because it is satisfied… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
“The windmill doesn’t try to control the wind or demand that it blow in another direction. It simply surrenders to the wind,… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
“As for the river, it just kept moving,as river do--as rivers do. Under the logs, the body of the young Canadian moved… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“The sea defines us, connects us, separates us. Most of us experience only its edges, our available wilderness on a crowded island… — Philip Hoare Copy Share Image
And I'll dance with you in Vienna, I'll be wearing a river's disguise. The hyacinth wild on my shoulder my mouth on… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“My dear friend, what is this our life? A boat that swims in the sea, and all one knows for certain about… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I find it very difficult to talk here now because I'm watching the sea all the time. The sea always makes me… — William Golding Copy Share Image
“A RIB is a rigid inflatable boat, and this has an engine at the rear which pushes the nose up and out… — Clare O'Beara Copy Share Image
Water adopts the shape of its receptacle, it is sometimes a trickle and sometimes a wild sea. — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
If it weren't for the rocks in its bed, the stream would have no song. — Carl Perkins Copy Share Image
The importance of the river cannot be overstated in the history of the country, or the development of the nation. — Maurice Hinchey Copy Share Image
The water is a place of freedom and raw nature, beware for it will consume you as easily as you walk — Aaliyah Hurley Copy Share Image
“The placid sea shines like an aluminium sheet rolled out to the end of the horizon.” — Mehreen Ahmed Copy Share Image
In still moments by the sea life seems large-drawn and simple. It is there we can see into ourselves. — Rolf Edberg Copy Share Image
“...with a rhythmic sound of languid water lapping hypnotically against a beach nearby.” — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
Some love to roam o'er the dark sea's foam, Where the shrill winds whistle free. — Charles Mackay Copy Share Image
Many a green isle needs must be In the deep wide sea of Misery, Or the mariner, worn and wan, Never thus… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Lead to the river Midsummer, I waved A 'V' of black swans on with hope to the grave. — Cradle Of Filth Copy Share Image
There's not a sea the passenger e'er pukes in, Turns up more dangerous breakers than the Euxine. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Just as a pebble thrown into the water creates ripples, so our thoughts create similar effects on our palms. — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
All earth's full rivers can not fillThe sea that drinking thirsteth still. — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
When the storm brews and the waves swell, only an experienced captain can control the ship and save it. — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
