It's a huge Carthusian monastery, stuck down between rocks and sea, where you may imagine me, without white gloves or hair curling,… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
In the face of so many wounds that hurt us and could lead to a hardness of heart, we are called to… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
If you read Exodus 15 carefully, it describes a storm at sea. This is the old Yahwistic source. In the retelling of… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Climate change, in some regions, has aggravated conflict over scarce land, and could well trigger large-scale migration in the decades ahead. And… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
All the ingenuity, all the high-tech gear, all the jury-rigging sometimes the sea would rip it all away until there was only… — Abby Sunderland Copy Share Image
Yokohama does not improve on further acquaintance. It has a dead-alive look. It has irregularity without picturesqueness, and the grey sky, grey… — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
“Silence fell like a hammer made of feathers. It left holes in the shape of the sound of the sea.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The Americans who went to Europe to die are a unique breed.... (They) crossed the seas to a foreign land to fight… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
By numberless examples it will evidently appear that human affairs are as subject to change and fluctuation as the waters of the… — Francesco Guicciardini Copy Share Image
The purpose of ritual is to change the mind of the human being. It's a sacred drama in which you are the… — Margot Adler Copy Share Image
The birds of the air die to sustain thee; the beasts of the field die to nourish thee; the fishes of the… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
...In the rolling sea of new state, new school, new dangers everywere, Daniel was the only rock she had to hold on… — Lauren Kate Copy Share Image
As the sea-crab swimmeth always against the stream, so doth wit always against wisdom. — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
Life originated in the sea, and about eighty percent of it is still there. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“I was afraid of the sea when I was a girl. Someone said it went on forever and that frightened me. I… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
Seas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly, and… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Join with the Earth and each other, to bring new life to the land, to restore the waters, to refresh the air,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
That first pregnancy is a long sea journey to a country where you don't know the language, where land is in sight… — Emily Perkins Copy Share Image
In the sea there are countless treasures, But if you desire safety, it is on the shore. — Saadi Copy Share Image
We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds. — Aristotle Onassis Copy Share Image
My real log is written in the sea and sky; the sails talking with the rain and the stars amid the sounds… — Bernard Moitessier Copy Share Image
You, sleeping on your bed of nails. Weeping an ocean beyond the pale. Strange, sorrow is your greatest skill. You're suffering from… — Tim Finn Copy Share Image
You want to be the first to do something. You want to create something. You want to innovate something...I often think of… — David Keirsey Copy Share Image
On the first day of May the people of the crofter townland are up betimes and busy as bees about to swarm.… — Alexander Carmichael Copy Share Image
The pleased sea on a white-breasted shore-- A shore that wears on her alluring brows Rare shells, far brought, the love-gifts of… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
One thing I thought of, I call it By Sea, By Land, By Foot. It'd be a 100-mile paddle, a 100-mile run,… — Jesse Itzler Copy Share Image
“I have always felt I lived on the high seas, threatened, at the heart of a royal happiness.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I know not that there is anything in nature more soothing to the mind than the contemplation of the moon, sailing, like… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
“The plane banked, and he pressed his face against the cold window. The ocean tilted up to meet him, its dark surface… — Rupert Thomson Copy Share Image
“I couldn't help smiling as he grasped my arms and held me in place because his warmth infected me. I hadn't known… — Jennifer Silverwood Copy Share Image
There's a cool web of language winds us in, Retreat from too much joy or too much fear: We grow sea-green at… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
You do not ask a tame seagull why it needs to disappear from time to time toward the open sea. It goes,… — Bernard Moitessier Copy Share Image
A film is like a message dropped in a bottle in the sea that somebody finds. Every time somebody finds it, it's… — Jaco Van Dormael Copy Share Image
How happy he who can still hope to lift himself from this sea of error! What we know not, that we are… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I've been reading and researching various aspects of history - Dickens' London, Nelson's sea battles, Magellan's nautical explorations, the weapons and battles… — Gary Paulsen Copy Share Image
