A shining isle in a stormy sea, We seek it ever with smiles and sighs; To-day is sad. In the bland To-be,… — Mary C. Ames Copy Share Image
The struggle to modernise the Labour party, which started under Neil Kinnock in the 80s, took more than a decade - and… — Damian Green Copy Share Image
We of the age of the machines, having delivered ourselves of nocturnal enemies, now have a dislike of night itself. With lights… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
We've learned to fly the air like birds, we've learned to swim the seas like fish, and yet we haven't learned to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to be thrown into the ocean when I die - to be rowed out to sea and thrown overboard… — Aoife O'Donovan Copy Share Image
I lived for two years in Odawara, a castle town an hour outside of Tokyo, near the sea. It's a beautiful place,… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
Why, headstrong liberty is lashed with woe. There's nothing situate under heaven's eye But hath his bound, in earth, in sea, in… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
From the time the Englishman's bones harden into bones at all, he makes his skeleton a flagstaff, and he early plants his… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
The only good things I've seen emerge from a steamer are tamales, couscous, and dumplings - maybe the occasional artichoke or delicate… — Samin Nosrat Copy Share Image
I want to build a wired ocean that helps us take back the seas from poachers and illegal fishers. To do this,… — Barbara Block Copy Share Image
“You take a straight tip from the stable, Cokey, if you must hate, hate the government or the people or the sea… — Joyce Cary Copy Share Image
I thought of you and how you love this beauty, And walking up the long beach all alone I heard the waves… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
His desperation and misery swept her up like a storm capturing the sea. She turned her mind to even these feelings, because… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
If every life is a river, then it's little wonder that we do not even notice the changes that occur until we… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Her heart is full of joy with love, for in the Lord her mind is stilled. She has renounced every selfish attachment… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
Holland is a dream, Monsieur, a dream of gold and smoke-smokier by day, more gilded by night. And night and day that… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The very first lead work that I made is called 'Land Sea and Air,' and is the enclosure of primal elements within… — Antony Gormley Copy Share Image
Meeting Australian mountaineer and author Tim Macartney-Snape when I was 16 in 1994 had a big impact on me. His ascent of… — Tim Cope Copy Share Image
The bottom of the soul may be in repose, even while we are in many outward troubles; just as the bottom of… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, in this sea of human wretchedness and malice there bloomed at times compassion, as a pale flower blooms in a putrid… — Henryk Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
But you, you foolish girl, you have gone home to a leaky castle across the sea to lie awake in linen smelling… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
If you've got short, stubby fingers and wear reading glasses, any relaxation you would normally derive from fly fishing is completely eliminated… — Jack Ohman Copy Share Image
Religion is, as it were, the calm bottom of the sea at its deepest point, which remains calm however high the waves… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Sometimes the Lord rides out the storm with us and other times He calms the restless sea around us. Most of all,… — Lloyd John Ogilvie Copy Share Image
Aquatic animals suffer from the disadvantage that they cannot scream when in pain, so we find it hard to gauge the degree… — Desmond Morris Copy Share Image
Sometimes, like now, Olive had a sense of just how desperately hard every person in the world was working to get what… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
We were made to enjoy music, to enjoy beautiful sunsets, to enjoy looking at the billows of the sea and to be… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I love the water more than anything. I'm not very good at sunbathing - I get really bored. I love swimming and… — Beth Orton Copy Share Image
Gods die with men who have conceived them. But the god-stuff roars eternally, like the sea, with too vast a sound to… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The past leaders of our movement left us a clear message to keep Eretz Israel from the Sea to the River Jordan… — Yitzhak Shamir Copy Share Image
Do you want to change the world? Then change yourself first. Do you want to change yourself? Then remain completely silent inside… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
The sea, vast and wild as it is, bears thus the waste and wrecks of human art to its remotest shore. There… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A lot of Pacific island nations are sinking below sea level; they could easily transition slowly into becoming floating nations. — Joe Quirk Copy Share Image
The official independence celebration was going to be held over four or five days, and a group of journalists from all over… — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
As to hanging, it is no great hardship. For were it not for that, every cowardly fellow would turn pirate and so… — Anne Bonny Copy Share Image
It is a vast wilderness of rocks in a sea of light, colored and glowing like oak and maple in autumn, when… — John Muir Copy Share Image
In these sad and ominous days of mad fortune chasing, every patriotic, thoughtful citizen, whether he fishes or not, should lament that… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
I saw above a sea of hills A solitary planet shine, And there was no one, near or far, to keep the… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
Do you know a cure for me?" Why yes," he said, "I know a cure for everything. Salt water." Salt water?" I… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
A fragrant breeze wandered up from the quiet sea, trailed along the beach, and drifted back to the sea again, wondering where… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
