Countless as the sands of sea are human passions, and not all of them are alike, and all of them, base and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But The Same Sea is set precisely in this Israel, which never makes it to the news headlines anywhere. It is a… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
The object of all the former voyages to the South Seas undertaken by the command of his present majesty, has been the… — William Bligh Copy Share Image
Just for you non-sea-god types out there, don't go swimming in New York Harbor. It may not be as filthy as it… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Terrible is the force of the waves of sea, terrible is the rush of the river and the blasts of hot fire,… — Euripides Copy Share Image
When the sky is clear, when the sea is calm and the full moon is rising, whatever you are doing, leave it;… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“She's a tangled mess of wild- a forest nymph, a goddess child. She's like the seductive sea - feral and fierce, calm… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft,… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
The South is the land of the sustained sibilant. Everywhere, for the appreciative visitor, the letter "s" insinuates itself in the scene:… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
A connoisseur of gastronomy was congratulated on his appointment as a director of indirect contributions at Periguex: and, above all, in the… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
For a hundred years or more the world, our world, has been dying. And not one man, in these last hundred years… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, a fisherman went out to sea. He caught many fish and threw them all into a large bucket… — Randa Abdel-Fattah Copy Share Image
I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to… — John Donne Copy Share Image
There comes the baffling call of God in our lives also. The call of God can never be stated explicitly; it is… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The men loved jokes, though they had heard each one before. Jack's manner was persuasive; few of them had seen the old… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
We are the silver people, the Mongols. When they ask, tell them there are no tribes. Tell them I am khan of… — Conn Iggulden Copy Share Image
He rocked in the swells, floating like the first germ of life adrift on the earth's cooling seas, formless macule of plasm… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Without sounding too grandiose, the survival of the planet itself is at stake, you have rising sea levels, acidification of the oceans,… — Laurent Fabius Copy Share Image
You have been hiding so long aimlessly drifting in the sea of my love Even so You have always been connected to… — Rumi Copy Share Image
If all the earth were paper white / And all the sea were ink / 'Twere not enough for me to write… — John Lyly Copy Share Image
By listening to certain words as a child listens to the sea in a seashell, a word dreamer hears the murmur of… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
I thought I might teach philosophy but the atmosphere of a college faculty repelled me; the few islands of greatness seemed to… — I. F. Stone Copy Share Image
I grew up in North Devon, by the sea, and feel a special affinity for the landscape there, despite a lack of… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain, So on the sea of life, alas! Man nears man, meets,… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Trade carried by sea has grown fourfold since 1970 and is still growing. In 2011, the 360 commercial ports of the United… — Rose George Copy Share Image
Sea mammals, in particular, have evolved to take advantage of how well and far sound can travel under water, and to compensate… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
I love making people sing. I love group singing, sacred harp singing, choral singing, recordings of people singing sea shanties, work songs,… — Matana Roberts Copy Share Image
You be greater than your feelings. I don't demand this of you - life does. Otherwise you'll be washed away by feelings.… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society recognizes that the deaths of four sealers is a tragedy, but Sea Shepherd also recognizes that the… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
For acting, darlings, is the world's most perilous trade. Compared with actors, steeple jacks and deep-sea divers lead snug and placid lives. — Tallulah Bankhead Copy Share Image
Who knows, my God, but that the universe is not one vast sea of compassion actually, the veritable holy honey, beneath all… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I used to like fishing because I thought it had some larger significance. Now I like fishing because it's the one thing… — John Gierach Copy Share Image
It’s only the sea,’ said Moomintroll. ‘Every wave that dies on the beach sings a little song to a shell. But you… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
There was no sun; there was no light. I was dying. I couldn't remember what the sky looked like. But I didn't… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I unpetalled you, like a rose, to see your soul, and I didn't see it. But everything around -horizons of land and… — Juan Ramon Jimenez Copy Share Image
And perhaps beyond those shrouded swells another man did walk with another child on the dead gray sands. Slept but a sea… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
The deep sea is the largest museum on earth, it contains more history than all the museums on land combined, and yet… — Robert Ballard Copy Share Image
You asked me who I thought I was before. I said maybe I was a fish because I love water and you… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
I have always hated crowds. I like deserts, prisons, and monasteries. I have discovered, too, that there are fewer idiots at 3000… — Jean Giono Copy Share Image
