Politics Quote by Alan Scribner

“The trader had told me that Mare Nostrum meant “Our Sea” in Latin, and I had marveled at the arrogance of Rome, which would…

— Lesley Livingston

“I found myself, unbidden, thinking of the holy fools in the old story, the ones who went fishing in the lake for the moon,…

— Neil Gaiman

“There's a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads onto fortune, omitted, all their voyages end in shallows and…

— William Shakespeare

“The saying goes, ‘The black tides of heaven direct the courses of human lives.’ To which a wise teacher said, ‘But as with all…

— J.Y. Yang

'There is a tide in the affairs of men. Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; omitted all the voyage of their…

— Anonymous

“I studied his face and saw little stars forming in his overcast irises. There must have been a thousand shipwrecks in those gray seas.…

— K.B. Ezzell

His epitaph: Who, by vigor of mind almost divine, the motions and figures of the planets, the paths of comets, and the tides of…

— Isaac Newton

“All we who write put me in mind of sailors hastily making rafts upon doomed ships. When we break up under the heavy years…

— Lord Dunsany

“...the human race, like drops of water in that river and they flowed on, each so close to the other and yet so far…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“The great sea makes one a great sceptic.”

— Richard Jefferies

“Seat thyself sultanically among the moons of Saturn, and take high abstracted man alone; and he seems a wonder, a grandeur, and a woe.”

— Herman Melville

“Even a man persuaded that the great powers of the heavens loved him above all else could starve. However powerful a story might be,…

— Daniel Abraham