Sea Quotes
3453 Sea quotes by 1910 unique authors
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There are millions of ways for people to die, if you number each vital organ, each ways it can fail, all the poisons from the…
— Steven Brust
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Many live in the ivory tower called reality; they never venture on the open sea of thought.
— Francois Gautier
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There are two places in the world where men can most effectively disappear - the city of London and the South Seas.
— Herman Melville
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I've been looking for answers all of my life. Yes I realize now these are not what I needed. No, in fact, all I need…
— Stefanie Schneider
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On the first day of May the people of the crofter townland are up betimes and busy as bees about to swarm. This is the…
— Unknown Author
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Art at its best draws attention not only to the way things are but also to the way things will be, when the earth is…
— N. T. Wright
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If I had my will, I would live in a ship on the sea and never come nearer to humanity than that!
— Eleanora Duse
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I wanted to be an artist. I was studying art. I wanted to be a great painter. When I went into the Navy, there wasn't…
— Ed McBain
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Sharks are the criminals of the sea. Dolphins are the outlaws.
— Tom Robbins
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We say we are earthlings, not waterlings. Our blood is closer to seawater than our bones to soil, but thats no matter. The sea is…
— Tom Robbins
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Peter Watts delivers-solid, inventive hard sf about the deep sea, but as we've never seen before. This moves like the wind.
— Gregory Benford
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I have watched the river and the sea for a lifetime. I have seen rivers rob soil from the roots of trees until the giants…
— Keri Hulme
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Thoughts are like drops of water: with our thoughts we can drown in a sea of negativity, or we can float on the ocean of…
— Louise Hay
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The use of [the atomic bombs] at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated…
— William D. Leahy
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The sea's only gifts are harsh blows and occasionally the chance to feel strong.
— Primo Levi
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Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.
— Hermann Broch
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Personally I feel that real rock 'n' roll may be on the way out, just like adolescence as a relatively innocent transitional period is on…
— Lester Bangs
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I know that to paint the sea really well, you need to look at it every hour of every day in the same place so…
— Claude Monet
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The seas and the weathers are what is; your vessels adapt to them or sink.
— Tim Powers
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Having therefore no foreign establishments, either colonial or military, the ships of war of the United States, in war, will be like land birds, unable…
— Alfred Thayer Mahan
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There must be something strangely sacred about salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.
— Khalil Gibran
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Once there were two brothers. One ran away to sea; the other was elected vice president of the United States. And nothing was heard of…
— Thomas R. Marshall
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In political activity . . . men sail a boundless and bottomless sea; there is neither harbour for shelter nor floor for anchorage, neither starting-place…
— Michael Joseph Oakeshott
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It has long been a fact familiar to geologists, that, both on the east and west coasts of the central part of Scotland, there are…
— Charles Lyell
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Here then is the truth about the Truth; the Truth is not bridge, sturdy to every step, a marvel of bound planks and supports from…
— Julian Assange
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