Sea Quotes

3453 Sea quotes by 1910 unique authors

....This world needs Utopias as it needs fairy stories. It does not matter so much where we are going, as long as we are making… — Hendrik Willem van Loon
If you think of the universe as a vast electrical sea in which you are immersed and from which you are formed, opening to your… — Julia Cameron
Once more it was borne in on him that marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been taught to think, but an uncharted voyage… — Edith Wharton
Men need to know the elemental challenges that sea and mountains present. They need to know what it is to be alive and to survive… — William O. Douglas
No compass has ever been invented for the high seas of matrimony. — Heinrich Heine
Tomorrow may never come to us. We do not live in tomorrow. We cannot find it in any of our title-deeds. The man who owns… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Many things they sawe with us as mathematicall instruments, sea compasses... spring clocks that seemed to goe of themselves - and many other things we… — Unknown Author
For William Cecil and others in Elizabeth's Council, whose sense of Catholic conspiracy and threat governed their political thinking, England's security lay in the creation… — Unknown Author
Whoever commands the sea, commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world, and consequently the world itself. — Walter Raleigh
An apt and true reply was given to Alexander the Great by a pirate who had been seized. For when that king had asked the… — Saint Augustine
Politics is like navigation in a sea without charts, and wise men live the lives of pilgrims. — Joyce Cary
Where is your ancient courage? You were used to say extremities was the trier of spirits; That common chances common men could bear; That when… — William Shakespeare
For which reason the sea in those parts is impassable and impenetrable, because there is a shoal of mud in the way; and this was… — Critias
Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski. — Nicholas G. Carr
Made up of the glories of the most precious gems, to describe them is a matter of inexpressible difficulty. For there is amongst them the… — Pliny the Elder
Glorious is the tumult of the waves that crash against a vessel, preparing it for the seas of life. — Don Williams
Throwing a line out to sea To see if I can catch a dream — Ryan Ross
Say, it's only a paper moon, Sailing over a cardboard sea, But it wouldn't be make believe, If you believed in me. — Billy Rose
The Social Citizen is the best, most thorough, and most methodologically sophisticated treatment of the role of social networks in political behavior that I have… — James H. Fowler
Rain which falls upon the sea is useless; so is food for one who is satiated; in vain is a gift for one who is… — Chanakya
I have now and again tried to imagine the perfect environment, the ideal conditions for reading: A worn leather armchair on a rainy night? A… — Michael Dirda
Jay Harman is the quintessential biomimic, a principled inventor who sees solutions everywhere he looks in the natural world. And he looks deeply, with the… — Janine Benyus
Shaka Zulu had an all-female force of fighters. Women have been part of every resistance movement. Women dressed as men and went to war, went… — Kameron Hurley
We're left with so little to go on. Only the present is full enough to seem complete, and even that is an optical illusion. The… — Unknown Author
The water is this marvellous blue. It’s so blue that once you see it you realise you’ve never seen blue before. That other thing you… — Niall Williams

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