Seas Quotes
361 quotes by 282 authors
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We have heard stories about white men who make the powerful guns and the strong drinks and took slaves away across the seas, but no…
— Chinua Achebe
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The human animal began as a mere wriggling thing in the ancient seas, struggling out onto land with many regrets. That is what brings us…
— Sebastian Barry
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Your diamonds are not in far distant mountains or in yonder seas; they are in your own backyard, if you but dig for them.
— Russell Conwell
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From the Battle of Trenton to the Argonne, Marines have won foremost honors in war, and in the long eras of tranquility at home, generation…
— John A. Lejeune
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And so, when I began to read the proffered pages, I at one moment lost the train of thought in the text and drowned it…
— Milorad Pavić
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Through the sad heart of Ruth, when sick for home She stood in tears amid the alien corn; The same that ofttimes hath Charm'd magic…
— John Keats
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History will never change because of politics or conquests or theories or wars; that's mere repitition, it's been going on since the beginning of time.…
— Paulo Coelho
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It so happened that I was on a German sailing vessel on the way to Australia when the ship was captured, and on the high…
— Fritz Sauckel
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If, sir, men were all virtuous, I should with great alacrity teach them all to fly. But what would be the security of the good…
— Samuel Johnson
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History will only change when we are able to use the energy of love, just as we use the energy of the wind, the seas,…
— Paulo Coelho
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Pouring forth its seas everywhere, then, the ocean envelops the earth and fills its deeper chasms.
— Nicolaus Copernicus
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But success shall crown my endeavours. Wherefore not? Thus far I have gone, tracking a secure way over the pathless seas: the very stars themselves…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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The Americans who went to Europe to die are a unique breed.... (They) crossed the seas to a foreign land to fight for a cause…
— Woodrow Wilson
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If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle them, and, as it were, fondle them. Let them fall open where they will.…
— Winston Churchill
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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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The seas and the weathers are what is; your vessels adapt to them or sink.
— Tim Powers
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The man who voyages strange seas must of necessity be a little unsure of himself. It is the man with the flashy air of knowing…
— Fred Hoyle
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Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information.
— Kingman Brewster, Jr.
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The Old Ones knew that life is not rare, but precious; not fragile, but vulnerable. Life is as deep as the seas in which it…
— Ben Bova
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There are more adventures on a chessboard than on all the seas of the world
— Pierre Mac Orlan
Who Wrote These Seas Quotes
282 authors contributed a total of 361 Seas Quotes, led by these top contributors: