At Sea Quotes

I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only for the sake of those dear to me!

Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea.

As o'er the stormy sea of human Life We sail, until our anchor'd spirits rest In the far haven of Eternity.

We've learned to fly the air like birds, we've learned to swim the seas like fish, and yet we haven't learned to walk the earth as brothers and sisters

Fishing tournaments seem a little like playing tennis with living balls.

I firmly believe that if the whole material medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be better for mankind-and all the worse for the fishes.

Water its living strength first shows, When obstacles its course oppose.

A shining isle in a stormy sea, We seek it ever with smiles and sighs; To-day is sad. In the bland To-be, Serene and lovely To-morrow lies.

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!

The sea, the majestic sea, breaks everything, crushes everything, cleans everything, takes everything...from me

Somehow the past is a safe place to explore our collective cultural neuroses.

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

The sea has neither meaning nor pity.

On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea.

Soft drinks: The gooey, bubbly sea drowning our American children.

The world is like a vast sea: mankind like a vessel sailing on its tempestuous bosom. ... [T]he sciences serve us for oars.

The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel; and so all the chinks in the scale of being are filled.

It may be a weed instead of a fish that, after all my labour, I at last pull up.

They change their sky, not their mind, who cross the sea. A busy idleness possesses us: we seek a happy life, with ships and carriages: the object of our search is present with us.

If you would behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life. For life and death are one, even as the river and sea are one.

Sea level rise and destruction of water resources as glaciers melt alone may have horrendous human consequences.

Many live in the ivory tower called reality; they never venture on the open sea of thought.

Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling.

No navigator has yet traced lines of latitude and longitude on the conjugal sea.

War is behavior with roots in the single cell of the primeval seas. Eat whatever you touch or it will eat you.

There was no violence, no speed. It moved to the rhythm of an elder dance, putting all the rituals of the world to shame. Black, silver, gold and moon-opal, night and sea, fire, earth, air and water.

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

The most ordinary conditions for observing sailing birds are then the wind and sea are both aft.

To cleave that sea [the Aegean] in the gentle autumnal season, murmuring the name of each islet, is to my mind the joy most apt to transport the heart of man into paradise.

i wish i was away in Ingo far across the briny sea sailing over deepest waters where neither care nore worry trouble me

Always the same. Now a spark of hope flashes up, then a sea of despair rages, and always pain; always pain, always despair, and always the same.

I travelled among unknown men, In lands beyond the sea; Nor England! did I know till then What love I bore to thee.

A mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone.

There is more evil in a drop of sin than in a sea of affliction.

All men will be sailors then Until the sea shall free them

The health of our seas determines the future of humanity.

I was myself the compass of that sea: I was the world in which I walked, and what I saw Or heard or felt came not but from myself; And there I found myself more truly and more strange.

My boat is on the shore, And my bark is on the sea.

I'm going to gut you like a fish.

There is a pleasure unknown to the landsman in reading at sea.

There are no signposts in the sea.

One of the sweet and expectable aspects of life afloat is the perpetual present moment one lives in and a perception that time is nothing more than the current, an eternal flowing back to the sea.

With an annual investment of $66 billion by 2007, we can save 8 million lives each year.

The sun is a thief: she lures the sea and robs it. The moon is a thief: he steals his silvery light from the sun. The sea is a thief: it dissolves the moon.

I'd like to do things to make money to save myself but right now I can't do nothing. If they want to put me in jail, they can do that. It's kind of tough.

My most memorable adventure was investigating the chalk cliffs in Yorkshire. While clambering over kelp-covered boulders half-covered by the sea, I fell and smashed my tail bone on one of them.

Like black hulks the shadows of the great trees ride at anchor on the billowy sea of grass.

Since writing JAWS, I've been lucky enough to do close to forty television shows about wildlife in the oceans, and yes, I have been attacked by sea creatures once in a while.

What can books of men that wive In a dragon-guarded land, Paintings of the dolphin-drawn Sea-nymphs in their pearly wagons Do, but awake a hope to live...?