At Sea Quotes

Official truths are often powerful illusions.

We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

I do an awful lot of scuba diving. I love to be on the ocean, under the ocean. I live next to the ocean.

There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over a sea of blood and under a horizon blazing with fire.

The best fisherman I know try not to make the same mistakes over and over again; instead they strive to make new and interesting mistakes and to remember what they learned from them.

What is Africa to me: Copper sun or scarlet sea, Jungle star or jungle track, Strong bronzed men, or regal black Women from whose loins I sprang When the birds of Eden sang?

It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest.

Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain, So on the sea of life, alas! Man nears man, meets, and leaves again.

On a windswept hill by a billowing sea, my destiny sits and waits for me.

Satan rejoiced when Adam (peace be upon him) came out of Paradise, but he did not know that when a diver sinks into the sea, he collects pearls and then rises again.

Salt is born of the purest parents: the sun and the sea.

I could never stay long enough on the shore; the tang of the untainted, fresh, and free sea air was like a cool, quieting thought.

Until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore, you will not know the terror of being forever lost at sea.

Know the official post office abbreviations for all 50 states without having to consult a list.

We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to woman as freely as to man.

The sea always filled her with longing, though for what she was never sure.

I don't think there's any way we can save the polar bears.

Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.

He believed in it, as certain good women believe in the leviathan-by faith, not by reason.

One thing you learn from surfing is how to operate in the present. It's really what the surfing experience is all about.

Your diamonds are not in far distant mountains or in yonder seas; they are in your own backyard, if you but dig for them.

The sea cries with its meaningless voice, Treating alike its dead and its living

A river is water is its loveliest form; rivers have life and sound and movement and infinity of variation, rivers are veins of the earth through which the lifeblood returns to the heart

My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea, and the heart of the great ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me.

He [Percy] pleaded with those sea-green eyes, like a cute baby seal that needed help. Piper wondered how Annabeth ever won an argument with this guy.

My name may have buoyancy enough to float upon the sea of time.

If the sky that we look upon should tumble and fall. Or the mountain should crumble to the sea. I won't cry, no I won't shed a tear, just as long as you stand by me.

Our universe is a sea of energy - free, clean energy. It is all out there waiting for us to set sail upon it.

God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.

There is no better boat than a horoscope to help a man cross over the sea of life.

Calm seas never made a good sailor

Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; My footstool earth, my canopy the skies.

If the sea is sick, we'll feel it. If it dies, we die. Our future and the state of the oceans are one.

A simple, childlike faith in a Divine Friend solves all the problems that come to us by land or sea

Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far.

The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.

Darius was clearly of the opinion That the air is also man's dominion, And that, with paddle or fins or pinion, We soon or late Shall navigate The azure, as now we sail the sea.

Love is the sea where intellect drowns.

The little cares that fretted me, I lost them yesterday Among the fields above the sea, Among the winds at play.

I go in the sea as little as I can. If there's a girl and I have to accompany her, then obviously I go (laughs)!

This is the seashore. Neither land nor sea. It’s a place that does not exist.

I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.

I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of dead money that went sliding off into the sea.

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line, -- the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea.

Lift every voice and sing Till earth and heaven ring, Ring with the harmonies of Liberty. Let our rejoicing rise high as the listening skies; Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.

He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.

It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner.

Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.