Pacific Quotes

Going on and getting good bilateral agreement is a better way [than Trans-Pacific Partnership agreements], and I'm fine with that strategy. I think that strategy can work as well.

There's a small island, inhabited in the South Pacific that I will try to swim to.

I honestly dont know whether I can ever top the experience of Pacific Rim.

I have to think that somewhere on some little island in the Pacific, there's someone's who's great, but I'm probably never going to hear him.

That desire to reach further is also where I ended my memoir, in 1994 in California, perhaps ironically, looking out to the Pacific and back to Asia, toward the not-yet-written.

If a person who lives in God becomes miserable, what is the use of living in God? What is the use of such a God? Throw such a God overboard into the Pacific Ocean. We do not want such a God!

President Obama has been clear about the future that the United States seeks... when it comes to the Asia-Pacific, the United States is all in.

It will take a thousand years for the frontier to reach the Pacific

The expedition of Messrs. Lewis & Clarke for exploring the river Missouri, & the best communication from that to the Pacific ocean, has had all the success which could have been expected.

Chinas development is an opportunity for the international community, for Japan and for the Asia-Pacific.

Seen from the United States or Europe, Irans nuclear program often causes most concern, but from the perspective of countries in the Asia-Pacific region, the North Korean program is equally worrying.

All things in Fiji are paid for in blood.

The United States is the result of an enlightened philosophy

We need a new ethic of place, one that has room for salmon and skyscrapers, suburbs and wilderness, Mount Rainier and the Space Needle, one grounded in history.

I had problems a therapist couldn't solve

Just as the sea is an open and ever flowing reality, so should our oceanic identity transcend all forms of insularity, to become one that is openly searching, inventive, and welcoming.

It may seem contradictory, but in the languid tropics one spends more time contemplating those great good things of sound and sight and smell.

A convergence exists in the search for human excellence on both sides of the Pacific Ocean.

Now the day has ended, its brief excitements already an imperfect memory.

I refuse to sit and wait for salvation. Every day I have looked to the sky for the white streak of a plane making its way across the Pacific, but I have not seen any.

Philippine culture was clearly different. It wasn't the fan's duty to remain aloof in the presence of stars

But every tomorrow has led to today— to us being alone, hungry, and cold on an unknown island somewhere in the South Pacific.