Saturday, 30 June 2012

Sea Waves

“Sit in reverie, and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind”
-Longfellow

 















Sea Quotes:-
Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
-William Shakespeare

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.
-William Shakespeare 

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

-Thomas jefferson

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

-Thomas jefferson


We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came.

-John F. Kennedy


Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
-Khalil Gibran 

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

-Khalil Gibran 
 
   















The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
-Vincent Van Gogh

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

-Rabindranath Tagore


The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.

-Rabindranath Tagore


Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it.

-Samuel Beckett


There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.

-Alfred Hitchcock


There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.

-Victor Hugo


The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

-Victor Hugo

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
-Francis Bacon

When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.

-George Burns


Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

-John Keats


Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

-Marcus Tullius Cicero


One of the many, many salutary aspects of Barack Obama's impending presidential nomination is the sea change his victory marks in the battle for the mind-set of the American foreign policy establishment.

-Eric Alterman


Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant.

-Lucretius
 
The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

-Vincent Van Gogh

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

-Rabindranath Tagore


The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.

-Rabindranath Tagore


Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it.

-Samuel Beckett


There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.

-Alfred Hitchcock


There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.

-Victor Hugo


The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

-Victor Hugo
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
-Francis Bacon


When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.

-George Burns


Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

-John Keats


Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

-Marcus Tullius Cicero


One of the many, many salutary aspects of Barack Obama's impending presidential nomination is the sea change his victory marks in the battle for the mind-set of the American foreign policy establishment.

-Eric Alterman


Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant.

-Lucretius
The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind.
-Woodrow Wilson

The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.

-Golda Meir


The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.

-Jacques Yves Cousteau


A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.

-Jacques Yves Cousteau


No aquarium, no tank in a marine land, however spacious it may be, can begin to duplicate the conditions of the sea. And no dolphin who inhabits one of those aquariums or one of those marine lands can be considered normal.

-Jacques Yves Cousteau


The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.

-Jacques Yves Cousteau
 

It was really cool going to Sea World. We had an amazing time. They were amazing to us. We got to swim with the dolphins, and it was really special.
-Sarah Chalke


I think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homer's sea in houses that were, in one case, shaken by the impact of the Mediterranean winter storms on the rocks below.

-Robert Fitzgerald


On this day there was soon wind enough and to spare. The same might have been said of the sea. The Spray was in the midst of the turbulent Gulf Stream itself. She was jumping like a porpoise over the uneasy waves.

-Joshua Slocum


Next door to Ethiopia spreading out along the strategic Red Sea coastline is Eritrea, a relatively new country, and a place that few Americans seem to fully understand.

-Dana Rohrabacher


If the Spray discovered no continents on her voyage, it may be that there were no more continents to be discovered. She did not seek new worlds, or sail to pow-wow about the dangers of the sea.

-Joshua Slocum


At the end of all this, Russia held in her hands a vast belt of land running from the Baltic sea in the north to the Black Sea in the south, comprising eleven nations with a population of 100 million people.

-John T. Flynn
 
I love cities that are on the water. I love the water element, specifically the sea. I grew up on the sea and I grew up sailing - I love sailing - and the presence of the sea gives the air and the light a very special quality that I absolutely adore.
-Connie Nielsen


I once saw a lump of Greenland breaking off into the sea and moving south, which of course will affect the atmosphere and us generally, and it'll happen more and more.

-Ralph Steadman


But having said that, there's also a sea change in attitude towards media.

-Robert McChesney


It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation in this rude canvas canoe of a model that has served primitive races since men first went to sea.

-John Millington Synge

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