Sea Quotes - Page 18

A captured pirate was brought before Alexander the Great. “How dare you molest the sea?” asked Alexander. “How dare you molest the whole world?” the pirate replied, and continued: “Because I do it with a little ship only, I am called a thief; you, doing it with a great navy, are called an emperor.

Climate change is a global problem. The planet is warming because of the growing level of greenhouse gas emissions from human activity. If this trend continues, truly catastrophic consequences are likely to ensue from rising sea levels, to reduced water availability, to more heat waves and fires.

Fear of disease killed more men than disease itself.

No research without action, no action without research.

Disease is cured by the body itself, not by doctors or remedies.

Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.

It is insanity to run from God and search for love.

How simple and frugal a thing is happiness.

But where, after all, would be the poetry of the sea were there no wild waves?

Within evangelicalism is a distressing drift toward accepting a Christianity that does not demand a life-changing walk with God. Many evangelicals (today) do not realize that the church has always been an island of righteousness in a sea of paganism, but as a result they turned the world upside-down.

Health has its science, as well as disease.

Whether she won or lost, she would continue to wrestle with life. It would not be with her own life alone but with all of life. Something had finally been released within her. And there it was, the sea.

Enough research will tend to support your conclusions.

If you want to go anywhere in modern war, in the air, on the sea, on the land, you must have command of the air.

I think all writing is a disease. You can't stop it.

Our tradition is that of the first man who sneaked away to the creek when the tribe did not really need fish.

The deep sea is the largest museum on earth, it contains more history than all the museums on land combined, and yet we're only now penetrating it.

More and more I find myself at a loss for words and didn't want to hear other people talking either. Their conversations seemed false and empty. I preferred to look at the sea, which said nothing and never made you feel alone.

Most fishermen use the double haul to throw their casting mistakes further.

Communication is the essential medium of a creative culture: the communal sea in which we all swim. A company that can't communicate is like a jazz band without instruments: Music just isn't going to happen.

In Sea affairs, nothing is impossible, and nothing is improbable.

All diseases begin in the gut.

That's the nature of research you don't know what in hell you're doing.

The only way to get a good crew is to marry one.

Research shows that those kids who text frequently are more likely to be the most literate and the best spellers, because you have to know how to manipulate language.