Sea Quotes - Page 34

The world has been created for everyone's use, but you few rich are trying to keep it up for yourselves. For not merely the possession of the earth, but the very sky, the air, and the sea are claimed for the use of the rich few... The earth belongs to all, not just to the rich.

Was Daedalus really stricken with grief when Icarus fell into the sea? Or just disappointed by the design failure

There’s a magic in the distance, where the sea-line meets the sky.

For every Seaman of Industry and Ingenuity, is not only a Navigator, but a Merchant, and also a Soldier.

When it comes to politics, one has to do as one at sea with a sailing ship, reach one's course having regard to prevailing winds.

Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.

There is a season for wildness and a season for settledness, and this is neither. This season is about becoming.

Skepticism relieved two terrible diseases that afflicted mankind: anxiety and dogmatism.

Anything in life worth doing is worth overdoing. Moderation is for cowards.

... To this day I would rather see a fish, creep up to him and watch his rise to my fly than catch half a dozen fish unseen until they take.

Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.

Your whole body, from wingtip to wingtip," Jonathan would say, other times, "is nothing more than your thought itself, in a form you can see. Break the chains of your thought, and you break the chains of your body, too.

Today about 95% of the prescription drugs sold are Maintenance drugs-drugs that treat only the symptoms of a disease, and that you are expected to take for the rest of your life.

Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.

Only a god can save us.

They keep saying that sea levels are rising an' all this. It's nowt to do with the icebergs melting, it's because there's too many fish in it. Get rid of some of the fish and the water will drop. Simple. Basic science.

Along the iron veins that traverse the frame of our country, beat and flow the fiery pulses of its exertion, hotter and faster every hour. All vitality is concentrated through those throbbing arteries into the central cities; the country is passed over like a green sea by narrow bridges, and we are thrown back in continually closer crowds on the city gates.

You really should do some research for a change instead of just listening to the voices in your head.

All I ask is a tall ship and a star to sail her by.

As one sees a river pass into the ocean, lose itself in it, its water for a time distinguished from that of the sea, till it gradually becomes transformed into the same sea, and possesses all its qualities; so was my soul lost in God, who communicated to it His qualities, having drawn it out of all that it had of its own. Its life is an inconceivable innocence, not known or comprehended of those who are still shut up in themselves or only live for themselves.

Today, as chief Of the guardians of the seas Of the land of the dawn, I gaze up with awe At the rising sun!

It is difficult to describe in short the enthusiasm and devotion provoked by and given to my research. We lived almost in poverty. I used pencils, two for a nickel, and could not buy a fountain pen, when I lost mine.

The education of young people in science is at least as important, maybe more so, than the research itself.

Heart disease has changed my eating habits, but I still cook bacon for the smell.

It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass.