Sea Quotes - Page 4

How remarkable we are in our ability to hide things from ourselves - our conscious minds only a small portion of our actual minds, jellyfish floating on a vast dark sea of knowing and deciding.

Unless you really understand the water, and understand the reason for being on it, and understand the love of sailing and the feeling of quietness and solitude, you don't really belong on a boat anyway. I think Hemingway said one time that the sea is the last free place on earth.

With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you're connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live.

The Sea Will be the Sea Whatever the drop's philosophy.

We repeat again: strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one’s balance in spite of them. Even with the violence of emotion, judgment and principle must still function like a ship’s compass, which records the slightest variations however rough the sea.

While believing strongly, without evidence, is considered a mark of madness or stupidity in any other area of our lives, faith in God still holds immense prestige in our society. Religion is the one area of our discourse where it is considered noble to pretend to be certain about things no human being could possibly be certain about. It is telling that this aura of nobility extends only to those faiths that still have many subscribers. Anyone caught worshipping Poseidon, even at sea, will be thought insane.

Homicide is 0.8% of deaths. Diet-related disease is over 60%. But no one talks about it.

If Britain must choose between Europe and the open sea, she must always choose the open sea.

I've never been hurt by a sea creature, except for jellyfish and sea urchins.

Stop running after the waves. Let the sea come to you.

Look! Don't be deceived by appearances - men and things are not what they seem. All who are not on the rock are in the sea!

If you don't have an idea that materializes and changes a person's life, then what have you got? You have talk, research, telephone calls, meetings, but you don't have a change in the community.

The sea lives in every one of us.

We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. Through the unknown, remembered gate When the last of earth left to discover Is that which was the beginning; At the source of the longest river The voice of the hidden waterfall And the children in the apple-tree Not known, because not looked for But heard, half-heard, in the stillness Between two waves of the sea.

The Japanese are a disease of the skin. The Communists are a disease of the heart.

We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.

The disease of men is that they neglect their own fields and go to weed the fields of others.

The first object which saluted my eyes when I arrived on the coast was the sea, and a slave ship, which was then riding at anchor, and waiting for its cargo. These filled me with astonishment, which was soon connected with terror, when I was carried on board. I was immediately handled, and tossed up to see if I were sound, by some of the crew; and I was now persuaded that I had gotten into a world of bad spirits, and that they were going to kill me.

When it blows here, even the seagulls walk.

For before this I was born once a boy, and a maiden, and a plant, and a bird, and a darting fish in the sea.

But never have I been a blue calm sea I have always been a storm.

Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering.

In the deep space of the sea I have found my moon

The pleasant life is not produced by continual drinking and dancing, nor sexual intercourse, nor rare dishes of sea food and other delicacies of a luxurious table. On the contrary, it is produced by sober reasoning which examines the motives for every choice and avoidance, driving away beliefs which are the source of mental disturbances.

He who serves a revolution ploughs a sea.