Sea Quotes - Page 67

The trouble is, you can't properly present something you don't believe in.

Providence has given to the French the empire of the land, to the English that of the sea, to the Germans that of--the air!

We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us... and we drown.

Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.

When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now.

Our friends up north spend over five billion dollars on research and development and all they seem to do is copy Google and Apple.

Me, I'm spiritually retarded, I need to be knee deep in water with a fly rod in my hands, that's about as close to God as I get.

Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.

It's all a game, with new rules every season.

The absence of disease is not health.

Disease is not of the body but of the place.

How many of our virtues originate in the fear of Death & that while we flatter ourselves that we are melting in Christian Sensibility over the sorrows of our human Brethren and Sisteren, we are in fact, tho' perhaps unconsciously, moved at the prospect of our own End for who sincerely pities Sea-sickness, Toothache, or a fit of the Gout in a lusty Good-liver of 50?

But sea power has never led to despotism. The nations that have enjoyed sea power even for a brief period-Athens, Scandinavia, the Netherlands, England, the United States-are those that have preserved freedom for themselves and have given it to others. Of the despotism to which unrestrained military power leads we have plenty of examples from Alexander to Mao.

There's also the tradition of voodoo, the Haitian magic arts, in New Orleans. And because New Orleans is below sea level, when they bury people in New Orleans, it's mostly above ground. So you have this idea that the spirits are more accessible and can access you more easily because they're not even buried.

If we were building our navy, rather than reducing our navy to pre-World War I levels, China would not be thinking about increasing its navy to take over the South China Sea.

Now, ignorance is one thing, ignorance can be cured. But many of the Republican leaders opposing this research know better.

Gay sex is a veritable breeding ground for disease.

He who has suffered shipwreck, fears to sail Upon the seas, though with a gentle gale.

You never know when you're making a memory.

Frank couldn't breathe underwater. But where was he? Percy turned in a full circle. Nothing. Then he glanced up. Hovering above him was a giant goldfish. Frank had turned -clothes, backpack, and all- into a koi the size of a teen-aged boy. "dude." Percy sent his thoughts through the water, the way he spoke to other sea creatures. "A goldfish?" Frank's voice came back to him: "I freaked. We were talking about goldfish, so it was on my mind. Sue me.

In Europe, Henk Tennekes was dismissed as research director of the Royal Dutch Meteorological Society after questioning the scientific underpinnings of global warming.

God loves an idle rainbow, no less than laboring seas.

I have lived in Norfolk all my life. It inspires me, the sea, the limitless skies, the mud and the burning sunsets and the freedom of a place where more than 50% of the neighbours are fish.

religion is to misogyny as disease is to misery - not the sole cause, but a significant contributor

The mob is easily led and may be moved by the smallest force, so that its agitations have a wonderful resemblance to those of the sea.