Sea Quotes - Page 82

The thing I realized this last few days is that the earth is a big place.

We don't have mad cow disease. We probably never will have mad cow disease, and therefore, it's a non-problem in the United States.

Paranoia is a social disease-you get it from screwing other people.

Our lives are rivers, gliding free to that unfathomed, boundless sea, the silent grave!

What sense would it make or what would it benfit a physician if he discovered the origin of the diseases but could not cure or alleviate them?

To Meath of the pastures, From wet hills by the sea, Through Leitrim and Longford, Go my cattle and me.

I love seafood. I'm not a vegetarian but I'm probably a pescetarian.

You can go to the moon or walk under the sea, or anything else you like, but painting remains painting because it eludes such investigation. It remains there like a question. And it alone gives the answer.

Sickness seizes the body from bad ventilation.

Istanbul is certainly in the process of transforming itself into an attractive cultural, tourist and financial center. But there are also millions of sad stories in this giant sea of immigration, poverty, misery and contradictions. So much anger, frustration and fury.

There is no instrument for measuring the pressure of the Ether, which is probably millions of times greater: it is altogether too uniform for direct apprehension. A deep-sea fish has probably no means of apprehending the existence of water, it is too uniformly immersed in it: and that is our condition in regard to the Ether.

A Wired reader told me once, Get a life, which I read from the back of a yacht in the Aegean, while eating fresh sea urchins and drinking terrific Montrachet.

Education Research: This is a process whereby serious educators discover knowledge that is well known to everybody, and has been for several centuries. Its principal characteristic is that no one pays any attention to it.

Three things I have longed to see ... The sea serpent, a white rhinoceros, and an unselfish man.

I was certain t find the familiar sting of salt, but what I needed to know was what kind: kitchen, sweat, tears or the sea.

I'm going to gut you like a fish.

I have other fish to fry.

People will often say "You can't change other people." My research shows this societal belief is not only dis-empowering, it is scientifically false.

Active people don't change the world profoundly; ideas do. Napoleon is less important in world history than Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Nothing less than the fate of the planet is at stake... No place on the planet can remain an island of affluence in a sea of misery.

A shining isle in a stormy sea, We seek it ever with smiles and sighs; To-day is sad. In the bland To-be, Serene and lovely To-morrow lies.

We've learned to fly the air like birds, we've learned to swim the seas like fish, and yet we haven't learned to walk the earth as brothers and sisters

There is no they, only us. We are part of a large fellowship called the human race. We all hurt the same. We all love the same. We all bleed the same. We all need understanding and care. We can't separate ourselves from one another. We are all part of the same vast sea of love, one indivisible divine mind.

the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look.

The back windows looked out over the fields, then the Atlantic, maybe a hundred yards away. Actually, I'm just making that bit up. I had no idea how far away the sea was. Only men could do things like that. "Half a mile." "Fifty yards." Giving directions, that sort of thing. I could look at a woman and say "Thirty-six C." Or "Let's try it in the next size up." But I had no idea how far away Tim's sea was except that I wouldn't want to walk to it in high heels.