Sea Quotes - Page 84

The jealous man's disease is of so malignant a nature, that it converts all it takes into its own nourishment.

We have already significant sums of money in our petroleum fund, a fund created by law that includes all the revenues received from the Timor Sea, and invests in conservative, safe, long-term investment portfolios - right now in US Treasury Bonds.

If the case be such indeed, that all mankind are by nature in a state of total ruin, then, doubtless,the great salvation by Christ stands in direct relation to this ruin, as the remedy to the disease.

I'm thankful for a pair of shoes that feel really good on my feet; I like my shoes. I'm thankful for the birds; I feel like they're singing just for me when I get up in the morning... Saying, 'Good morning, John. You made it, John.' I'm thankful for the sea breeze that feels so good right now, and the scent of jasmine when the sun starts going down. I'm thankful.

The physics of undergraduate text-books is 90% true; the contents of the primary research journals of physics is 90% false.

The most important invention that will come out of the corporate research lab in the future will be the corporation itself.

...surely these victims of the sea...had rushed willingly down the hills to the water, only to find themselves caught in the wrong place at the wrong time. Who should judge whether they were there for the wrong reason?

Diseases are the tax on pleasures.

Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk.

Catch and release fishing may be cruelty masquerading as political correctness

I see, therefore, the rentier aspect of capitalism as a transitional phase which will disappear when it has done its work. And with the disappearance of its rentier aspect much else in it besides will suffer a sea-change. It will be, moreover, a great advantage of the order of events which I am advocating, that the euthanasia of the rentier, of the functionless investor, will be nothing sudden, merely a gradual but prolonged continuance of what we have seen recently in Great Britain, and will need no revolution.

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.

We do have to think seriously about conservation now, although it is chilling to realize there are catch-and-release fishermen alive today who don't know how to clean and fry a fish.

To paraphrase a deceased patriot, I regret that I have only one life to give to my fly-fishing.

Fishing is such great fun, I have often felt, that it really ought to be done in bed

If all the stars and galaxies in the universe today were smoothed out into a uniform sea of atoms, there would only be about one atom in every cubic meter of space.

In the downhill of life, when I find I'm declining, May my lot no less fortunate be Than a snug elbow-chair can afford for reclining, And a cot that o'erlooks the wide sea; With an ambling pad-pony to pace o'er the lawn, While I carol away idle sorrow, And blithe as the lark that each day hails the dawn, Look forward with hope for to-morrow.

Water its living strength first shows, When obstacles its course oppose.

Without metaphor the handling of general concepts such as culture and civilization becomes impossible, and that of disease and disorder is the obvious one for the case in point. Is not crisis itself a concept we owe to Hippocrates? In the social and cultural domain no metaphor is more apt than the pathological one.

Any time you put on the mouthpiece of somebody that you're not, there's a professional responsibility to get it right. I did a great deal of research in both of those arenas.

Fishing tournaments seem a little like playing tennis with living balls.

Her legs went on forever, like staring at infinity through a wisp of cotton panty along a skin of satin sea.

It's their deliberate, disgusting, revolting conduct that is responsible for the disease

I'd like to be in a tiny indie where I'm lost at sea.

I'm fond of anything that comes from the sea, and that includes sailors.