116 quotes found
“As the people of Shishmaref lose their natural hunting grounds to the warming sea, they are forced to buy U.S. canned goods from the only local store on the island; however, this is not their natur...”
“To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.”
“Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port; but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hea...”
“Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents - but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea.”
“The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety.”
“I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.”
“I find Godzilla exciting because he/she/it comes from the sea. It's entirely plausible that it could be real. Yes it is! It doesn't take a huge stretch in the imagination to imagine that something ...”
“Meeting Australian mountaineer and author Tim Macartney-Snape when I was 16 in 1994 had a big impact on me. His ascent of Everest from sea to summit captured my imagination.”
“What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.”
“The sea hath fish for every man.”
“I like fishing. Not actual fishing - I like the peace and quiet of being at sea. It's different.”
“There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloa...”
“I think the divine is like a huge smile that breaks somewhere in the sea within you, and gradually comes up again.”
“Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.”
“The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.”
“I don't see a sea change by 2020, but I see migration in the direction of modernization and more flexibility in the generating system going forward.”
“Albania is located sixty miles across the Adriatic Sea from Italy. It borders Montenegro and Kosovo to the north, Macedonia to the east, and Greece to the south. If you know nothing about 'the Land...”
“The North Pole will be ice-free during summer in years to come, and that itself will put the Arctic Sea basin on a very high risk of... environmental disasters that might be there.”
“Regardless of what society says, we can't go on much longer in the sea of immorality without judgment coming.”
“Fifty percent of our country that we own, have all legal jurisdiction, have all rights to do whatever we want, lies beneath the sea and we have better maps of Mars than that 50 percent.”
