Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daniel Pauly

Our oceans have been the victims of a giant Ponzi scheme, waged with Bernie Madoff-like callousness by the world's fisheries.

Beck

Sea Change was so specific. From the beginning it was set what it was going to be. All the other ideas that I had at the time I had to put to the side.

Becca Fitzpatrick

He gave Marcie a spare to the Jeep—I should park this thing in the ocean, twenty feet under.

B. R. Ambedkar

Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.

Cecelia Ahern

There was a magic about the sea. People were drawn to it. People wanted to love by it, swim in it, play in it, look at it. It was a living thing that was as unpredictable as a great stage actor: it could be calm and welcoming, opening its arms to embrace it's audience one moment, but then could explode with its stormy tempers, flinging people around, wanting them out, attacking coastlines, breaking down islands.

Carl Safina

For each of us, then, the challenge and opportunity is to cherish all life as the gift it is, envision it whole, seek to know it truly, and undertake-with our minds, hearts and hands-to restore its abundance. It is said that where there's life there's hope, and so no place can inspire us with more hopefulness than that great, life-making sea-that singular, wondrous ocean covering the blue planet.

Carl Safina

If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.

Carl Safina

We put the murderer in charge of the crime scene.

Carl Safina

Several groups have information evaluating seafood sustainability. I wrote the first such guide, and seafood pocket-guides and detailed evaluations of different seafoods are available for download from the group I founded, Blue Ocean Institute.

Albert Einstein

There is possibility in every difficulty.

Cornel West

Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.

Dag Hammarskjold

This accidental meeting of possibilities calls itself I. I ask: what am I doing here? And, at once, this I becomes unreal.

David Levithan

This isn't even something I've feared, because I never knew it was a possibility.

Angela Carter

Pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary ideology of pornography does not encompass the possibility of change, as if we were the slaves of history and not its makers. . . . Pornography is a satire on human pretensions.

Anne Rice

Invest in a feather duster - the possibilities are endless.

Amy Poehler

Forgiveness is something that's always possibility.

Ann Brashares

When there is nothing, there is the possibility of everything.

Claire Messud

We read to find life, in all its possibilities.

Tim Danson

Steve has indicated to me his progress has been slower than he would have liked. But he is very positive and optimistic and has every intention of getting better and resuming his NHL career.

O. Singh

It is not my intention to put people on tenterhooks but that is how it is because of the weather.

Ehud Barak

It is my intention to be everyone's prime minister. Whatever the differences of opinion between us, we are brothers,

B.J. Upton

I don't have any intentions of moving to third, outfield, wherever it may be. I plan on being in that six hole.

Dan Brooks

You have to find out everything you possibly can about what their intentions are so you can be prepared.

Gigi Brown

I didn't have any intention of leaving, but I took a chance.

Tom Gavin

He has every intention to seek re-election. But I'm going to let the senator make his own announcement.

Susan Hill

We're pretty stubborn. Their intention is to run us out; our intention is to stay.

Chris Stevens

My intentions are to be the Republican candidate.