Quotes about ocean
ocean men law
As the smallest drop of water detached from the ocean contains all the qualities of the ocean, so man, detached in consciousness from the Infinite, contains within him its likeness; and as the drop of water must, by the law of its nature, ultimately find its way back to the ocean and lose itself in its silent depths, so must man, by the unfailing law of his nature, at last return to his source, and lose himself in the great ocean of the Infinite. James Allen
ocean sea america
I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it seems it will engulf everything. Wait a moment, another current will appear and bring the first one to naught. Jacques Maritain
ocean birth-place america
I wonder what it's like to be from a state that is spread across a few islands way out in the Pacific Ocean, only added to the United States in 1959. Not only that but to be the birthplace of America's first black president? Pretty cool, I bet. Henry Rollins
ocean eye heart
When I open my eyes to the outer world I feel myself as a drop in the sea. But when I close my eyes and look within, I see the whole universe as a bubble raised in the ocean of my heart. Hazrat Inayat Khan
ocean vision perception
When one looks at the ocean, they can only see that part of it which comes within their range of vision; so it is with the truth. Hazrat Inayat Khan
ocean wings age
I was curious and hungry at a young age, and jazz was such a mystery to me, an ocean where you can express yourself in the moment. It represented freedom, it represented wearing wings and going somewhere with music. Paula Cole
ocean expression i-hope-you-dance
I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean. Lee Ann Womack
ocean years purpose
It's like all my life I've been this tower standing at the edge of the ocean for some obscure purpose, and only now, almost eighteen years in, has someone thought to flip the switch that reveals that I'm not a tower at all. I'm a lighthouse. It's like waking up. I am incandescent. Laini Taylor
ocean wave surface
Bad things are like waves. They're going to happen to you, and there's nothing you can do about it. They're part of life, like waves are a part of the ocean. If you're standing on the shoreline, you don't know when the waves are coming. But they'll come. You gotta make sure you get back to the surface, after every wave. That's all. Lisa Scottoline
ocean fields sun
Don't you see, if when we die there's nothing, all your sun and fields and what not are all, ah, horror? It's just an ocean of horror. John Updike
ocean lakes shipping
There's always been an assumption that ocean shipping coming in and out of the Great Lakes is critical to the economy. It isn't. John Taylor
ocean sea pirate
There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates. James Russell Lowell
ocean literature morality
In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking. James Russell Lowell
ocean sea law
There is a law of neutralization of forces, which hinders bodies from sinking beyond a certain depth in the sea; but in the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking. James Russell Lowell
ocean blue green
The green grass floweth like a stream Into the oceans's blue. James Russell Lowell
ocean views weather
In view of the immense power of natural weather and climate fluctuations and the great buffering capacity of the Earth, especially the ocean, it is easy to be skeptical about whether small anthropogenic changes of atmospheric composition can have important practical impacts. James Hansen
ocean novices indifference
The expanse of the ocean is seldom seen by the novice with indifference. James F. Cooper
ocean rivers water
Gentle reader, I was born upon the water - not upon the salt and angry ocean, but upon the fresh and rapid-flowing river. Frederick Marryat
ocean destiny men
For a modern ruler the laws of conservation and transformation of energy, when the vivifing stream takes its source, the ways it wends its course in nature, and how, under wisdom and knowledge, it may be intertwined with human destiny, instead of careering headlong to the ocean, are a study at least as pregnant with consequences to life as any lesson taught by the long unscientific history of man. Frederick Soddy
ocean self sea
The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea. Franklin D. Roosevelt
ocean honest spirituality
If we are honest with ourselves, most of us will have to admit that we live out our lives in an ocean of fear. Jon Kabat-Zinn
ocean breathing surfing
There are a lot of similarities between music and surfing. There's a rhythm to both of them and with sound waves and ocean waves, you see patterns, plus the breathing is all part of it. Jon Foreman
ocean mean brooks
This is not a brook [Bach means "brook" in German], it's an ocean. Ludwig van Beethoven
ocean ransom pay
We'll abduct Garian. Or Jason." "And—?" "And dump them into the ocean. Nobody would ever pay a ransom for them. Sherwood Smith
ocean book oxygen
There is something called the rapture of the deep, and it refers to what happens when a deep-sea diver spends too much time at the bottom of the ocean and can't tell which way is up. When he surfaces, he's liable to have a condition called the bends, where the body can't adapt to the oxygen levels in the atmosphere. All of this happens to me when I surface from a great book. Nora Ephron
ocean sea pouring
Pouring forth its seas everywhere, then, the ocean envelops the earth and fills its deeper chasms. Nicolaus Copernicus
ocean book believe
I do not believe that all books will or should migrate onto screens: as Douglas Adams once pointed out to me, more than 20 years before the Kindle turned up, a physical book is like a shark. Sharks are old: there were sharks in the ocean before the dinosaurs. And the reason there are still sharks around is that sharks are better at being sharks than anything else is. Neil Gaiman
ocean blood vegetables
I follow the Dr. Peter D'Adamo Blood Type Diet as best I can. It's an eating and living guideline that understands you as a biochemical individual... and I find it really works for me. I eat vegetables, ocean caught fish, and small amounts of organic free range chicken. Miranda Kerr
ocean mountain body
I really feel that my body craves to be in the mountains or by the ocean or in the countryside. Miranda Kerr
ocean views sky
Living your life 40 floors up, looking out every day on ocean and skies, you see the world from a different point of view. It's like living in a very interesting fishbowl, but since no one can see up here, it's like a fishbowl with a limo tint. Pharrell Williams
ocean sharks predator
Without sharks, you take away the apex predator of the ocean, and you destroy the entire food chain Peter Benchley
ocean writing sea
Since writing JAWS, I've been lucky enough to do close to forty television shows about wildlife in the oceans, and yes, I have been attacked by sea creatures once in a while. Peter Benchley
ocean earth would-be
Without the oceans there would be no life on Earth. Peter Benchley