Quotes about ocean
ocean talking people
Whenever I look at the ocean, I always want to talk to people, but when I'm talking to people, I always want to look at the ocean. Haruki Murakami
ocean drinking writing
Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful. Gustave Flaubert
ocean moving sight
Doesn't it seem to you," asked Madame Bovary, "that the mind moves more freely in the presence of that boundless expanse, that the sight of it elevates the soul and gives rise to thoughts of the infinite and the ideal?
ocean boys past
Since you are now studying geometry and trigonometry, I will give you a problem. A ship sails the ocean. It left Boston with a cargo of wool. It grosses 200 tons. It is bound for Le Havre. The mainmast is broken, the cabin boy is on deck, there are 12 passengers aboard, the wind is blowing East-North-East, the clock points to a quarter past three in the afternoon. It is the month of May. How old is the captain?
ocean science moon
Then we upon our globe's last verge shall go, And view the ocean leaning on the sky: From thence our rolling Neighbours we shall know, And on the Lunar world securely pry. John Dryden
ocean wire wish
Those who take refuge behind theological barbed wire fences, quite often wish they could have more freedom of thought, but fear the change to the great ocean of truth as they would a cold bath. Luther Burbank
ocean ignorance knowledge
We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance. John Archibald Wheeler
ocean men sea
Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain, So on the sea of life, alas! Man nears man, meets, and leaves again. Matthew Arnold
ocean sleep eye
Ocean people are very different from land people. The ocean never stops saying and asking into ears, which don't sleep like eyes. Maxine Hong Kingston
ocean identity vip
Strictly speaking, "you" cannot become enlightened, because who you take yourself to be is like a ripple in the ocean of consciousness - or a little wave if you're a VIP - and the ripple doesn't become enlightened until it realizes that its ripple-identity is ultimately a misperception, that it is the ocean taking on a fleeting ripple-form. Eckhart Tolle
ocean thinking consciousness
Consciousness is a vast ocean and thinking is the waves & ripples on the surface of the ocean.
ocean thinking blood
I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it is because in addition to the fact that the sea changes and the light changes, and ships change, it is because we all came from the sea. And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have, in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch it we are going back from whence we came John F. Kennedy
ocean survival curiosity
Knowledge of the oceans is more than a matter of curiosity. Our very survival may hinge upon it.
ocean circles house
May this house stand until an ant drinks the ocean and a tortoise circles the world. Jonathan Carroll
ocean west-indies blue
In fourteen hundred ninety-two Columbus sailed the ocean blue and discovered America. Now, some have argued Columbus actually discovered the West Indies, or that Norsemen had discovered America centuries earlier, or that you really can't get credit for discovering a land already populated by indigenous people with a developed civilization. Those people are communists. Columbus discovered America. Jon Stewart
ocean vastness west
To the west, the Pacific Ocean, which revulses me, for its vastness cannot be fitted into any box. Joyce Carol Oates
ocean shore touched
All that we do is touched with ocean, and yet we remain on the shore of what we know Richard Wilbur
ocean different sometimes
I missed him, of course, but sometimes close friendships have a tidal beat that pulls you towards different shores though the ocean that connects you remains. Russell Brand
ocean psychology important
Ocean rowing is very much what you make it. Rowing technique is pretty irrelevant on the ocean. It's the psychology that's important. Roz Savage
ocean way sides
It's amazing how resourceful you can become when you're in the middle of the ocean and there's only one way to get to the other side.
ocean might failing
Compared with the awesome might and eternal power of the ocean, no human being can fail to be reminded of their own insignificance.
ocean law practice
In practice, the ocean is the world's wildest place because of both its fearsome natural danger and how easy it is out there to slip from the boundaries of law and civilization that seem so firm ashore. Rose George
ocean bird sides
Just remember: If one bird carried every grain of sand, grain by grain, across the ocean, by the time he got them all on the other side, that would only be the beginning of eternity. Truman Capote
ocean lakes packs
When the fishbowl gets too small, it's time to pack up and leave and jump into the lake or ocean. Travie McCoy
ocean boys kansas
I could have killed you.” “Or I could have killed you,” Percy said. Jason shrugged. “If there’d been an ocean in Kansas, maybe.” “I don’t need an ocean—” “Boys,” Annabeth interrupted, “I’m sure you both would’ve been wonderful at killing each other. But right now, you need some rest.” Food first,” Percy said. “Please? Rick Riordan
ocean cities way-to-live
I used to be such a militant city-ist, but more and more I've seen forests and nature and oceans, and I don't know any more if this is the awesomest way to live. Regina Spektor
ocean tales bras
Tales From Topographic Oceans is like a woman's padded bra, Rick Wakeman
ocean love-is ends
God's LOVE is Like an Ocean; You can See its Beginning, but not its end. Rick Warren
ocean kind groove
It's like the basket is an ocean and everything you throw up is going in. You get into that kind of groove, and it's all good. Tristan Thompson
ocean rising
When you were alone in the rising ocean, you grabbed whatever raft passed by. Paolo Bacigalupi
ocean fall ignorance
Truly it has been said that there is nothing new under the sun, for knowledge is revealed and is submerged again, even as a nation rises and falls. Here is a system, tested throughout the ages, but lost again and again by ignorance or prejudice, in the same way that great nations have risen and fallen and been lost to history beneath the desert sands and in the ocean depths. Paracelsus
ocean inspiration realization
With the realization of God comes all power. If the little wave knew that behind it is the great ocean, it could say, "I am the ocean." You should realize that just behind your consciousness is the Ocean of God. Paramahansa Yogananda
ocean soul floating
The ocean of Spirit has become the little bubble of my soul. Whether floating in birth, or disappearing in death, in the ocean of cosmic awareness the bubble of my life cannot die. I am indestructible consciousness, protected in the bosom of Spirit’s immortality.