Famous Quotes & Sayings

Malcolm Turnbull

Climate change is a global problem. The planet is warming because of the growing level of greenhouse gas emissions from human activity. If this trend continues, truly catastrophic consequences are likely to ensue from rising sea levels, to reduced water availability, to more heat waves and fires.

Hartley Coleridge

Thou breeze, That mak'st an organ of the mighty sea, Obedient to thy wilful phantasies, Provoke him not to scorn; but soft and low, As pious maid awakes her aged sire, On tiptoe stealing, whisper in his ear The tidings of the young god's victory.

Aksel is very strong but the season is very long. We will see.

Frederick William Borden

I have no intention of resigning, and confidently expect to resume official duties within three months.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Calm seas never made a good sailor

George Friedman

What is American strategy first of all? So American strategy is to command the seas, right? The foundation of our power is sea control. Nobody can invade us, but we can invade them.

George Friedman

The first thing you have to do is understand what success looks like. And to understand what success looks like you have to understand the intent. If you understand that intent is to make sure the sea lines are secure, then suddenly bombing Kosovo makes sense, because you don't want Serbia to reemerge as a major power.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Religion is, as it were, the calm bottom of the sea at its deepest point, which remains calm however high the waves on the surface may be.

Lucan

The abode of God, too, is wherever is earth and sea and air, and sky and virtue. Why further do we seek the Gods of heaven? Whatever thou dost behold and whatever thou dost touch, that is Jupiter.

John Churton Collins

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.

John Buchan

You may hear people say that submarines have done away with the battleship, and that aircraft have annulled the mastery of the sea. That is what our pessimists say. But do you imagine that the clumsy submarine or the fragile aeroplane is really the last word of science?

Henry Hudson

We're trying to get another 1991 season going. This is just a stepping stone.

Tara VanDerveer

You get to this point, and you don't want the season to end.

Robin Hobb

Silent," the carved wizardwood on his wrist breathed. "Silent as a blinded ship, floating hull-up in the sea. Silent as a scream underwater.

Jason Smith

It's a new season when we go to the tournament.

It just shows you we're been right there all season long.

Ella Maillart

The sooner we learn to be jointly responsible, the easier the sailing will be.

Robert Herrick

What though the sea be calm? trust to the shore, Ships have been drown'd, where late they danc'd before.

Robert Herrick

He who has suffered shipwreck, fears to sail Upon the seas, though with a gentle gale.

Rick Riordan

He offered to stop the tide for me once. He offered to build me a palace at the bottom of the sea.

Sylvia Plath

I am but one more drop in the great sea of matter, defined, with the ability to realize my existence.

William Wordsworth

A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard... Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides.

William Wordsworth

Where the statue stood Of Newton, with his prism and silent face, The marble index of a mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought alone.

William Wordsworth

A mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone.

William Wordsworth

Chains tie us down by land and sea; And wishes, vain as mine, may be All that is left to comfort thee.

William Sharp

The gray silence, the gray waves, the gray wastes of the sea.

William Gilbert

I am never, never, sick at sea. What never? No never! What never? Hardly ever.

Will Gluck

I try not to read the Internet because it's mostly just a sea of hatred.

William Ellery Channing

I laugh, for hope hath a happy place with me; If my boat sinks, 'tis to another sea.

Wilbur Smith

I love the sea as much as I love the veldt of Africa.

Whoopi Goldberg

When I forget how talented God is, I look to the sea.

Tori Amos

There's a sea secret in me / it's plain to see it is rising / but I must be flowing liquid diamonds / calling for my soul / at the corners of the world

Robert W. Service

I have no doubts that the Devil grins, As seas of ink I spatter. Ye gods, forgive my “literary” sins – The other kind don’t matter.