Quotes with ocean

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  • Alexander Pope On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Isaac Bashevis Singer Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.
    The New York Times (3 December 1978)
    Isaac Bashevis Singer
    Polish Yiddish writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1978) (1902 - 1991)
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  • Peggy Noonan Remember the waterfront shack with the sign FRESH FISH SOLD HERE. Of course it's fresh, we're on the ocean. Of course it's for sale, we're not giving it away. Of course it's here, otherwise the sign would be someplace else. The final sign: FISH.
    Peggy Noonan
    American Author, Presidential Speechwriter (1950 - )
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  • Lord George Byron Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • 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.
    Carl Safina
    American ecologist and author (1955 - )
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  • Bradley Chicho Shy is the oyster, fervent is the clam, peaceful is the ocean floor rocked by the sands of time.
    Bradley Chicho
    English poet
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  • Billy Ocean Suddenly life has new meaning to me, there's beauty up above and things we never take notice of, you wake up suddenly you're in love.
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  • Baz Luhrmann Sydney in general is eclectic. You can be on that brilliant blue ocean walk in the morning and then within 20 minutes you can be in a completely vast suburban sprawl or an Italian or Asian suburb, and it's that mix of people, it's that melting pot of people that give it its vital personality.
    Baz Luhrmann
    Australian director, writer, and producer (1962 - )
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  • Bono The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Blaise Pascal The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • William Wordsworth The ocean is a mighty harmonist.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Thomas B. Aldrich The ocean moans over dead men's bones.
    Thomas B. Aldrich
    American writer, editor (1836 - 1907)
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  • Brian Tracy The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.
    Brian Tracy
    Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development aut (1944 - )
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  • Charles Mackay The smallest effort is not lost. Each wavelet on the ocean tost aids in the ebb-tide or the flow; each rain-drop makes some floweret blow; each struggle lessens human woe.
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  • Carl Sagan The surface of the earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean.... Recently, we've managed to wade a little way out, maybe ankle-deep, and the water seems inviting.
    Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990) 03 min 55 sec
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Italo Calvino The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient prohibitions.
    Italo Calvino
    Italian writer (1923 - 1985)
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  • Bill Nye There is good evidence that Venus once had liquid water and a much thinner atmosphere, similar to Earth billions of years ago. But today the surface of Venus is dry as a bone, hot enough to melt lead, there are clouds of sulfuric acid that reach a hundred miles high and the air is so thick it's like being 900 meters deep in the ocean.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics - none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • Elvis Presley To judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave.
    Aantekening op zijn bijbel
    Elvis Presley
    American singer, musician, and actor (1935 - 1977)
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  • Bethany Hamilton To lose your everyday life of surfing and being creative on waves, enjoying the ocean - that's scary to me. It was essential to at least try surfing again and get out there and see how it went.
    Bethany Hamilton
    American professional surfer (1990 - )
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