Quotes with sea-life

Quotes 3341 till 3360 of 4387.

  • Bayard Ruskin The scupltor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature.
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  • Joseph Conrad The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Alexander Smith The sea complains upon a thousand shores.
    Alexander Smith
    Scottish Poet, Author (1829 - 1867)
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  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach-waiting for a gift from the sea.
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    American Author (1906 - 2001)
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  • Anton Chekhov The sea has neither meaning nor pity.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • Joseph Conrad The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • William Camden The sea hath fish for every man.
    Remains Concerning Britain
    William Camden
    English antiquarian, historian and topographer (1551 - 1623)
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  • Anne Sexton The sea is mother-death and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.
    Anne Sexton
    American poet (1928 - 1974)
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  • Carl Sandburg The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Berlie Doherty The sea was at the bottom of my road, and I seemed to spend my childhood in it or on it, hearing, tasting, smelling it. Now, still, I need to be near water as often as possible.
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  • Barry Cornwall The sea! the sea! the open sea!
    The blue, the fresh, the ever free!
    The Sea, reported in Bartletts Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.
    Barry Cornwall
    English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) (1787 - 1874)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it... ''Beware of me,'' it says, ''but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands.''
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Walker Percy The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.
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  • Gail Sheehy The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.
    Gail Sheehy
    American author, journalist, and lecturer (1936 - 2020)
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  • Leon Edel The secret of biography resides in finding the link between talent and achievement. A biography seems irrelevant if it doesn't discover the overlap between what the individual did and the life that made this possible. Without discovering that, you have shapeless happenings and gossip.
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  • Groucho Marx The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Stokely Carmichael The secret of life is to have no fear; it's the only way to function.
    Stokely Carmichael
    American activist (1941 - 1998)
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  • David Ogilvy The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.
    David Ogilvy
    American businessman, Advertising Expert (1911 - 1999)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to liver dangerously.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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