Quotes with sea-margins

Quotes 141 till 160 of 165.

  • Blake Schwarzenbach Turtle on its back in the desert sea / and you look like a cool drink / just slightly out of reach / Draw myself into the shell / waiting on a sign from God / or a nod from hell
    Source: Orange Rhyming Dictionary (1998) Sea Anemone
    Blake Schwarzenbach
    American musician (1967 - )
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  • Derek Jarman Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law. Understand that we are you. Understand that if we decide to have sex whether safe, safer, or unsafe, it is our decision and you have no rights in our lovemaking.
    Derek Jarman
    British movie maker, artist, writer (1942 - 1994)
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  • W. Secker Usually the greatest boasters are the smallest workers. The deep rivers pay a larger tribute to the sea than shallow brooks, and yet empty themselves with less noise.
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  • H. Gilbert We are as near to heaven by sea as by land.
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  • Arthur O'Shaunessey We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dream. Wandering by lone sea breakers, and sitting by desolate streams. World losers and world forsakers, for whom the pale moon gleams. Yet we are movers and the shakers of the world forever it seems.
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  • Paul Tillich We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.
    Paul Tillich
    German-American theologian and philosopher (1886 - 1965)
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  • Aristotle Onassis We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.
    Aristotle Onassis
    Greek shipping magnate (1906 - 1975)
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  • Cary Fowler We now know that we cannot continue to put ever-increasing amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere. Actions have consequences. In fact, the consequences of past actions are already in the pipeline. Global temperatures are rising. Glaciers are melting. Sea levels are rising. Extreme weather events are multiplying.
    Cary Fowler
    American agriculturalist and businessman (1949 - )
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Joseph Campbell What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.
    Joseph Campbell
    American mythologist (1904 - 1987)
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  • Baltasar Kormakur When I made '101 Reykjavik,' people talked about 'Almodovar on ice.' When I made 'The Sea,' people referenced Bergman.
    Baltasar Kormakur
    Icelandic actor, theater and film director (1966 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Ben Horowitz When you look at a company that's already succeeded or is at the very top of its game, it isn't necessarily when it's executing well. It tends to be peacetime - you've defeated the competition, you have the highest margins, the highest multiple.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin Whenever I gaze up at the moon, I feel like I'm on a time machine. I am back to that precious pinpoint of time, standing on the foreboding - yet beautiful - Sea of Tranquility. I could see our shining blue planet Earth poised in the darkness of space.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • John Keats Wide sea, that one continuous murmur breeds along the pebbled shore of memory!
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • Sophocles Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than the power that crosses the white sea, driven by the stormy wind, making a path under surges that threaten to engulf him...
    Sophocles
    Greek poet (496 - 406)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • John Updike Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Bob Dylan Yes, and how many years can a mountain exist before it is washed to the sea?
    Source: The Freewheelin Bob Dylan (1963)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Rabindranath Tagore You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.
    Rabindranath Tagore
    Indian mystic and poet (1861 - 1941)
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