Quotes with sea-mark

Quotes 461 till 480 of 652.

• The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

  ― Mark Twain
  American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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• The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

  ― Mark Twain
  American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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• 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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• The sea complains upon a thousand shores.

  ― Alexander Smith
  Scottish Poet, Author (1829 - 1867)
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• 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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• The sea has neither meaning nor pity.

  ― Anton Chekhov
  Russian playwright and short story writer
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• 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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• The sea hath fish for every man.

  Source: Remains Concerning Britain

  ― William Camden
  English antiquarian, historian and topographer (1551 - 1623)
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• 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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• 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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• 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.

  ― Berlie Doherty
   
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• The sea! the sea! the open sea!
  The blue, the fresh, the ever free!

  Source: The Sea, reported in Bartletts Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.

  ― Barry Cornwall
  English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) (1787 - 1874)
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• 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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• The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian.

  ― B. H. Liddell Hart
  British soldier and military historian (1895 - 1970)
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• The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

  ― Mark Twain
  American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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• The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.

  ― Mark Caine
  American writer
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• The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.

  ― Francois de la Rochefoucauld
  French writer (1613 - 1680)
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• The surest mark of a Christian is not faith, or even love, but joy.

  ― Samuel M. Shoemaker
   
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• The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

  ― Mark Twain
  American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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• The trouble with you Chicago people is that you think you are the best people down here, whereas you are merely the most numerous.

  ― Mark Twain
  American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• irresponsible
• consciousness
• beach-waiting
• restlessness
• mother-death
• successful

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