Quotes 121 till 140 of 191.
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The most foolish kind of a book is a kind of leaky boat on the sea of wisdom; some of the wisdom will get in anyhow.
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The people know the salt of the sea
and the strength of the winds
lashing the corners of the earth.
The people take the earth
as a tomb of rest and a cradle of hope.
Who else speaks for the Family of Man?The People, Yes (1936) -
The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
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The prediction that glaciers will be gone from Glacier National Park has been moved up by 10 years to 2020, the same year it's predicted the Arctic Sea will be ice-free in the summer.
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The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line - the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea. It was a phase of this problem that caused the Civil War.
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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.
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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.
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The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
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The sea hath fish for every man.
Remains Concerning Britain -
The sea is mother-death and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.
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The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
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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.
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The sea! the sea! the open sea!
The blue, the fresh, the ever free!The Sea, reported in Bartletts Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. -
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.''
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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 -
The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.
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The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.
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The world is a sea in which we all must surely drown.
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