Quotes with sea-water

Quotes 181 till 200 of 367.

  • Ban Ki-moon Now, more than ever, we need to connect the dots between climate, poverty, energy, food and water. These issues cannot be addressed in isolation.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • J.M. Coetzee Once I lived in time as a fish in water, breathing it, drinking it, sustained by it. Now I kill time and time kills me.
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    J.M. Coetzee
    South African-born Australian novelist (1940 - )
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  • W. C. Fields Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
    W. C. Fields
    American Actor (1880 - 1946)
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  • Carlo Ratti One of the ideas that was developed at MIT in a workshop was, imagine this pipe, and you've got valves, solenoid valves, taps, opening and closing. You create like a water curtain with pixels made of water. If those pixels fall, you can write on it: you can show patterns, images, text.
    Carlo Ratti
    Italian architect, engineer and activist
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people as rain unto the sea.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Bliss Carman Over the shoulders and slopes of the dune I saw the white daisies go down to the sea, A host in the sunshine, an army in June, The people God sends us to set our heart free.
    Bliss Carman
    Canadian poet (1861 - 1929)
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  • Bill Keller People crave trustworthy information about the world we live in. Some people want it because it is essential to the way they make a living. Some want it because they regard being well-informed as a condition of good citizenship. Some want it because they want something to exchange over dinner tables and water coolers.
    Bill Keller
    American journalist (1949 - )
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  • Olive Schreiner Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.
    Olive Schreiner
    South African author and anti-war campaigner (1855 - 1920)
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  • Don Marquis Persian pussy from over the sea demure and lazy and smug and fat none of your ribbons and bells for me ours is the zest of the alley cat
    Don Marquis
    American writer (1878 - 1937)
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  • Lucretius Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant.
    Lucretius
    Roman poet and philosopher (95 - 55)
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  • Carl Sandburg Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the sky.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Carl Sandburg Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Harold Macmillan Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.
    Harold Macmillan
    British Conservative politician, prime minister (1894 - 1986)
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  • John Florio Praise the sea; on shore remain.
    John Florio
    Italian-English linguist and translator (also called Giovanni Florio) (1553 - 1625)
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  • Bee Wilson Protein bars, protein flapjacks, protein granola, protein ice cream and protein coconut water... To look at the health-food aisles, you'd think that protein was a substance no one could overeat. Even bread now comes in protein-enriched form.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • Eva Figes Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a water-tight excuse for making money hand over fist. Greed may be a sin, exploitation of other people might, on the face of it, look rather nasty, but who can blame a man for ''doing the best'' for his children?
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  • Abigail Van Buren Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for piping. And the Piper!.
    Abigail Van Buren
    American advice columnist and radio show host (1918 - 2013)
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  • Sir John Lubbock Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.
    Sir John Lubbock
    British statesman and banker (1834 - 1913)
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  • Barten Holyday River is time in water; as it came, still so it flows, yet never is the same.
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  • Buzz Aldrin Russia perhaps is still entertaining the possibility that the moons of Mars might have access to ice or water.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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