Quotes 241 till 260 of 367.
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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.
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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 Niagara Falls? Simply a vast unnecessary amount of water going the wrong way and then falling over unnecessary rocks.
Source: In Oscar Wilde, His Life and Wit (1946) -
The obvious issue is providing clean drinking water and sanitation to every single human being on earth at the cost of little more than one year of the Kyoto treaty.
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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?Source: The People, Yes (1936) -
The powder is mixed with water and tastes exactly like powder mixed with water.
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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 real antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.
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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.
Source: 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!Source: The Sea, reported in Bartletts Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.
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