Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I want to get out in the water. I want to see fish, real fish, not fish in a laboratory.
Independent thinkers are usually geniuses or idiots and at times it's hard to tell which.
Throughout history government has seldom hesitated from robbing its citizens in a crisis.
The only time you can have maximum economic progress is when social programs don't exist.
As we passed on, it seemed those scenes of visionary enchantment would never have an end.
Certainly dog driving is the most terrible work one has to face in this sort of business.
Evolution is not something to be feared. It's to be celebrated, embraced, and understood.
To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.
I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.
Nothing easier. One step beyond the pole, you see, and the north wind becomes a south one.
Ignorance is the biggest problem of all for the ocean - and for many other things as well.
American agents... are the only persons authorized to hold councils of a political nature.
I saw a boy of the crew purchasing javelins of them with bits of platters and broken glass.
This is excellence - the following of anything for its own sake and with its own integrity.
There is nothing very religious about feeling superior to those who don't share your views.
To use ones religion as a rationalization for lack of financial success demeans that faith.
People want government to solve problems, but government is often the cause of the problem.
Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.
Fair and unfair are among the most influential words in English and must be delicately used.
There are only two questions about government. How much do you want? How much can you stand?
Government is no more than taxpayers hiring the most inefficient organization to do the job.
We are showing that Englishmen can still die with a bold spirit, fighting it out to the end.
This much is certain: We have the power to damage the sea, but no sure way to heal the harm.
He was a man, that he always performed his promises, that he had never said he would return.
You have already disarmed my men without my knowledge, are their arms to be returned or not?
It is not badness, it is the absence of goodness, which, in Art as in Life, is so depressing.
The economy that leads the world will be the one with the most millionaires and billionaires.
It is said that government is a necessary evil, but it is far more evil than it is necessary.
The longer people receive economic assistance, the worse their social condition and behavior.
A young man who is here speaks the Panis language, and in many other respects, is preferable.
The air soft as that of Seville in April, and so fragrant that it was delicious to breathe it.
it is a lean employment of time to brood on what might have happened along some other turning.
Virtually anything is more stimulating than conversations with strangers at social gatherings.
Never underestimate the totality of chaos and betrayal that comes through currency debasement.
Everything is on a reduced scale here in the Polar regions; we can't afford to be extravagant.
There's plenty of water in the universe without life, but nowhere is there life without water.
I actually love diving at night; you see a lot of fish then that you don't see in the daytime.
You should know what is taken out of the ecosystem in order to give you a moment's sustenance.
From an economic standpoint, liberalism is a greater threat to America than communism ever was.
I fear we have shot our bolt - but we have been to Pole and done the longest journey on record.
Our past, our present, and whatever remains of our future, absolutely depend on what we do now.
Few Indians only had breech cloths, most being wrapped in buffalo robes, otherwise quite naked.
We are all connected to the ocean. Without healthy oceans, no life, not even on land, can exist.
It seems a pity, but I do not think that I can write more. For God's sake look after our people.
They were conspiring to desert us in the night and steal some of our horses... we engaged a spy.
The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages.
It's a vain hope to believe that people will voluntarily turn their back on government subsidies.
In terms of personal choices, let's all think more carefully about where we get our protein from.
The ocean is dying, and we have no place to escape to if this experiment doesn't go in our favor.
Strict justice would demand total confiscation of your property, personal imprisonment and fines.