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Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.
Must I be carried to the skies on flowery beds of ease, while others fought to win the prize and sailed through bloody seas?
Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and yearn
The legend of the parting of the Red Sea probably refers to tidal changes in the Sea of Reeds related to the Thera eruption.
From the port of ideas, not only the most clever ones put out to sea and conquer the world but also the most stupid ones do!
There's a long list of technologies that have now made it possible to carry out very precise search efforts in the deep sea.
Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever,- One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never.
China believes that it has the rightful claim to a vast portion of the South China Sea, which is claimed by other countries.
I had better cellular coverage on a ship in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea than I have in many parts of Silicon Valley.
Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless.
If I had to name one book that has had the most lasting influence on my work, I would pick 'The Big Sea' by Langston Hughes.
I am part of the sun as my eye is of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea.
To render aid to the worthless is sheer waste. Rain does not freshen the Dead Sea, but only enables it to dissolve more salt.
I tell you naught for your comfort, Yea, naught for your desire, Save that the sky grows darker yet And the sea rises higher.
It's hard to tell the difference between sea and sky, between voyager and sea. Between reality and the workings of the heart.
The sea possesses a power over one's moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.
Presidents have only two moments of personal seclusion. One is prayer; the other fishing - and they cannot pray all the time!
But as Shakespeare’s Richard II boasts, ‘Not all the water in the rough rude sea/Can wash the balm off from an anointed king.
I grew up in North Devon, by the sea, and feel a special affinity for the landscape there, despite a lack of actual ancestry.
Even in the vast and mysterious reaches of the sea we are brought back to the fundamental truth that nothing lives to itself.
Pretty Polynesian baby over the sea, I remember the night, when we walked in the sands of Waikiki and I held you oh so tight.
Plough not the seas, sow not the sands,Leave off your idle pain;Seek other mistress for your minds,Love's service is in vain.
The fair breeze blew, The white foam flew, And the forrow followed free. We were the first to ever burst into the silent sea.
I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of poverty trying to survive.
And one rose in a tent of sea and gave A darkening shudder; water fell away; The whale stood shining, and then sank in spray.
At the end of my daily yoga routine, lying on the floor in Corpse Pose, I feel as though I am floating in a sea of pure love.
In Mumbai, the air is saltier. The sea is roilier. The traffic is snarlier. The pinks are pinker. The ostentation is crazier.
Some of us are like the Dead Sea, always taking in but never giving out, because we are not rightly related to the Lord Jesus.
Thoughts are like drops of water: with our thoughts we can drown in a sea of negativity, or we can float on the ocean of life.
And I’d say to myself as I looked so lazily down at the sea: “There’s nobody else in the world, and the world was made for me.
Your quest is for darkness only. This sea is not your sea. The myths of men are not your myths. Men's treasures are not yours.
I have to build my own boat this time. It's a big sea out there, and I have a pretty small boat. I have a lot of belief in it.
Catch-and-release fishing is an ecological necessity, not my preference. The practice smacks of bad faith, an inauthentic act.
Gods die with men who have conceived them. But the god-stuff roars eternally, like the sea, with too vast a sound to be heard.
Personal and collective awakening are one and the same - when a raindrop joins the sea, the sea also merges with the raindrop.
O Elbereth! Gilthoniel! We still remember, we who dwell In this far land beneath the trees. Thy starlight on the Western Seas.
When I was a child I truly loved: Unthinking love as calm and deep As the North Sea. But I have lived, And now I do not sleep.
Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck on the bottom of the sea of criticism.
The foolishness of chasing the moon ached my heart. I was stuck between the moon and the shore and surrounded by an empty sea.
I - do I believe in evolution? I embrace the view that God created the heavens and the earth, the seas and all that's in them.
The Irish sea is a chasm, and it just depends who's been holding the whip for 800 years and who's been under it for 800 years.
Since my childhood I learned that to understand the world we need to go further and take the risks of sailing in unknown seas.
Each is like a river that leaves behind its name and shape, the whole course of its path , to vanish into the vast sea of God.
In the sea of love, I melt like salt Faith, Doubt - they both dissolve. A star is opening in my heart . The worlds turn in it.
There is a spectacle more grand than the sea; it is heaven; there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is the conscience.
My half-suppressed Canadian years, my whole childhood and youth, rose like a corpse from the bottom of the sea to confront me.
It is better to go down on the great seas which human hearts were made to sail than to rot at the wharves in ignoble anchorage.
Don't forget, Riddler, how I love thee. Or all we shared together. Or that this sea and all other seas can lead you back to me.
We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.
Deep is the sea, and deep is hell, but pride mineth deeper; it is coiled as a poisonous worm about the foundations of the soul.