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It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.
When the size of the group supporting your cause reaches a critical mass, any legislator or elected official has to pay attention.
The Divine is the sea. All religions are rivers leading to the sea. Some rivers wind a great deal. Why not go to the sea directly?
I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.
There's been a sea change in our focus on corporate ethics. We've made more progress in the last three years than the previous 30.
The atoms of Democritus And Newton's particles of light Are sands upon the Red Sea shore, Where Israel's tents do shine so bright.
You turn 'Insecure' on, and you see a sea of brown. You see at the core of it a strong friendship between two brown-skinned girls.
A border is a border. I have to be conscious of both my borders. I will also have be conscious of my sea. It is less talked about.
Sardinia has to have some of the best seafood on the planet. I'm a sea urchin freak, and Sardinia's are some of the best I've had.
Without water, our planet would be one of the billions of lifeless rocks floating endlessly in the vastness of the inky-black void.
Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery element were made for wise men to contemplate, and fools to pass by without consideration.
I 'm on the sea! I 'm on the sea! I am where I would ever be, With the blue above and the blue below, And silence wheresoever I go.
Like the sea itself, the unconscious yields an endless and self-replenishing abundance of creatures, a wealth beyond our fathoming.
The past. The Golden Age of the past. What a nostalgia we all feel for it. Yet we don't want it when we get it. Try the South Seas.
There is practically no sense that is not violated every time we return from the country or the sea to Paris or London or New York.
Yet compared with the serious things of life, fishing is after all rather trivial. The thoughtful angler must frankly confess this.
My preference is swimming in the sea. I find the sea is more liberating, wild and good fun rather than plodding up and down a pool.
The earth, the sea and air are the concern of every nation. And science, technology, and education can be the ally of every nation.
There is indeed, perhaps, no better way to hold communion with the sea than sitting in the sun on the veranda of a fishermen's café
I have no doubts that the Devil grins, As seas of ink I spatter. Ye gods, forgive my “literary” sins – The other kind don’t matter.
If we don't want to see the map of Central America covered in a sea of red, eventually lapping at our own borders, we must act now.
She still felt like a punked-out, faux-leather-wearing, free-thinking Bratz doll in a sea of Pretty Princess of Preppyland Barbies.
In books there's nothing of the fish covered in the coldness of the sea, or the feeling of a star touching space. Bad for business.
We are not lacking in the dynamic forces needed to create the future. We live immersed in a sea of energy beyond all comprehension.
Imagining in excited reverie That the future years had come, Dancing to a frenzied drum, Out of the murderous innocence of the sea.
We need to reduce carbon emissions, protect Maine's key industries and preserve our coastlines from flooding and rising sea levels.
We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came.
Cantonese will eat anything in the sky but airplanes, anything in the sea but submarines, and anything with four legs but the table.
I break up through the skin of awareness a thousand times a day, as dolphins burst through seas, and dive again, and rise, and dive.
Poetry is a puppet-show, where riders of skyrockets and divers of sea fathoms gossip about the sixth sense and the fourth dimension.
Instead of this confusion, we need the unifying force of an official language, English, which is the language of success in America.
Consciousness of a fact is not knowing it: if it were, the fish would know more of the sea than the geographers and the naturalists.
I once performed The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald to about 15 sea captains. The song was about a ship that broke in half and sank.
A great sorrow, like a mariner's quadrant, brings the sun at noon down to the horizon, and we learn where we are on the sea of life.
Cities aren't like people; they live on and on, even though their reason for being where they are has gone downriver and out to sea.
I use Ahava skincare, which is natural line from Israel and is made from minerals from the Dead Sea. I have the most sensitive skin.
Nothing less than the fate of the planet is at stake... No place on the planet can remain an island of affluence in a sea of misery.
Wind is the heart of the wave, the spoon of the sea and the angry bull of the ships. Without wind, there is no ardour, no agitation!
Why should I copy this owl, this sea urchin? Why should I try to imitate nature? I might just as well try to trace a perfect circle.
As I lay asleep in Italy There came a voice from over the Sea, And with great power it forth led me To walk in the visions of Poesy.
And if my choice is to sit graciously in my best robes and accept the inevitable or to bail a sea with a bucket, give me the bucket.
Should you ever feel too lonely...listen for the roar of the sea- for in it are all those who've been and all those who are to come.
...secretly I lament the hundreds [of fish] we never caught because we forever persisted in fishing only the likliest holding water.
The island of Gont, a single mountain that lifts its peak a mile above the storm-racked Northeast Sea, is a land famous for wizards.
Why, headstrong liberty is lashed with woe. There's nothing situate under heaven's eye But hath his bound, in earth, in sea, in sky.
At the end of the day, you can't compete with Mother Nature. If you've got a great tomato, just a pinch of sea salt is all you need.
Growing, for leaders, is like oxygen to a deep sea diver. Without learning and growing, leaders die in terms of their effectiveness.
Miracles aren't necessarily good for everyone. The parting of the Red Sea, great for the Jews, not so hot for the Egyptian soldiers.
[Out To Sea] was like a dream come true for me, because I got to work with Jack [Lemmon] and Walter [Matthau], who were unbelievable.
Only the sea, murmurous behind the dingy checkerboard of houses, told of the unrest, the precariousness, of all things in this world.