Quotes
Quotes about Sea
Hope for a season bade the world farewell, And Freedom shrieked as Kosciusko fell! . . . . O'er Prague's proud arch the fires of ruin glow.
To give up your seat in a car to a woman, and tread on your neighbor's foot to get even.
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.
In sight of peace--from the Narrow Seas O'er half the world to run-- With a cheated crew, to league anew With the Goth and the shameless Hun.
I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.
Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.
My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never loseâsomehow we win out
For I would rather be a servant in the House of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty.
Franklin Roosevelt stands like a sharply formed rock in a shapeless sea. spoken on Book TV by a Jackson biographer.
Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean. -David Searls.
Everything is a gift of the universeâ even joy, anger, jealously, frustration, or separateness. Everything is perfect either for our growth or our enjoyment.
Whatever guilt is perpetrated by some evil prompting, is grievous to the author of the crime. This is the first punishment of guilt that no one who is guilty is acquitted at the judgment seat of his own conscience. [Lat., Exemplo quodcumque malo committitur, ipsi Displicet auctori. Prima est haec ultio, quod se Judice nemo nocens absolvitur.]
But mine, and mine I loved, and mine I praised, And mine that I was proud on--mine so much That I myself was to myself not mine, Valuing of her--why she, O, she is fall'n Into a pit of ink, that the wide sea Hath drops too few to wash her clean again, And salt too little which may season give To her foul tainted flesh!
Ill habits gather by unseen degrees, As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
Happiness isn't a static thing; it's the quest for happiness that allows us to think we're happy, while we continue to search for more.
Many search for happiness as we look for a hat we wear on our heads.
She rears her young on yonder tree; She leaves her faithful mate to mind 'em; Like us, for fish she sails to sea, And, plunging, shows us where to find 'em. Yo, ho, my hearts! let's seek the deep, Ply every oar, and cheerly with her, While slow the bending net we sweep, God bless the fish-hawk and the fisher.
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.
A bodily disease, which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual past -Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it. -Jean Jacques Rousseau.
Let us not grow weary in well-doing, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart. -Galatians.
Light breaks where no sun shines; / Where no sea runs, the waters of the heart / Push in their tides. -Dylan Thomas.
The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven. -Martin Luther.
I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open? -Seneca.
