Quotes
Quotes about Sea
Proselytizing is more a passionate search for something not yet found than a desire to bestow upon the world something we already have. It is a search for a final and irrefutable demonstration that our absolute truth is indeed the one and only truth. The proselytizing fanatic strengthens his own faith by converting others.
There is nothing to be found in a beehive that is not submerged in a bee. And yet you can search a bee forever with cyclotron and fluoroscope, and you will never find the hive.
This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims.
The biggest mischief in the past century has been perpetrated by Rousseau with his doctrine of the goodness of human nature. The mob and the intellectuals derived from it the vision of a Golden Age which would arrive without fail once the noble human race could act according to its whims.
No one in this world, so far as I know- and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me- has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.
Under normal conditions the research scientist is not an innovator but a solver of puzzles, and the puzzles upon which he concentrates are just those which he believes can be both stated and solved within the existing scientific tradition.
Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide, wide sea.
Nobody with me at sea but myself.
Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
I am the spirit of the morning sea, I am the awakening and the glad surprise.
God is seated in the hearts of all.
One player was lost because he broke his nose. How do you go about getting a nose in condition for football? (when asked if the abnormal number of Longhorn injuries this season resulted from poor physical conditioning)
One player was lost because he broke his nose. How do you go about getting a nose in condition for football? (asking if the abnormal number of Longhorn injuries this season resulted from poor physical conditioning)
I'm fairly confident that if I died tomorrow, Don would find a way to preserve me until the season was over and he had time for a nice funeral. (on the career dedication of her husband, the Miami Dolphins' coach)
Men, I want you just thinking of one word all season. One word and one word only: Super Bowl.
You mean in the state? (when asked if he felt his team should be ranked in the Top Twenty this season)
Everybody knows that I have been pumping Martin Leslie for a couple of seasons now.
Superman don't need no seat belt. [Comment to flight attendant, who replied, 'Superman don't need no airplane, either.']
How is your health? I feel pretty good, and I'm very anxious to get the season going. I think we have a chance to have a good football team. I don't have any health problems. I don't know how any of the stuff gets started.... My health is very good.
Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?
And statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom wider yet.
Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, That will not be deep-searched with saucy looks: Small have continual plodders ever won, Save base authority from others' books.
Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.
Ah, yes, the sea is still and deep, All things within its bosom sleep! A single step, and all is o'er, A plunge, a bubble, and no more.
