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Must I be carried to the skies on flowery beds of ease, while others fought to win the prize and sailed through bloody seas?
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!
We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.
The legend of the parting of the Red Sea probably refers to tidal changes in the Sea of Reeds related to the Thera eruption.
Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and yearn
At night, when the sky is full of stars and the sea is still you get the wonderful sensation that you are floating in space.
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.
If I could only see one miracle, just one miracle. Like a burning bush, or the seas part, or my uncle Sasha pick up a check.
There's a long list of technologies that have now made it possible to carry out very precise search efforts in the deep sea.
As hipster chicks age, and their skin starts to sag, tramp stamps sink below waistbands, like the sun slipping into the sea.
China believes that it has the rightful claim to a vast portion of the South China Sea, which is claimed by other countries.
I grew up in North Devon, by the sea, and feel a special affinity for the landscape there, despite a lack of actual ancestry.
In Mumbai, the air is saltier. The sea is roilier. The traffic is snarlier. The pinks are pinker. The ostentation is crazier.
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.
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.
Even in the vast and mysterious reaches of the sea we are brought back to the fundamental truth that nothing lives to itself.
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.
It's hard to tell the difference between sea and sky, between voyager and sea. Between reality and the workings of the heart.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
I tell you naught for your comfort, Yea, naught for your desire, Save that the sky grows darker yet And the sea rises higher.
To render aid to the worthless is sheer waste. Rain does not freshen the Dead Sea, but only enables it to dissolve more salt.
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.
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.
There is a spectacle more grand than the sea; it is heaven; there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is the conscience.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Since my childhood I learned that to understand the world we need to go further and take the risks of sailing in unknown seas.
O Elbereth! Gilthoniel! We still remember, we who dwell In this far land beneath the trees. Thy starlight on the Western Seas.
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.
Catch-and-release fishing is an ecological necessity, not my preference. The practice smacks of bad faith, an inauthentic act.
Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck on the bottom of the sea of criticism.
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.
The foolishness of chasing the moon ached my heart. I was stuck between the moon and the shore and surrounded by an empty sea.
Personal and collective awakening are one and the same - when a raindrop joins the sea, the sea also merges with the raindrop.
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.
My half-suppressed Canadian years, my whole childhood and youth, rose like a corpse from the bottom of the sea to confront 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.
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.
Sitting on a plastic chair at night listening to the sea lapping below while sipping a cold beer is about as good as life gets.
When you're on the open sea and you drop 10, 12 feet and your stomach goes up around your neck - that's when you have problems.
Do not wish to jump immediately from the streams to the sea, because one has to go through easier things to the more difficult.
I do not know beneath what sky nor on what seas shall be thy fate; I only know it shall be high, I only know it shall be great.