Fishes Quotes - Page 29

• If we stand by the eagle, fish will die; if we stand by the fish, eagle will die! This dilemma has been created by the random evolutionary process. There is no goodness, there is no justice and there is no intelligence in here. We are living in a primitive and flawed order.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Eagles, Order, Justice

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• Watching fish, like listening to music, can distract you in a good way.

  Marty Becker

  Music, Listening, Way

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• The river, for example, is the living symbol of all the life it sustains or nourishes - fish, aquatic insects, water ouzels, otter, fisher, deer, elk, bear, and all other animals, including man, who are dependent on it or who enjoy it for its sight, its sound, or its life. The river as plaintiff speaks for the ecological unit of life that is part of it.

  William O. Douglas

  Men, Animal, Rivers

  "Sierra Club v. Morton, 405 U.S. 727". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. April 19, 1972.

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• Both group effort and individual testimony flow from conviction as to the role of people on earth. In stewardship of the common heritage, a few simple beliefs recur: that all are indeed members of the same human family, that all share in responsibility for the others, that each is capable of responding directly to divine guidance. To seek to translate these into practical action with regard to soil or petroleum or the fish of the sea is not necessarily to do what is directly effective in changing society.

  Gilbert F. White

  Responsibility, Simple, Sea

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• Each summer, for example, nitrogen and phosphate washing from farmlands in the Mississippi Valley enter the Gulf of Mexico, creating a massive algal bloom covering some 16,000 square kilometers. As the blooms die off, this area-roughly the size of New Jersey-is so deprived of oxygen that no fish survive.

  Lester R. Brown

  Summer, Squares, Oxygen

  Lester R. Brown, Michael Renner (2014). “Vital Signs 1999-2000: The Environmental Trends That Are Shaping Our Future”, p.25, Routledge

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• In life as in water, when we curl up or flail we sink. When we spread and go still, we are carried by the largest sea of all: the sea of grace that flows steadily beneath the turmoil of events. And just as fish can't see the ocean they live in, we can't quite see the spirit that sustains us.

  Mark Nepo

  Ocean, Sea, Water

  Mark Nepo (2011). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)”, p.87, Conari Press

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• But really, anybody could die any day, whether you were ready or not. It could be your pet fish or your sister or you. Nothing is the same forever. Maybe all the people on Earth are God's little pet fish. God lives such a long time that people's lives probably seem really short to him. He watches them swim for a little while, and then they stop swimming.

  Suzanne LaFleur

  Swimming, Long, People

  Suzanne LaFleur (2009). “Love, Aubrey”, p.242, Wendy Lamb Books

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• Really, people are not a school of fish. Finding the leaders of the future is a question of recognizing those people who give leadership in a crisis.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  School, People, Giving

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I ask Laurie it it's possible to get trained fish. Lindsay says this is how we know I've never produced a movie.

  Emma Thompson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Filmmaker

  Emma Thompson (1996). “The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay & Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film”, Newmarket Pictorial Moviebooks

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• I grew up on Lake Michigan during the PCB explosion, and I remember seeing the sick, dead fish with tumors, the weird deformed seagulls, the scum and the filth floating. We couldn't go swimming.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Swimming, Lakes, Sick

  "Mark Ruffalo, the Incredible Hunk". Interview with Kate Sheppard, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2012.

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• The most important thing is to get the fish in quickly and leave it in the water. Forget the hero pose.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Hero, Water, Important

  Bonefish on the Brain Interview, bonefishonthebrain.com. May 4, 2010.

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• The man who coerces another not to eat fish commits more violence than he who eats it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Violence, He Man

  Mahatma Gandhi (1950). “Hindu Dharma”

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• She had always known that all lives are in common, rejoicing in her kinship to the fish in the tanks of her laboratories, seeking the experience of existences outside the human boundary.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Animal, Tanks, Common

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2009). “The Dispossessed”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• It was easy to make fun of Bush, but it was sort of like shooting fish in a barrel and it didn't really feel all that good because it was so easy to do. I would much rather live under a thoughtful president. Even if it makes it harder to be funny about politics, it makes it more interesting to be funny about politics.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Fun, Thoughtful, Interesting

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• We're [Ocean Conservancy group] trying to convince people it's a bad idea to catch fish faster than they can reproduce. That should be a duh, but it's still going on.

  Mark Powell

  Ocean, Ideas, People

  Source: www.treehugger.com

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• You need good energy and you need to be fit because it's very tiring. A lot of the work is quite heavy and quite smelly. That's why girls drift out of the kitchen because they get fed up smelling like fish and vegetables and things like that.

  Paul Rankin

  Girl, Vegetables, Kitchen

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• [Wladimir] Klitschko is a different kettle of fish to Haye. He is a genuine man with an excellent team behind him and they are genuine fighting people.

  Tyson Fury

  Team, Fighting, Men

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• Even if this is the end of humankind, we dare not take away the chances some other life-form might have to succeed where we failed. If we retaliate, there will not be a dog, a deer, an ape, a bird or fish or lizard to carry the evolutionary torch. In the name of justice, if we must condemn and destroy ourselves, let us not condemn all life along with us! We are heavy enough with sins. If we must destroy, let us stop with destroying ourselves!

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Dog, Names, Justice

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• The writer should always serve as his own angleworm —and the sharper the barb with which he fishes himself out of blackness, the better.

  John Hawkes

  Should, Barbs, Blackness

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• My respect and empathy towards animals includes sea dwellers too--from dolphins to fish to lobsters. So, of course, I wouldn't dream of eating them.

  Alexandra Paul

  Dream, Animal, Sea

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• It constantly amazes me that men and women wander the earth marveling at the highest mountains, the deepest ocean, the whitest sands, the most exotic islands, the most intriguing birds of the air and fish of the sea - and all the time never stop to marvel at themselves and realize their infinite potential as human beings.

  Matthew Kelly

  Ocean, Men, Sea

  Matthew Kelly (2015). “The Rhythm of Life: Living Everyday With Passion and Purpose”, p.16, BookBaby

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• Woody Allen has done some excellent serious movies, too, like Crimes And Misdemeanors. Very overlooked movie, I think, and really his best. And currently I like Big Fish!

  David Zucker

  Movie, Thinking, Big Fish

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Tim Burton is underrated. I loved Big Fish, loved that movie, think it's the best movie of the year, hands down. Really impressed with that.

  David Zucker

  Thinking, Years, Hands

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don't apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Hunting, Fishing, Apologizing

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• Creation is all things and us. It is us in relationship with all things. All things, the ones we see and the ones we do not; the whirling galaxies and the wild suns, the black holes and the microorganisms, the trees and the stars, the fish and the whales - the molten lava and the towering snow-capped mountains, the children we give birth to and their children, and theirs, and theirs, and theirs.

  Matthew Fox

  Stars, Children, Whales

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