Sea Quotes - Page 20

• I like the image of The Old Man and the Sea, of striving and succeeding but finding that the success was ghost success. In other words, in the long run, after a certain age, the motives for success, pride or oppressing people or getting power.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Running, Pride, Men

  Source: sensitiveskinmagazine.com

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• The creatures of the sea hold special mystery, and they are among the most exciting, graceful, and beautiful on Earth. Just consider the living riot of a coral reef, the beauty of an albatross, the awesome power of a giant turtle, the grace of a dolphin. Now multiply that by the millions of creatures in the sea. Wow!

  Carl Safina

  Beautiful, Turtles, Grace

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• I want to build a wired ocean that helps us take back the seas from poachers and illegal fishers. To do this, we need the latest technology applied to large pelagic fish and sharks, surveillance technology that helps protect marine protected areas, and tags that help prevent shark finning and illegal fishing. We must use modern sensors to help protect our seas!

  Barbara Block

  Ocean, Marine, Technology

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• More than four billion people live within a stone's throw of the ocean, so what happens to it affects them immediately, daily, whether pollution, more frequent storms, or rising sea levels.

  Jon Bowermaster

  Ocean, People, Storm

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• There is this sweet spot in time when we have an opportunity to stop killing sharks and tunas and swordfish and other wildlife in the sea before it's too late.

  Sylvia Earle

  Sweet, Opportunity, Sharks

  "Her Majesty of the Deep Blue Sea: An Interview with Dr. Sylvia Earle, Part One". Interview with Dan Linehan, www.mission-blue.org. January 23, 2013.

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• I like to just keep the land within sight. Nowadays they can tell you if there's a storm three days out. So it's not much of a concern. But I've never been a big boat person. I don't spend a lot of time at sea.

  Casey Affleck

  Land, Sight, Storm

  "Casey Affleck On Why The Finest Hours Should Be Seen In Theaters". Interview with Nicole Pajer, screenrant.com. January 26, 2016.

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• We never gave up. We didn't get lost in a sea of despair. We kept the faith. We kept pushing and pulling. We kept marching. And we made some progress.

  John Lewis

  Progress, Despair, Pushing

  "John Lewis marches on: “Our struggle is a struggle to redeem the soul of America”". Interview with Philip Eil, www.salon.com. August 9, 2016.

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• There goes many a ship to sea, with many hundred souls in one ship, whose weal and woe is common, and is a true picture of a commonwealth or a human combination or society. It hath fallen out sometimes that Papists, Protestants, Jews, and Turks may be embarked in one ship; upon which supposal I affirm that all the liberty of conscience that ever I pleaded for turns upon these two hinges: that none of the Papists, Protestants, Jews, or Turks be forced to come to the ships prayers or worship, nor be compelled [restrained] from their own particular prayers or worship, if they practice any.

  Roger Williams

  Prayer, Practice, Two

  Source: www.libertymagazine.org

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• Moses probably danced a little, right? You don't part the Red Sea without having some moves.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Moving, Littles, Red

  "Dick Van Dyke: Icon". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.ericspitznagel.com. September 14, 2016.

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• The worst part of losing good fish is that you cannot release them. They tailwalk across the back of your mind for days.

  Christopher Camuto

  Lakes, Fishing, Rivers

  Christopher Camuto (2001). “A Fly Fisherman's Blue Ridge”, p.60, University of Georgia Press

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• We live in a sea of general ideas, so that's not a novel, since there are so many general ideas. But the moment a particular idea is linked to a character, it's like an engine moves it. Then you have a novel underway.

  Chinua Achebe

  Moving, Character, Ideas

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• I think we have started accelerating over the past years. It's a modernization of NATO. It's at air, it's at sea, it's undersea, it's in cyber. Estonia in 2007, hit by Russian cyber-attacks. So what you see there with those exercises are critical.

  Michael Leiter

  Exercise, Past, Thinking

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• All rivers, even the most dazzling, those that catch the sun in their course, all rivers go down to the ocean and drown. And life awaits man as the sea awaits the river.

  Simone Schwarz-Bart

  Ocean, Men, Rivers

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• Once when Bion was at sea in the company of some wicked men, he fell into the hands of pirates; and when the rest said, "We are undone if we are known,"-"But I," said he, "am undone if we are not known.

  Diogenes Laertius

  Men, Hands, Pirate

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• Catch-and-release fishing is an ecological necessity, not my preference. The practice smacks of bad faith, an inauthentic act.

  Christopher Camuto

  Lakes, Fishing, Practice

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• Meekness is an unchanging state of mind, which both in honor and dishonor remains the same. Meekness consists in praying sincerely and undisturbedly in the face of afflictions from one's neighbor. Meekness is a cliff rising from the sea of irritability, against which all the that waves that strive against it break, but which is itself never broken.

  John Climacus

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• One can imagine a time when men who still inhabit organic bodies are regarded with pity by those who have passed on to an infinitely richer mode of existence, capable of throwing their consciousness or sphere of attention instantaneously to any point on land, sea, or sky where there is a suitable sensing organ. In adolescence we leave childhood behind; one day there may be a second and more portentous adolescence, when we bid farewell to the flesh.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Farewell, Men, Sky

  Arthur C. Clarke (2013). “Profiles Of The Future”, p.111, Hachette UK

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• The grounds on which golf is played are called links, being the barren sandy soil from which the sea has retired in recent geological times. In their natural state links are covered with long, rank bent grass and gorse. Links are too barren for cultivation: but sheep, rabbits, geese and professionals pick up a precarious livelihood on them.

  Charles Walter Simpson

  Golf, Sheep, Long

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• The United States, therefore, works to ensure that any actions we take are consistent with international laws and norms - including those reflected in the Law of the Sea Convention. It's worth remembering that our presence in the region is nothing new.

  Barack Obama

  Law, United States, Action

  Source: www.straitstimes.com

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• That's one of the things [diversity] that I love the most and that makes not only Hollywood, but America the great country that it is. I'm not complaining - I celebrate it, and I think there are a sea of opportunities because of that.

  Omar Chaparro

  Country, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• The Philippines made a lawful and peaceful effort to resolve their maritime claims with China using the tribunal established under the Law of the Sea Convention (Unclos). The tribunal's ruling delivered a clear and legally binding decision on maritime claims in the South China Sea as they relate to China and the Philippines - and that ruling should be respected. We believe this decision can and should serve as an opportunity to renew efforts to address maritime claims peacefully.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Opportunity, Law

  Source: www.straitstimes.com

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• The United States believes that every nation should respect international law, including in the South China Sea.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Law, United States

  Source: www.straitstimes.com

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• We are still learning how exactly the Earth reacts to increased CO2 and other greenhouse gases. We know it leads to warming seas which are melting the North and the South Poles, rising and starting to swallow entire coastal areas in the US and elsewhere, as the New York Times article documents.

  Graciela Chichilnisky

  New York, Rising, Melting

  "Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky". Interview with C.J. Polychroniou, truthout.org. September 17, 2016.

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• Some of my best friends are Hindu or Buddhist or Sikh, my students as well. This is the sea in which I swim.

  Diana L. Eck

  Buddhist, Swim, My Best Friend

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• 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.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Song, Half, Wrecks

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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