Shore Quotes - Page 11

• The genius of America is that we are still a land of undiscovered shores, and we are at our best when we open our hearts and allow the night winds to bring renewed visions of great deeds.

  Phil Bredesen

  Heart, Night, Wind

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• The goal of our life’s effort is to reach the other shore, Nirvana. Prajna paramita, the true wisdom of life, is that in each step of the way, the other shore is actually reached.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Goal, Effort, Way

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.51, Shambhala Publications

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• A super-sized fraud of this magnitude was bound to happen given the lack of regulation of these off-shore entities.

  Harry Markopolos

  Regulation, Scandal, Corruption

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• It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which imitate or represent the thoughts and life of Europe do not constitute an American literature. Before such can exist, an original idea must animate this nation and fresh currents of life must call into life fresh thoughts along the shore.

  Margaret Fuller

  Book, Reading, Europe

  Margaret Fuller (1846). “Papers on Literature and Art”

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• God will forgive you if you ask him to. Though your sins be numerous as the grains of sand on the shore, God’s merciful forgiveness is far greater than your sins. Do not be afraid. Trust in his love. Repent of your sins without delay and return to the house of the Father. He is waiting for you.

  Patrick Madrid

  Father, Waiting, House

  Patrick Madrid (2012). “A Year with the Bible: Scriptural Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.14, TAN Books

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• To read 'Happy Talk' is to crash a party as vivid and surreal as Felini's 8. It's the business of show business, the American dream, told by a chorus of Americans locked just outside of that dream, outside of the United States, relegated to expatriate status on the shores of Haiti. Melo paints a version of Haiti that's an interior landscape perhaps even more than an externalized place. This Haiti is a plan, a memory, a morphine-drip fueled dream out to bond its inhabitants forever.

  Monica Drake

  Dream, Memories, Party

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• I believe it is imperative to see modern English grammar as a rich and diverse linguistic system deposited on our [England's] shores 1,500 years ago, and left with us unweakened, though substantially changed by the social and political events of the intervening period.

  Robert Burchfield

  Believe, English Grammar, Years

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• On Sunday, something washed up on shore.

  Susan Wiggs

  Sunday

  Susan Wiggs (2013). “The Lightkeeper”, p.371, Harlequin

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• Thus, if there is anyone who is confident that he can advise me as to the best advantage of the state in this campaign which I am about to conduct, let him not refuse his services to the state, but come with me into Macedonia. I will furnish him with his sea-passage, with a horse, a tent, and even travel-funds. If anyone is reluctant to do this and prefers the leisure of the city to the hardships of campaigning, let him not steer the ship from on shore.

  Livy

  Horse, Sea, Cities

  Book 44, chapter 22. Reported in "Livy" by Alfred C. Schlesinger, vol. 13, p. 161, 1951.

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• It is remarkable, but on the whole, perhaps, not to be lamented, that the world is so unkind to a new book. Any distinguished traveler who comes to our shores is likely to get more dinners and speeches of welcome than he can well dispose of, but the best books, if noticed at all, meet with coldness and suspicion, or, what is worse, gratuitous, off-hand criticism.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Book, Reading, Hands

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• However far I gaze Neither cherry blossoms nor Crimson leaves are in sight. Only a fisherman's hut on the shore In the autumnal evening.

  Fujiwara no Teika

  Sight, Evening, Cherry Blossom

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• If cinema is a woman then certainly there are many shores.

  Gerard Depardieu

  Cinema, Ifs

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• I have seen one shrike occupy himself for hours in sticking up on thorns, a number of small fishes that the fishermen had thrown on the shore. The fishes dried up and decayed.

  John Bachman

  Numbers, Thorns, Hours

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• He scarce had ceased when the superior fiend
  Was moving toward the shore; his ponderous shield
  Ethereal temper, massy, large and round,
  Behind him cast; the broad circumference
  Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb
  Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views
  At evening from the top of Fésolè,
  Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands,
  Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe.

  John Milton

  Moving, Science, Artist

  John Milton (1855). “The complete poetical works of John Milton, with life”, p.10

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• That many-faceted thing called love succeeds in building bridges from the loneliness on this shore to the loneliness on the other one. These bridges can be of great beauty, but they are rarely built for eternity, and frequently they cannot tolerate too heavy a burden without collapsing.

  Karen Horney

  Love, Loneliness, Bridges

  Karen Horney (1967). “Feminine Psychology”

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• I think we look to the military as something that protects our shores.

  Jerry Bruckheimer

  Military, Thinking, Looks

  "That's militainment" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2002.

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• It was the silent time before dawn, along the shores of what had been one of the most beautiful lakes in southern Africa.

  James A. Michener

  Beautiful, Lakes, Southern

  James A. Michener (2014). “The Covenant: A Novel”, p.27, Dial Press

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• Perchance, coming generations will not abide the dissolution of the globe, but, availing themselves of future inventions in aerial locomotion, and the navigation of space, the entire race may migrate from the earth, to settle some vacant and more western planet.... It took but little art, a simple application of natural laws, a canoe, a paddle, and a sail of matting, to people the isles of the Pacific, and a little more will people the shining isles of space. Do we not see in the firmament the lights carried along the shore by night, as Columbus did? Let us not despair or mutiny.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Art, Moon, Simple

  "Paradise (to Be) Regained" (1843)

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• Surfing also teaches quality . I will wager that it is not the number of waves that makes a session memorable for any given surfer, but that one beautiful wave that he or she waited for … and rode all the way the way to shore.

  Shaun Tomson

  Beautiful, Memorable, Numbers

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• Who says Australia offers not a home for every poor Englishman, or any other countryman that finds his way to our shores? And what sort of thanks do we get for it?

  Henry Lawson

  Home, Australia, Way

  Henry Lawson, Colin Arthur Roderick (1972). “Collected Prose: Autobiographical and other writings, 1887-1922”, Angus & Robertson

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• Pray May all reach the shore of peace, spreading the sweet holy fragrance of Love and vibrations of unity and harmony.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Love, Sweet, Unity

  Twitter post from May 07, 2014

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• The silver Swan, who, living, had no Note, when Death approached, unlocked her silent throat. Leaning her breast upon the reedy shore, thus sang her first and last, and sang no more: 'Farewell, all joys! O Death, come close mine eyes! More Geese than Swans now live, more Fools than Wise.'

  Orlando Gibbons

  Wise, Farewell, Eye

  1612 The First Set of Madrigals and Motets of Five Parts,'The Silver Swan'.

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• Heart is a sea, language is the shore. Whatever is in a sea hits the shore.

  Rumi

  Heart, Sea, Language

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• Wave after wave has brought to our shores beautiful and mysterious treasures from unknown worlds: figurines, animals, fetishes, masks, ceremonial or useful objects. They are called Primitive for want of a better name...What could never have been written is there, all the dreams and anguishes of man. The hunger for food and sex and security, the terrors of night and death, the thirst for life and the hope for survival.

  Dominique de Menil

  Beautiful, Dream, Sex

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• In the road ships must ride in 30, 40, or 50 fathom water, not above half a mile from the shore at farthest: and if there are many ships they must ride close one by another.

  William Dampier

  Water, Half, Ships

  William Dampier (2012). “A Voyage to New Holland”, p.27, tredition

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