Quotes about ocean
ocean men whales
Eventually man, too, found his way back to the sea. Standing on its shores, he must have looked out upon it with wonder and curiosity, compounded with an unconscious recognition of his lineage. He could not physically re-enter the ocean as the seals and whales had done. But over the centuries, with all the skill and ingenuity and reasoning powers of his mind, he has sought to explore and investigate even its most remote parts, so that he might re-enter it mentally and imaginatively. Rachel Carson
ocean thought-provoking drops-in-the-ocean
It's only a drop in the ocean - but the ocean wouldn't be the same without that drop. Mother Teresa
ocean made small-things
The ocean is made of drops.
ocean unique thinking
What is happening, I think, it's really bigger than psychedelics, it's bigger than human evolution. We are not making the waves in this ocean. We are corks, riding the waves of the ocean. But we are privileged, by perhaps chance alone, to occupy a unique moment in the history of the universe. A moment when the universe goes through some kind of self-transforming, evolutionary, inflationary expansion. That's what's happening. Terence McKenna
ocean rivers should
Why cross and ocean when you can cross a river? Why should we sail to Washington when we can meet right away 10 miles from here? Shimon Peres
ocean mean opportunity
Israel welcomes the wind of change, and sees a window of opportunity. Democratic and science-based economies by nature desire peace. Israel does not want to be an island of affluence in an ocean of poverty. Improvements in our neighbours' lives mean improvements to the neighbourhood in which we live.
ocean savages spoiled
The ocean has the conscienceless temper of a savage autocrat spoiled by much adulation Joseph Conrad
ocean wind sea
Some of us, regarding the ocean with understanding and affection, have seen it looking old, as if the immemorial ages had been stirred up from the undisturbed bottom of ooze. For it is a gale of wind that makes the sea look old.
ocean men sea
The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
ocean sea land
The true peace of God begins at any spot a thousand miles from the nearest land.
ocean believe floating
One must explore deep and believe the incredible to find the new particles of truth floating in an ocean of insignificance.
ocean compass conscience
The Unknown is an ocean. What is conscience? The compass of the Unknown. Joseph Cook
ocean air water
Fish don't know much about water, and people didn't know much about air. Kary Mullis
ocean heart reality
It’s a pity if someone… has to console himself for the wreck of his days with the notion that somehow his voice, his work embodies the deepest, most obscure, freshest, rawest oyster of reality in the unfathomable refrigerator of the heart’s ocean, but I am such a one, and there you have it. Leonard Cohen
ocean tree branches
The Mercy of Allah is an Ocean, Our sins are a lump of clay clenched between the beak of a pigeon. The pigeon is perched on the branch of a tree at the edge of that ocean.It only has to open it's beak Leila Aboulela
ocean weather space
Some things are only capable of being done in space. Examples of that are looking at our Earth from that far away, and understanding the entire processes of storms and weather patterns, and oceans, and coastlines. Laurel Clark
ocean sea giving
tears have a purpose. they are what we carry of the ocean, and perhaps we must become the sea, give ourselves to it, if we are to be transformed. Linda Hogan
ocean dark winter
Walking, I can almost hear the redwoods beating. And the oceans are above me here, rolling clouds, heavy and dark. It is winter and there is smoke from the fires. It is a world of elemental attention, of all things working together, listening to what speaks in the blood. Whichever road I follow, I walk in the land of many gods, and they love and eat one another. Suddenly all my ancestors are behind me. Be still, they say. Watch and listen. You are the result of the love of thousands.
ocean swimming sky
I am probably in the sky, flying with the fish, or maybe in the ocean, swimming with the pigeons. See, my world is different... Lil Wayne
ocean feet environmental
For the life of me I can't understand why BP couldn't go in at the ocean floor, maybe 10 feet lateral to the - around the periphery, drill a few holes, and put a little ammonium nitrate, some dynamite in those holes, and detonate that dynamite, and seal that leak. Seal it permanently. Phil Gingrey
ocean blue rubber
I would recommend if you come to Ocean Grove and you're not from around here, don't wear rubber pants, a pink shirt and a blue jacket. Leave that for Asbury Park. Peter Noone
ocean water venture
Instead of standing on the shore and proving to ourselves that the ocean cannot carry us, let us venture on its waters just to see. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
ocean moving believe
I felt that I could swim for miles, out into the ocean: a desire for freedom, an impulse to move, tugged at me as though it were a thread fastened to my chest. It was an impulse I knew well, and I had learned that it was not the summons from a larger world I used to believe it to be. It was simply a desire to escape from what I had. Rachel Cusk
ocean past sea
In its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life and receives in the end, after, it may be, many transmutations, the dead husks of that same life. For all at last return to the sea - to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the ever-flowing stream of time, the beginning and the end.
ocean blessed sight
When I go from hence, let this be my parting word, that what I have seen is unsurpassable. I have tasted of the hidden honey of this lotus that expands on the ocean of light, and thus I am blessed—let this be my parting word. In this playhouse of infinite forms I have had my play and here have I caught sight of him who is formless. My whole body and my limbs have thrilled with his touch who is beyond touch; and if the end comes here, let it come—let this be my parting word. Rabindranath Tagore
ocean support tasks
I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united to support me in the task to which I have now been dedicated with such solemnity. Queen Elizabeth II
ocean two dolphins
I filmed underwater for two days in the open ocean with dolphins. Kathleen Quinlan
ocean two water
Take the case of the infinite ocean. There is no limit to its water. Suppose a pot is immersed in it: there is water both inside and outside the pot. The jnani sees that both inside and outside there is nothing but Paramatman. Then what is this pot? It is 'I-consciousness'. Because of the pot the water appears to be divided into two parts; because of the pot you seem to perceive an inside and an outside. One feels that way as long as this pot of 'I' exists. When the 'I' disappears, what is remains. That cannot be described in words. Ramakrishna
ocean heart men
The magnetic needle always points to the north, and hence it is that sailing vessel does not lose her direction. So long as the heart of man is directed towards God, he cannot be lost in the ocean of worldliness.
ocean rain heaven
An ocean of bliss may rain down from the heavens, but if you hold up only a thimble, that is all you receive
ocean cups buckets
If you approach the ocean with a cup, you can only take away a cupful; if you approach it with a bucket you can take away a bucketful. Ramana Maharshi
ocean grace use
The grace of the Guru is like an ocean. If one comes with a cup he will only get a cupful. It is no use complaining of the niggardliness of the ocean. The bigger the vessel the more one will be able to carry. It is entirely up to him.
ocean character perception
Who heeds the waste abyss of possibility? The ocean is everywhere the same, but it has no character until seen with the shore or the ship. Ralph Waldo Emerson