Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Sandburg

The sea is always the same: and yet the sea always changes.

Clarice Lispector

There it is, the sea, the most incomprehensible of non-human existences.

Clarice Lispector

Whether she won or lost, she would continue to wrestle with life. It would not be with her own life alone but with all of life. Something had finally been released within her. And there it was, the sea.

Elizabeth Strout

Sometimes, like now, Olive had a sense of just how desperately hard every person in the world was working to get what they needed. For most, it was a sense of safety, in the sea of terror that life increasingly became. (211)

Elizabeth I

He who placed me in this seat will keep me here.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

To taste the sea all one needs is one gulp.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

It's not the sea that drowns you-it's the puddle.

Alejandro Amenabar

In Hollywood you always feel a bit like a hake. The publicists march people up and down in front of you and they interview you... You feel like the turbot and the sea-bream go by, and you're the hake.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

There twice a day the Severn fills; The salt sea-water passes by, And hushes half the babbling Wye, And makes a silence in the hills.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Broad based upon her people's will, And compassed by the inviolate sea.

Aldous Huxley

You got rid of them. Yes, that’s just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether ‘tis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them… But you don’t do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It’s too easy.

Derrick Brooks

(We) still have a lot to accomplish. That's something to think about when the season is over.

This season has really been a tale of two seasons for me,

Ashton Kutcher

When I was on the '70s Show,' I had that and I had 'Punk'd' and I had my own production company. That pretty much sealed up all my time.

Ashley Scott

I worked with her on the second season of Dark Angel in Vancouver, one of my first real jobs.

We'd like to get through the tourist season and see who's using it.

Daunte Culpepper

We don't have to search for a different personality. We just have to do what we do.

Bruce Johnston

There are not enough seats in the steel lifeboat for everybody.

The Church's foundation is unshakable and firm against the assaults of the raging sea. Waves lash at the Church but do not shatter it. Although the elements of this world constantly batter and crash against her, she offers the safest harbor of salvation for all in distress.

The world has been created for everyone's use, but you few rich are trying to keep it up for yourselves. For not merely the possession of the earth, but the very sky, the air, and the sea are claimed for the use of the rich few... The earth belongs to all, not just to the rich.

Lyle Lovett

A woman comes to a table, and you're supposed to get up. Period. But I don't always do it. In general, you're supposed to do it every time. But sometimes you're seated against the wall, and it's awkward.

Andrew Marvell

This indigested vomit of the Sea,Fell to the Dutch by Just Propriety.

Amy Jo Martin

You're more likely to drown in the sea of sameness than get eaten by a shark while navigating new waters.

A. P. Herbert

This high official, all allow, is grossly overpaid; there wasn't any Board, and now there isn't any Trade.

A. A. Milne

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.

Adam Smith

The ancient Egyptians had a superstitious antipathy to the sea; a superstition nearly of the same kind prevails among the Indians; and the Chinese have never excelled in foreign commerce.

Achim Steiner

In our interdependent world, our neighbors are not only on our street, but can be ten thousand miles away on an island in rising seas.

Abraham Cowley

When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty's handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.

Abraham Lincoln

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

Nicolas Berggruen

Think of everything in Seattle - Microsoft, Amazon, Starbucks. Then you go down to Silicon Valley - Intel, Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter. What does New York produce?

Leigh Hunt

Anglers boast of the innocence of their pastime; yet it puts fellow-creatures to the torture. They pique themselves on their meditative faculties; and yet their only excuse is a want of thought.

Our season was a real struggle all year long. Nothing went our way all year, but this weekend we didn't give up.

Mariano Rivera

Look at the season I had in '96, ... But I won because we won the World Series. That's how it finished. I didn't think about it again.