Sea Quotes

What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.

To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.

An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.

When you grow up on an island, what matters is how you stand to the sea.

Direct access to sea is an essential part of foreign policy.

The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.

If the infinity of the sea may call out thus, perhaps when a man is growing old, calls come to him, too, from another infinity still darker and more deeply mysterious; and the more he is wearied by life the dearer are those calls to him.

One of the many, many salutary aspects of Barack Obama's impending presidential nomination is the sea change his victory marks in the battle for the mind-set of the American foreign policy establishment.

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.

The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.

There is no humane slaughter requirement for wild fish caught and killed at sea, nor, in most places, for farmed fish.

I think the concept of the sea is very important.

The sea has neither meaning nor pity.

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you're connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live.

I want to go to sea.

When you're young, you don't really know quite what you're aiming at. You're very impulsive and acting on impulse, which is very important and valuable. But you're kind of swimming in a blind sea. When you get older, you have more of a sense of direction.

Hence a ship is said to head the sea, when her course is opposed to the setting or direction of the surges.

But the revolutions and changes which are responsible for the present state of the earth are not limited to the upsetting of the ancient strata and to the ebbing of the sea after the formations of new layers.

The storm came. Lives were washed away. Ancient pains resurfaced. Now it is time for a sea of change.

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

The ethics of editorial judgement, however, began to go though a sea change during the late 1970s and '80s when the Carter and Reagan Administrations de-regulated the television industry.

Down below the broad, roaring waves of the sea break against the deep foundation of the rock. But high above the mountain, the sea, and the peaks of rock the eternal ornamentation blooms silently from the dark depths of the universe.

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.

I wanted to be an artist. I was studying art. I wanted to be a great painter. When I went into the Navy, there wasn't much to draw at sea. So I began writing, and I began reading a lot.

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

Praise the sea, on shore remain.

I wanted to go to sea when I graduated from high school but my folks talked me out of it.

In the islands of the Aegean Sea, every island is full of graves.