Quotes About Submerged

Man, as man, has never realized himself. The greater part of him, his potential being, has always been submerged. What is history if not the endless story of his repeated failures?

maybe his libido was submerged in some sort of polymorphous love of nature, as some biographers have theorized about Thoreau.

They knew the money had to go somewhere more secure. In '96, they dug a hole in the playa with a backhoe and submerged an old water heater. They thrust a pipe into the water heater, left the other end of the pipe flush with the playa surface, and erected John Law's tent over it, with a hole cut in the bottom over the pipe. Daily, bagged wads of cash were shoved down the pipe.

Noah's flood is not yet subsided; two thirds of the fair world it yet covers.

We knew so little about eachother. We lay mostly submerged, like ice floes with our visible social selves projecting only cool and white. Here was a rare sight below the waves, of a man's privacy and turmoil, of his dignity upended by the overpowering necessity of pure fantasy, pure thought, by the irreducible human element - Mind.

But it would be risky to explain so widespread a myth by phenomena of which no geological traces have been found. The majority of the flood myths seem in some sense to form part of the cosmic rhythm: the old world, peopled by a fallen humanity, is submerged under the waters, and some time later a new world emerges from the aquatic "chaos.

Under the warm light cast by the reading lamp, I was submerged into a new world of images and sensations peopled by characters who seemed to me as real as my surroundings.

Placid waters hide lethal currents.

Under the sea, the fish eat us. I know, I know, oh, oh, oh.

Even a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work and helps make something of the world.

The right, indeed, is indestructible. Warsaw can no more be Tartar than Venice can be Teutonic. Kings waste their energies in that contention, and lose their honour. Sooner or later the submerged nation rises again to the surface; Greece is still Greece and Italy, Italy... The theft of a people can never be justified. These august swindles have no future. A nation cannot be shaped as though it were a pocket handkerchief.

I am an underwater explorer, not a treasure hunter.

there was stored substrata along

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes makes its way to the surface.

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

It sharpened, it refined them, the yellow-blue evening light; and on the leaves in the square shone lurid, livid - they looked as if dipped in sea water - the foliage of a submerged city.

She might be a little introverted, livelier of movement than of conversation, neither bashful nor forward, with a soul that seemed submerged, but in a radiant moistness. Opalescent on the surface but translucent in her depths…

Finally, she is dancing, truly dancing, across a submerged ballroom and fearing no misstep, for her partner has got her tight and will lead her anyplace she needs to go.

I see nothing. I do not move. It is an empty time, animal time, vigilant, I am submerged, under the earth and under time. I listen. Perhaps the waiting is a form of prayer.

I'm not aware that I was consciously influenced by any director, though these things often happen unnoticed, submerged in the unconscious.

Inferno. In addition to Botticelli's celebrated Map of Hell, there was Rodin's timeless sculpture of The Three Shades from The Gates of Hell Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Stradanus's illustration of Phlegyas paddling through submerged bodies on

Timeless, so age don't count in the booth When your flow stay submerged in the fountain of youth

The hand of an artist should rescue you Ã¢â'¬â€œ you should not be submerged like all the rest of us and forever, without leaving a trace of your existence behind

My passion was dead. For years it had rolled over and submerged me; now I felt empty. But that wasn't the worst: before me, posed with a sort of indolence, was a voluminous, insipid idea. I did not see clearly what it was, but it sickened me so much I couldn't look at it.