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Quotes About Seas

His blue eyes were seas where sorrow sailed.
~ Dean Koontz
I wish I could convey the perfection... But language founders in such seas
~ Yann Martel
Time is a dream ... a destroying dream; it lays great cities in dust, it fills the seas; it covers the face of beauty, and tumbles walls.
~ Conrad Aiken
In April, God speaks to us in the seas whose rhythmic murmuring fills our ears from a long way off. It was in April that the Titanic went down into the deep to lie like a slasher's victim, bleeding the 'debris field' - its passengers' personal possessions, the everyday things of everyman and everywoman - across the ocean's floor.
~ Eugene Kennedy
Intellectual disgraceStares from every human face,And the seas of pity lieLocked and frozen in each eye.
~ W. H. Auden
My heart is hardy, for I have suffered much on the seas and the battlefield: this will be only something more. But a ravenous belly cannot be hid, damn the thing. It gives a world of trouble to men, makes them fit out fleets of ships and scour the barren sea, to bring misery on their enemies.
~ Unknown
O that we had, to make our woes more public, Seas in our eyes, and brazen tongues by nature, A yelling voice, and hearts composed of sorrow, Breath made of flames, wits knowing naught but damage, Our sports murd'ring ourselves, our musics wailing, Our studies fixed upon the falls of fortune.
~ Philip Sidney
It is our duty to select the best and most dependable theory that human intelligence can supply, and use it as a raft to ride the seas of life.
~ Plato
Upon the high seas is the wrong way of saying it, a horizon of ocean makes shallow the place of an onlooker.
~ Ivan Doig
Man is nature, nature man, and all crude and raw, stinking, vicious, evil. And holding that evil lightly because the collective mind refuses to recall the spring of mountains, the vault of seas and, of course, beside that, the puny murder of millions.
~ Unknown
Like tiny islands on the horizon, they can vanish in rough seas. Even in calm weather, their coral gradually erodes, pickled by salt and heat. Yet they form the shoals of a life. Some offer safe lagoons and murmuring trees. Others crawl with pirates and reptiles. Together they connect a self with the mainland and society. Plot their trail and a mercurial past becomes visible. Memories feel geological in their repose, solid and true, the bedrock of consciousness.
~ Diane Ackerman
Even at brightest noon, it's always Full moon in my country. In these streets of Tropic stone and Malay blood, daylight is Moonlight mugging me on every corner Where human shadows loll in an atmosphere Both lunar and lunatic. And while from either pole we're Half a world and seas away, this Might as well be An arctic archipelago, where as The sun burns the colder it gets. This might as well be Equatorial Antarctica...
~ Unknown
We learn lessons from storms that we cannot learn from calm seas.
~ John H. Groberg
The same that oft-times hath charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam of perilous seas, in fairy lands forlorn.
~ John Keats
It is far, far better and much safer to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
It was said in the First World War that the French fought for their country, the British fought for freedom of the seas, and the Americans fought for souvenirs.
~ Margaret Truman
The future of Japan's economic growth depends on us having the willpower and the courage to sail without hesitation onto the rough seas of global competition.
~ Shinzo Abe
Ye gentlemen of EnglandThat live at home at ease,Ah! little do you think uponThe dangers of the seas.
~ Unknown
If rain drops were kisses,I could send you showers. if hugs were seas I send you oceans. and if love was a person I send you me!!
~ Unknown
On the day that Raphael crossed the border, the seas had turned a violent impossible blue, as had every river and every lake across the world. Even the rain that fell from the sky was a glorious blue, and when it shattered, it left behind a sparkling residue, faceted diamond dust in the palm
~ Nalini Singh
When I open the door, the cold rushes immediately into the lodge, as though it had been pounding there the whole time, fighting desperately to smash through the windows—to tear the frames from their hinges—to come flooding in—to drown us all in icy seas—snowcapped waves. As though our world inside should never have existed at all.
~ Unknown
The explanatory panel adds that because the Temple of the Tranquil Seas was "the former site of negotiating the Treaty of Nanjing, the first unequal treaty of modern China, [it] has become a symbol of the commencement of China's modern history.
~ Unknown
The true substance of love lies in the act of howling words of love with a desperation of a man jumping into the high seas.
~ Osamu Dazai
God called the dry land “earth,” and the gathering of waters He called “seas.” And God saw that it was good.
~ Genesis 1:10