Best High Seas Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Good. Never fear the dark, Eve. Fear the things that hide within it.”

Source: High Seas

“Fiction has been maligned for centuries as being "false," "untrue," yet good fiction provides more truth about the world, about life, and even about the reader, than can be found in non-fiction.”

“When they reached their ship, Ed gazed out at the bay. It was black. The sky was black, but the bay was even blacker. It was a slick, oily blackness that glowed and reflected the moonlight like a black jewel. Ed saw the tiny specks of light around the edges of the bay where he knew ships must be docked, and at different points within the bay where vessels would be anchored. The lights were pale and sickly yellow when compared with the bright blue-white sparkle of the stars overhead, but the stars glinted hard as diamonds, cold as ice. Pg. 26.”

Source: Once upon a Decade: Tales of the Fifties

“Do you not hear the loud gallop of the Storm-riders and the thunderous battle horn from their Heralds, coming from the high seas? Night falls, and so will you.”

Night Battle Storm Warning Riders Messengers High Seas

Book:Svetioničar - Vesnici oluje

Source: Svetioničar - Vesnici oluje

“When it comes to the high seas, not all monsters lurk beneath the surface.”

Monsters Pirates High Seas

Book:A Ship of Bones and Teeth

Source: A Ship of Bones and Teeth

“Secrets were like cobwebs. They began with a single, seemingly innocuous strand, and built into a filth that marred what once was beautiful.”

High Seas Enoch

Book:High Seas

Source: High Seas

“Sister, it is easy to blame others when we are forced to see the worst parts of ourselves.”

High Seas Enoch Terah

Book:High Seas

Source: High Seas

“Isn’t that what love is? Giving your heart to someone, knowing only they have the power to make it bleed? Because no one else on the earth matters as much as them. Even with the knowledge that heartache is assured, our hearts are willing sacrifices.”

Eve High Seas Enoch Terah

Book:High Seas

Source: High Seas

“But a thing about a wounded heart was that it never mended completely. The scars it bore were like chains that kept it from making foolish mistakes again.”

High Seas Enoch Terah

Book:High Seas

Source: High Seas

“Unfortunately, I know that it’s entirely possible to hate what you love. It’s a tormenting feeling, like having two minds, or like your body is constantly being pulled apart by separate ropes.”

Eve High Seas Enoch

Book:High Seas

Source: High Seas

“My last picture for Warners was Romance on the High Seas. It was Doris Day's first picture; that was before she became a virgin.”

Firsts Lasts Romance Sea Virgins High Seas Dori

Author:Oscar Levant

“We have reached the time in the life of the planet, and humanity's demand upon it, when every fisherman will have to be a river-keeper, a steward of marine shallows, a watchman on the high seas. We are beyond having to put back what we have taken out. We must put back more than we take out.”

Humanity Taken Sea Planets Demand Rivers Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Marine Keepers Fisherman Stewards High Seas

Book:The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing

Source: The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing

“With Nietzsche, the black pirates' flag appears for the first time on the high sea of German knowledge. (He is) a different man, from a different race, (his,) a new kind of heroism, philosophywith bellicose weapons and armor.”

Men Firsts Kind Different Black Race Knowledge Sea Weapons First Time Philosophical Flags Heroism Pirate Armor Different Races High Seas

Author:Stefan Zweig

“Icelandic people are inbred. And they have a sense of themselves as genetically special, and a history of risk-taking because they make their living on the high seas fishing. Assets generally rose in value during this period, and so it looked like they actually knew what they were doing.”

People Values Risk Sea Special Periods Rose Fishing Assets Living On Risk-taking High Seas Inbreds

Author:Michael Lewis

“In high tide or in low tide, I'll be by your side”

Sides Lows Tides Your Side High Seas

Author:Bob Marley

“I have vertigo. Vertigo makes it feel like the floor is pitching up and down. Things seem to be spinning. It's like standing on the deck of a ship in really high seas.”

Feels Seems Sea Standing Ships Up And Down Spinning Pitching Deck Vertigo High Seas

Author:Laura Hillenbrand

“I have always felt I lived on the high seas, threatened, at the heart of a royal happiness.”

Heart Felt Sea Threatened Royal High Seas

Book:Lyrical and Critical Essays

Source: Lyrical and Critical Essays

“When you are playing an egomaniac running a fantastical ship, you don't want him to be too suburban. Naturalism doesn't work on the high seas.”

Want Running Sea Ships Want Him Naturalism Egomaniacs High Seas

Author:Geoffrey Rush

“The legislator is like the navigator of a ship on the high seas. He can steer the vessel on which he sails, but he cannot alter its construction, raise the wind, or stop the waves from swelling beneath his feet.”

Sea Feet Wind Raises Wave Ships Construction Sail Vessel Steers Legislators Swelling High Seas Navigators

Author:Alexis de Tocqueville

“The flag that was the symbol of slavery on the high seas for a long time was not the Confederate battle flag, it was sadly the Stars and Stripes.”

Long Stars Sea Battle Long Time Slavery Symbols Flags Stripes Confederate American Flag Slave Trade High Seas

Author:Alan Keyes

“For decades Israel has been capturing, and kidnapping Lebanese and Palestinian refugees on the high seas, from Cyprus to Lebanon, killing them in Lebanon, bringing them to Israel, holding them as hostages. It's been going on for decades, has anybody called for an invasion of Israel?”

Has Beens Sea Killing Israel Decades Palestinian Refugee Invasion Hostage Kidnapping Lebanon High Seas Lebanese Cyprus Palestinian Refugees

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Oil platforms are a technology for floating permanently on the high seas, and cruise ships are a technology for self-governance on the high seas, and if you combine these two technologies, imagine cruise ships that never dock but float permanently. Imagine if they were 10 times as big. Imagine if they were modular and could move about and you could choose the neighbours you wanted to live with.”

Ifs Two Self Bigs Wanted Moving Technology Imagine Sea Oil Ships Platforms Floating Floats Governance Neighbour Cruise Docks Cruise Ships High Seas

Author:Joe Quirk

“As far as I am concerned I wish to be out on the high seas. I wish to take my chances with wind, and wave, and star. And I had rather go down in the glory and grandeur of the storm, than rot in any orthodox harbor.”

Wish Stars Chance Sea Wind Glory Concerned Wave Storm Orthodox Harbors Grandeur High Seas

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“And the ship went out into the High Sea and passed into the West, until at last on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a far green country under a swift sunrise.”

Source: The Lord of the Rings: The return of the King

“It has been said that the hardest job in the world is raising a child, but the people who says this have probably never worked at a comb factory or captured pirates on the high seas.”

People World Children Has Beens Said Jobs Sea Hardest Factories Raising Children Captured Pirate Combs Hardest Job High Seas

Author:Daniel Handler

“I love you, I know this must come as something of a surprise, since all I’ve ever done is scorn you and degrade you and taunt you, but I have loved you for several hours now, and every second, more. I thought an hour ago that I loved you more than any woman has ever loved a man, but a half hour after that I knew that what I felt before was nothing compared to what I felt then. But ten minutes after that, I understood that my previous love was a puddle compared to the high seas before a storm.”

Knows Men Done Felt Hours Half Sea Minutes Love You Ten Understood Surprise Storm Scorn Degrade Every Second Half Hours I Loved You Puddles Taunting High Seas

Book:The Princess Bride

Source: The Princess Bride

“I felt the need to clarify we were there for the self defense class, in case he also taught about dog breeding or riding the high seas.”

Needs Self Felt Class Cases Sea Dog Taught Defense Riding Self Defense Breeding High Seas

Author:Richelle Mead

“In high seas or in low seas, I'm gonna be your friend... I'm gonna be your friend. In high tide or in low tide, I'll be by your side... I'll be by your side.”

Sides Sea Lows Tides Your Side High Seas

Author:Bob Marley

“There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.”

Source: Lord Jim

“The tradition of freedom of the high seas has its roots in an era when there were too few people to seriously violate the oceans - but in hindsight that era ended some 150 years ago.”

People Years Sea Ocean Years Ago Tradition Roots Eras Hindsight Ocean Sea Oceans And Seas High Seas

Author:James Carlton

“It so happened that I was on a German sailing vessel on the way to Australia when the ship was captured, and on the high seas I was made prisoner by the French.”

Way Inspirational Made Funny Happened Sea Ships Australia Prisoner Sailing Vessel Captured High Seas

Author:Fritz Sauckel

“Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another's struggles.”

Literature Water Struggle Sea Land Sweet Wind High Seas

Author:Lucretius

“The written word is redundant on the high seas. Why? Because paper gets wet too easily.”

Written Sea Paper Wet Written Word Redundant High Seas

Book:13 1/2 Lives of Captain Blue Bear

Source: 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Blue Bear

“Dozens of nations have agreed to join in monitoring and, if necessary, intercepting and boarding ships on the high seas in the event they are suspected of engaging in one or both of these threatening activities.”

Ifs Nations Sea Events Activity Ships Dozen Threatening Engaging Monitoring High Seas

Author:Frank Gaffney

“We should take mothers in high seas and drown them there, they are as poisonous as lead in the air.”

Should Mother Air Sea Poisonous Lead In High Seas

Author:Philip K. Dick

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