“Our existence as embodied beings is purely momentary; what are a hundred years in eternity? But if we shatter the chains of egotism, and melt into the ocean of humanity, we share its dignity. To feel that we are something is to set up a barrier between God and ourselves; to cease feeling that we are something, is to become one with God.” IfsFeelsYearsGodFeelingsHumanityExistenceShareOceanHundredDignityEternityCeaseChainsBarriersEgotismMomentary Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
“The ocean is a place of paradoxes. It is the home of the great white shark, two-thousand-pound killer of the seas, and of the hundred-foot blue whale, the largest animal that ever lived. It is also the home of living things so small that your two hands might scoop up as many of them as there are stars in the Milky Way.” WayTwoHomeHandsMightStarsWhiteAnimalSeaFeetThousandOceanHundredBluePoundsParadoxKillersLiving ThingsSharksWhalesMilky WayTwo Hands Book:Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson Source: Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson
“I'm one-hundred-fifty miles off Cape Horn, both autopilots are broken, and my boat is drifting toward one of the nastiest chunks of ocean on the face of the earth.” EarthFacesBrokenOceanHundredMilesBoatFiftyHornsDriftingChunksCapesAutopilot Author:Abby Sunderland
“Suppose that you could mark the molecules in a glass of water; then pour the contents of the glass into the ocean and stir the latter throughly so as to distribute the marked molecules uniformly throughout the seven seas; if then you took a glass of water anywhere out of the ocean, you would find in it about a hundred of your marked molecules.” IfsWaterSeaOceanHundredMarkSevenGlassesLatterMoleculesIf Then Author:Lord Kelvin
“One of my favorite places is the Maldives, an all-Muslim nation in the Indian Ocean with a culture that stretches back 5,000 years. But since the highest point in the archipelago is a meter or two above sea level, even the next hundred are not guaranteed. They've committed to becoming the first carbon-neutral nation on Earth by 2020, building windmills as fast as they can.” YearsFirstsTwoEarthCultureNextNationsLevelsSeaBuildingBecomingOceanHighestHundredMy FavoriteCommittedIndianCarbonMeterFavorite PlacesWindmillsMaldives Author:Bill McKibben
“We were doing Scarface many years ago...and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean. I thought, what's going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director, Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.” PeopleYearsDoeRememberWaitingSawsDirectorsOceanHundredYears AgoStandingTablesCoffeeBeachShoreWhalesSurfStood UpBrianStanding ThereScarface Author:Al Pacino
“My father took one hundred and thirty-two minutes to die. I counted. It happened on the Jellicoe Road. The prettiest road I’d ever seen, where trees made breezy canopies like a tunnel to Shangri-La. We were going to the ocean, hundreds of miles away, because I wanted to see the ocean and my father said that it was about time the four of us made that journey. I remember asking, 'What’s the difference between a trip and a journey?' and my father said, 'Narnie, my love, when we get there, you’ll understand,' and that was the last thing he ever said.” MadeSaidTwoWantedLastsRememberDiesFatherDifferencesFourHappenedTreeJourneyMinutesOceanHundredAskingMilesThirtyTunnelsMiles AwayPrettiestCanopyBreezyJellicoe RoadShangri Book:Jellicoe Road Source: Jellicoe Road
“'It’s, like, one of them drug dealer boats,' Vic says, looking through his magic sight. 'Five guys on it. Headed our way.' He fires another round. 'Correction. Four guys on it.' Boom. 'Correction, they’re not headed our way anymore.' Boom. A fireball erupts from the ocean two hundred feet away. 'Correction. No boat.'” WayTwoGuyFireFiveFourMagicFeetDrugOceanHundredSightRoundsBoatDealerCorrectionsDrug Dealers Author:Neal Stephenson
“I could be blindfolded and dropped into the deepest ocean and I would know where to find you. I could be buried a hundred miles underground and I would know where you are.” KnowsOceanHundredMilesWhere You AreBuriedBlindfolded Author:Neil Gaiman
“In fourteen hundred ninety-two Columbus sailed the ocean blue and discovered America. Now, some have argued Columbus actually discovered the West Indies, or that Norsemen had discovered America centuries earlier, or that you really can't get credit for discovering a land already populated by indigenous people with a developed civilization. Those people are communists. Columbus discovered America.” PeopleTwoAmericaLandCenturyCivilizationOceanHundredBlueWestCreditCommunistDiscoveringNinetyIndigenousFourteenColumbusIndigenous PeopleWest Indies Author:Jon Stewart
“Nothing's ever the same," she said. "Be it a second later or a hundred years. It's always churning and roiling. And people change as much as oceans.” PeopleYearsSaidOceanHundredChurning Author:Neil Gaiman