Best sea & danger Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“But I've never really done anything that implies any kind of danger. I wouldn't skydive, I wouldn't deep sea dive, I wouldn't parachute. I think you're really just rolling the dice. Who packed your chute the night before?”

Thinking Kind Done Night Sea Danger Rolling Dice Parachutes Deep Sea

Author:Eugene Levy

“Money never seems to be interested in strengthening regulatory agencies, for example, but always in subverting them, in making them miss the danger signs in coal mines and in derivatives trading and in deep-sea oil wells.”

Wells Seems Sea Missing Danger Example Mines Oil Agency Coal Trading Strengthening Derivatives Deep Sea

Book:No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler

Source: No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler

“However, the balloon, lightened of heavy articles, such as ammunition, arms, and provisions, had risen into the higher layers of the atmosphere, to a height of 4,500 feet. The voyagers, after having discovered that the sea extended beneath them, and thinking the dangers above less dreadful than those below, did not hesitate to throw overboard even their most useful articles, while they endeavored to lose no more of that fluid, the life of their enterprise, which sustained them above the abyss.”

Thinking Loses Sea Feet Danger Arms Higher Heavy Atmosphere Height Enterprise Articles Layers Abyss Provision Fluid Risen Balloons Ammunition Overboard

Book:The Collected Works Of Jules Verne

Source: The Collected Works Of Jules Verne

“Tide flowing is feared, for many a thing, Great danger to such as be sick, it doth bring; Sea ebb, by long ebbing, some respite doth give, And sendeth good comfort, to such as shall live.”

Giving Long Sea Danger Comfort Sick Tides Respite

Book:Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry,: As Well for the Champion Or Open Country, as for the Woodland Or Several; Together with A Book of Huswifery. Being a Calendar of Rural and Domestic Economy, for Every Month in the Year; and Exhibiting a Picture of the Agriculture, Customs, and Manners of England, in the Sixteenth Century

Source: Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry,: As Well for the Champion Or Open Country, as for the Woodland Or Several; Together with A Book of Huswifery. Being a Calendar of Rural and Domestic Economy, for Every Month in the Year; and Exhibiting a Picture of the Agriculture, Customs, and Manners of England, in the Sixteenth Century

“God gave the sea the danger and the abyss, but it was in it that He mirrored the sky.”

Sea Sky Danger Mirrors Abyss

Author:Fernando Pessoa

“Managers think of themselves as captains of a ship on a stormy sea. Risk for them is danger, but they are fighting it, very controlled.”

Thinking Fighting Business Risk Sea Danger Ships Managers Controlled Captains Stormy Stormy Seas

Author:Daniel Kahneman

“My soul, the seas are rough, and thou a stranger In these false coasts; O keep aloof; there's danger; Cast forth thy plummet; see, a rock appears; Thy ships want sea-room; make it with thy tears.”

Want Soul Rooms Sea Rocks Danger Tears Casts Stranger Ships My Soul Rough Coast Aloof

Book:The Poetical Works of Richard Crashaw and Quarles' Emblems

Source: The Poetical Works of Richard Crashaw and Quarles' Emblems

“The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.”