Best sea & facts Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“How many of our virtues originate in the fear of Death & that while we flatter ourselves that we are melting in Christian Sensibility over the sorrows of our human Brethren and Sisteren, we are in fact, tho' perhaps unconsciously, moved at the prospect of our own End for who sincerely pities Sea-sickness, Toothache, or a fit of the Gout in a lusty Good-liver of 50?”

Humans Ends Facts Christian Virtue Sea Fit Sorrow Moved Pity Sickness Sensibility Sincerely Fear Of Death Melting Liver Brethren Toothache Gout

Book:Collected Letters: 1820-1825

Source: Collected Letters: 1820-1825

“It is only the basest writer who cannot speak of the sea without talking of "raging waves," "remorseless floods," "ravenous billows," etc.; and it is one of the signs of the highest power in a writer to check all such habits of thought, and to keep his eyes fixed firmly on the pure fact , out of which if any feeling comes to him or his reader, he knows it must be a true one.”

Ifs Knows Facts Feelings Eye Speak Talking Sea Reader Habit Pure Highest Wave Rage Checks Fixed His Eyes Etc Flood True Ones Remorseless

Book:The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings

Source: The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings

“The sea erupted. Often the sea and land changed places. The immobility of contours of continents and seas, a dogma in geology, has no basis in fact. And immediately there is the problem of the climate. There were ancient climates that were very different from what they are today. If those corals grew where they were found, certainly the Earth was not travelling with the same elements of rotation and revolution which means not in the same orbit, not with the axis directed in the same position as it is today. If you don't believe it, try to conservate corals on the North Pole.”

“Truth is a matter of the imagination. The soundest fact may fail or prevail in the style of its telling: like that singular organic jewel of our seas, which grows brighter as one woman wears it and, worn by another, dulls and goes to dust.”

May Matter Facts Grows Imagination Failing Sea Style Truth Is Dust Worn Jewels Brighter One Woman

Book:The Left Hand of Darkness

Source: The Left Hand of Darkness

“Sawbeaked epitome of bodiless Idea, tossed by gusts of ether, dive Through abstract mists and raid the sea of fact Eat rich strange fish, grow long bright feathers, press Form's flesh around thought's rib, and so derive From the act of beauty, beauty of the act.”

Long Ideas Facts Form Grows Rich Sea Strange Presses Fishes Flesh Abstract Feathers Mist Ribs Epitome

Author:Philip Jose Farmer

“Divinity lies all around us, but society remains too hidebound to accept that fact...The mother sea and the fountain-head of all religions lies in the mystical experiences of the individual.”

Facts Lying Mother Individual Accepting Sea Remains Divinity Mystical Fountain Mystical Experiences Fountain Head

Author:William James

“We who go a-fishing are a peculiar people. Like other men and women in many respects, we are like one another, and like no others, in other respects. We understand each other's thoughts by an intuition of which we know nothing. We cast our flies on many waters, where memories and fancies and facts rise, and we take them and show them to each other, and small or large, we are content with our catch.”

People Knows Men Facts Shows Water Memories Sea Men And Women Rivers Casts Fishes Intuition Boat Fancy Lakes Fishing Peculiar

Author:William Cowper Prime

“The trout that seem to stick in my memory the finest aren't the big ones, and maybe it's because I have't visited all the corners of the globe, but my most unforgettable trout all lived close to home. In fact, when I take out my pouch of trout memories and spill them all on the table, it seems that the smaller ones shine the brightest.”

Facts Home Bigs Seems Memories Sea Rivers Tables Shining Sticks Fishes Corners Boat Lakes Fishing Globes Finest Spills Trout Unforgettable

Author:William G. Tapply

“It's an odd fact of life that whichever side of the stream you're on, two-thirds of the best water is out of reach on the other side.”

Two Facts Sides Water Sea Rivers Thirds Fishes Boat Odd Streams Lakes Fishing Facts Of Life

Book:No Shortage of Good Days

Source: No Shortage of Good Days

“The fact is, there's a great deal of hair-splitting fussiness when it comes to fly-fishing, most of it as silly as a top hat.”

Facts Deals Sea Hair Rivers Fishes Silly Boat Hats Lakes Fishing Fly Fishing Splitting Top Hats

Book:The Summer Guest

Source: The Summer Guest

“The things fishermen know about trout aren't facts but articles of faith.”

Knows Facts Sea Rivers Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Articles Fisherman Trout

Book:Trout Bum

Source: Trout Bum

“At least since Darwin's day, we have known that all of us originally emerged from the sea. That fact may account for our abiding fascination with it, our longing to return there, whether to sail the main or merely contemplate its restless enormity.”

May Facts Known Sea Return Accounts Longing Contemplating Sail Restless Fascination Abiding

Author:J. D. McClatchy

“the sea is a place of mystery. One by one, the mysteries of yesterday have been solved. But the solution seems always to bring with it another, perhaps a deeper mystery. I doubt that the last, final mysteries of the sea will ever be resolved. In fact, I cherish a very unscientific hope that they will not be.”

Has Beens Facts Seems Lasts Doubt Mystery Sea Ocean Solutions Finals Deeper Yesterday Cherish

Book:Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson

Source: Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson

“I think that in fact by taking on the persona of a human being, you begin to realise that it is all ego, and that beneath that ego is something else, and that something else is a tranquil, nonentity, that we are simply drops of the sea, that we belong to each other.”

Thinking Humans Facts Human Beings Sea Ego Realising Persona Tranquil Nonentity

Author:George Ogilvie

“And in between the two, in between the sky and the sea, were all the winds. And there were all the nights and all the moons. To be a castaway is to be a point perpetually at the centre of a circle. However much things may appear to change-the sea may shift from whisper to rage, the sky might go from fresh blue to blinding white to darkest black-the geometry never changes. Your gaze is always a radius. The circumference is ever great. In fact, the circles multiply. To be a castaway is to be caught in a harrowing ballet of circles.”

May Two Facts Might Night Black White Sea Sky Wind Moon Blue Caught Rage Circles Ballet Centre Never Change Geometry Radius Castaway

Author:Yann Martel

“It is true that many of the Sea Shepherd crewmembers are inexperienced, but the fact is that these volunteers bring a passion to the project that cannot be found in a hired crew.”

Facts Passion Found Sea Projects Volunteer Crew Shepherds

Author:Paul Watson

“The Hour-Hand of Life --- Life consists of rare, isolated moments of the greatest significance, and of innumerably many intervals, during which at best the silhouettes of those moments hover about us. Love, springtime, every beautiful melody, mountains, the moon, the sea - all these speak completely to the heart but once, if in fact they ever do get a chance to speak completely. For many men do not have those moments at all, and are themselves intervals and intermissions in the symphony of real life.”

Source: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

“No poetic phantasy but a biological reality, a fact: I am an entity like bird, insect, plant or sea-plant cell; I live; I am alive.”

Life Facts Reality Alive Sea Bird Plant Cells Live Life Poetic Realism Entity Insects I Am Alive

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“Are coral reefs growing from the depths of the oceans? ... [The] reply is a simple negative; and a single fact establishes its truth. The reef-forming coral zoophytes, as has been shown, cannot grow at greater depths than 100 or 120 feet; and therefore in seas deeper than this, the formation or growth of reefs over the bottom is impossible.”

Has Beens Facts Grows Growth Simple Greater Growing Impossible Sea Feet Ocean Negative Depth Bottom Deeper Formation Reefs Coral Reefs

Author:James Dwight Dana

“How circumstantial reality is! Facts are like individual letters, with their spikes and loops and thorns, that make up words: eventually they hurt our eyes, and we long to take a bath, to rake the lawn, to look at the sea.”

Looks Long Facts Reality Eye Individual Hurt Sea Letters Baths Thorns Lawns Loops Rakes

Author:John Updike

“Impartial observers from other planets would consider ours an utterly bizarre enclave if it were populated by birds, defined as flying animals, that nevertheless rarely or never actually flew. They would also be perplexed if they encountered in our seas, lakes, rivers, and ponds, creatures defined as swimmers that never did any swimming. But they would be even more surprised to encounter a species defined as a thinking animal if, in fact, the creature very rarely indulged in actual thinking.”

Source: Dumbth: The Lost Art of Thinking : with 101 Ways to Reason Better & Improve Your Mind

“Augustine said that we were all born into the world of "common grace" [i.e., available to all]. Before one is baptized, or even if one never is, such grace meets one in God's creation. There is grace in the pear tree that blooms and blushes. There is common grace in the sea (that massive cleanliness which we are proceeding to corrupt), in the fact that there was, before we laid hands on it, clean air. Our task is to appreciate that grace.”

Ifs World Said Facts Hands Born Common Grace Air Tree Sea Creation Appreciate Tasks Clean Available Massive Cleanliness Proceeding Baptized Pears Augustine God's Creation Clean Air

Author:Joseph Sittler

“I am convinced that America's great sea of goodwill can be, in fact, a rising tide, a tide that could lift every veteran and every family of our wounded and fallen.”

Facts America Sea Convinced Lifts Fallen Rising Tides Wounded Veteran Goodwill

Author:Michael Mullen

“It is a fact that our fresh water is becoming more scarce and that the new ways we are getting energy in America - fracking, mountaintop removal, cyclic steam extraction, deep-sea drilling - all pollute water, pollute the air, and pollute our soil and food.”

Way Facts America Energy Water Air Sea Becoming Soil New Ways Steam Scarce Becoming More Removal Drilling Fracking Deep Sea Fresh Water Extraction

Author:Mark Ruffalo

“There is a very common, though also very silly, picture of Kant according to which as empirical beings we are not free at all, and we are free only as noumenal jellyfish floating about in an intelligible sea above the heavens, outside any context in which our supposedly "free" choices could have any conceivable human meaning or significance. Part of the problem here is that Kant faces up honestly to the fact that how freedom is possible is a deep philosophical problem to which there is no solution we can rationally comprehend.”

Humans Facts Problem Faces Choices Heaven Common Sea Solutions Philosophical Honestly Silly Significance Floating Free Choice Jellyfish Deep Philosophical

Author:Allen W. Wood

“We negotiated the construction of a gas pipeline system along the bottom of the Black Sea to Bulgaria. We signed certain treaties of a technical nature, contracts for laying the gas pipeline. And then Bulgaria created such conditions that the project's implementation became impossible, which was obviously against its own national interests. The former Bulgarian leadership was, in fact, aware of that and acknowledged it. But we trusted them when we were launching that project. We sustained losses amounting to millions, several million dollars. We would not want to get into such situations.”

“People get overwhelmed with folklore as fact. Take the Exodus. The Exodus did not occur. It could not have occurred. Wasn't necessary for it to occur. The Jews walked into Africa over a 16-mile land until they built the Suez Canal - that land is still there. Why would they have to leave by the sea. They didn't come by the sea. Certain people think you are against their religion when you use common sense.”

People Thinking Stills Facts Use Certain Common Sea Land Built Jew Miles Common Sense Overwhelmed Folklore Canals Exodus

Author:John Henrik Clarke

“We need the science to continue. The heat, the storms, the sea level rise, the Arctic melting. These are all real facts that over time will sink in. The question is, will that be two years, or five years or 10 years?”

Needs Years Two Real Facts Levels Five Sea Storm Heat Five Years Two Years Melting Arctic Sea Level Rise

Author:Jerry Brown

“at the press conference for the film he impressed everyone with his complete sincerity and innocence. he said he had come to see the sea for the first time and marveled at how clean it was. someone told him that, in fact, it wasn't. 'when the world is emptied of human beings' he said, 'it will become so again”

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Author:Werner Herzog

“I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.”

Self Facts Motivational Lasts Sea Travel My Friends Wake Up Embrace Memorable Packs Identical Trunks Unrelenting Naples

Book:Natural Abundance: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Guide to Prosperity

Source: Natural Abundance: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Guide to Prosperity

“I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it is because in addition to the fact that the sea changes and the light changes, and ships change, it is because we all came from the sea. And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have, in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch it we are going back from whence we came.”

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