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“We Americans tend to be a prodigal lot. We are as careless with our personal resources as we are with the resources of nature, squandering both as if there were no end to the gifts of earth and sea and sky.”

Book:Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea / Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)

Source: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea / Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)

“The sea was not freedom; it was a likeness of freedom, a symbol of freedom...How splendid freedom must be if a mere likeness of it, a mere reminder of it, is enough to fill a man with happiness.”

Ifs Men Enough Sea Mere Symbols Reminders Splendid

Author:Vasily Grossman

“There is a possibility in human minds of something mysterious as the night-wind, deep as the sea, calm as the stars, and strong as Death, a mystic contemplation, the “intellectual love of God.” Those who have known it cannot believe in wars any longer, or in any kind of hot struggle. If I could give to others what has come to me in this way, I could make them too feel the futility of fighting. But I do not know how to communicate it: when I speak, they stare, applaud, or smile, but do not understand.”

Source: The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell

“Nation after nation, when at the zenith of its power, has proclaimed itself invincible because its army could shake the earth with its tread and its ships could fill the seas, but these nations are dead, and we must build upon a different foundation if we would avoid their fate.”

Ifs Different Earth Nations Fate Sea Army Foundation Ships Shakes Invincible Zenith

Book:Speeches of William Jennings Bryan

Source: Speeches of William Jennings Bryan

“Birds were flying from continent to continent long before we were. They reached the coldest place on Earth, Antarctica, long before we did. They can survive in the hottest of deserts. Some can remain on the wing for years at a time. They can girdle the globe. Now, we have taken over the earth and the sea and the sky, but with skill and care and knowledge, we can ensure that there is still a place on Earth for birds in all their beauty and variety - if we want to... And surely, we should.”

Ifs Want Should Years Long Stills Care Earth Taken Sea Sky Skills Bird Wings Flying Variety Desert Continents Globes Hottest Antarctica Girdles

Author:David Attenborough

“If you're gay, you're gay. It's my Dennis Miller theory of homosexuality shot through the movie "Boy and the Dolphin." If you're a 12-year-old boy and you're watching the movie "Boy and a Dolphin" and a 27-year-old Sofia Loren crawls up out of the Aegean Sea after sponge diving, she's standing there in the deck of the boat in a see-through gauze top, rivulets of water dripping off her torso onto the deck of the boat. If you're a 12-year-old boy and you're watching that and you still want to make it with the captain of the boat, you're gay. You can't fight that. So it is what it is.”

Ifs Want Years Stills Fighting Water Boys Sea Theory Gay Shots Standing Boat Captains Homosexuality Deck Diving Dolphins Sponges Standing There It Is What It Is Dripping Torso

Author:Bill O'Reilly

“If one but tell a thing well, it moves on with undying voice, and over the fruitful earth and across the sea goes the bright gleam of noble deeds ever unquenchable.”

Ifs Wells Earth Moving Voice Sea Deeds Noble Gleam Noble Deeds

Author:Pindar

“Each night the sun sank right in our eyes along the sea, making an undulating glittering pathway, a golden track charted on the surface of the ocean which our ship followed unswervingly until the sun dipped below the edge of the horizon, and the pathway ran ahead of us faster than we could steam and slipped over the edge of the skyline - as if the sun had been a golden ball and had wound up its thread of gold too quickly for us to follow.”

Ifs Eye Night Sun Sea Ocean Gold Balls Edges Track Surface Wounds Ships Golden Faster Ran Horizon Thread Pathways Steam Over The Edge Skylines

Book:The Loss of the S.S. Titanic

Source: The Loss of the S.S. Titanic

“If you don't like my ocean don't fish in my sea Stay out of my valley and let my mountain be.”

Ifs Sea Mountain Ocean Fishes Valleys

Author:Ma Rainey

“He says-him as was here just now-'When Tom shut up the house, mate, to go to rack, the beds was left, all made, like as if somebody was a-going to sleep in every bed. And if you was to walk through the bedrooms now, you'd see the ragged mouldy bedclothes a heaving and a heaving like seas. And a heaving and a heaving with what?' he says. 'Why, with the rats under 'em.'”

Ifs Made House Left Sleep Walks Sea Bed Ems Mates Toms Bedroom Shut Up Rats Going To Sleep Spooky Racks Ragged

Book:Christmas Stories from

Source: Christmas Stories from

“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

“the ocean, under the pulsation of lighthouses and noise of bell buoys, advances as usual, looking as if it were not that ocean in which dropped things are bound to sink-- in which if they turn and twist, it is neither with volition nor consciousness.”

Ifs Turns Consciousness Sea Ocean Bounds Noise Usual Bells Twists Lighthouse Volition Buoys

Book:Becoming Marianne Moore: The Early Poems, 1907-1924

Source: Becoming Marianne Moore: The Early Poems, 1907-1924

“By and large, the making of motion pictures is all about, 'Let's ratchet it up.' And I always think, 'We don't need to ratchet this up.' If you do, don't call it 'Captain Phillips' or 'The Maersk Alabama.' Call it something else, and then you have carte blanche to do anything, down to sea serpents and aliens.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Sea Aliens Captains Serpent Alabama Motion Pictures Blanche Ratchets

Author:Tom Hanks

“It is cruel for you to leave your daughter, so full of hope and resolve, to suffer the humiliations of disfranchisement she already feels so keenly, and which she will find more and more galling as she grows into the stronger and grander woman she is sure to be. If it were your son who for any cause was denied his right to have his opinion counted, you would compass sea and land to lift the ban from him.”

Source: Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words

“If we don't want to see the map of Central America covered in a sea of red, eventually lapping at our own borders, we must act now.”

Ifs Want Government America Politics Sea Red Borders Maps Covered Central America

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1986

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1986

“Let us lie down once more by the breathing side Of Ocean, where our live forefathers sleep As if the Known Sea still were a month wide-- Atlantis howls but is no longer steep!”

Ifs Stills Lying Sides Sleep Known Sea Months Ocean Wide Breathing Howl Forefathers Steep Atlantis

Book:Collected Poems, 1919-1976

Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976

“God went out of me as if the sea dried up like sandpaper, as if the sun became a latrine.”

Ifs God Religion Sun Sea Sandpaper

Book:The Awful Rowing Toward God

Source: The Awful Rowing Toward God

“[L]et my reader who is puzzled by my awkward explanations close his eyes for no more than two minutes, and see if he does not find himself suddenly not a compact human being at all, but only a consciousness on a sea of sound and touch . . .”

Ifs Humans Doe Two Eye Sound Human Beings Consciousness Sea Minutes Reader Explanation His Eyes Awkward Puzzled Compact

Book:The Magic of Shirley Jackson

Source: The Magic of Shirley Jackson

“If I could put my hand on the north star, would it be as beautiful? The sea is lovely, but when we bathe in it the beauty forsakesall the near water. For the imagination and senses cannot be gratified at the same time.”

Ifs Hands Beautiful Stars Water Imagination Sea Lovely Senses If I Could North Star

Book:The Conduct of Life

Source: The Conduct of Life

“If the sea is sick, we'll feel it. If it dies, we die. Our future and the state of the oceans are one.”

Ifs Feels States Dies Sea Ocean Sick Our Future Starfish

Book:Sea Change: A Message of the Oceans

Source: Sea Change: A Message of the Oceans

“Though the Indian ocean abounds in rich and rare gems, it does not boast a clearer sky nor more unruffled sea. If there be a shore that dreads not the fury of the faithless billows, it is some poor and narrow inlet unknown to the winds.”

Ifs Doe Poor Rich Sea Sky Wind Ocean Indian Shore Dread Boast Fury Gems Faithless Vicissitudes

Author:Pietro Metastasio

“If Britain must choose between Europe and the open sea, she must always choose the open sea.”

Ifs Sea Europe Britain European Union

Author:Winston Churchill

“Up and down! Up and down! From the base of the wave to the billow's crown; And amidst the flashing and feathery foam The Stormy Petrel finds a home,-- A home, if such a place may be, For her who lives on the wide, wide sea, On the craggy ice, in the frozen air, And only seeketh her rocky lair To warm her young and to teach them spring At once o'er the waves on their stormy wing!”

Ifs May Home Young Teach Air Sea Spring Wings Wave Warm Wide Ice Crowns Frozen Up And Down Stormy Foam

Author:Bryan Procter

“If you think life is a smooth sea, you will soon be awakened from this sweet dream by the slap of a bitter wave!”

Ifs Thinking Life Dream Life Is Sea Sweet Wave Bitter Smooth Awakened Slap Sweet Dreams

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“History is a living horse laughing at a wooden horse. History is a wind blowing where it listeth. History is no sure thing to bet on. History is a box of tricks with a lost key. History is a labyrinth of doors with sliding panels, a book of ciphers with the code in a cave of the Saragossa sea. History says, if it pleases, Excuse me, I beg your pardon, it will never happen again if I can help it.”

Ifs I Can Book Helping Happens Lost Laughing Doors Sea Wind Keys Please Horse Boxes Excuse Tricks Code Caves Pardon Labyrinth Excuse Me Sure Thing Ciphers Wind Blowing

Author:Carl Sandburg

“The message from all quarters is the same: our undisciplined consumption must end. If we continue to gobble up our resources without any regard to stewardship and to spew out our deadly wastes over land, sea, and air, we may well be drawing down the final curtain upon ourselves.”

Ifs Wells May Ends Air Sea Land Waste Messages Resources Regard Environmental Finals Drawing Quarters Consumption Curtains Stewardship Undisciplined

Author:Richard J. Foster

“Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power of a wafer or a drop of wax or gluten to guard a letter, as it flies over sea over land and comes to its address as if a battalion of artillery brought it, I look upon as a fine meter of civilization.”

Ifs Looks Certain Energy Religious Sea Land Mankind Fine Civilization Office Letters Posts Look Up Addresses Meter Guarded Artillery Post Office Gluten Cheapness

Book:Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: Ralph Waldo Emerson

“First, separate ground, sea and air warfare is gone forever. If ever again we should be involved in war, we will fight it in all elements, with all services, as one single concentrated effort.”

Ifs Should Firsts War Fighting Effort Gone Forever Air Sea Involved Elements Defense Warfare

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Each of us is free to move our consciousness through that infinite pattern of possibilities as we please. If we're filled with fears, or if we trust the fears of others, we'll choose a path in which our city falls into the sea, or a path in which a third world war vaporizes us, or whatever other disaster is most thrilling or horrifying or fascinating for us.”

Ifs World War Moving Fall Cities Consciousness Path Sea Possibility Please Thirds Infinite Filled Patterns Disaster War Of The Worlds Fascinating Thrilling Third World Third World War

Author:Richard Bach

“O skies, be calm! O winds, blow free - Blow all my ships safe home to me! But if thou sendest some a-wrack, To never more come sailing back, Send any - all that skim the sea, But bring my love-ship home to me.”

Ifs Love Heart Home Sea Sky Wind Safe Calm Blow Ships Sailing Heart Love

Book:Picked Poems

Source: Picked Poems

“Writing a novel is like heading out over the open sea in a small boat. It helps, if you have a plan and a course laid out.”

Ifs Writing Helping Courses Novel Plans Sea Boat Headings Fiction Writing Writers And Writing Writing Fiction Writing By Writers

Author:John Gardner

“The torments of hell abide for ever.... If all the earth and sea were sand, and every thousandth year a bird should come, and take away one grain of this sand, it would be a long time ere that vast heap of sand were emptied; yet, if after all that time the damned may come out of hell, there were some hope; but this word EVER breaks the heart.”

Source: A Body of Practical Divinity Consisting of Above One Hundred and Seventy-six Sermons on the Shorter Catechism Composed by the Reverend Assembly of Divines at Westminster: With a Supplement of Some Sermons on Several Texts of Scripture Together with the Art of Divine Contentment ; to which is Added, Christ's Various Fulness

“The hills are reared, the seas are scooped in vain If learning's altar vanish from the plain.”

Ifs Learning Sea Hills Vain Altars

Author:William Ellery Channing

“A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent, like the Deity. If we take to ourselves the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, duty performed or duty violated is still with us, for our happiness or our misery. If we say the darkness shall cover us, in the darkness as in the light our obligations are yet with us.”

Ifs Stills Light Happiness Morning Darkness Sea Duty Wings Misery Obligation Pursue Deities

Book:Works: with a Biographical Memoir

Source: Works: with a Biographical Memoir

“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.”