“The cyclone ends. The sun returns; the lofty coconut trees lift up their plumes again; man does likewise. The great anguish is over; joy has returned; the sea smiles like a child.” MenChildrenDoeEndsJoySunTreeSeaReturnLiftsAnguishRenewalLoftyCoconutsCyclones Author:Paul Gauguin
“How happy he who can still hope to lift himself from this sea of error! What we know not, that we are anxious to possess, and cannot use what we know.” KnowsStillsUseSeaErrorsLiftsAnxious Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“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.” IfsFeelsSufferingGrowsCausesOpinionSeaLandSonDaughterStrongerLiftsResolveDeniedHumiliationCompassBansOur DaughterYour DaughterYour Son Book:Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words Source: Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words
“The island of Gont, a single mountain that lifts its peak a mile above the storm-racked Northeast Sea, is a land famous for wizards.” SeaLandMountainStormMilesLiftsIslandsWizards Book:A Wizard of Earthsea Source: A Wizard of Earthsea
“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.” FactsAmericaSeaConvincedLiftsFallenRisingTidesWoundedVeteranGoodwill Author:Michael Mullen
“Fiction does not invent out of a vacuum, but it invents; and what it invents is, first, the fabric and cadence of language, and then a slant of idea that sails out of these as a fin lifts from the sea.” FirstsDoeIdeasLanguageFictionSeaLiftsFabricSailVacuumsCadenceFins Book:The Din in the Head Source: The Din in the Head