Top 1200 Caspian Sea Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.

Isn't man but a blossom taken by wind, and only the mountains and the sea and the stars and this land of the gods everlasting?

Monsieur' to a convict is a glass of water to a man dying of thirst at sea; ignominy thirsts for respect.

It is an old dream: To travel on the back of a benevolent sea beast down to some secret underwater garden.

I could never learn to like her, except on a raft at sea with no other provisions in sight.

Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?

Until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore, you will not know the terror of being forever lost at sea.

There's not a sea the passenger e'er pukes in, Turns up more dangerous breakers than the Euxine.

Mankind owns four things that are no good at sea: rudder, anchor, oars and the fear of going down.

Hark! o'er the dread abyss the sea-bird screams-- The rocks resound--again the lightning gleams!

Cities aren't like people; they live on and on, even though their reason for being where they are has gone downriver and out to sea.

It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.

So our lives glide on: the river ends we don't know where, and the sea begins, and then there is no more jumping ashore.

If Moses had operated through committees the Israelites never would have got across the Red Sea.

If you have decided to sail to the sea with great courage and determination, even the storm on the horizon will step aside!

Most of us, I suppose, are a little nervous of the sea. No matter what its smiles may be, we doubt its friendship.

The scent of the sea, a wild turbulent storm, crashing into her mind. Elena, why is Dmitri naked?

The funeral business is so manipulative emotionally. I would want to be thrown into the sea or burned - something that's not a big hassle.

When you live by the sea, there are definite seasons when you can see the weather coming and going, which lends itself to photography.

All the survivors of the war had reached their homes and so put the perils of battle and the sea behind them.

Consciousness of a fact is not knowing it: if it were, the fish would know more of the sea than the geographers and the naturalists.

I wanted to do a show about a character that was an innocent, and so I focused on a sea sponge because it's a funny animal, a strange one.

In music, in the sea, in a flower, in a leaf, in an act of kindness... I see what people call God in all these things.

The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.

tears have a purpose. they are what we carry of the ocean, and perhaps we must become the sea, give ourselves to it, if we are to be transformed.

I love looking out at a sea of people. It's mind-blowing. But I also like playing clubs.

I would love to go help baby sea turtles back into the ocean after hatching in Mexico.

When I play a gig and look out at the audience, you're literally looking at a sea of Joy Division T-shirts.

Education is a vast sea of lies, waste, corruption, crackpot theorizing, and careerist log-rolling.

The sea always offers up incredible stories of survivors' fortitude. Myths of a lot of countries have variations on that.

Our minds are a lot like the sea...you wake up some days and its rough and stormy.

Bad cooking is responsible for more trouble at sea than all other things put together.

Augmenting your appearance so drastically that it elicits a reaction from literally every acquaintance you greet is a sea change.

Humanity has understood nothing. Religious, tribal, national wars continue. The world continues to be in a sea of blood.

He had said, "I am a man," and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and half god. It meant that Kino would drive his strength against a mountain and plunge his strength against the sea. Juana, in her woman's soul, knew that the mountain would stand while the man broke himself; that the sea would surge while the man drowned in it. And yet it was this thing that made him a man, half insane and half god, and Juana had need of a man; she could not live without a man.

My objects dream and wear new costumes, compelled to, it seems, by all the words in my hands and the sea that bangs in my throat.

I was certain t find the familiar sting of salt, but what I needed to know was what kind: kitchen, sweat, tears or the sea.

No nation as rich as ours should have so many people isolated on islands of poverty in such a sea of material wealth.

Every time I wrote a school scene, I thought of that drama studio, because that's where I was a bit lost at sea.

Instead of passing on choppy waters to the next generation, we should endeavor to leave them a calmer sea.

I liked the South-West straightaway - the beautiful scenery, the way the mountains slope down to the sea. And the wildness of it all.

Through the hollow globe, a ring of frayed rusty scrapiron, is it the sea that shines? Is it a road at the world's edge?

Ah, monsieur, to live in the bosom of the sea! Only there can independence be found! There I recognize no master! There I am free!

To Meath of the pastures, From wet hills by the sea, Through Leitrim and Longford, Go my cattle and me.

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

Regardless of what society says, we can't go on much longer in the sea of immorality without judgment coming.

Go down any road far enough and you'll come to a slaughterhouse, but keep going and you'll reach the sea.

I was living with my stepfather for a while, and then I moved out and went and lived on my own in Hastings-by-the-Sea from about 16.

Someone who bears a grudge while he prays is like a person who sows in the sea and expects to reap a harvest.

The rumble of the life outside was like the sound of the sea which was rising gradually around her.

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

I found myself in a sea in which the waves of joy and sorrow were clashing against each other.

I DO not count the hours I spend In wandering by the sea; The forest is my loyal friend, Like God it useth me.

Beijing's imperial reach extends far and wide, from Taiwan and Xinjiang to the South China Sea and beyond.

There are more than one hundred thousand ships at sea carrying all the solids, liquids and gases that we need to live.

Ah me son, we don't be takin' nothin' from the sea. We has to sneak up on what we wants and wiggle it away

The sea of pleasures may drown its owner and the swimmer fears to open his eyes under the water.

The North Sea was supposed to run out in the 1980s. Then in the 1990s. And now production is still on-line.

Stand through life firm as a rock in the sea, undisturbed and unmoved by its ever-rising waves

Even in the vast and mysterious reaches of the sea we are brought back to the fundamental truth that nothing lives to itself.