- Nov 07, 2020
Sea Quotes
The pull of open water.
Some entries here use the sea literally, diving trips through the Red Sea and Pacific, a household still run by a grandfather's old ship discipline long after he'd come ashore, echoing themes found in Great quotes.
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- Artist
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to be an artist. I was studying art. I wanted to be a great painter. When I went into the Navy, there wasn't much to draw at sea. So I began writing, and I began reading a lot.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a national ambition, a collective, in a sense, political ambition, which I think is the thing we see from far away. That's the fact that China's building roads and airports and extending its reaches out into the East China Sea and the South China Sea, and in a way that's putting it into some tension with its neighbors.
- Other
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- Nov 07, 2020
China believes that it has the rightful claim to a vast portion of the South China Sea, which is claimed by other countries.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
The U.S. must differentiate between controversial assertions of power, like those in the South China Sea, and fair reflections of China's growing contribution to the world, such as the new banks.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although Shanghai is on the sea, it long lacked the prosperity that Hong Kong enjoyed, so while Hong Kong became known for its exotic ocean creatures, Shanghai built its diet around more commonplace river and sea fish.
- National Security
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- Nov 07, 2020
China's island-building in the South China Sea poses a threat to U.S. national security interests in the region.
- Cakes
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew more about produce from the sea than any of my schoolmates, and my reports in school, from kindergarten on, amused and shocked my classmates and teachers. I told them how we ate with chopsticks, had rice and seaweed for breakfast, raw fish, octopus, and sea urchin eggs for supper, and cakes made from sharks.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
People come to me and say, 'What'll I do if I go in the water and see a shark?' You don't have to do anything. The chances of that shark attacking you in any way is so remote. The sea should be enjoyed, the animals in it. When you see a shark underwater, you should say, 'How lucky I am to see this beautiful animal in his environment!'
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
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?
- Nov 07, 2020
When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.
- Nov 07, 2020
When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.
- Battle
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the many, many salutary aspects of Barack Obama's impending presidential nomination is the sea change his victory marks in the battle for the mind-set of the American foreign policy establishment.
- Drastically
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- Nov 07, 2020
Augmenting your appearance so drastically that it elicits a reaction from literally every acquaintance you greet is a sea change.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just love mermaids. I was a mermaid in my past life. I just feel it when I go in the sea. I just feel a connection there between me, and the water, and the fish - they speak to me - and the shells - they ring out to me.
- Curious
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent my first 4 years living in the tiny town of Snug, by the sea near Hobart. Curious about animals, I would pick up ants in our backyard and jellyfish on the beach.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020