- 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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins sledding downhill to sea on their bellies, giant pandas holding bamboo lollipops in China or tree porcupines in the Canadian Rockies, balled up like giant pine cones.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies' in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a force of exultation, a celebration of luck, when a writer finds himself a witness to the early morning of a culture that is defining itself, branch by branch, leaf by leaf, in that self-defining dawn, which is why, especially at the edge of the sea, it is good to make a ritual of the sunrise.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't feel I've arrived home until I get on the beach. All my life, the theater of the sea has been a very strong thing.
- Safe
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- Nov 07, 2020
Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law. Understand that we are you. Understand that if we decide to have sex whether safe, safer, or unsafe, it is our decision and you have no rights in our lovemaking.
- Path
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just like navigating in the open sea, triangulating the information you collect from media with your doctor's advice and some common sense will help map a sound path to safety.
- Fishing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would read fishing reports on the road and then it just occurred to me: I should go to sea school and get my captain's license, see if I can get paid to be out here every day.
- Open
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- Nov 07, 2020
We tried burying the waste at sea and the concrete cannisters that held it cracked open.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
My 20s was a sea of worry. I worried about benefit forms, about being thrown out of my flat. I never went on holiday because I thought: 'What if an audition comes up?' I was a nervous wreck.
- China
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's easier for China to assert its maritime power by creating artificial islands in the South China Sea than by defying the U.S. Pacific Fleet with an aircraft carrier.
- Cyprus
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 2000, I got stuck in the sea off Cyprus after I fell off a boat. I was out there for over an hour. I am not a strong swimmer, but adrenaline kicked in, and I swam back.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020