#ocean

It is true what Rimbaud said; If you think a book is strong enough, try it at the ocean, in the wind, at the waves. If the book can resist the ocean, then it exists. Otherwise, throw it away. ↗

— Klaus Kinski

#book #enough #exists #ocean #otherwise

All rivers, even the most dazzling, those that catch the sun in their course, all rivers go down to the ocean and drown. And life awaits man as the sea awaits the river. ↗

— Simone Schwarz-Bart

#catch #course #dazzling #down #drown

I also derive a great deal of pleasure from horses and dogs... the ocean... and love. ↗

— William Shatner

#deal #derive #dogs #great #great deal

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#doing #drop #feel #just #less

I had come to learn pretty quickly that life has its highs and lows just like the ocean does and sometimes you just have to see how far they'll carry you. ↗

— C.A. Williams

#ocean #wynn #life

Life began three and a half billion years ago, necessarily about as simple as it could be, because life arose spontaneously from the organic compounds in the primeval oceans. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#ago #arose #because #began #billion

Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

#drives #far #get #human #human knowledge

If nations always moved from one set of furnished rooms to another - and always into a better set - things might be easier, but the trouble is that there is no one to prepare the new rooms. The future is worse than the ocean - there is nothing there. ↗

— Alexander Herzen

#another #better #easier #furnished #future

The frozen ocean... of Boston life. ↗

— Julia Ward Howe

#frozen #life #ocean

American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon. ↗

— Hubert H. Humphrey

#american public #cannot #like #ocean #opinion