#ocean

Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode. ↗

— Edmund Waller

#english #make #may #ocean #only

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

To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening. ↗

— John C. Hawkes

#enormous #fish #frightening #just #like

There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#good #high #more #need #none

Shy is the oyster, fervent is the clam, peaceful is the ocean floor rocked by the sands of time. ↗

— Bradley Chicho

#floor #ocean #oyster #peaceful #rocked

I wish I could describe the feeling of being at sea, the anguish, frustration, and fear, the beauty that accompanies threatening spectacles, the spiritual communion with creatures in whose domain I sail. There is a magnificent intensity in life that comes when we are not in control but are only reacting, living, surviving. I am not a religious man per se. My own cosmology is convoluted and not in line with any particular church or philosphy. But for me, to go to sea is to glimpse the face of God. At sea i am reminded of my insignificance-- of all men's insignificance. It is a wonderful feeling to be so humbled. ↗

— Steve Callahan

#humble #ocean #sea #steve #beauty

I'm horrified of lobsters. And shrimp and lobsters are the cockroaches of the ocean. ↗

— Brooke Burke

#horrified #i #lobsters #ocean #shrimp

In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#deeper #easier #get #ocean #sinking

Having made the trip from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean myself going up up up against twenty-five hundred miles of the Missouri River, I can testify that it's one of the most arduous trips that anyone can make on this continent and yet I had a power boat to do it in. ↗

— William Least Heat-Moon

#anyone #arduous #boat #continent #going

Whatever be the qualities of the man with whom a woman is united according to the law, such qualities even she assumes, like a river, united with the ocean. ↗

— Guru Nanak

#assumes #even #law #like #man