Maya Angelou Quotes, Ocean Quotes, Writing Quotes

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings.

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SIREN, n. One of several musical prodigies famous for a vain attempt to dissuade Odysseus from a life on the ocean wave. Figuratively, any lady of splendid promise, dissembled purpose and disappointing performance.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Life Quotes , Ocean Quotes

Such is the fate of simple Bard, On life's rough ocean luckless starr'd

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Tags : Robert Burns Quotes , Ocean Quotes , Fate Quotes

For now I stand as one upon a rock environed with a wilderness of sea, who marks the waxing tide grow wave by wave, expecting ever when some envious surge will in his brinish bowels swallow him.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Ocean Quotes , Rocks Quotes

It is easy to make plans in this world; even a cat can do it; and when one is out in those remote oceans it is noticeable that a cat's plans and a man's are worth about the same. There is much the same shrinkage in both, in the matter of values.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Ocean Quotes , Cat Quotes

Society proceeds like the ocean. After a disaster, it resume its wonted level and rhythms; its devouring interests efface all traces of damage.

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Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Ocean Quotes , Society Quotes

Just as the ocean is waving so each one of us is a waving of the whole cosmos, the entire works, all there is.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Ocean Quotes , Cosmos Quotes

Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Beach Quotes , Ocean Quotes

The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. From it we have learned most of what we know. Recently, we have waded a little out to sea, enough to dampen our toes or, at most, wet our ankles. The water seems inviting. The ocean calls.

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Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Ocean Quotes , Sea Quotes

Man is not to drown himself in the well of the Shastras, but he is to dive in their broad ocean and bring out pearls.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Ocean Quotes , Men Quotes

The ocean is the lifeblood of our world.

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Tags : Aaron Peirsol Quotes , Ocean Quotes , Our World Quotes

This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms. Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighboring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Ocean Quotes , Twilight Quotes

For many years, at great cost, I traveled through many countries, saw the high mountains, the oceans. The only things I did not see were the sparkling dewdrops in the grass just outside my door.

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Tags : Rabindranath Tagore Quotes , Country Quotes , Ocean Quotes

Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Ocean Quotes , Dark Quotes

Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean

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Neither in the sky nor in mid-ocean, nor by entering into mountain clefts, nowhere in the world is there a place where one may escape from the results of evil deeds.

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Buddhist Quotes , Ocean Quotes

The sea was indistinguishable from the sky, except that the sea was slightly creased as if a cloth had wrinkles in it.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Ocean Quotes , Wrinkles Quotes

When one longs for a drink, it seems as though one could drink a whole ocean-that is faith; but when one begins to drink, one can only drink altogether two glasses-that is science.

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Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Faith Quotes , Ocean Quotes

Rich and various gems inlay The unadorned bosom of the deep.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Ocean Quotes , Rich Quotes

Coal-black is better than another hue In that it scorns to bear another hue; For all the water in the ocean Can never turn the swan's black legs to white, Although she lave them hourly in the flood.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Ocean Quotes , Swans Quotes