George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Lakes Quotes, Sea Quotes

Consciousness of a fact is not knowing it: if it were, the fish would know more of the sea than the geographers and the naturalists.

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Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It's the glory of the sea that has turned my head.

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There is a spectacle more grand than the sea; it is heaven; there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is the conscience.

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A literal interpretation of the Gita lands one in a sea of contradictions.

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The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

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Whenever he saw the sea, or a fire, he fell silent, impressed by their elemental force.

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I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Should Have Quotes , Sea Quotes

The past. The Golden Age of the past. What a nostalgia we all feel for it. Yet we don't want it when we get it. Try the South Seas.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Past Quotes , Sea Quotes

Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish.

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Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; My footstool earth, my canopy the skies.

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There twice a day the Severn fills; The salt sea-water passes by, And hushes half the babbling Wye, And makes a silence in the hills.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Sea Quotes , Water Quotes

Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell Then shriek'd the timid, and stood still the brave, Then some leap'd overboard with fearful yell, As eager to anticipate their grave.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Farewell Quotes , Sea Quotes

You are something that the whole world is doing just as when the sea has waves on it.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Sea Quotes , World Quotes

When we venture in that unfamiliar sea, we trust blindly in those who guide us, believing that they know more than we do.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Believe Quotes , Sea Quotes

once upon a time all the rivers combined to protest against the action of the sea in making their waters salt. "When we come to you," sad they to the sea, "we are sweet and drinkable; but when once we have mingled with you, our waters become as briny and unpalatable as your own." The sea replied shortly, "Keep away from me, and you'll remain sweet.

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The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind.

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I DO not count the hours I spend In wandering by the sea; The forest is my loyal friend, Like God it useth me.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Sea Quotes , Loyal Quotes

I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.

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Paint me the bold anfractuous rocks Faced by the snarled and yelping seas.

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It's certain there are trout somewhere - And maybe I shall take a trout - but I do not seem to care.

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