American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.
~By Hubert H. Humphrey ~
But now Americans, they felt a sense of peace and protection because they've been separated by so many thousands of miles of ocean. And you know, the fact that it's come to the U.S. like this is so sad, and yet you know, what can you do? It's here.
~By Patty Hearst ~
To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening.
~By John C. Hawkes ~
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.
~By Klaus Kinski ~
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
~By Immanuel Kant ~
Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
Teachers can go on cruises with the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration and anyone can spend the summer as a volunteer in a National Parks and even earn money doing it.
~By Matthew Lesko ~
Our climate is changing. The Earth's climate has, in fact, warmed by 1.1 to 1.6 degrees Fahrenheit since the industrial revolution. People look at this and say: Oh, that is not very much. In fact, it is very much, and it changes the dynamic. It impacts species. It kills some. It diminishes the carbon sink of the ocean. It does a number of things.
~By Diane Feinstein ~
I think space exploration is very important. I think there is very intelligent life on Mars. I believe that Martians are spying on us from the bottom of the ocean.
~By Annabella Sciorra ~
I shall go the way of the open sea, to the lands I knew before you came, and the cool ocean breezes shall blow from me the memory of your name.
~By Adela Florence Nicolson ~
Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of Promise.
~By Herbert Croly ~
Global warming has melted the polar ice caps, raised the levels of the oceans and flooded the earth's great cities. Despite its evident prosperity, New Jersey is scarcely Utopia.
~By Godfried Danneels ~
We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
I also derive a great deal of pleasure from horses and dogs... the ocean... and love.
~By William Shatner ~
The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this.
~By Bono ~
We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form.
~By Sally Ride ~
Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.
~By George Orwell ~
I do like the ocean wave, actually. I'm born under the sign of Cancer - the sign of the crab - so I like coastal areas and sunny beaches and such - although not the wide-open and deep seas.
~By Anjelica Huston ~
The ocean moans over dead men's bones.
~By Thomas Bailey Aldrich ~
Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
Simultaneously with the establishment of the Constitution, Virginia ceded to the United States her domain, which then extended to the Mississippi, and was even claimed to extend to the Pacific Ocean.
~By William H. Seward ~
Pouring forth its seas everywhere, then, the ocean envelops the earth and fills its deeper chasms.
~By Nicolaus Copernicus ~
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows.
~By Drew Barrymore ~
We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean.
~By Anna Freud ~
You're not a wave, you're a part of the ocean.
~By Mitch Albom ~
Everything that's realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a bird when it seeks its prey, the ocean when it becomes violent.
~By Sharon Tate ~
How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.
~By Arthur C. Clarke ~
Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise.
~By Tommy Douglas ~
The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.
~By Henry Beston ~
To him it is an ocean, unfathomable, and without a shore.
~By William Godwin ~
It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.
~By John Locke ~
Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.
~By H. P. Lovecraft ~
Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
It is said that many children who live in the central provinces, away from the ocean, have a great longing to see it. I who had never been away from the monotonous country surrounding us looked forward eagerly to seeing the mountains.
~By Pierre Loti ~
A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets.
~By Gloria Stuart ~
Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.
~By Spiro T. Agnew ~
Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.
~By H. P. Lovecraft ~
You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
~By Alan Watts ~
But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.
~By H. P. Lovecraft ~
When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science.
~By Anton Chekhov ~
Doo never actually made moonshine, but he hauled about an ocean of it.
~By Loretta Lynn ~
Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
~By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct.
~By Peter Benchley ~
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.
~By Simone Schwarz-Bart ~
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.
~By Guru Nanak ~
On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
~By Alexander Pope ~
That includes not cutting down the rain forest, and stop polluting the ocean because once we kill the coral reefs and the rain forest, this earth is toast.
~By Michael Berryman ~
We get a lot of people from out of state who come down and it's not what they expect Florida to be, the horse farms and oak trees instead of the sand and the ocean.
~By David Jones ~
Before computers, telephone lines and television connect us, we all share the same air, the same oceans, the same mountains and rivers. We are all equally responsible for protecting them.
~By Julia Louis Dreyfus ~
I'm an ocean, because I'm really deep. If you search deep enough you can find rare exotic treasures.
~By Christina Aguilera ~
If I swim in the ocean, I have a shark thought. Not a bad one, but just a little one.
~By Tea Leoni ~
What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness.
~By Bernard Cornwell ~
It is important to remember that the Pacific Ocean covers a quarter of the world's surface and that each Pacific country has its own cultural, historical and ethnic identity.
~By Jenny Shipley ~
Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean.
~By Christopher Reeve ~
The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees.
~By Andres Segovia ~
If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.
~By Henry Clay ~
Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean.
~By Percy Ross ~
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.
~By Alexander Herzen ~
The 2008 election settled nothing, not even for a while. Our national politics are reflecting what appears to be going on geologically, on the bottom of the oceans and beneath the crust of the Earth: the tectonic plates are moving.
~By Peggy Noonan ~
If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death.
~By Morgan Freeman ~
Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
~By Ross MacDonald ~
Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn't happen.
~By Steven Wright ~
Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
Every drop in the ocean counts.
~By Yoko Ono ~
I saw also that there was an ocean of darkness and death, but an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over the ocean of darkness.
~By George Fox ~
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.
~By Mother Teresa ~
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
I really enjoy writing novels. It's like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off.
~By Denis Johnson ~
Politics is there the way men and women are there, the way the Atlantic Ocean is there. Sometimes I've written about politics specifically, I mean about politics as it's understood on television and in newspapers.
~By Kenneth Koch ~
It's the board I had a problem with. I could totally handle being in the water and stuff. I came here to do my own stunts. Water! Ocean! Action! Big waves! That water, that water has tamed me. You can feel that the world is connected to it.
~By Michelle Rodriguez ~
Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.
~By B. R. Ambedkar ~
Under the big political umbrella, a man is just like a leaf in the ocean, with no control of his destiny and does not have any choice.
~By Zhang Yimou ~
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.
~By Franz Grillparzer ~
The frozen ocean... of Boston life.
~By Julia Ward Howe ~
Everything that ever walked or crawled on the face of the earth, swum the depths of the ocean or soared through the skies left its imprint here.
~By Robert M. Fresco ~
Yet, much of what lies beneath the ocean's surface remains a mystery, and our nation continues to rely on a confused, antiquated system of ocean governance.
~By Tom Allen ~
I had more fun making Traffic than either of the Ocean's films.
~By Steven Soderbergh ~
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.
~By Thomas Huxley ~
Surfing soothes me, it's always been a kind of Zen experience for me. The ocean is so magnificent, peaceful, and awesome. The rest of the world disappears for me when I'm on a wave.
~By Paul Walker ~
God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing.
~By William Lyon Phelps ~
The sea has now changed from it's natural, to river coloured water, the probable consequence of some streams falling into the bay, or into the ocean to the north of it, through the low land.
~By George Vancouver ~
No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
~By Charles Kettering ~
Our surest protection against assault from abroad has been not all our guards, gates and guns, or even our two oceans, but our essential goodness as a people. Our richest asset has been not our material wealth but our values.
~By Theodore C. Sorensen ~
We also own a little boat and I'm like a kid with it. I take off early in the morning, fishing rod in tow, and just drift about the ocean all day.
~By Perry Como ~
Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.
~By Albert Schweitzer ~
A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching.
~By Sivananda ~
Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.
~By Morihei Ueshiba ~
This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.
~By Barack Obama ~
I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
~By Isaac Newton ~
In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.
~By James Russell Lowell ~
Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.
~By Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton ~
I hope for your help to explore and protect the wild ocean in ways that will restore the health and, in so doing, secure hope for humankind. Health to the ocean means health for us.
~By Sylvia Earle ~
I filmed underwater for two days in the open ocean with dolphins.
~By Kathleen Quinlan ~
If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains; every ship upon the ocean they can tie with mighty chains.
~By Joe Hill ~
I enjoyed growing up part of my life in Virginia Beach. We had the ocean and the beach and a beautiful landscape. We were outdoors all the time and we played outside.
~By Mark Ruffalo ~
I guess why the Ocean's films are hard for me is because on the one hand you have to make sure the performances are there, but on the other hand it's a film that demands, to my mind, a very layered and complex visual scheme. That takes a lot of time to figure out.
~By Steven Soderbergh ~
The movie that's had the most effect on me is Jaws. To this day when I'm in the ocean, I'm hearing that music.
~By Judd Nelson ~
The road to democracy may be winding and is like a river taking many curves, but eventually the river will reach the ocean.
~By Chen Shui-bian ~
Without the oceans there would be no life on Earth.
~By Peter Benchley ~
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