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Land has its pirates, same as the sea, — Scott Lynch

I did not establish the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society as a protest organisation. — Paul Watson

Like mighty eagle soaring light. O'er antelopes on Alpine height. The anchor heaves, the ship swings free, The sails swell full. To sea, to sea! — Thomas Lovell Beddoes

I was lost in a vast, storm-tossed sea of shifting rhythmic complexities. — Jordan Sonnenblick

An angry skipper makes an unhappy crew. — Rudyard Kipling

If you have a sea of regrets you will drown in them. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The real, native South Seas food is lousy. You can't eat it. — Victor Hugo

Humans long to cross the sea, to visit strange lands and see wonders undreamed of. Cats - well, most cats - do not. — Lisa Martin

The true sea is cold and black, full of animals... — Jean-Paul Sartre

I love you more than there are fishes in the sea and higher than the moon — Nicholas Sparks

If you put Durant's brains in a thimble full of water they'd look like a ship lost in the middle of the sea. — Scott Lynch

Terror ripped through me as I was falling, falling, falling toward the sea. — Abby Sunderland

The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me? — Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Sea
Will be the Sea
Whatever the drop's philosophy. — Farid Al-Din Attar

Being seasick at sea is not the same as being homesick at home. — Miriam Toews

Many a green isle needs must be In the deep wide sea of Misery, Or the mariner, worn and wan, Never thus could voyage on. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Personal and collective awakening are one and the same - when a raindrop joins the sea, the sea also merges with the raindrop. — Dan Millman

Take me on R&R, aye? Back to where we were before, or a similar place. Sea, sky, sun, and sex 24/7. Deal?' ... 'Make that 12/7 - getting old. — Aleksandr Voinov

The feeling of freedom and scent of sea air are intoxicating. As the wind picks up, I gain speed, holding on to life with a capital L — Laurie Nadel

They knew that mere appearance and disappearance are on the surface like waves on the sea, but life which is permanent knows no decay or diminution. — Rabindranath Tagore

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance. — John Archibald Wheeler

The viol, the violet, and the vine.
Resignedly beneath the sky — Edgar Allan Poe

Fidelity is a matter of perception; nobody is unfaithful to the sea or to mountains or to death: once recognized they fill the heart. — Russell Hoban

The twilight is sad and cloudy, The wind blows wild and free, And like the wings of sea-birds Flash the white caps of the sea. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

1 One of Coios' daughters, Asteria, took the form of a quail 5 and threw herself into the sea to escape the embraces of Zeus; — Apollodorus

You can't cross a sea by merely staring into the water. — Rabindranath Tagore

Water adopts the shape of its receptacle, it is sometimes a trickle and sometimes a wild sea. — Miyamoto Musashi

Sea Shepherd is to terrorism what Groucho was to Marxism. — Paul Watson

On a windswept hill by a billowing sea, my destiny sits and waits for me. — Robert Breault

You can never be lost when you learn to get lost into the blue of the sea.. — Munia Khan

There's magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea. — Herman Melville

We drank our whiskeys. It was the good stuff and it tasted of salt, sea, rain, wind and the Old Testament. — Adrian McKinty

He's over your head! He was, but naturally I'd flung myself into the Sea of Voltaire anyway and emerged with nothing more than several aphorisms. — Sue Monk Kidd

Golconda remained a city where the wind was like velvet, where the sun was made of radium, and the sea as warm as a mother's womb. — Anais Nin

Though the harbor is safe, ships were made to sail the sea. The same can be said for you and me. — Julie-Anne

His eyes were open wounds beneath his heavy brows, a blue as dark as the sea by night. — George R R Martin

Those who dive in the sea of affliction bring up rare pearls. — Charles Spurgeon

At first he seems cold, but if he really fell for someone, he'd love them deeper than the deep blue sea. — Rika Yokomori

No atheists at sea, Drake. When the waves are the size of mountains even the godless kneel. — Sarah Winman

Here we go mother on the shipless ocean.
Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go. — Anne Carson

As the sea is beautiful not only in calm but also in storm, so is happiness found not only in peace but also in strife. — Ivan Panin

The sea is my business. — Michael Mullen

And I want to be with you till the birds forget how to fly in the blue azure sky and the fish forget how to swim in the blue green sea... — Avijeet Das

I think the divine is like a huge smile that breaks somewhere in the sea within you, and gradually comes up again. — John O'Donohue

Black are the brooding clouds and troubled the deep waters, when the Sea of Thought, first heaving from a calm, gives up its Dead — Charles Dickens

Two people were swimming in the sea
One was alive and the other dead. See. — Barbara Comyns

It's just that the longer I fish, the more I long for simplification and lightness. — Tom Sutcliffe

Watching myself age is like watching an explosion far out in a calm sea. — Kate Llewellyn

A global human society, characterised by islands of wealth, surrounded by a sea of poverty, is unsustainable — Thabo Mbeki

The hills are reared, the seas are scooped in vain If learning's altar vanish from the plain. — William Ellery Channing

Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless. — Chief Seattle

Sweet kiss is as sweet the moonbeams kiss the sea. — N.G. Dian

The sun, coming hard around the world: the island rises from the sea, sinks, rises, holds. — Peter Matthiessen

Little islands are all large prisons; one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow. — Richard Francis Burton

Ocean waves gently rock the boat,
As if to the tune of a lullaby.
She sits still as the boat silently floats
Under the infinite blue sky. — Rachel Lewis

Yes, the heat lacerated the heart. And alone she resisted it, entire, virgin, the envy of the sea. — Marguerite Duras

I am the highway and a peregrine and all the sails that ever went to sea — Robert James Waller

She was a sea: and I had to swim in her. — Clive Barker

My arm began moving, turning the invisible crank of Death's music box. Somewhere inside, I didn't want the melody to end. — Ruta Sepetys

I love the sea because it is boundless. — Craig Thompson

Whenever your preparations for the sea are poor; the sea worms its way in and finds the problems. — Francis Stokes

A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us. — J.M. Coetzee

The only river i would like to be drown is the river filled with the blood of Jesus. — Michael Bassey Johnson

Day and night, their fail and crippled ships defy the tempest. — Jorge Luis Borges

we are the conquerors of the undiscovered country, an island of life centered in a boundless sea of blood. — Rick Yancey

Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare. But if you seek safety, it is on the shore. — Idries Shah

Spread a little sunshine wherever you go. — Heather Wolf

We live, if we still do live, in a Sea of Chaos, out of which any fucking monster can evolve. — Stephen Jones

Fishing is not like billiards, in which it is possible to attain a disgusting perfection. — Arthur Ransome

I won't scatter your sorrow to the heartless sea. I will always be with you. — Hideo Kojima

Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be, but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea. — Plato

They went to sea in a sieve, they did; In a sieve they went to sea; In spite of all their friends could say. — Edward Lear

Under the sea, the fish eat us. I know, I know, oh, oh, oh. — George R R Martin

I think the concept of the sea is very important. — Alejandro Amenabar

It's hard to tell the difference between sea and sky, between voyager and sea. Between reality and the workings of the heart. — Haruki Murakami

Consider the sea's listless chime: Time's self it is, made audible. — Dante Alighieri

For sailors who love the wind, memory is a good port of departure. — Eduardo Galeano

They caressed one another until their hides shone. They embraced until their 206 bones squeaked like mice. Their bed was a boat in a weird sea. — Tom Robbins

Run equals die. Stay equals die. So before we go all O.K. Corral on this, let's consider the third option: We blow it up. — Rick Yancey

Life is short
And pleasures few
And holed the ship
And drowned the crew
But o! But o!
How very blue
the sea is. — Clive Barker

My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea, and the heart of the great ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Trade unions are islands of anarchy in a sea of chaos. — Aneurin Bevan

As you come out of the sea, naked,
and return to the world full of salt and sun,
reverberating statue and sword of the sand. — Pablo Neruda

The Divine is the sea. All religions are rivers leading to the sea. Some rivers wind a great deal. Why not go to the sea directly? — Mother Meera

Let the sea breeze blow your hair, let the sunset bring tranquility to your heart, let the distant places you travel allow you to explore yourself. — Somya Kedia

Fate is a sea without a shore, and the soul is a rock that abides. — Algernon Charles Swinburne

In the Andes and the Alps, I have seen melting glaciers. At both of the Earth's Poles, I have seen open sea where ice once dominated the horizon. — Ban Ki-moon

Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea. — Lucretius

When you grow up on an island, what matters is how you stand to the sea. — Roddy Doyle

I longed for nothing more than to behold a stormy sea, less as a mighty spectacle than as a momentary revelation of the true life of nature; — Marcel Proust

He should have known it was all wrong the moment they started hanging grand pianos over the sea-monster pool in the atrium. — Douglas Adams

IT was said that a new person had appeared on the sea-front: a lady with a little dog. — Anton Chekhov

It was many and many a year ago, in a kingdom by the sea ... — Edgar Allan Poe

Seas wept from our deep sorrows. — John Milton

Shall I come to you, a boundless drop to a boundless ocean. — Kahlil Gibran

I'm so old I can remember when the Dead Sea was only sick. — Leon M. Lederman

Greenwich got the nod because 72 per cent of the world's commerce depended on British sea-charts - and because it annoyed the French intensely. — Richard Happer

I won't go back and live in the sea again. — Janet Morris

Away from the sight of thy face my heart knows no rest nor respite, and my work becomes an endless toil in a shoreless sea of toil. — Rabindranath Tagore

It's as if the sea sucked away her past and left her empty. — Lois Lowry