Was it proof of madness in the first corps of sea officers to have, at so critical a period, launched out on the ocean with only two armed merchant ships, two armed brigantines, and one armed sloop, to make war against such a power as Great Britain?
John Paul Jones
SeaPowerGreatOceanWarMadness
To me, the sea is like a person - like a child that I've known a long time. It sounds crazy, I know, but when I swim in the sea, I talk to it. I never feel alone when I'm out there.
Gertrude Ederle
SeaAloneTimeChildMeCrazy
The sea has neither meaning nor pity.
Anton Chekhov
NatureSeaMeaningPityNorNeither
It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, but from the fear of it: such a base as we had in the Red Sea Parts, the desert, or in the minds of the men we converted to our creed.
T. E. Lawrence
FearSeaMenRedDesertRebellion
Both me and my wife's extended family all live within a 50-mile radius. Like me, a lot of them did time in London then started drifting back to the countryside and the sea. Perhaps it's a homing instinct.
Robert Smith
FamilyLiveSeaTimeWifeMe
When you live by the sea, there are definite seasons when you can see the weather coming and going, which lends itself to photography.
Graeme Le Saux
LiveSeaWeatherPhotographySeasons
We have found that morals are not, like bacon, to be cured by hanging; nor, like wine, to be improved by sea voyages; nor, like honey, to be preserved in cells.
William Taylor
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The north coast of Brittany is eaten into bays from which the sea retreats to considerable distances, and is fringed with reefs and islands. It is a favourite resort of Parisians throughout its stretch, from Dinard to Plestin.
Sabine Baring-Gould
SeaStretchResortCoastNorth
It is best to be born in April or August when the life-giving Sun is in its exaltation sign Aries or Leo, its home, for then we enter the sea of life on the crest-wave and are backed in the battle of existence by an abundant fund of vim and energy.
Max Heindel
LifeHomeSeaBestSunEnergy
What is more beautiful than a sea of water with a number of white-winged boats skirting its surface? Poetry and beauty contesting with the wind and the waves!
George Matthew Adams
BeautySeaBeautifulWaterPoetry
Don't eat shrimp - it's one of the most unsustainable fish. For every pound that's caught, 10 or 20 pounds of other stuff is killed and dumped back overboard. It's the number one killer of juvenile sea turtles in Mexico. Two good sustainable seafood guides that I'd recommend are from the Monterey Bay Aquarium and the Blue Ocean Institute.
Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
GoodSeaOceanBlueFishBack
A new idea - whether it's a way to collect solar energy more efficiently or a cheaper way to desalinate sea water or a new seed to boost the amount of food we can grow - can stretch the physical resources we have, or even multiply them. And the ideas themselves don't ever wear out.
Ramez Naam
SeaWaterFoodIdeasEnergySeed
What is important to me is that the world understand that the problems of the Dead Sea concern not only residents of the region but humanity.
Jean-Michel Jarre
SeaMeWorldProblemsHumanityDead
China's island-building in the South China Sea poses a threat to U.S. national security interests in the region.
Evan Bayh
SeaSecurityChinaNational Security
What is there more unruly than the sea, with its winds, its tornadoes, and its tempests? And yet in what department of her works has Nature been more seconded by the ingenuity of man than in this, by his inventions of sails and of oars?
Pliny the Elder
NatureSeaManSailsMoreWinds
Nantucket's English settlers, who first disembarked on the island in 1659, had been mindful of the sea's dangers. They had hoped to earn their livelihoods not as fishermen but as farmers and shepherds on this grassy isle dotted with ponds, where no wolves preyed.
Nathaniel Philbrick
SeaWolvesIslandFarmersFirst
The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea.
John Templeton
GodSeaThinkingWaveFindIdea
When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.
Eric Cantona
SeaThinkWillFollowBecause
We will build in Britain a cyber strike capability so we can strike back in cyber space against enemies who attack us, putting cyber alongside land, sea, air and space as a mainstream military activity.
Philip Hammond
SeaSpaceBackStrikeBuildLand
I was on the beach every summer. That was the pleasant part of my childhood because we were right by the sea. We'd take a picnic, and I'd spend hours in the water until I turned blue. You couldn't get me out of there.
Olga Kurylenko
SeaWaterBeachChildhoodBlueMe
Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.
Stephen Gardiner
LifeHomeSeaUnknownLandOutside
She was green when green wasn't in. From sea to shining sea, Lady Bird Johnson has left her legacy in a more beautiful America. From millions of trees and wildflowers planted, to interstates free from billboards and replaced with green.
David Mixner
SeaBeautifulBirdGreenLegacyShe
Just as we have the power to harm the ocean, we have the power to put in place policies and modify our own behavior in ways that would be an insurance policy for the future of the sea, for the creatures there, and for us, protecting special critical areas in the ocean.
Sylvia Earle
FutureSeaPowerOceanBehaviorOwn
At sea, I feel comfortable and I come to rest.
Laura Dekker
SeaRestFeelComfortableCome
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