Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other. Place two enemies in the midst of a crowd, and they will inevitably meet; it is a fatality, a question of time; that is all.
Jules Verne
SeaTimeTogetherSpaceWindTide
The sea is the universal sewer.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
SeaUniversalSewer
The oil and gas sector in the North Sea does have a strong future if we do the right things now, but we've got to make sure that the infrastructure is right to support the sector, but also to support, over the next few years, diversification as well.
Nicola Sturgeon
FutureSeaSupportStrongNowOil
On this day there was soon wind enough and to spare. The same might have been said of the sea. The Spray was in the midst of the turbulent Gulf Stream itself. She was jumping like a porpoise over the uneasy waves.
Joshua Slocum
SeaDayWindWavesEnoughSaid
The jazz rhythm won't be understood by the bulk of my audience. That's the problem. We can get away with maybe one tune a night. It depends on where we place it. A song like 'Beyond the Sea,' the fans love that. It's fresh.
George Benson
LoveSeaNightSongProblemPlace
It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back.
Marianne Moore
SeaManOld ManWanderBackOld
My Cape women are generally true to type - big hearted, motherly women who love the sea. My other characters, with the exception of the Portuguese, who I occasionally mention as Cape dwellers, are obviously drawn from the city types one sees in everyday life.
Joseph C. Lincoln
LifeLoveWomenSeaCityTrue
I love Miami; I miss it so much. I miss the beach, the peace it brings you. I love the sound and smell of the sea.
Genesis Rodriguez
LoveSeaBeachPeaceMiamiYou
There're been sort of a sea change in my work in general, in that the more personal, the universal it's become.
Marti Noxon
WorkChangeSeaPersonalBecome
A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway.
Joseph Conrad
SeaModernHighwayMakeShipsMuch
Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.
Heinrich Heine
SeaCompassHighBeenMatrimony
My parents are the last of the middle class. My father worked for the government designing sea mines. My mother was a substitute teacher. Together, they worked really only until they were sixty.
Lewis Black
FatherMotherSeaTeacherTogether
Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law. Understand that we are you. Understand that if we decide to have sex whether safe, safer, or unsafe, it is our decision and you have no rights in our lovemaking.
Derek Jarman
SeaDecisionLawYouSexUnderstand
The most desirable aspects of the Law of the Sea Treaty pertain to navigational rights.
Frank Gaffney
SeaLawRightsTreatyMostAspects
Is global warming causing more extreme weather events of greater intensity, and is it causing sea levels to rise? The answer to both is an emphatic 'no.'
Jim Inhofe
SeaWeatherRiseGlobal WarmingMore
The historic sea changes that have taken place in our country's rural areas are clear proof of the validity and vitality of the socialist rural theses advanced by President Kim Il Sung.
Kim Jong-un
SeaCountryPlacePresidentChanges
I remember having to read 'The Old Man and the Sea,' and I didn't want to read it; I didn't want to like Ernest Hemingway. I was being a stubborn teenager.
Dree Hemingway
SeaManStubbornRememberOld Man
I spend a lot of time in L.A., and when it rains there you get the entire rainfall for the year in two days, raindrops the size of mangoes. And in Barcelona, the Mediterranean storms come up from the sea, thunder and lightning; it's like the end of the world.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
SeaTimeWorldEndYearYou
On climate change, we are told that there will be a civilization-ending development in the form of massive sea level rise as soon as 2050. Anybody plan to be here in 2050? I think a few of us do, myself included.
Jill Stein
ChangeSeaMyselfThinkPlanRise
With the exception of octopus, I don't think I've met any food that I didn't like. And by the way, sometimes I do like octopus. I'm just not crazy about it by itself. I love sea urchin. I love uni. If I'm going to die of anything, it's going to be gluttony.
Justin Timberlake
LoveSeaFoodCrazyThinkDie
Just like navigating in the open sea, triangulating the information you collect from media with your doctor's advice and some common sense will help map a sound path to safety.
Dean Ornish
SeaPathSafetyDoctorAdviceHelp
From about 700 B.C. to A.D. 500, the vast territory of Scythia, stretching from the Black Sea to China, was home to diverse but culturally related nomads. Known as Scythians to Greeks, Saka to the Persians, and Xiongnu to the Chinese, the steppe tribes were masters of horses and archery.
Adrienne Mayor
HomeSeaBlackStretchingChina
Is this chicken, what I have, or is this fish? I know it's tuna, but it says 'Chicken of the Sea.'
Jessica Simpson
SeaFishKnowChickenTunaSays
The deep sea is a scary world.
James Wan
SeaWorldDeepScary
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