Atlantic And Indian Quotes & Sayings

There is a limit to what a child can accept, assimilate; not to what it can believe because a child can believe anything, given time, but to what it can accept, a limit in time, in the very time which nourishes the believing of the incredible. — William Faulkner

The Pacific, greatest of oceans, has an area exceeding that of all dry land on the planet. Herman Melville called it "the tide-beating heart of earth." Covering more than a third of the planet's surface
as much as the Atlantic, Indian, and Arctic oceans combined
it's the largest geographical feature in the world. Its awesome 165,384,000 square km (up to 16,000 km wide and 11,000 km long) have an average depth of around 4,000 meters. Half the world's liquid water is stored here. You could drop the entire dry landmass of our planet into the Pacific and still have room for another continent the size of Asia. One theory claims the moon may have been flung from the Pacific while the world was still young. — David Stanley

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea. — James Madison

Our lungs are gradually being depleted of oxygen. Perhaps it's time to use whatever breath remains in our bodies to say: Open the bloody gates. — Arundhati Roy

India is an incredibly vibrant market, which Virgin already, through Virgin Atlantic, has the pleasure of working in. I am delighted that Virgin Comics will not only help to launch the Indian comic market and spin it into the West, but will develop new and exciting talent. — Richard Branson

We are everything that our mothers did not have time to be. — Terisa Siagatonu

Very often, people who actually pick up a book of mine for the first time are kind of surprised. And I get these letters saying, well, who knew that you were good, you know? — Salman Rushdie

True faith nor biddeth nor abideth form,
The bended knee, the eye uplift; is all
Which men need render; all which God can bear.
What to the faith are forms? A passing speck,
A crow upon the sky. — Philip James Bailey

You're never going to please everyone, and if you do, there's something wrong. — Constance Wu

When you kill someone by chopping off their head, rolling 'em up in a carpet and burning it, you'd better make sure they're dead! — Colin Mochrie

There was a man who sold a hyena skin while the beast still lived and who was killed in hunting it. — Winston Churchill

The evolution theory is purely the product of the imagination. — John Ambrose Fleming

Flying from L.A. to India is an arduous undertaking. I regard myself more as a trans-Atlantic citizen than an Indian. — Satya Bhabha

Every soul seeks happiness, Socrates believes, and there is a clearly defined path to achieving happiness, though many don't choose to take it. The only people who are truly happy are those who are virtuous and wise, who live reflective, "examined" lives and strive to behave rightly and justly in every area of their lives. These people create souls that are good, wise, and courageous and as a result they achieve genuine and lasting happiness. — Pearson

Every moment is precious. And precarious. — Edward Abbey

It rolls the mid-most waters of the world, the Indian Ocean and Atlantic being just its arms. — Herman Melville