Expanses Of Water Quotes & Sayings

There is a mystical quality to the place where sea meets land, the clashing of two very different worlds. Yet continuity remains between them. The oceans reclaim the earth with their wind and water. The earth soaks up the sea to be carried off by the rain. They are always in flux. Each has their specific creatures, breathing in their own given ways, but dying in the same way, caught in a constant battle to survive. They swim and run and fly in tranquil spaces, among rolling hills and waves, great blue and green expanses, mountains both below the surface and above. And there is violence in their worlds. — F.G. Capitanio

Effort is not a means to lead us to happiness. Effort itself is happiness — Leo Tolstoy

Later, in the afternoon, I read what I did that morning. It's almost always a surprise. But I can read it rationally; edit, polish, re-write, and think what I might do tomorrow in the early darkness. — Jeff Lindsay

Am I the only one who thinks Nancy Grace's relentless cheer leading for Jodi Arias' death gross & excessive? The anchor as executioner?! — Geraldo Rivera

A sentence that clots in your mouth is unlikely to flow in your mind. — Mal Peet

The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is eternity. — Alfred North Whitehead

I may say that here, as in most cases where the operations of nature interfere with the designs of man, it is not by a direct intervention on our part that we may remedy the difficulties, but rather by a precise knowledge of their causes, which may enable us, if not to check, at least to avoid the evil consequences. — Louis Agassiz

I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy. — Michel De Montaigne

I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach. — Bobby Knight

Why should women not be a martyr for her cause? — Ernestine Rose

Where the blue water began, I could not guess. It stretched out far enough to reach and touch the sky. The contrasting blues of the two vast expanses did not meld together, kept apart by a line that rimmed the world, a horizon line that perhaps prevented the water from rising into the heavens and the sky from draining into the sea. — Michael Puttonen

You have to go understand that life and baseball is littered with all kinds of obstacles and problems along the way. You have to learn how to overcome them to be successful in life. — Dave Winfield

I like the idea of politically charged music a lot, but it usually seems to be preaching to the choir and ineffective. — Phil Elvrum

Sometimes the large scale organic farmer looks like someone trying to practice industrial agriculture with one hand tied behind his back. — Michael Pollan

In my dreams you are standing right beside me, two hearts finally colliding, then i wake up and realise, realise, this is real life — Demi Lovato

For nature does things in good order:
And birds and butterflies recognize
No man-made border — Ruskin Bond