Quenched Sea Quotes & Sayings

Weary drew back his right boot, aimed a kick at the spine, at the tube which had so many of Billy's important wires in it. Weary was going to break that tube. But — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Tears

The first woman who ever wept
was appalled at what stung
her eyes and ran down her cheeks.
Saltwater. Seawater.
How was it possible?
Hadn't she and the man
spent many days moving
upland to where the grass
flourished, where the stream
quenched their thirst with sweet water?
How could she have carried these sea drops
as if they were precious seeds;
where could she have stowed them?
She looked at the watchful gazelles
and the heavy-lidded frogs;
she looked at glass-eyed birds
and nervous, black-eyed mice.
None of them wept, not even the fish
that dripped in her hands when she caught them.
Not even the man. Only she
carried the sea inside her body. — Lisel Mueller

Empty him of his confidence by highlighting his failures so that therefore his head will be far more easily swelled with adulations and self-confidences. — Anonymous

In acting class, you talked always about keeping it real and don't act ... connect with the people and connect with the partner that you're acting with. The same is also true in politics. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

You Change Your Valley Into A Peak When You Find And Use The Good That Is Hidden In The Bad Time. — Spencer Johnson

The sea does not belong to despots. Upon its surface men can still exercise unjust laws, fight, tear one another to pieces, and be carried away with terrestrial horrors. But at thirty feet below its level, their reign ceases, their influence is quenched, and their power disappears. — Jules Verne

High Air-castles are cunningly built of Words, the Words well bedded also in good Logic-mortar; wherein, however, no Knowledge will come to lodge. — Thomas Carlyle

He has room for people with very little sense, but He wants everyone to use what sense they have. — C.S. Lewis

He who fights monsters might take care, lest he thereby become a monster. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I'm tired of hurting, Lord. I'm tired of being scared. I'm tired of losing. — Dana Mentink

Hidden within the heart of every man is that small boy who shudders at those dread things who shuffle among the shadows — James D. Doss

That's life you know? It is all one big waiting room. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad. And then, like you, sometimes it's great. — Patrick Jones

Oh the glamour of youth! Oh the fire of it, more dazzling than the flames of the burning ship, throwing a magic light on the wide earth, leaping audaciously to the sky, presently to be quenched by time, more cruel, more pitiless, more bitter than the sea - and like the flames of the burning ship surrounded by an impenetrable night. — Joseph Conrad

Children have two visions, the inner and the outer. Of the two the inner vision is brighter. — Sylvia Ashton-Warner

A foe to God ne'er was true friend to man, Some sinister intent taints all he does. — Edward Young