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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.


Victor Hugo

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KELLY JONES And so castles made of sand fall in the sea, eventually.
JIMI HENDRIX If the sun refused to shine, I'd still be loving you. If mountains crumble to the sea, there will st...
LED ZEPPELIN The mountains look on Marathon - / And Marathon looks on the sea; / And musing there an hour alone, ...
LORD BYRON Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.
PERICLES All the Men will be sailors then, untill the sea shall free them.
LEONARD COHEN The sea is as near as we come to another world.
ANNE STEVENSON The sea being so deep and so large, I'm sure other mysteries lurk out there, unseen and unsolved.
RICHARD ELLIS To multiply the harbors does not reduce the sea.
EMILY DICKINSON Estuaries are where rivers meet the sea. Our freshwater here comes from 39 different creeks and stre...
TOM GASKILL To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feelthe breath of a mist...
RACHEL CARSON "yes i own a whaler boat, it slides across the sea some folks say im a part of it i know its part of...
JIMMY BUFFETT The fact that one of the activists fell in the sea is entirely their fault.
HIROSHI HATANAKA If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; / Even there shall ...
BIBLE Anyone can hold the helm while the sea is calm
PUBLILIUS SYRUS Here I sit between my brother the mountain and my sister the sea. We three are one in loneliness, an...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Round the cape of a sudden came the sea, And the sun looked over the mountain's rim: And straight wa...
ROBERT BROWNING A ship on the beach is a lighthouse to the sea
DUTCH PROVERB There are no signposts in the sea.
VITA SACKVILLE-WEST And Ye take mine honour from me if Ye take away the sea!
RUDYARD KIPLING If you were queen of bloaters / And I were king of soles, / The sea we'd wag our fins in. / Nor heed...
THOMAS HOOD Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a ...
RICHARD BURTON The American cemetery at Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer is a great lawn at the edge of the sea, white marble ...
JOHN VINOCUR And when distress afflicts you in the sea, away go those whom you call on except He; but when He bri...
QURAN To see the sea of all of the purple shirts coming, you just stand there in awe.
JIM HOUDEK When the great markets by the sea shut fast / All that calm Sunday that goes on and on: / When even ...
JAMES ELROY FLECKER The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show yo...
HENRY WARD BEECHER Then there is the other secret. There isn't any symbolysm [sic]. The sea is the sea. The old man is ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Sink the Bible to the bottom of the sea, and man's obligation to God would be unchanged. He would ha...
HENRY WARD BEECHER I will go back to the great sweet mother,/ Mother and lover of men, the sea.
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE He remembered the time he had hooked one of a pair of marlin. The male fish always let the female fi...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.
MAO TSE-TUNG A ship, an isle, a sickle moon - / With few but with how splendid stars / The mirrors of the sea are...
JAMES ELROY FLECKER I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea...
ALAN BENNETT I must down to the sea again, for the call of the running tide / Is a wild call and a clear call tha...
JOHN MASEFIELD As I look out into the sea of everyone here, I see my brother. He is my hero. I admire him so much.
BETHANY PARKER The sun was shining on the sea, Shining with all his might: He did his very best to make The billows...
LEWIS CARROLL Sex ran in him like the sea
JOHN MASEFIELD The river is within us, the sea is all about us; The sea is the land's edge also
T.S. ELIOT I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a s...
JOHN MASEFIELD Follow the river and you will find the sea
FRENCH PROVERB As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tende...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm
PUBLILIUS SYRUS I have seen the sea when it is stormy and wild; when it is quiet and serene; when it is dark and moo...
MARTIN BUXBAUM The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abj...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH [The set has a strong Crescent City tilt, with Harry Connick Jr.'s] City Beneath the Sea ... When th...
KIRK WHALUM He knows the secrets of the sea, of the woods and of the vineyard. They are simple and natural world...
DIANA VREELAND I liked the bit about quarter to eleven. (on Debussy's "Dawn to Noon on the Sea")
ERIK SATIE The gray silence, the gray waves, the gray wastes of the sea.
WILLIAM SHARP Voice of the Sea Dogs.
JERRY GREEN I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these...
VINCENT VAN GOGH Life is a bridge over the sea of changes. Do not build a house on it.
SRI SATHYA SAI BABA The river seeking for the seaConfronts the dam and precipice,Yet knows it cannot fail or miss;You wi...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
WILLIAM G. GOLDING The sea behind me has claimed a piece of your hearts and a lifetime of your tears. Something in your...
GEORGE PATAKI Many corpses will be floating in the sea,
THAKSIN SHINAWATRA It was fairly rough, the sea, but the worst part was the rain. There was quite heavy rain, although ...
DOUGLAS RICE Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships? Asher continued on the sea shore, and a...
BIBLE The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break forth from one another, the sea engulfs ...
JAMES ARTHUR BALDWIN It is the county that has created the situation. They permitted the sea walls and allowed all this t...
GARY APPELSON People lose a lot of time in hating others, and there's no fun in it at all.
L. FRANK BAUM I fell to the floor, and then I slid into the sea.
JAIKUMAR GEORGE They know how dangerous the sea is. They know about the deaths of other immigrants, and despite that...
LUIS CARRION From what we see, the sea nettles seem to be concentrated in the northern end of Barnegat Bay.
MARC LABELLA The question is how you reduce the number of bases [the terrorists have] and the size of the sea in ...
JUAN COLE It plunged into the sea at an angle of 60 degrees.
VIKTOR BELTSOV I wanted to see you again, touch you, know who you were, see if I would find you identical with the ...
VICTOR HUGO Dia berhenti bicara kepada warga desa, karena dia yakin bahwa mereka menggunjingkannya di belakang p...
KHALED HOSSEINI Kau tak tahu apa-apa soal keberanian. Untuk menjadi berani, harus ada yang dipertaruhkan. Aku datang...
KHALED HOSSEINI Katamu kau tak punya keberanian. tapi aku melihatnya di dalam dirimu. Perbuatanmu, beban yang kau ta...
KHALED HOSSEINI Abollah?"

"Ya."

"Kalau aku sudah besar nanti, akankah aku tinggal bersamamu?"<...
KHALED HOSSEINI Aku akan membawanya pulang, pikir Baba Ayub ketika itu juga. Inilah yang paling diinginkannya, bersa...
KHALED HOSSEINI Kulihat peri kecil muram
Di keteduhan pohon kertas.
Kumengenal peri kecil muram
Yang ...
KHALED HOSSEINI Ada sebongkah batu di pinggir ladangnya, dan dia duduk di permukaannya yang datar. Dia kerap duduk d...
KHALED HOSSEINI Dan jika kau miskin, penderitaan menjadi mata uangmu.
KHALED HOSSEINI Mereka bernasib naas, memiliki ayah yang lemah. Seorang pengecut yang lebih memilih melihat mereka s...
KHALED HOSSEINI Seruas jari harus dipotong untuk menyelamatkan tangan.
KHALED HOSSEINI Jika kau sudah hidup selama aku, kau akan mengerti bahwa kekejaman dan kemuliaan hanyalah nuansa yan...
KHALED HOSSEINI We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its...
KATE CHOPIN Just imagine! In the early nineteenth century, this cathedral was in such a state of disrepair that ...
STEPHANIE PERKINS There are plenty of fish in the sea
AMERICAN PROVERB Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea.
RACHEL CARSON And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, While the earth bears a plant or the sea rolls its w...
ROBERT TREAT PAINE This is your timeThis is your danceLive every momentLeave nothing to chanceSwim in the seaDrink of t...
MICHAEL W. SMITH Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
JACQUES COUSTEAU The Sea Pro range of boats are the perfect addition to our new boat portfolio. They are high quality...
IAN ROBERTS When it comes to exploring the sea of love, I prefer buoys.
ANDREW G. DEHEL for whatever we lose (like a you or a me) / it's always ourselves we find in the sea
E. E. CUMMINGS Everybody likes to go to Geneva. I used to do it for the Law of the Sea conferences and you'd find t...
ERNEST F. HOLLINGS There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than th...
VICTOR HUGO For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one
KAHLIL GIBRAN And when the day arrives I'll become the sky and I'll become the sea and the sea will come to kiss m...
TRENT REZNOR A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned.
J.M. SYNGE The naturalists of our own time hold equal faith in the wonders of the sea, but seek therein rather ...
EDWARD FORBES They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters; These see the works of the ...
BIBLE God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides...
WILLIAM COWPER They will redo the whole waterfront in Charlevoix - the sea wall and all the docks will be changed.
BILL BOIK ['The size of the sea' But others say the debate is important because it can determine whether actio...
JUAN COLE

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VICTOR HUGO Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
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VICTOR HUGO The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.
VICTOR HUGO Then press my lips, where plays a flame of bliss,-- A pure and holy love-light,--and forsake T...
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VICTOR HUGO Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.
VICTOR HUGO Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
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VICTOR HUGO Popularity? It's glory's small change.
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VICTOR HUGO A library implies an act of faith.
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VICTOR HUGO Whenever we encounter the Infinite in man, however imperfectly understood, we treat it with respect....
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VICTOR HUGO He does not weep who does not see.
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VICTOR HUGO We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wr...
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VICTOR HUGO The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.
VICTOR HUGO For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.
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VICTOR HUGO To reform a man, you must begin with his grandmother.
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VICTOR HUGO The clouds,--the only birds that never sleep.
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VICTOR HUGO Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
VICTOR HUGO Caution is the eldest child of wisdom
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VICTOR HUGO To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
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VICTOR HUGO And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste Shall others continue, but never complete. F...
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VICTOR HUGO The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.
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VICTOR HUGO Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
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VICTOR HUGO Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
VICTOR HUGO Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
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VICTOR HUGO What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
VICTOR HUGO The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them...
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VICTOR HUGO Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
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VICTOR HUGO Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
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VICTOR HUGO Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
VICTOR HUGO He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
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