Ocean Quotes

If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death.
Morgan Freeman

Life, Death, Live

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Great, Knowledge, Island

In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.
James Russell Lowell

Deeper, Sinking, Easier

The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.
Henry Beston

Nature, Great, Rain

A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets.
Gloria Stuart

Heart, Woman, Deep

On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
Alexander Pope

Life, Passion, Reasons

There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.
Thomas Huxley

Politics, Good, Single

I'm an ocean, because I'm really deep. If you search deep enough you can find rare exotic treasures.
Christina Aguilera

Deep, Find, Enough

Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean.
Christopher Reeve

End, Either, Stay

Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
Immanuel Kant

Dark, Wreck, Lighthouse

The ocean is a mighty harmonist.
William Wordsworth

If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young.
Anne Lamott

Beauty, Music, Great

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
Bill Vaughan

Fight, Democracy, America

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.
David Herbert Lawrence

Life, Big, Carry

New Yorkers only cross water for visual culture if the water is an ocean. The East River throws us for a huge loop. If we started going to Queens and the Bronx for visual culture, many of our rent, space, and crowding problems would be over indefinitely.
Jerry Saltz

Problems, Water, Culture

I also derive a great deal of pleasure from horses and dogs... the ocean... and love.
William Shatner

Love, Great, Deal

Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Nature, Truth, Light

I don't know if you can change things, but it's a drop in the ocean.
Julie Walters

I kind of quit surfing when I got out of high school, but then a few years ago I started to take it up again. I'm not an expert by any means, but it's so wonderful to get out in the ocean and get a different perspective on things.
Jeff Bridges

School, Different, Wonderful

The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this.
Bono

Mean, Poverty, Whole

Surfing soothes me, it's always been a kind of Zen experience for me. The ocean is so magnificent, peaceful, and awesome. The rest of the world disappears for me when I'm on a wave.
Paul Walker

Experience, Awesome, Rest

I saw also that there was an ocean of darkness and death, but an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over the ocean of darkness.
George Fox

Love, Death, Light

Hostility comes from loneliness, from not seeing yourself like a drop falling into the ocean of humanity like everyone else.
Mehmet Oz

Yourself, Loneliness, Humanity

Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.
Ryunosuke Satoro

No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
Charles Kettering

Storm, Off, Ship

Whatever be the qualities of the man with whom a woman is united according to the law, such qualities even she assumes, like a river, united with the ocean.
Guru Nanak

Woman, Law, Whatever

It seems that half the point of being in Miami Beach - particularly the northern end of South Beach - is to be observed by people-watchers like me, and the display along Ocean Drive during my visit was, as always, sublime.
Susan Orlean

End, Point, Seems

Every drop in the ocean counts.
Yoko Ono

Ever since I was a child I've always been very attracted to melodies. Whether I hear Jeff Beck, a choir, an ocean or the wind, there's always a melody in there.
Carlos Santana

Child, Wind, Since

All rivers, even the most dazzling, those that catch the sun in their course, all rivers go down to the ocean and drown. And life awaits man as the sea awaits the river.
Simone Schwarz-Bart

Life, Down, Sun

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