Family is the only anchor that will hold in a choppy sea.
Probably they had good reason for omitting it. A profane mind might make a jest of an apostle half seas over, and ridicule an apostolic gate-keeper who couldn't keep his head above water.
As poet-philosopher Rabindranath Tagore reminds us, "We cannot cross the sea merely by staring at the water. " Simplicity has power. And living on purpose comes to this: Just do it. How much simpler can we get?
I have to build my own boat this time. It's a big sea out there, and I have a pretty small boat. I have a lot of belief in it.
The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.
We've learned to fly the air like birds, we've learned to swim the seas like fish, and yet we haven't learned to walk the earth as brothers and sisters
Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.
When I forget how talented God is, I look to the sea.
So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown When judges have been babes; great floods have flown From simple sources, and great seas have dried When miracles have by the greatest been denied.
Like a sea-beast fished up from the depths, or a diver too suddenly hoisted, my veins threatened to burst from the fall in pressure. I had great anxiety and no means of relieving it. . . And then it was that the Muse of Painting came to my rescue - out of charity and out of chivalry. . . - and said, "Are these toys any good to you? They amuse some people. "
The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
I go in the sea as little as I can. If there's a girl and I have to accompany her, then obviously I go (laughs)!
Every person is a Hindu who regards and owns this Bharat Bhumi, this land from the Indus to the seas, as his Fatherland as well as Holyland, i. e. the land of the origin of his religion (. . . ) Consequently the so-called aboriginal or hill tribes also are Hindus: because India is their Fatherland as well as their Holyland of whatever form of religion or worship they follow.
While you live your life aboard the ship of life be aware of the sea of life on which it floats and on which it moves forward; be aware of the prevailing winds and currents that influence your progress as the master of the ship.
When we came within sight of the sea, the waves on the horizon, caught at intervals above the rolling abyss, were like glimpses of another shore with towers and buildings.
All writers should be put in a box and thrown in the sea.
For all at last return to the sea- to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the ever-flowing stream of time, the beginning and the end.
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
Averages might mean something to bureaucrats and engineers, but the sea had no struck with statistics: it was a succession of unpredictable circumstances and extremes.
I will not have a sea creature destroyed, if I can help it. And I can help it.