Coastline Quotes

• War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.

  Smedley Butler

  Peace, War, Believe

  "War Is A Racket". Smedley Butler's speech in the U.S. (1933); later published as a book "War Is a Racket", www.businessinsider.com. 1935.

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• California has a beautiful coastline. It can be a rough coastline. The waves are huge. The rocks are steep. Same thing in Vancouver. It has a beautiful coastline. It's dramatic.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Beautiful, Rocks, California

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• Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.

  Graham Greene

  Success, Congratulations, Break

  Graham Greene (2011). “Ways Of Escape”, p.252, Random House

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• Some things are only capable of being done in space. Examples of that are looking at our Earth from that far away, and understanding the entire processes of storms and weather patterns, and oceans, and coastlines.

  Laurel Clark

  Ocean, Weather, Space

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• When we went to Belfast we saw some beautiful countryside and coastlines.

  Sarah Sutton

  Beautiful, Saws, Belfast

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• Next door to Ethiopia spreading out along the strategic Red Sea coastline is Eritrea, a relatively new country, and a place that few Americans seem to fully understand.

  Dana Rohrabacher

  Country, Doors, Sea

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• If left unchecked, global change will create violent conflict, torrential storms, shrinking coastlines, and irreversible catastrophe.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Storm, Shrinking, Conflict

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• I love driving; driving along the California coastline is the best drive in the world.

  Al Jardine

  California, World, Driving

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• There was a magic about the sea. People were drawn to it. People wanted to love by it, swim in it, play in it, look at it. It was a living thing that was as unpredictable as a great stage actor: it could be calm and welcoming, opening its arms to embrace it's audience one moment, but then could explode with its stormy tempers, flinging people around, wanting them out, attacking coastlines, breaking down islands.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Ocean, Islands, Sea

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• If you look at coastlines, if you look at that them from far away, from an airplane, well, you don't see details, you see a certain complication. When you come closer, the complication becomes more local, but again continues. And come closer and closer and closer, the coastline becomes longer and longer and longer because it has more detail entering in.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Airplane, Details, Looks

  Source: bigthink.com

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• This is how space begins, with words only, signs traced on the blank page. To describe space: to name it, to trace it, like those portolano-makers who saturated the coastlines with the names of harbours, the names of capes, the names of inlets, until in the end the land was only separated from the sea by a continuous ribbon of text. Is the aleph, that place in Borges from which the entire world is visible simultaneously, anything other than an alphabet?

  Georges Perec

  Space, Sea, Land

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• You can't drive to the coastline. You can only drive so close to the white chalky cliff and then you have to get out and dive.

  Joyelle McSweeney

  White, Cliffs

  Joyelle McSweeney (2007). “Flet: A Novel”

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• Between highway sounds I heard waves and thought how the curve of the coastline here had sheltered and nurtured live-born sharks, humans, and migrating whales. Here, at the edge of the continent, time and distance stopped; in the lull between sets of waves I could get a fresh start.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Distance, Ocean, Curves

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• Why is geometry often described as cold and dry? One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud, a mountain, a coastline or a tree.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Nature, Lying, Science

  "Benoît Mandelbrot obituary' by Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2010.

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• I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. If a nation comes over here to fight, then we'll fight. The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag.

  Smedley Butler

  War, Believe, Fighting

  Major General Smedley Butler's speech, 1933.

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• It is a noble land that God has given us: a land that can feed and clothe the world; a land whose coastlines would enclose half the countries of Europe; a land set like a sentinel between the two imperial oceans of the globe.

  Albert J. Beveridge

  Country, Ocean, Europe

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• Making a journey by night is more wonderful than anything in the world.

  Tove Jansson

  Night, Journey, World

  Tove Jansson (2014). “Moominpappa at Sea”, p.22, Macmillan

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• About 95% of people can be compared to ships without rudders. Subject to every shift of wind and tide, they're helplessly adrift. And while they fondly hope that they'll one day drift into a rich and successful port, you and I know that for every narrow harbor entrance, there are a 1,000 miles of rocky coastline. The chances against their drifting into port are 1,000 to one.

  Earl Nightingale

  Successful, Wind, People

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• Unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country's energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Writing, Oil

  Convention Speech, www.npr.org. September 6, 2012.

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• Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Clouds, Circles, Mountain

  Michael Frame, Benoit Mandelbrot (2002). “Fractals, Graphics, and Mathematics Education”, p.150, Cambridge University Press

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• If NATO troops walk in Crimea, they will immediately deploy their forces there. Such a move would be geopolitically sensitive for us because, in this case, Russia would be practically ousted from the Black Sea area. We'd be left with just a small coastline of 450 or 600km, and that's it!

  Vladimir Putin

  Moving, Sea, Russia

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• For more than two decades, I repeatedly voiced the mantra that - situated as we are virtually on the coastline of the world's richest economy - Jamaica has no reason to be poor.

  Edward Seaga

  Jamaica, Two, World

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• Look at The Adventure. A boat by night is a wonderful sight. This is the way to start a new life, with a hurricane lamp shining at the top of the mast, and the coastline disappearing behind one as the whole world lies sleeping. Making a journey by night is more wonderful than anything in the world.

  Tove Jansson

  Lying, Adventure, Sleep

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• I've had the hat for four years and it keeps getting better with age. It's been in the ocean and the pool several times, yet refuses to be destroyed. The shape only improved with weathering. I bought several for my storefront in NYC, but it felt like a fish out of water in the city. It cries out for the California coastline and the arid deserts of Africa.

  Andy Spade

  Ocean, Years, Cities

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• Two lost things that had survived the seas and arrived on a coastline. What did they do? They implanted themselves in the sand and grew into trees and lined the beaches. Sometimes a lot can come of being all washed up. You can really grow.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Beach, Sea, Two

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