High Seas Quotes

• There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.

  Joseph Conrad

  Life, Ocean, Army

  Joseph Conrad (1905). “Lord Jim”, p.7, McClure, Phillips & Company

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• Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another's struggles.

  Lucretius

  Sweet, Struggle, Wind

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• The tradition of freedom of the high seas has its roots in an era when there were too few people to seriously violate the oceans - but in hindsight that era ended some 150 years ago.

  James Carlton

  Ocean, Years, Sea

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• I have vertigo. Vertigo makes it feel like the floor is pitching up and down. Things seem to be spinning. It's like standing on the deck of a ship in really high seas.

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Sea, Pitching, Ships

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• The flag that was the symbol of slavery on the high seas for a long time was not the Confederate battle flag, it was sadly the Stars and Stripes.

  Alan Keyes

  Stars, Sea, Long

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• In high seas or in low seas, I'm gonna be your friend... I'm gonna be your friend. In high tide or in low tide, I'll be by your side... I'll be by your side.

  Bob Marley

  Your Side, Sea, Tides

  Song: High Tide or Low Tide

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• In high tide or in low tide,
  I'll be by your side

  Bob Marley

  Your Side, Tides, Sides

  Song: High Tide Or Low Tide

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• The written word is redundant on the high seas. Why? Because paper gets wet too easily.

  Walter Moers

  Sea, Paper, Redundant

  Walter Moers (2006). “13 1/2 Lives of Captain Blue Bear”, p.30, The Overlook Press

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• My last picture for Warners was Romance on the High Seas. It was Doris Day's first picture; that was before she became a virgin.

  Oscar Levant

  Sea, Romance, Lasts

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• I felt the need to clarify we were there for the self defense class, in case he also taught about dog breeding or riding the high seas.

  Richelle Mead

  Dog, Self, Sea

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• It has been said that the hardest job in the world is raising a child, but the people who says this have probably never worked at a comb factory or captured pirates on the high seas.

  Daniel Handler

  Jobs, Children, Hardest Job

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• No compass has ever been invented for the high seas of matrimony.

  Heinrich Heine

  Marriage, Sea, Compass

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• Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.

  Heinrich Heine

  Marriage, Sea, Literature

  Heinrich Heine (1888). “Wit, Wisdom, and Pathos”

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• It so happened that I was on a German sailing vessel on the way to Australia when the ship was captured, and on the high seas I was made prisoner by the French.

  Fritz Sauckel

  Inspirational, Funny, Sea

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• Oil platforms are a technology for floating permanently on the high seas, and cruise ships are a technology for self-governance on the high seas, and if you combine these two technologies, imagine cruise ships that never dock but float permanently. Imagine if they were 10 times as big. Imagine if they were modular and could move about and you could choose the neighbours you wanted to live with.

  Joe Quirk

  Moving, Technology, Self

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I love you, I know this must come as something of a surprise, since all I’ve ever done is scorn you and degrade you and taunt you, but I have loved you for several hours now, and every second, more. I thought an hour ago that I loved you more than any woman has ever loved a man, but a half hour after that I knew that what I felt before was nothing compared to what I felt then. But ten minutes after that, I understood that my previous love was a puddle compared to the high seas before a storm.

  William Goldman

  Love You, Men, Sea

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.44, A&C Black

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• Dozens of nations have agreed to join in monitoring and, if necessary, intercepting and boarding ships on the high seas in the event they are suspected of engaging in one or both of these threatening activities.

  Frank Gaffney

  Sea, Events, Dozen

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• For decades Israel has been capturing, and kidnapping Lebanese and Palestinian refugees on the high seas, from Cyprus to Lebanon, killing them in Lebanon, bringing them to Israel, holding them as hostages. It's been going on for decades, has anybody called for an invasion of Israel?

  Noam Chomsky

  Israel, Sea, Cyprus

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The legislator is like the navigator of a ship on the high seas. He can steer the vessel on which he sails, but he cannot alter its construction, raise the wind, or stop the waves from swelling beneath his feet.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Wind, Sea, Feet

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• When you are playing an egomaniac running a fantastical ship, you don't want him to be too suburban. Naturalism doesn't work on the high seas.

  Geoffrey Rush

  Running, Sea, Want

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• I have always felt I lived on the high seas, threatened, at the heart of a royal happiness.

  Albert Camus

  Heart, Sea, Royal

  Albert Camus (2012). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”, p.181, Vintage

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• As far as I am concerned I wish to be out on the high seas. I wish to take my chances with wind, and wave, and star. And I had rather go down in the glory and grandeur of the storm, than rot in any orthodox harbor.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Stars, Wind, Sea

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.195, Library of Alexandria

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• Icelandic people are inbred. And they have a sense of themselves as genetically special, and a history of risk-taking because they make their living on the high seas fishing. Assets generally rose in value during this period, and so it looked like they actually knew what they were doing.

  Michael Lewis

  Sea, Fishing, People

  "Michael Lewis’ 'Boomerang': 'Money Thrown Out in Hope, Coming Back in Anger'". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 21, 2011.

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• Perhaps there lives some dreamy boy, untaught
  In schools, some graduate of the field or street,
  Who shall become a master of art,
  An admiral sailing the high seas of thought
  Fearless and first, and steering with his fleet
  For lands not yet laid down in any chart.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Art, School, Boys

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1073, Delphi Classics

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• We have reached the time in the life of the planet, and humanity's demand upon it, when every fisherman will have to be a river-keeper, a steward of marine shallows, a watchman on the high seas. We are beyond having to put back what we have taken out. We must put back more than we take out.

  Thomas McGuane

  Taken, Marine, Lakes

  Thomas McGuane (1999). “The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing”, Knopf

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