Seals Quotes

• People think SEALs are cold-blooded, heartless, wound-up, brainwashed killers. They imagine you can just point a SEAL in a direction and say, 'Go kill.' The truth is you're talking about a bunch of kind-hearted, jovial guys. The only thing that separates them is mental toughness.

  Howard E. Wasdin

  Thinking, Talking, People

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• I don't have any delusions. I don't think I would make it through Navy SEAL training.

  Chris Pratt

  Thinking, Training, Navy

  "Dumb Luck". Interview with Logan Hill, www.gq.com. April 26, 2012.

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• I have been honored to serve the whales, dolphins, seals - and all the other creatures on this Earth. Their beauty, intelligence, strength, and spirit have inspired me. These beings have spoken to me, touched me, and I have been rewarded by friendship with many members of different species. If the whales survive and flourish, if the seals continue to live and give birth, and if I can contribute to ensuring their future prosperity, I will be forever happy.

  Paul Watson

  Whales, Giving, Forever

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• The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal.

  Mark Twain

  Differences, Miracle, Mermaid

  Mark Twain (1962). “Letters from the Earth”

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• The truth is that seals look more like dogs. And I'm surrounded by seals because I live by the sea. They're odd bloody creatures. Not fish, they don't have gills, they should have legs, but they don't. They're the weirdest things, you know?

  Neil Jordan

  Dog, Odd, Truth Is

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• On and on we seal the pages with salt water and promises to live well to make their deaths count.

  Suzanne Collins

  Water, Promise, Pages

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.387, Scholastic Inc.

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• Attack and defence, want and war, victory and defeat, lordship and thraldom, all sealed with the seal of blood: this from henceforth is the History of Man.

  Richard Wagner

  War, Men, Victory And Defeat

  Richard Wagner (1966). “Prose works”

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• When we decline to talk about what is real simply because it's uncomfortable to do so, we seal our own fate.

  Richard Heinberg

  Real, Fate, Decline

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• When you get in the water with a wild animal, you're essentially giving yourself to that animal because, as humans, we're quite helpless and vulnerable in the water. You're at the seal's mercy. You're at the predator's mercy.

  Paul Nicklen

  Animal, Giving, Water

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• Hope is the mainspring of human action; faith seals our lease of immortality; and charity and love give the passport to the soul's true and lasting happiness.

  Alfred Billings Street

  Hope, Lasting Happiness, Giving

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• Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

  John Steinbeck

  Littles, Clown

  John Steinbeck, Thomas Fensch (1988). “Conversations with John Steinbeck”, p.77, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• As soft wax is apt to take the stamp of the seal, so are the minds of young children to receive the instruction imprinted on them.

  Plutarch

  Children, Mind, Instruction

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.8

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• The penguin doesn't know it's cute, and the leopard seal doesn't know it's kind of big and monstrous. This is just the food chain unfolding.

  Paul Nicklen

  Cute, Leopards, Penguins

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• I'm not above acting like a seal every once in a while and waiting for the next fish, I just don't want to do it all the time.

  Fred Thompson

  Waiting, Acting, Next

  "Mr. Sunshine State". Interview with Ryan Sager, www.nysun.com. September 14, 2007.

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• The great seal of truth is simplicity.

  Herman Boerhaave

  Truth, Simplicity, Truth Is

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• A person's got to think, otherwise that person's no better than a trained seal balancing a ball on his nose. If only that seal could think, he'd know he was making a thousand children laugh.

  Bette Greene

  Inspiring, Children, Thinking

  Bette Greene (1984). “Summer of my German soldier”, Starfire

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• You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.

  Anne Lamott

  Hurt, Grief, Heart

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• Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Love, Change, Death

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• Unlike aboriginal hunters, commercial seal hunters leave the carcasses on the ice to rot.

  Paul Watson

  Animal, Ice, Hunters

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• To protest about bullfighting in Spain, the eating of dogs in South Korea, or the slaughter of baby seals in Canada, while continuing to eat eggs from hens who have spent their lives crammed into cages, or veal from calves who have been deprived of their mothers, their proper diet, and the freedom to lie down with their legs extended, is like denouncing apertheid in South Africa while asking your neighbors not to sell their houses to blacks.

  Peter Singer

  Mother, Dog, Baby

  "Animal Liberation: A New Ethics for Our Treatment of Animals". Book by Peter Singer, 1975.

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• A bunch of money-grubbin', greenhouse-gasing, seal-clubbing, oil-drilling, Bible-thumping, missile-firing, right-to-life-ing, lethal-injecting hypocrites. People whose idea of a good time is strapping a dead panda to a Lincoln Navigator and running over everybody in the gay parade.

  Richard Jeni

  Running, Hypocrite, Gay

  "A Big, Steaming Pile Of Me". Documentary, Comedy, 2005.

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• We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

  Gloria Estefan

  Fate, Second Chance, Giving

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• I made myself into an envelope into which I could thrust my work deep, lick the flap, seal it from everybody.

  Emily Carr

  Envelopes, Privacy, Made

  Emily Carr (2002). “The Emily Carr collection”, Key Porter Books

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• It is not difficult for one seal to make many impressions exactly alike, but to vary shapes almost infinitely, which is what God has done in creation, this is in truth a divine work.

  Robert Bellarmine

  Done, Shapes, Creation

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• I do realise that when I laugh, it sounds like a seal is being molested.

  Jimmy Carr

  Laughing, Sound, Realising

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