Shore Quotes - Page 7

• Cuba is actually one where I am more optimistic because of the unique nature of Cuba - 90 miles off our shore with a massive ex-patriot population, now Cuban-American population that still have deep links to the island. There I am more confident that over time that the winds of commerce and telecommunication and travel start shifting the nature of that regime. But that's a small country which has almost a unique relationship to us.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Optimistic, Unique

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I think that life is a bit like a biscuit that you only get one bite at. The best thing is to just go for it. If you feel an inclination for something, just go for it. Life is too short to muck about doubting yourself. It's better to try and just shore yourself up with some sort of confidence. And get on with it!

  Georgia Byng

  Life Is Too Short, Thinking, Doubt

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• One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. For a sailor, this is called the tide; in the case of the guilty it is called remorse. God stirs up the soul as well as the ocean.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Ocean, Sea

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1987). “Les misérables”, Dutton Adult

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• Many of the most deeply spiritual moments of my life haven't happened just in my mind or in my soul. They happened while holding my son in the middle of the night, or watching the water break along the shore, or around my table, watching the people I love feel nourished in all sorts of ways.

  Shauna Niequist

  Spiritual, Son, Night

  Shauna Niequist (2010). “Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way”, p.22, Zondervan

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• 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.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Ocean, Sea, Waiting

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.138

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• Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Wind, Literature, Wave

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• Sometimes our fights are as strong as a current, as consistent as waves and as stubborn as unmoveable rocks. Martial fights cause the same kind of erosion as powerful waves do when they hit the shore

  Jennifer E. Smith

  Love, Marriage, Strong

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• Tod or Hank Wessel, Bill Dane, Paul McConough, Steve Shore. Robert Adams, for sure. I'm ready to see what they do.There's a lot of people working reasonably intelligently.

  Garry Winogrand

  People, Bills, Ready

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• Waihi Beach. It's a lovely beach, and we're right on the shore and I get a lot of pleasure out of waking up in the morning and hearing the waves roll in.

  Edmund Hillary

  Beach, Morning, Lovely

  "Sir Edmund Hillary's last ever interview". Interview with Maggie Barry, www.noted.co.nz. January 26, 2008.

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• Never let me lose the marvel of your statue-like eyes, or the accent the solitary rose of your breath places on my cheek at night. I am afraid of being, on this shore, a branchless trunk, and what I most regret is having no flower, pulp, or clay for the worm of my despair. If you are my hidden treasure, if you are my cross, my dampened pain, if I am a dog, and you alone my master, never let me lose what I have gained, and adorn the branches of your river with leaves of my estranged Autumn.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Dog, Pain, Regret

  Federico García Lorca, “Sonnet Of The Sweet Complaint”

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• Grilling outside with my parents at the Jersey shore. We would grill lobster and corn in the summer.

  Bobby Flay

  Summer, Parent, Corn

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• Submit to me." So she said nothing, but looked doggedly and sadly at the shore, wrapped in its mantle of peace; as if the people there had fallen alseep, she thought; were free like smoke, were free to come and go like ghosts. They have no suffering there, she thought.

  Virginia Woolf

  People, Suffering, Ghost

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• When I dream, I dream of him. For several nights now he’s come to me, waving from a distant shore as if he’s been waiting patiently for me to arrive. He doesn’t utter a word, but his smile says everything: I’ve missed you.

  Libba Bray

  Good Night, Dream, Waiting

  Libba Bray (2009). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.522, Simon and Schuster

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• She has that quality, does the Hudson, as I imagine all great rivers do: the deep, abiding sense that those activities what take place on shore among human beings are of the moment, passing, and aren't the stories by way of which the greater tale of this planet will, in the end, be told.

  Caleb Carr

  Rivers, Quality, Way

  Caleb Carr (2010). “The Angel of Darkness”, p.155, Ballantine Books

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• I salute to you Commander and I sneeze 'Cause I have Now an Allergy To your policies it seems Where have we gone wrong America? Mr. Lincoln we can't seem to find you anywhere out of the millions From the deserts To the mountains Over prairies To the shores Is this just the Madness of King George Yo George Is this just the Madness of King George Yo George Well you have the whole Nation on all fours.

  Tori Amos

  Kings, America, Mountain

  Song: Yo George, Album: American Doll Posse, 2007

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• Oh, I've a love, a true, true love, who waits upon yon shore... and if my love won't be my love, then I will live no more.

  Libba Bray

  Waiting, Ifs

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

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• ... swept into the giddy vortex which keeps so many young people revolving aimlessly, till they go down or are cast upon the shore, wrecks of what they might have been

  Louisa May Alcott

  People, Vortex, Wrecks

  Louisa May Alcott (2015). “The Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated): Novels, Short Stories, Plays & Poems: Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys, A Modern Mephistopheles, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, The Abbot's Ghost…”, p.2397, e-artnow

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• It keeps eternal whisperings around desolate shores

  John Keats

  Whispering, Eternal, Desolate

  'On the Sea' (1817)

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• I was the lion who forced you to join with Aravis. I was the cat who comforted you among the houses of the dead. I was the lion who drove the jackals from you while you slept. I was the lion who gave the horses the new strength of fear for the last mill so that you should reach King Lune in time. And I was the lion you do not remember who pushed the boat in which you lay, a child near death, so that it came to shore where a man sat, wakeful at midnight, to receive you.

  C. S. Lewis

  Horse, Kings, Children

  "The Horse and His Boy". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1954.

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• Well, I was thinking this very thing. I was thinking: I am going to die today, but Jesu also died, so he knows how it is with me. And I was thinking, would he know me when I came to him? Yes! Sitting in his hall, he will see me sail into the bay, and he will run down to meet me on the shore; he will wade into the sea and pull my boat onto the sand and welcome me as his wayfaring brother. Why will he do this? Because he too has suffered, and he knows...HE KNOWS...Is that not good news?

  Stephen R. Lawhead

  Running, Brother, Thinking

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• In America, we have energy literally off our shores and under our feet.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Feet, America, Energy

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• A fiancé is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.

  Anton Chekhov

  Umpires, Engagement, Left

  "The Little Trilogy: The Man in a Case, Gooseberries, about Love". Book by Anton Chekhov, 1889.

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• Snooki is really beautiful and looks quite like Elizabeth Taylor in 'Cleopatra.' She has the same bone structure. I'm kind of obsessed with 'Jersey Shore.' People don't give them enough credit for how entertaining they are.

  Margaret Cho

  Beautiful, People, Giving

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• And as he, who with laboring breath has escaped from the deep to the shore, turns to the perilous waters and gazes.

  Dante Alighieri

  Water, Turns, Breaths

  Dante Alighieri, John D Sinclair (1961). “The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Inferno”, p.23, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever,- One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never.

  William Shakespeare

  Lost Love, Men, Sea

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 2, sc. 3, l. [65]

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