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Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. (Quote by - Publilius Syrus)

A journey by Sea and Land, Five Hundred Miles, is not undertaken without money. (Quote by - Lewis Hallam)

Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented. (Quote by - Heinrich Heine)

He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea. (Quote by - George Herbert)

Let me state what the official IPCC prediction is: Sea levels could go up as much as three-quarters of a meter in this century, but there is a reasonable probability it could be much higher than that. (Quote by - Steven Chu)

The late 20th century sea level rise rate lacks any sign of acceleration. Satellite altimetry indicates virtually no changes in the last decade. (Quote by - Nils-Axel Morner)

The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind. (Quote by - Woodrow Wilson)

Once there were two brothers: one ran away to sea, the other was elected Vice-President-and nothing was ever heard from either of them again. (Quote by - Thomas R. Marshall)

It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest. (Quote by - Robert D. Ballard)

The sea is mother-death and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up. (Quote by - Anne Sexton)

The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness. (Quote by - Joseph Conrad)

In a still hot morning, the tide went out and didn't come back in. This was not a spectacular event. The sea did not roll up like a scroll, like the sky in Revelations. It quietly withdrew. (Quote by - Ruth Park)

I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)

He like a rock in the sea unshaken stands his ground. (Quote by - Virgil)

The German Air Force was not sufficient to protect the sea crossing on its own. While the leading part of the forces might have landed, there was the danger that they might be cut off from supplies and reinforcements. (Quote by - Gerd von Rundstedt)

I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of dead money that went sliding off into the sea. (Quote by - Federico Garcia Lorca)

But having said that, there's also a sea change in attitude towards media. (Quote by - Robert McChesney)

About fifteen miles above New Orleans the river goes very slowly. It has broadened out there until it is almost a sea and the water is yellow with the mud of half a continent. Where the sun strikes it, it is golden. (Quote by - Frank Yerby)

On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea. (Quote by - Patricia Cornwell)

If you want to go anywhere in modern war, in the air, on the sea, on the land, you must have command of the air. (Quote by - William Halsey)

The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever. (Quote by - Jacques Yves Cousteau)

In the islands of the Aegean Sea, every island is full of graves. (Quote by - James Theodore Bent)

There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high. (Quote by - Thomas Huxley)

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles! (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)

Is this chicken, what I have, or is this fish? I know it's tuna, but it says 'Chicken of the Sea.' (Quote by - Jessica Simpson)

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