Lucretius Quotes

It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.

It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.

It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.

Okay, we're going to land somewhere safely, don't worry.

Happy the man who from the sea escapes the storm and finds harbor.

Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.

If you have never been at sea in a heavy gale, you can form no idea of the confusion of mind occasioned by wind and spry together. They blind, deafen, and strangle you, and take away all power of action or reflection.

I promise to protect Japan's land and sea, and the lives of the Japanese people no matter what.

But where, after all, would be the poetry of the sea were there no wild waves?

"Do not fear! Heaven is as near," He said, "by water as by land!"

Praise the Sea, but keepe on land.

She buried her face in his shoulder. And while the truth still scared her, being in his arms made her feel like the sea finding its shore, like a traveler returning after a long, hard, distant trip-- finally returning home.

A temptation arises: it is the wind. It disturbs you: it is the surging of the seas. This is the time to awaken Christ and let Him remind you of these words

Unfathomable mind, now beacon, now sea.

I didn't walk over and talk to him, though, not then. If I needed the time for a tree branch to become just a tree branch again and the wind to become just the wind, then a boy, most of all, needed some time to be only a boy.

Upon Love's bosom Earth floats like an Ark Safely through all the Deluge of the dark.

Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.

Seas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly, and their rage is lost.

The melody faded like a rainbow after a storm, or like winds calming down at last; and what was left was calm, and possibility, and relief.

We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.

Nobody I know got killed in South Central LA. Today was a good day.

But I remember seeing a mess of leaves suddenly go skittering in the wind and into the creek, then floating rapidly down the creek towards the sea, making me feel a nameless horror even then of 'Oh my God, we're all being swept away to sea no matter what we know or say or do

What though the sea be calm? trust to the shore, Ships have been drown'd, where late they danc'd before.

And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.