As to the sea itself, love it you cannot. Why should you? I will never believe again the sea was ever loved by anyone whose life was married to it. It is the creation of omnipotence, which is not of humankind and understandable, and so the springs of its behavior are hidden.
—H.M. Tomlinson, 1912
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Without virtue, both riches and honor, to me, seem like the passing cloud.
—Confucius, c. 350 BCWhy has the government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
—Alexander Hamilton, 1787Everyone else is represented in Washington by a rich and powerful lobby, it seems. But there is no lobby for the people.
—Shirley Chisholm, 1970Luck, in the great game of war, is undoubtedly lord of all.
—Arthur Griffiths, 1899A dead enemy always smells good.
—Aulus Vitellius, 69Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1480In the name of Hippocrates doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
—Luis Buñuel, 1983For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1879O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1599To need to dominate others is to need others. The commander is dependent.
—Fernando Pessoa, c. 1935Imagine a number of men in chains, all under sentence of death, some of whom are each day butchered in the sight of the others; those remaining see their own condition in that of their fellows and, looking at each other with grief and despair, await their turn. This is an image of the human condition.
—Blaise Pascal, 1669If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
—Dorothy Parker