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It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.


Hunter S. Thompson

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ERNEST F. HOLLINGS We don't want to eat any more of that kind of food. You've got to throw it in the sea.
JOSE BOVE Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ...
THOMAS HARRIS The sea is as near as we come to another world.
ANNE STEVENSON The sea being so deep and so large, I'm sure other mysteries lurk out there, unseen and unsolved.
RICHARD ELLIS To multiply the harbors does not reduce the sea.
EMILY DICKINSON Estuaries are where rivers meet the sea. Our freshwater here comes from 39 different creeks and stre...
TOM GASKILL To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feelthe breath of a mist...
RACHEL CARSON "yes i own a whaler boat, it slides across the sea some folks say im a part of it i know its part of...
JIMMY BUFFETT The fact that one of the activists fell in the sea is entirely their fault.
HIROSHI HATANAKA If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; / Even there shall ...
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PUBLILIUS SYRUS Here I sit between my brother the mountain and my sister the sea. We three are one in loneliness, an...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Round the cape of a sudden came the sea, And the sun looked over the mountain's rim: And straight wa...
ROBERT BROWNING A ship on the beach is a lighthouse to the sea
DUTCH PROVERB There are no signposts in the sea.
VITA SACKVILLE-WEST And Ye take mine honour from me if Ye take away the sea!
RUDYARD KIPLING If you were queen of bloaters / And I were king of soles, / The sea we'd wag our fins in. / Nor heed...
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JOHN VINOCUR And when distress afflicts you in the sea, away go those whom you call on except He; but when He bri...
QURAN To see the sea of all of the purple shirts coming, you just stand there in awe.
JIM HOUDEK When the great markets by the sea shut fast / All that calm Sunday that goes on and on: / When even ...
JAMES ELROY FLECKER The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show yo...
HENRY WARD BEECHER She had about her a strong smell of hair-spray and her lunch-time whisky.
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THORNTON WILDER Sink the Bible to the bottom of the sea, and man's obligation to God would be unchanged. He would ha...
HENRY WARD BEECHER Nature’s law is such that it metes out its justice to everyone as they deserve by giving each pers...
ANUJ SOMANY Every living being, from ants to whales, has a right to live and die in accordance with the law of t...
CHANDRABABU V.S. Any change one effect on his natural being with a purpose would definitely end up revealing his hypo...
CHANDRABABU V.S. In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is underm...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Without law,there will be no sin,without the rich,there wil be no the poor & without truth,there wil...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) He remembered the time he had hooked one of a pair of marlin. The male fish always let the female fi...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY don’t say you’se ole. You’se uh lil girl baby all de time. God made it so you spent yo’ ole ...
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A.A. MILNE Tea was good. Tea was possibly the safest drink in the entire Empire. It defied anything untoward.
KATE HARPER The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.
MAO TSE-TUNG A ship, an isle, a sickle moon - / With few but with how splendid stars / The mirrors of the sea are...
JAMES ELROY FLECKER I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea...
ALAN BENNETT I must down to the sea again, for the call of the running tide / Is a wild call and a clear call tha...
JOHN MASEFIELD As I look out into the sea of everyone here, I see my brother. He is my hero. I admire him so much.
BETHANY PARKER The sun was shining on the sea, Shining with all his might: He did his very best to make The billows...
LEWIS CARROLL Sex ran in him like the sea
JOHN MASEFIELD The river is within us, the sea is all about us; The sea is the land's edge also
T.S. ELIOT I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a s...
JOHN MASEFIELD Follow the river and you will find the sea
FRENCH PROVERB As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tende...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm
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MARTIN BUXBAUM The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abj...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH [The set has a strong Crescent City tilt, with Harry Connick Jr.'s] City Beneath the Sea ... When th...
KIRK WHALUM He knows the secrets of the sea, of the woods and of the vineyard. They are simple and natural world...
DIANA VREELAND I liked the bit about quarter to eleven. (on Debussy's "Dawn to Noon on the Sea")
ERIK SATIE The gray silence, the gray waves, the gray wastes of the sea.
WILLIAM SHARP Voice of the Sea Dogs.
JERRY GREEN I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these...
VINCENT VAN GOGH Life is a bridge over the sea of changes. Do not build a house on it.
SRI SATHYA SAI BABA The river seeking for the seaConfronts the dam and precipice,Yet knows it cannot fail or miss;You wi...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
WILLIAM G. GOLDING The sea behind me has claimed a piece of your hearts and a lifetime of your tears. Something in your...
GEORGE PATAKI Many corpses will be floating in the sea,
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DOUGLAS RICE Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships? Asher continued on the sea shore, and a...
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JAMES ARTHUR BALDWIN It is the county that has created the situation. They permitted the sea walls and allowed all this t...
GARY APPELSON People lose a lot of time in hating others, and there's no fun in it at all.
L. FRANK BAUM I fell to the floor, and then I slid into the sea.
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LUIS CARRION From what we see, the sea nettles seem to be concentrated in the northern end of Barnegat Bay.
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JUAN COLE It plunged into the sea at an angle of 60 degrees.
VIKTOR BELTSOV She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.
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J.R.R. TOLKIEN We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL Are the most dangerous creatures the ones that use doors or the ones that don't?
DAVID WONG Just because it won't last doesn't mean it isn't worth something.
NINA DE GRAMONT People such as Hunter S. Thompson and the Beats were a huge influence on me, not just in what they w...
COREY TAYLOR Beginnings do not divulge their ends,
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ANGELA CARTER The profound ability to use aural and written language has enabled our species to collectively explo...
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HUNTER S. THOMPSON Good people drink good beer.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics ar...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Richard Nixon was a criminally insane Monster - Bill Clinton is a black-hearted Swine of a friend.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON I felt a little guilty about jangling the poor bugger's brains with that evil fantasy. But what the ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusi...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness ... Fear and Loathing ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered f...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON It never got weird enough for me.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Even now, more than 30 years later, I still judge people on the basis of whether they voted for Jack...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON was doldrums time.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Be a beachcomber, a Parisian wino, an Italian pimp, or a Danish pervert; but stay away from the Arme...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Who are these people? These faces? Where did they come from? They look like caricatures of used car ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON So this is how the world works, all energy flows according to the whims of the great magnet.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON So much for Objective Journalism. Don't bother to look for it here--not under any byline of mine; or...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON I agreed. By this time the drink was beginning to cut the acid and my hallucinations were down to a ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON On the way down the hill we walked three abreast in the cobblestone street, drunk and laughing and t...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON At the top of the mountain we are all snow leopards.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON No doubt they all Got What Was Coming To Them. All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstanc...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON A man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON 1) Never trust a cop in a raincoat.
2) Beware of enthusiasm and of love, both are temporary and...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name.

Remembered line from a long-
HUNTER S. THOMPSON The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON It is Autumn, as you know, and things are beginning to die. It is so wonderful to be out in the cris...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON and the sad notes floated out to the
patio and hung in the trees like birds too tired to fly
HUNTER S. THOMPSON I bought a small bottle of beer for fifteen cents and sat on a bench in the clearing, feeling like a...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years p...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Those of us who have been up all night were in no mood for coffee and donuts. We wanted strong drink...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON We are all wired into a survival trip now. No more of the speed that fueled that 60's. That was the ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pim...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Fear is just another word for ignorance
HUNTER S. THOMPSON I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Some may never live, but the crazy never die
HUNTER S. THOMPSON We were warriors then, and our tribe was strong like a river
HUNTER S. THOMPSON This was the fatal flaw in Tim Leary's trip. He crashed around America selling "conciousness expansi...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Five years later? Six? It seems like a lifetime...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Still humping the American Dream
HUNTER S. THOMPSON The possibility of physical and mental collapse is now very real. No sympathy for the Devil, keep th...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Jesus Creeping God! Is there a priest in this tavern? I want to confess! I'm a fucking sinner! Venal...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Ignore that nightmare in the bathroom. Just another ugly refugee from the Love Generation, some doom...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON My blood is too thick for California: I have never been able to properly explain myself in this clim...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON What kind of rat bastard psychotic would play that song- right now, at this moment?
HUNTER S. THOMPSON