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The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.


Livy

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The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest bree...
TITUS LIVIUS And so castles made of sand fall in the sea, eventually.
JIMI HENDRIX 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 ...
BIBLE Anyone can hold the helm while the sea is calm
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...
THOMAS HOOD Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a ...
RICHARD BURTON The American cemetery at Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer is a great lawn at the edge of the sea, white marble ...
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 His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shri...
ANNE BRONTE His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shri...
ANNE BRONTë 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 For I inhabit the spaces in between, where auras mix and hearts reach out and knowing hovers, and wh...
THE WIND SOPHIA IN FEATHERFOOT The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.
FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS 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
PUBLILIUS SYRUS I have seen the sea when it is stormy and wild; when it is quiet and serene; when it is dark and moo...
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,
THAKSIN SHINAWATRA It was fairly rough, the sea, but the worst part was the rain. There was quite heavy rain, although ...
DOUGLAS RICE Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships? Asher continued on the sea shore, and a...
BIBLE The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break forth from one another, the sea engulfs ...
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.
JAIKUMAR GEORGE They know how dangerous the sea is. They know about the deaths of other immigrants, and despite that...
LUIS CARRION From what we see, the sea nettles seem to be concentrated in the northern end of Barnegat Bay.
MARC LABELLA The question is how you reduce the number of bases [the terrorists have] and the size of the sea in ...
JUAN COLE It plunged into the sea at an angle of 60 degrees.
VIKTOR BELTSOV Sink the Bible to the bottom of the sea, and man's obligation to God would be unchanged. He would ha...
HENRY WARD BEECHER I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its...
KATE CHOPIN No piensas en mí como yo en ti. No me importa. Pero si también tienes frío, podrías acercarte y ...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar.
MARGARET MITCHELL The idea is to believe me... but as far as I see the world... to believe is a sin... to trust me one...
DEYTH BANGER There are plenty of fish in the sea
AMERICAN PROVERB Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea.
RACHEL CARSON And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, While the earth bears a plant or the sea rolls its w...
ROBERT TREAT PAINE This is your timeThis is your danceLive every momentLeave nothing to chanceSwim in the seaDrink of t...
MICHAEL W. SMITH Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
JACQUES COUSTEAU The Sea Pro range of boats are the perfect addition to our new boat portfolio. They are high quality...
IAN ROBERTS When it comes to exploring the sea of love, I prefer buoys.
ANDREW G. DEHEL for whatever we lose (like a you or a me) / it's always ourselves we find in the sea
E. E. CUMMINGS Everybody likes to go to Geneva. I used to do it for the Law of the Sea conferences and you'd find t...
ERNEST F. HOLLINGS If the sun refused to shine, I'd still be loving you. If mountains crumble to the sea, there will st...
LED ZEPPELIN There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than th...
VICTOR HUGO For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one
KAHLIL GIBRAN And when the day arrives I'll become the sky and I'll become the sea and the sea will come to kiss m...
TRENT REZNOR A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned.
J.M. SYNGE The naturalists of our own time hold equal faith in the wonders of the sea, but seek therein rather ...
EDWARD FORBES They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters; These see the works of the ...
BIBLE Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.
PERICLES God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides...
WILLIAM COWPER They will redo the whole waterfront in Charlevoix - the sea wall and all the docks will be changed.
BILL BOIK ['The size of the sea' But others say the debate is important because it can determine whether actio...
JUAN COLE Black are the brooding clouds and troubled the deep waters, when the Sea of Thought, first heaving f...
CHARLES DICKENS Well, I think, I certainly used backward music in Sea of Monsters. I can't remember in the Sea of Ti...
GEORGE MARTIN The mountains look on Marathon - / And Marathon looks on the sea; / And musing there an hour alone, ...
LORD BYRON The Sea that bares her bosom to the moon;The winds that will be howling at all hours,And are up-gath...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH All the Men will be sailors then, untill the sea shall free them.
LEONARD COHEN And surely We have honored the children of Adam, and We carry them in the land and the sea, and We h...
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TITUS LIVY In great straits and when hope is small, the boldest counsels are the safest.
TITUS LIVY We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
TITUS LIVY Adversity reminds men of religion. [Lat., Adverse res admonent religionum.]
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TITUS LIVY Necessity is the last and strongest weapon. [Lat., Necessitas ultimum et maximum telum est.]
TITUS LIVY It is easy at any moment to resign the possession of a great fortune; to acquire it is difficult an...
TITUS LIVY No man likes to be surpassed by those of this own level. [Lat., A proximis quisque minime anteire ...
TITUS LIVY A woman's mind is affected by the meanest gifts. [Lat., Parvis mobilis rebus animus muliebris.]
TITUS LIVY Experience is the teacher of fools. [Lat., Stultorum eventus magister est.]
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