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  • The flag that was the symbol of slavery on the high seas for a long time was not the Confederate battle flag, it was sadly the Stars and Stripes.

    Stars   Sea   Long  
  • There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.

    Life   Ocean   Army  
    Joseph Conrad (1905). “Lord Jim”, p.7, McClure, Phillips & Company
  • I felt the need to clarify we were there for the self defense class, in case he also taught about dog breeding or riding the high seas.

    Dog   Self   Sea  
  • I have vertigo. Vertigo makes it feel like the floor is pitching up and down. Things seem to be spinning. It's like standing on the deck of a ship in really high seas.

    Sea   Pitching   Ships  
  • For decades Israel has been capturing, and kidnapping Lebanese and Palestinian refugees on the high seas, from Cyprus to Lebanon, killing them in Lebanon, bringing them to Israel, holding them as hostages. It's been going on for decades, has anybody called for an invasion of Israel?

    Israel   Sea   Cyprus  
    Source: www.counterpunch.org
  • Perhaps there lives some dreamy boy, untaught In schools, some graduate of the field or street, Who shall become a master of art, An admiral sailing the high seas of thought Fearless and first, and steering with his fleet For lands not yet laid down in any chart.

    Art   School   Boys  
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1073, Delphi Classics
  • I have always felt I lived on the high seas, threatened, at the heart of a royal happiness.

    Heart   Sea   Royal  
    Albert Camus (2012). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”, p.181, Vintage
  • It has been said that the hardest job in the world is raising a child, but the people who says this have probably never worked at a comb factory or captured pirates on the high seas.

  • We have reached the time in the life of the planet, and humanity's demand upon it, when every fisherman will have to be a river-keeper, a steward of marine shallows, a watchman on the high seas. We are beyond having to put back what we have taken out. We must put back more than we take out.

    Taken   Marine   Lakes  
    Thomas McGuane (1999). “The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing”, Knopf
  • I love you, I know this must come as something of a surprise, since all I’ve ever done is scorn you and degrade you and taunt you, but I have loved you for several hours now, and every second, more. I thought an hour ago that I loved you more than any woman has ever loved a man, but a half hour after that I knew that what I felt before was nothing compared to what I felt then. But ten minutes after that, I understood that my previous love was a puddle compared to the high seas before a storm.

    Love You   Men   Sea  
    William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.44, A&C Black
  • Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.

    Heinrich Heine (1888). “Wit, Wisdom, and Pathos”
  • The tradition of freedom of the high seas has its roots in an era when there were too few people to seriously violate the oceans - but in hindsight that era ended some 150 years ago.

    Ocean   Years   Sea  
  • In high tide or in low tide, I'll be by your side

    Your Side   Tides   Sides  
    Song: High Tide Or Low Tide
  • In high seas or in low seas, I'm gonna be your friend... I'm gonna be your friend. In high tide or in low tide, I'll be by your side... I'll be by your side.

    Your Side   Sea   Tides  
    Song: High Tide or Low Tide
  • As far as I am concerned I wish to be out on the high seas. I wish to take my chances with wind, and wave, and star. And I had rather go down in the glory and grandeur of the storm, than rot in any orthodox harbor.

    Stars   Wind   Sea  
    Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.195, Library of Alexandria
  • Oil platforms are a technology for floating permanently on the high seas, and cruise ships are a technology for self-governance on the high seas, and if you combine these two technologies, imagine cruise ships that never dock but float permanently. Imagine if they were 10 times as big. Imagine if they were modular and could move about and you could choose the neighbours you wanted to live with.

    Source: www.abc.net.au
  • My last picture for Warners was Romance on the High Seas. It was Doris Day's first picture; that was before she became a virgin.

    Sea   Romance   Lasts  
  • When you are playing an egomaniac running a fantastical ship, you don't want him to be too suburban. Naturalism doesn't work on the high seas.

    Running   Sea   Want  
  • With Nietzsche, the black pirates' flag appears for the first time on the high sea of German knowledge. (He is) a different man, from a different race, (his,) a new kind of heroism, philosophywith bellicose weapons and armor.

  • We should take mothers in high seas and drown them there, they are as poisonous as lead in the air.

    Mother   Air   Sea  
    "Dark Haired Girl". Book by Philip K. Dick, 1989.
  • No compass has ever been invented for the high seas of matrimony.

    Marriage   Sea   Compass  
  • And the ship went out into the High Sea and passed into the West, until at last on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a far green country under a swift sunrise.

    Dream   Country   Sweet  
    J. R. R. Tolkien (1980). “The Lord of the Rings: The return of the King”
  • The legislator is like the navigator of a ship on the high seas. He can steer the vessel on which he sails, but he cannot alter its construction, raise the wind, or stop the waves from swelling beneath his feet.

    Wind   Sea   Feet  
  • The written word is redundant on the high seas. Why? Because paper gets wet too easily.

    Sea   Paper   Redundant  
    Walter Moers (2006). “13 1/2 Lives of Captain Blue Bear”, p.30, The Overlook Press
  • Dozens of nations have agreed to join in monitoring and, if necessary, intercepting and boarding ships on the high seas in the event they are suspected of engaging in one or both of these threatening activities.

    Sea   Events   Dozen  
  • It so happened that I was on a German sailing vessel on the way to Australia when the ship was captured, and on the high seas I was made prisoner by the French.

  • Icelandic people are inbred. And they have a sense of themselves as genetically special, and a history of risk-taking because they make their living on the high seas fishing. Assets generally rose in value during this period, and so it looked like they actually knew what they were doing.

    Sea   Fishing   People  
    "Michael Lewis’ 'Boomerang': 'Money Thrown Out in Hope, Coming Back in Anger'". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 21, 2011.
  • Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another's struggles.

    Sweet   Struggle   Wind  
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