"I think the best way to protect the ocean is to encourage people onto it and into it."

-- Jon Bowermaster

#Ocean Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“The same fact that Boccaccio offers in support of religion might be adduced in behalf of a republic: "It exists in spite of its ministers.”
“I don't believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon you doesn't matter - it's only a matter of how much you can take and what it does to you.”
“Networked, we are together, but so lessened are our expectations of each other that we can feel utterly alone. And there is the risk that we come to see others as objects to be accessedâ€”and only for the parts we find useful, comforting, or amusing.”

Source : Sherry Turkle (2011). “Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other”, p.154, Basic Books
“Set your goals to paper and you are halfway there!”
“Few have attained to consummate wisdom in the perfection of philosophy: Solomon attained to it, and Aristotle in relation to his times, and in a later age Avicenna, and in our own days the recently deceased Robert, Bishop of Lincoln, and Adam Marsh.”

Source : "Opus Tertium" by Roger Bacon, (p. 70), (c. 1267).
“Very few blacks will take up golf until the requirement for plaid pants is dropped.”
“The one enemy in the world that America has is England. But then, England is the great land of Christian civilization, and it may not be a thing to be much wondered at that our Americans whom we send to represent us in London become in a short time somewhat civilized, and learn to love those who hate them, bless those that curse them, and do good to those that persecute and calumniate them.”

Source : Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa (1898). “Rossa's Recollections, 1838 to 1898: Childhood, Boyhood, Manhood. Customs, Habits and Manners of the Irish People. Erinach and Sassenach-Catholic and Protestant-Englishman and Irishman-English Religion-Irish Plunder. Social Life and Prison Life. The Fenian Movement. Travels in Ireland, England, Scotland and America”
“Once I learned, I went online and ordered every romance novel I could find. They're fairy tales for grown-ups.”

Source : Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Night”, p.160, HQN Books

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