Elizabeth Ann Seton Quotes

We must often draw the comparison between time and eternity. This is the remedy of all our troubles. How small will the present moment appear when we enter that great ocean.

Elizabeth Ann Seton

• Ocean
• Eternity
• Troubles
• Comparison

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• The ocean-bordered southern part of California has always been a place of Hollywood make-believe, casual opulence, suntans and jewelry.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Believe
  • Place
  • Ocean

• When I was little I had this notion of being a marine biologist. I grew up by the ocean so I was always in the water but realistically, I don't think I would make the best marine biologist.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Up
  • Water
  • Best

• What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Lies
  • inspirational
  • Comparison

• Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet. There is so much life underneath the water that we don't know about. I would love to check out the bottom of the ocean to see what's going on down there.

  

  Cameron Bright
  • Life
  • Know
  • Ocean

• One of the things that's frustrated me as a deep-sea explorer is how many animals there probably are in the ocean that we know nothing about because of the way we explore the ocean.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Deep
  • Sea
  • Ocean

• I do not believe in the eternity of the spirit. That contradicts my ideology.

  

  Yossi Sarid
  • Believe
  • Spirit
  • Eternity

• Giant squid aren't rare. Based on the number of beaks that have been found in the stomachs of sperm whales, it's thought that there are actually millions of them in the ocean, and yet, we haven't seen them.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Thought
  • Ocean
  • Rare

• Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Beautiful
  • Joy
  • Eternity

• I done made music with Makonnen, Frank Ocean. We all make great music.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Great
  • Music
  • Done

• I propose to build for eternity.

  

  Filippo Brunelleschi
  • Eternity
  • Build
  • Propose

• Every drop in the ocean counts.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Ocean
  • Environmental
  • Drop

• Music is an ocean, but the repertory is hardly even a lake; it is a pond.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Music
  • Ocean
  • Lake

• Most of the oxygen we breathe is made by ocean plankton. And when animals left the seas in which life arose, they took seawater with them, in their bodies - an internal environment crucial for cellular survival. We are, in a sense, soft vessels of seawater.

  

  Carl Safina
  • Life
  • Environment
  • Ocean

• I love Frank Ocean. We're going to get married. In true life, we should get married.

  

  Alex Newell
  • Life
  • True
  • Ocean

• New Yorkers only cross water for visual culture if the water is an ocean. The East River throws us for a huge loop. If we started going to Queens and the Bronx for visual culture, many of our rent, space, and crowding problems would be over indefinitely.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • Culture
  • Space
  • Water

• Just because you see pictures of glaciers falling into the ocean doesn't mean anything bad is happening. This is something that happens all the time. It's part of the natural cycle of things. We know from measurements that glaciers have been melting for 200 years at least.

  

  Freeman Dyson
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Ocean

• Bluefin tuna is sort of like the cheetah of the ocean. It's the fastest fish. It's a warm-blooded fish. But it's got a $100,000 price tag on its head.

  

  Paul Watson
  • Ocean

• As for poker, I've stayed away from that, even though when I was in Vegas for Ocean's Eleven, I would get accosted by these guys begging me to play. They just want to take my money. They see me, think 'actor' and see some easy money.

  

  Matt Damon
  • Money
  • Ocean
  • Vegas

• Life doesn't have a neat beginning and a tidy end, life is always going on. You should begin in the middle and end in the middle, and it should be all there.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Life
  • Beginning

• Home life's great, man. The kids are great, happy and healthy. I've reached this sort of wonderful precipice.

  

  Ryan Phillippe
  • Life
  • Man
  • Healthy

• The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Free

• Like one Who having into truth, by telling of it, Made such a sinner of his memory, To credit his own lie.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Truth
  • Memory
  • Lie

• We must often draw the comparison between time and eternity. This is the remedy of all our troubles. How small will the present moment appear when we enter that great ocean.

  

  Elizabeth Ann Seton
  • Ocean
  • Eternity
  • Troubles