Sea Change Quotes:

I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it is because in addition to the fact that the sea changes and the light changes, and ships change, it is because we all came from the sea. And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have, in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch it we are going back from whence we came

- John F. Kennedy

topic: Ocean, Thinking, Blood, Mariners, Ocean Currents

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

- William Arthur Ward

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Leadership, Mariners, Navigate

Full fathom five thy father lies

- William Shakespeare

source: 'The Tempest' (1611) act 1, sc. 2, l. 394

topic: Father, Lying, Nymphs, Fathom, Gonzalo From Tempest

When people went on vacation, they shed their home skins, thought they could be a new person.

- Aimee Friedman

source: Aimee Friedman (2009). “Sea Change”, p.107, Scholastic Inc.

topic: Summer, Home, Vacation, Sea Change

So hope for a great sea-change On the far side of revenge. Believe that further shore Is reachable from here. Believe in miracles And cures and healing wells.

- Seamus Heaney

source: Speech by the President of USA to the People of Derry, cain.ulst.ac.uk. November 30, 1995.

topic: Forgiveness, Revenge, Believe, Believe In Miracles, Far Side

....the sea changes color, but the sea does not change.

- Stevie Nicks

topic: Life, Change, Color, Sea Change

The ocean is an object of no small terror.

- Edmund Burke

source: Edmund Burke, T. O. McLoughlin, Paul Langford, James T. Boulton (1997). “The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke: Volume I: The Early Writings”, p.230, Oxford University Press on Demand

topic: Ocean, Sailing, Nautical, Sea Change

The world around us is in a sea change, and I think the glory of art is that it cannot only survive change, it can lead it

- Robert Redford

topic: Art, Thinking, Sea, Sea Change

Society really seems to have developed an unquestioning obedience towards spooky types… Did we get to where we are today via a slippery slope that was entirely within our control to stop? Or was it a relatively instantaneous sea change that sneaked in undetected because of pervasive government secrecy?

- Edward Snowden

source: "How Edward Snowden went from loyal NSA contractor to whistleblower" by Luke Harding, www.theguardian.com. February 1, 2014.

topic: Government, Sea, Today, Sea Change, Slippery

I have watched the river and the sea for a lifetime. I have seen rivers rob soil from the roots of trees until the giants came foundering down. I have watched shores slip and perish, the channels silt and change; what was beach become a swamp and a headland tumble into the sea. An island has eroded in silent pain since my boyhood, and reefs have become islands. Yet the old people used to say, People pass away, but not the land. It remains forever. Maybe that is so. The land changes. The land continues. The sea changes. The sea remains.

- Keri Hulme

source: Keri Hulme (2005). “The Bone People: A Novel”, p.336, LSU Press

topic: Beach, Pain, Islands, Reefs, Sea Change

Those who cross the sea, change sky, but not soul.

- Horace

topic: Latin, Sea, Sky, Sea Change

People are aware that they cannot continue in the same old way but are immobilized because they cannot imagine an alternative. We need a vision that recognizes that we are at one of the great turning points in human history when the survival of our planet and the restoration of our humanity require a great sea change in our ecological, economic, political, and spiritual values.

- Grace Lee Boggs

topic: Spiritual, Sea, People, Spiritual Values, Old Ways

Sea Change was so specific. From the beginning it was set what it was going to be. All the other ideas that I had at the time I had to put to the side.

- Beck

topic: Ocean, Sea, Ideas, Sea Change

There's 40 or 50 songs that nobody's heard that I've done in between albums. There's a whole evolution from Midnite Vultures to Sea Change that's never been released.

- Beck

topic: Song, Sea, Done, Vulture, Sea Change

There's been a sea change in our focus on corporate ethics. We've made more progress in the last three years than the previous 30.

- Steve Odland

topic: Years, Sea, Focus, Sea Change

One of the many, many salutary aspects of Barack Obama's impending presidential nomination is the sea change his victory marks in the battle for the mind-set of the American foreign policy establishment.

- Eric Alterman

topic: Sea, Presidential, Mind, American Foreign Policy, Sea Change

The ethics of editorial judgement, however, began to go though a sea change during the late 1970s and 80s when the Carter and Reagan Administrations de-regulated the television industry.

- Roger Mudd

topic: Sea, Judgement, Television, Television Industry, Sea Change

Since the revelations, we have seen a massive sea change in the technological basis and makeup of the Internet.

- Edward Snowden

source: Source: www.thenation.com

topic: Makeup, Sea, Internet, Sea Change

Hope for a great sea-change timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive

- Seamus Heaney

topic: Forgiveness, Sea, Forgiving, Winner And Loser, Rebuke

Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

source: Percy Bysshe Shelley (1859). “Shelley Memorials: From Authentic Sources : Now First Printed”, p.219

topic: Change, Tombstone, Sea, Fathom, Gonzalo From Tempest

But having said that, there's also a sea change in attitude towards media.

- Robert Waterman McChesney

topic: Attitude, Media, Sea, Sea Change

The Social Citizen is the best, most thorough, and most methodologically sophisticated treatment of the role of social networks in political behavior that I have ever read. Betsy Sinclair shows just how strongly we are influenced to express ourselves politically by our family, neighbors, and friends. We are on the verge of a sea change in political science, and this will be one of the most important books we refer to when we describe what happened to the discipline in the twenty-first century.

- James H. Fowler

topic: Book, Sea, Discipline, Neighbors And Friends, Sea Change

Naturally enough, I couldn't have foreseen the vast sea change which has come upon that scene as a result of German reunification and associated events.

- Brian Ferneyhough

topic: Sea, Events, Enough, Foreseen, Reunification

The only reason I do these interviews - I hate talking about myself, I hate doing this stuff - is because incredibly well-meaning people, whom I respect and trust, tell me that this will help bring about positive changes. It's not going to cause a sea change, but it will benefit the public.

- Edward Snowden

source: Source: www.thenation.com

topic: Hate, Talking, Sea, Sea Change, Trust And Respect

People at civil-liberties organizations say it's a sea change, and that it's very clear judges have begun to question more critically assertions made by the executive. Even though it seems so obvious now, it is extraordinary in the context of the last decade, because courts had simply said they were not the best branch to adjudicate these claims - which is completely wrong, because they are the only nonpolitical branch. They are the branch that is specifically charged with deciding issues that cannot be impartially decided by politicians.

- Edward Snowden

source: Source: www.thenation.com

topic: Sea, Organization, Issues, Sea Change, Simply Said

We were able to conclude a Paris climate agreement, which will lead the way for the rest of the world, which is groundbreaking. And together with the sustainable development goals of the agenda 2030 for the whole world, this is indeed a sea change, I think, that we see here, and, step-by-step, it will be implemented.

- Angela Merkel

source: Remarks by President Obama and Chancellor Merkel of Germany in a Joint Press Conference, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 17, 2016.

topic: Thinking, Agreement, Sea, Groundbreaking, Sea Change

We have converted huge swaths of land and ocean into human habitats where we live and grow food and harvest energy. But there's been a sea change in the past century.

- Annalee Newitz

topic: Ocean, Past, Sea, Sea Change

We are on the threshold of a sea change in the agency business.

- David Louis Edelman

topic: Agency, Sea, Threshold, Sea Change

An attitudinal sea change. I think that's the hardest one to fix. Presidential directives, bills, provisions can all be rescinded, repealed, amended, but attitudes linger. The hardest thing is going to be to try to reverse an attitude, a bunker mentality that equates secrecy with either security or heightened efficiency and that regards transparency as an invitation to mischief and trespass. This default position of operating in the shadows is going to be somewhat appealing to whomever inherits office.

- Ted Gup

source: Source: www.motherjones.com

topic: Attitude, Thinking, Sea, Bunkers, Sea Change

I was fortunate to sell at a time of great sea change in the romance genre; suddenly heroines were allowed to be portrayed as having rich, fulfilling lives. They didn't need a man for security or self-esteem, but having that one very special man in their lives proved the icing on the cake.

- JoAnn Ross

topic: Self Esteem, Men, Sea, Fulfilling Life, Special Man

The sea change that has come is the information age. We don't have to just read The New York Times anymore. We can pull up something on the Internet and get any news that we like.

- Pete du Pont

topic: New York, Sea, Age, Information Age, Sea Change

I see, therefore, the rentier aspect of capitalism as a transitional phase which will disappear when it has done its work. And with the disappearance of its rentier aspect much else in it besides will suffer a sea-change. It will be, moreover, a great advantage of the order of events which I am advocating, that the euthanasia of the rentier, of the functionless investor, will be nothing sudden, merely a gradual but prolonged continuance of what we have seen recently in Great Britain, and will need no revolution.

- John Maynard Keynes

source: John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.345, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

topic: Wisdom, Order, Sea, Continuance, Great Britain