Aquariums Quotes

Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.

The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.

Restoring responsibility and accountability is essential to the economic and fiscal health of our nation.

The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.

The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.

We've drifted away from being fishers of men to being keepers of the aquarium.

It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.

Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points.

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

I am tapping into a place in you that is unexplored, and very dangerous, but I think essential to the creative life of an artist.

In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount of information one can share. Confidentiality is essential.

The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.

The books I loved in childhood - the first loves - I’ve read so often that I’ve internalized them in some really essential way: they are more inside me now than out.

The eyebrow pencil and false eyelashes were essential; my mother didn't feel dressed without them.

Seriousness is a sickness; your sense of humor makes you more human, more humble. The sense of humor - according to me - is one of the most essential parts of religiousness.

There was a time when I thought a great deal about the axolotls. I went to see them at the aquarium at the Jardin des Plantes and stayed for hours watching them, observing their immobility; their faint movements. Now I am an axolotl.

So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dogma. Ask most anyone who is going to be shot at dawn.

It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former is inherent, the other is grafted on.

Every aquarium will eventually leak.

But which is the State's essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care.

The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.

I think training of better Youth Coaches is essential.

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

I am more convinced than ever that a lively two party system is essential to our democracy.

A healthy environment is essential to a livable Oregon and a strong economy.

Sharks have a deadly form of claustrophobia. It's not so much fear of enclosed spaces as it is inability to exist in them. No one knows why. Some say it's the metal in aquariums that throws their equilibrium off. But whatever it is, big sharks don't last long in captivity

When you're watching an action movie, you experience an action movie more outside of the aquarium, you're out of the aquarium looking in at all the swimming fish that are in there. Whereas horror films and thrillers are designed to put the audience into that box, into that aquarium.

Leadership in telecommunications is also essential, since we are now in the age of e-commerce.

I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.

DEBT, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slave-driver. As, pent in an aquarium, the troutlet Swims round and round his tank to find an outlet, Pressing his nose against the glass that holds him, Nor ever sees the prison that enfolds him; So the poor debtor, seeing naught around him, Yet feels the narrow limits that impound him, Grieves at his debt and studies to evade it, And finds at last he might as well have paid it.

Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.

To understand what the outside of an aquarium looks like, it's better not to be a fish.

Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.

The essential job of government is to facilitate, not frustrate, job development

We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.

The essential ingredient of politics is timing.

My situation is a solemn one: life is offered to me on the condition of eating beefsteaks. But death is better than cannibalism. My will contains directions for my funeral, which will be followed, not by mourning coaches, but by oxen, sheep, flocks of poultry, and a small traveling aquarium of live fish, all wearing white scarves in honor of the man who perished rather than eat his fellow creatures. It will be, without the exception of Noah's Ark, the most remarkable thing of its kind ever seen.

It's absolutely essential that we have the same safeguards that straight couples do. But I want more than a 50 percent chance of success. I don't want to emulate that.

Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God.

A diplomatic peace is not yet the real peace. It is an essential step in the peace process leading towards a real peace.

Knowing how people will use something is essential

Early religions were like muddy ponds with lots of foliage. Concealed there, the fish of the soul could splash and feed. Eventually, however, religions became aquariums. Then hatcheries. From farm fingerling to frozen fish stick is a short swim.

The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.

Enough of clouds, waves, aquariums, water-sprites and nocturnal scents; what we need is music of the earth, everyday music..music one can live in like a house.

I believe it is incumbent upon Congress to act aggressively to ameliorate fear and help our country take the essential steps that will make our communities and lives safer.

An essential idea is that if you give to some person or endeavor in life, you will make that more important.

The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing.

As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this lack of certainty, other things may come into play.

In extreme situations, the entire universe becomes our foe; at such critical times, unity of mind and technique is essential - do not let your heart waver!