On the earth a many-colored tower of longing rises. There are many ads (to help pay for all this).... Something interesting is happening on every landing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fi...ght in the hills; we shall never surrender.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the same ...horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men. Now, women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Life is a long Dardenelles, My Dear Madam, the shores whereof are bright with flowers, which we want to pluck, but the bank is too... high; & so we float on & on, hoping to come to a landing-place at last--but swoop! we launch into the great sea! Yet the geographers say, even then we must not despair, because across the great sea, however desolate & vacant it may look, lie all Persia & the delicious lands roundabout Damascus.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuits--like becoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a war, seducing b...eautiful women, flying thought the stratosphere or landing on the moon. First-rate pursuits--involving, as they must, trying to understand what life is about and trying to convey that understanding--inevitably result in a sense of failure. A Napoleon, a Churchill, a Roosevelt can feel themselves to be successful, but never a Socrates, a Pascal, a Blake. Understanding is for ever unattainable. Therein lies the inevitablility of failure in embarking upon its quest, which is none the less the only one worthy of serious attention.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I foresee the time when the painter will paint that scene, no longer going to Rome for a subject; the poet will sing it; the histo...rian record it; and, with the Landing of the Pilgrims and the Declaration of Independence, it will be the ornament of some future national gallery, when at least the present form of slavery shall be no more here. We shall then be at liberty to weep for Captain Brown. Then, and not till then, we will take our revenge.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I thought, with some pain, how cheap men are here! I have since learned that the English traveler Warburton remarked, soon after l...anding at Quebec, that everything was cheap there but men. That must be the difference between going thither from New and from Old England.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They commonly celebrate those beaches only which have a hotel on them, not those which have a humane house alone. But I wished to ...see that seashore where man's works are wrecks; to put up at the true Atlantic House, where the ocean is land-lord as well as sea-lord, and comes ashore without a wharf for the landing; where the crumbling land is the only invalid, or at best is but dry land, and that is all you can say of it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »