Famous quotes containing the words sea, level and/or rise:
“If the sea were ink
For the words of my Lord,
the sea would be spent before the Words of my Lord are spent.”
—QurAn. The Cave 18:109, ed. Arthur J. Arberry (1955)
“It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.”
—Henry Miller (18911980)
“What dire offence from amrous causes springs,
What mighty contests rise from trivial things,
I sing”
—Alexander Pope (16881744)