“He is responsible because of the conspiracy and the plots for all that happened to the Jewish people — from the shores of the Arctic Ocean to the Aegean Sea, from the Pyrenees to the Urals.”
Gideon Hausner as quoted in The New York Times (27 June 1961).
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Jozef Israëls (1824–1911) Dutch painter
version in Dutch (citaat van Israëls, in het Nederlands): Is er een verschil tussen een joodse zee en een niet-joodse zee? Wat is een joodse manier van schilderen?
Quote of Israëls in a talk with N. Sokolov, c. 1910's; published in Ishim part 3. by Sokolov (written in Hebrew); Tel Aviv, 1935, pp. 151-169
Quotes of Jozef Israels, after 1900
Zora Neale Hurston book Their Eyes Were Watching God
Variant: Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God
Georges Clemenceau (1841–1929) French politician
As quoted in Clemenceau and the Third Republic (1946) by John Hampden Jackson.
Prime Minister
Dante Alighieri book Inferno
Canto I, lines 22–24 (tr. Mandelbaum).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno
“While the hoarse ocean beats the sounding shore,
Dashed from the strand, the flying waters roar.”
Tunc longe sale saxa sonant, tunc et freta ventis
Incipiunt agitata tumescere: littore fluctus
Illidunt rauco.
Marco Girolamo Vida (1485–1566) Italian bishop
Book III, line 388. Compare:
But when loud surges lash the sounding shore,
The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar.
Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism, Part II, line 168
De Arte Poetica (1527)
Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator
This Business of Living (1935-1950)
Boris Johnson (1964) British politician, historian and journalist
"Blair dead in the water? No such luck", Daily Telegraph, 29 April 2004, p. 24.
On Tony Blair.
2000s, 2004
“Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation: not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive from what ills you are free yourself is pleasant.”
Suave mari magno turbantibus aequora ventis
e terra magnum alterius spectare laborem;
non quia vexari quemquamst jucunda voluptas,
sed quibus ipse malis careas quia cernere suave est.
Lucretius (-94–-55 BC) Roman poet and philosopher
Book II, lines 1–4 (tr. Rouse)
De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things)