He was essentially a truth-speaking man, if only he know how to speak the truth.
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water.
No, the shark in an updated JAWS could not be the villain; it would have to be written as the victim, for, worldwide, sharks are much more the oppressed than the oppressors.
If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct.
There's nothing in the sea this fish would fear. Other fish run from bigger things. That's their instinct. But this fish doesn't run from anything. He doesn't fear.
The ocean is the only alien and potentially hostile environment on the planet into which we tend to venture without thinking about the animals that live there, how they behave, how they support themselves, and how they perceive us. I know of no one who would set off into the jungles of Malaysia armed only with a bathing suit, a tube of suntan cream, and a book, and yet that's precisely how we approach the oceans.
I believe implicitly that every young man in the world is fascinated with either sharks or dinosaurs.
That was ridiculous," I told Dorian, once she'd left. "She's not the kind of person to fall for your flirting. " "On the contrary," said Dorian. "She's exactly the kind of person to fall for it. I understand these warrior maids, you know. They live such harsh, cold lives, always trying to keep up with the men. . . when really, they just need someone to make them feel like a woman. And that, of course, is an area in which I excel. Why, if I'd had ten minutes alone with her—
Not only during the ascent, but also during the descent my willpower is dulled. The longer I climb the less important the goal seems to me, the more indifferent I become to myself. My attention has diminished, my memory is weakened. My mental fatigue is now greater than the bodily. It is so pleasant to sit doing nothing - and therefore so dangerous. Death through exhaustion is like death through freezing - a pleasant one.
Now that I see you understand me so well, I will avoid you.
To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die.