It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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Of all the fire-mountains which, like beacons, once blazed along the pacific Coast, Mount Rainier is the noblest.
john muirDeath has always been the first sign of European civilization when introduced in the pacific.
josé rizalSupposing I had gone to the country [in 1933], and said that Germany was re-arming, and that we must re-arm, does anybody think that this pacific democracy would have rallied to that cry at that moment? I cannot think of anything that would have made the loss of the election from my point of view more certain...we got from the country [in 1935], with a large majority, a mandate for doing a thing no one, twelve months earlier, would have believed possible.
stanley baldwinHawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the pacific. It is in the pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.
dan quayleThe Venezuelans ought to become inspired by the Honduran model, and strive for a change of government as soon as possible, through pacific, democratic, and constitutional means--and not just electoral--to avoid a national tragedy.
The principle of majority rule is the mildest form in which the force of numbers can be exercised. It is a pacific substitute for civil war in which the opposing armies are counted and the victory is awarded to the larger before any blood is shed. Except in the sacred tests of democracy and in the incantations of the orators, we hardly take the trouble to pretend that the rule of the majority is not at bottom a rule of force.
To learn what the laws of a country are, is not the work of a day even in pacific times, and to persons accustomed to legal enquiries.
In order to have enough of the raw materials...which will be lacking in wartime, we should plan to acquire and use foreign resources existing in our expected sphere of influence, such as Sakhalim, China, and the Southern pacific.
sadao arakiI think this is the first time I’ve altered a book based on what you guys told me. So it’s an occasion! Soon I’ll be putting up polls to choose between plots, and then it’s a short stop to accepting anonymous contributions and stapling them together while I sip margaritas on the deck of a pacific cruise ship.
max barryTo the Legislative Assembly belongs the consideration of measures which may best tend to the development of the resources of the Territory. Oregon possesses within herself many of these, which with enterprise and industry will most surely render her a wealthy, powerful, and prosperous State. She has a fertile soil, and genial climate; she has [vast] forests and abundant fisheries, unlimited water power, pastures upon which even during winter, innumerable flocks and herds can subsist, with no other care than the mere herding; and prairies which could with only moderate labor, furnish the whole of our pacific Territories with bread.
As long as the sun rises over Ontario and sets over the pacific, I will dedicate myself to bringing the people of Oregon what they want and need most - an era of hope, change, and economic renewal.
It is only comparatively primitive machinery that affords a stimulus, and there is already a faint period touch about pacific 231 and Le Pas d'Acier. One feels…that Prokofieff should have written ballets about the spinning jenny and the Luddite riots; that Honegger should have been there to celebrate the opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway and the death of Huskisson with a "Symphonie Triomphale et Funèbre".
Constant LambertCalifornia is a queer place — in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort.
d. h. lawrenceWhat the German has done to the Jew in Europe, we are doing to the Jap in the pacific.
charles lindberghBut my friends, my brothers and sisters of the pacific, we know who we are. We carry in our hearts the knowledge that we are the bearers of a proud legacy that surely marks us as people of strength, and courage and will. We have survived in our aquatic continent through many centuries.
ratu sir kamisese maraIf I had to pick one tribe to go back and live with permanently — and I hate doing this, it’s not a contest — it would be the people of Anuta, in the South pacific. It’s got white beaches, blue seas, good food and gentle, friendly people who have a wonderful philosophy of sharing. And it’s warm.
bruce parryThere’s one bright spot in the generally gloomy picture know as the pacific Conflict Zone. According to my calculations, by the year 2500 or so we should have killed off every last member of our species who is stupid enough to take part in so futile a pastime as this war between “ideals,” and with luck they won’t have left their genes behind because they’ll typically have been killed at an age when society thinks they’re too young to assume the responsibility of childbearing. After that we may get some peace and quiet for a change.
john brunnerCanada emerged as a political entity with boundaries largely determined by the fur trade. These boundaries included a vast north temperate land area extending from the Atlantic to the pacific and dominated by the Canadian Shield. The present Dominion emerged not in spite of geography but because of it.
harold innisBack then (in 1985) the issue of the day was nuclear testing, now we are faced with problems such as climate change, overfishing, deforestation, shipments of radioactive materials through pacific waters and nuclear proliferation. We need to remain vigilant so that we won't become victims again.
ratu joni madraiwiwiWhen I assumed command of the pacific Fleet in 31 December, 1941; our submarines were already operating against the enemy, the only units of the Fleet that could come to grips with the Japanese for months to come. It was to the Submarine Force that I looked to carry the load until our great industrial activity could produce the weapons we so sorely needed to carry the war to the enemy. It is to the everlasting honor and glory of our submarine personnel that they never failed us in our days of peril.
chester w. nimitzThe enemy of our games was always Japan, and the courses were so thorough that after the start of World War II, nothing that happened in the pacific was strange or unexpected.
chester w. nimitzIt seemed like a matter of minutes when we began rolling in the foothills before Oakland and suddenly reached a height and saw stretched out ahead of us the fabulous white city of San Francisco on her eleven mystic hills with the blue pacific and its advancing wall of potato-patch fog beyond, and smoke and goldenness of the late afternoon of time.
jack kerouacCalifornia is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort.
As long as the sun rises over Ontario and sets over the pacific, I will dedicate myself to bringing the people of Oregon what they want and need most - an era of hope, change, and economic renewal.
To the Legislative Assembly belongs the consideration of measures which may best tend to the development of the resources of the Territory. Oregon possesses within herself many of these, which with enterprise and industry will most surely render her a wealthy, powerful, and prosperous State. She has a fertile soil, and genial climate; she has [vast] forests and abundant fisheries, unlimited water power, pastures upon which even during winter, innumerable flocks and herds can subsist, with no other care than the mere herding; and prairies which could with only moderate labor, furnish the whole of our pacific Territories with bread.
There is no choice but to force a decisive fleet encounter. If we set out from here to do that and we go to the bottom of the pacific in a double suicide, things will be peaceful on the high seas for some time.
Once Japan is destroyed as an aggressive force, we know of no other challenging power that can appear in the pacific…. Japan is the one enemy, and the only enemy, of the peaceful peoples whose shores overlook the pacific Ocean.