Top 13 Peter Benchley Quotes



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.

 

God isn’t going to scribble across the sky. “The shark is gone.

 

The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good as it will in the future.

 

Any weapon’s only as good as the man using it, and a good man can make a good weapon out of most anything.

 

What was it? What could it–His last thought was surprise.

 

He felt at once betrayed and betrayer, deceived and deceiver. He was a criminal forced into crime, an unwilling whore.

 

Life’s full of chances to hurt yourself or someone else.

 

It is not that I don’t have a fear of sharks, it is that I have a respect for them, so that I know any more than if I were to go into the jungle, I would have a fear of tigers, that I would try to lower the odds.

 

If man doesn’t learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct.

 

Without sharks, you take away the apex predator of the ocean, and you destroy the entire food chain.

 

We provoke a shark every time we enter the water where sharks happen to be, for we forget: The ocean is not our territory – it’s theirs.

 

We do not just fear our predators, we are transfixed by them. We are prone to weave stories and fables and chat endlessly about them.

 

Without the oceans there would be no life on Earth.

 

 

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