Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don't walk into the river. Listen to… — Rumi Copy Share Image
The Cruise missiles do not frighten anyone. We are catching them like fish in a river. — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf Copy Share Image
But chance runs like a river through all our lives, and being prepared for surprise is the best we can do. — Kenneth Oppel Copy Share Image
Men as well as rivers grow crooked by following the path of least resistance. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Suicide Note: The calm, Cool face of the river Asked me for a kiss. -Langston Hughes — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
The river was mild and leisurely, going away from the people who ate shadows for breakfast and steam for lunch and vapors… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The rivers of Grace cannot flow uphill, up the steep cliff of the proud man's heart. — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
All that is within me cries out to go back to my home on the Hudson River — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A voice of greeting from the wind was sent; The mists enfolded me with soft white arms; The birds did sing to… — Richard Henry Stoddard Copy Share Image
Oscar nominations came out today. Up for best actor, Sean Penn for 'Mystic River,' Jude Law for 'Cold Mountain,' and of course,… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Change is legitimate and inevitable, for our language is a mighty river, picking up silt and flotsam here and discarding it there,… — Robert MacNeil Copy Share Image
I told a lie the other day. I said that I'd caught a 'bunch' of trout. What I should have said is… — Jimmy Moore Copy Share Image
Animals, like us, have rich and spacious interiors. They contain inner landscapes: desert places and lonely canyons, cliffs of madness and rivers… — Gary A. Kowalski Copy Share Image
Crash is hyper-articulate and often breathtakingly intelligent and always brazenly alive. I think it's easily the strongest American film since Clint Eastwood's… — David Denby Copy Share Image
Nature … is, as it were, a continual circulation. Water is rais'd in Vapour into the Air by one Quality and precipitated… — Robert Hooke Copy Share Image
Tis a little thing To give a cup of water; yet its draught of cool refreshment, drain'd by fever'd lips, May give… — Thomas Noon Talfourd Copy Share Image
People look like rivers very much: water is everywhere the same, but the rivers are narrow, fast, wide, pure, cold, muddy and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Spirit of BEAUTY, that dost consecrate With thine own hues all thou dost shine upon Of human thought or form, where art… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Out of the hills of Habersham, Down the valleys of Hall, I hurry amain to reach the plain; Run the rapid and… — Sidney Lanier Copy Share Image
Each river is different, but they all eventually lead to the ocean. No matter what we’re doing or when, or whether it… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
Everybody gets jolted. You, me, before we die we’ll all get nailed, lots of times. But that doesn’t mean we’ll get turned… — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
Somewhere in the wide range of activity between the hard physical effort of wading for long hours against a swift current in… — Lee Wulff Copy Share Image
The Mississippi River carries the mud of thirty states and two provinces 2,000 miles south to the delta and deposits 500 million… — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
Ancient traditions have long associated holy wells and springs as very special places of the Goddess or anima mundi: symbolic of the… — Christopher McDowell Copy Share Image
Only when you have crossed the river can you say that the crocodile has a lump on his snout. — Ashanti Copy Share Image
West Somerset is one of my favourite places: there's fabulous walking with cliffs, forests and rivers. — Rebecca Front Copy Share Image
The entertainment industry as a whole has given more thought to the pollution of rivers than it has to the pollution of… — Ken Auletta Copy Share Image
We are on the Colorado...that means something more to me than thoughts of electrical power or a harnessed river. — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy! — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Hitler's mind was a deep-running river. You could never tell when something it had absorbed would bob to the surface again. — Ernst Hanfstaengl Copy Share Image
Until I came to New Mexico, I never realized how much beauty water adds to a river. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Alcohol is the river we sit on the banks of, contemplating. Sometimes we watch ourselves float past, sometimes we watch ourselves sink. — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
The government is a giant logjam in the eternal river of human potential. — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
Such a man has some right to fish, and I love to see nature carried out in him. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
He who fills His pockets with the Rocks of Misdeeds shall surely sink in the River of Good Fortune. — Jim Davis Copy Share Image
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
If you're a fish and you want to be a fish-stick, you have to have very good posture. — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
Don't go chasin' waterfalls. Please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you're used to. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No one has ever stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book? — Marina Tsvetaeva Copy Share Image
He who does not know his way to the sea should take a river for his guide. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
