Flowing Quotes
521 Flowing quotes by 404 unique authors
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Love is a moment of stillness that sometimes a word can shatter to pieces. Or love can be a thing that endures, a rich, deep…
— Louis L'Amour
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I hadn't understood how days could be both long and short at the same time: long to live through, maybe, but so drawn out that…
— Albert Camus
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I took her into bed with me and propped myself up with pillows against the headboard to let her nurse. As she nursed and the…
— Wendell Berry
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A Woman in harmony with her spirit is like a river flowing. She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination prepared…
— Maya Angelou
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I learned...that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all…
— Brenda Ueland
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I know what it’s like to be manipulated, Aya-la. And I know what it’s like to be in danger. While your city was building you…
— Scott Westerfeld
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Flowers spring to blossom where she walks The careful ways of duty; Our hard, stiff lines of life with her Are flowing curves of beauty.
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now.
— Anthony Burgess
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Time is like a river flowing endlessly through the universe. And if you poled your flatboat in that river you might fight your way against…
— Harlan Ellison
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A woman's love is quick to turn into a passion for revenge--an obsession that becomes an endless river of blood, flowing on from generation to…
— Fumiko Enchi
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Love, being in love, isn’t a constant thing. It doesn’t always flow at the same strength. It’s not always like a river in flood. It’s…
— Aidan Chambers
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In this flowing stream, then, on which there is no abiding, what is there of the things which hurry by on which a man would…
— Marcus Aurelius
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With me, the present is forever, and forever is always shifting, flowing, melting. This second is life. And when it is gone it is dead.…
— Sylvia Plath
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Where now are the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? Where is the helm and the hauberk, and the bright…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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The hunt isn't sustaining me. It's flowing blood that I really crave. The sweet taste of red succulent liquid mixing with the salt of my…
— Ellen Schreiber
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What my mom failed to understand was that I didn't even want long hair -- I needed long hair. And my desire for protracted, flowing…
— Chuck Klosterman
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The Winter Woman is as wild as a blizzard, as fresh as new snow. While some see her as cold, she has a fiery heart…
— Christopher Moore
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The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard, who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow…
— Carl Sagan
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The dragon is withered, His bones are now crumbled; His armour is shivered, His splendour is humbled! Though sword shall be rusted, And throne and…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Very simply, we subsidize high-fructose corn syrup in this country, but not carrots. While the surgeon general is raising alarms over the epidemic of obesity,…
— Michael Pollan
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I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed Against the earth's sweet flowing…
— Joyce Kilmer
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And now my old dog is dead, and another I had after him, and my parents are dead, and that first world, that old house,…
— Mary Oliver
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GATHERING LEAVES Spades take up leaves No better than spoons, And bags full of leaves Are light as balloons. I make a great noise Of…
— Robert Frost
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Radar revs the engine as to say hustle, and we are running through the parking lot, Ben's robe flowing in the wind so that he…
— John Green
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Dreams and restless thoughts came flowing to him from the river, from the twinkling stars at night, from the sun's melting rays. Dreams and a…
— Hermann Hesse
Who Wrote These Flowing Quotes
404 authors contributed a total of 521 Flowing Quotes, led by these top contributors: