Flows Quotes
641 quotes by 510 authors
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The river flowed from century to century, and human affairs play themselves out on its banks. Play themselves out to be forgotten the next day,…
— Milan Kundera
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I too love everything that flows: rivers, sewers, lava, semen, blood, bile, words, sentences. I love the amniotic fluid when it spills out of the…
— Henry Miller
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Women Are Not Roses Women have no beginning only continual flows. Though rivers flow women are not rivers. Women are not roses they are not…
— Ana Castillo
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Time is an enormous, long river, and I’m standing in it, just as you’re standing in it. My elders are the tributaries, and everything they…
— Utah Phillips
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I can tell you that solitude Is not all exaltation, inner space Where the soul breathes and work can be done. Solitude exposes the nerve,…
— May Sarton
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Without a revolution of the inner life, however slow, all our big designs are worthless. The work we have to do is with ourselves if…
— Ian Mcewan
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Waiting patiently doesn't suit you. I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape and…
— Arthur Golden
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Fog everywhere. Fog up the river where it flows among green airs and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers…
— Charles Dickens
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I should be at peace. I have understood. Don't some say that peace comes when you understand? I have understood. I should be at peace.…
— Umberto Eco
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Reason flows from the blending of rational thought and feeling. If the two functions are torn apart, thinking deteriorates into schizoid intellectual activity and feeling…
— Erich Fromm
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Something of God... flows into us from the blue of the sky, the taste of honey, the delicious embrace of water whether cold or hot,…
— C.S. Lewis
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Standing Here My entire world far beneath my feet, I should be filled with pride. Instead, I feel overwhelmed by a sense of defeat. Suddenly…
— Ellen Hopkins
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Children are knives, my mother once said. They don’t mean to, but they cut. And yet we cling to them, don’t we, we clasp them…
— Joanne Harris
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When day begins to break I count my blessings, good and bad, Being wakeful for your sake, Remembering the covenant we've always had, What eagle…
— P. C. Cast
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But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget. You take your material where you find it, which is in your life, at the…
— Tim O'Brien
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There is a way between voice and presence, where information flows. In disciplined silence it opens; with wandering talk it closes.
— Rumi
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Wherever snow falls, or water flows, or birds fly, wherever day and night meet in twilight, wherever the blue heaven is hung by clouds, or…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The continuity of life is never broken; the river flows onward and is lost to our sight, but under its new horizon it carries the…
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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When i'm with you my blood flows smoothly through
— Ellen Hopkins
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Come to us and quackle and quank. Relieve us of our stirrings With your fangs so sharp and bright Take this blood that's always purring.…
— Kathryn Lasky
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