Great River Quotes

30 quotes by 26 authors

I have never seen a river that I could not love. Moving water... has a fascinating vitality. It has power and grace and associations. It… — Roderick Haig-Brown
Those who are victorious plan effectively and change decisively. They are like a great river that maintains its course but adjusts its flow. — Sun Tzu
Be as the still mountain; Move like the great river. — Laozi
Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone.… — Andrea Dworkin
I listen to people talking sometimes, that great river that is language, with all its undercurrents of grammar and nuance, and I wonder how we… — Sarah Dunant
It is absurd for a man to kill an elephant. It is not brutal, it is not heroic, and certainly it is not easy; it… — Beryl Markham
If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can't go at dawn and not many places he can't go at noon. But… — Edward Hoagland
With us, when you speak of â€˜the river,â€™ though there be many, you mean always the same one, the great river, the shifting, unappeasable god… — William Alexander Percy
I have come to believe that this is a mighty continent which was hitherto unknown. I am greatly supported in this view by reason of… — Christopher Columbus
Capture of Nanking Rain and a windstorm rage blue and yellow over Chung the bell mountain as a million peerless troops cross the Great River.… — Mao Zedong
Everything is flowing. The Great River of Time takes everything with it, and nothing in this world remains unchanged or stabilized. — Mouni Sadhu
To have regret is to be disappointed with yourself and your choices. Those who are wise, see their life like stepping stones across a great… — Colleen Houck
Be still like a mountain and flow like a great river. — Laozi
Those who are victorious plan effectively and change decisively. They are like a great river that maintains its course but adjusts its flow...they have form… — Sun Tzu
At the beginning of meditation training thoughts will arrive one on top of another, uninterrupted, like a steep mountain waterfall. Gradually, as you perfect meditation,… — Sogyal Rinpoche
Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone.… — Andrea Dworkin
Now when I had mastered the language of this water, and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great river as familiarly… — Mark Twain
Your heart is like a great river after a long spell of rain, spilling over its banks. All signposts that once stood on the ground… — Haruki Murakami
He used often to say there was only one Road; that it was like a great river: its springs were at every doorstep, and every… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Self abandoned, relaxed and effortless, I seemed to have laid me down in the dried-up bed of a great river; I heard a flood loosened… — Charlotte Bronte

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