River Quotes
1549 quotes by 1084 authors
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Consciousness... does not appear to itself chopped up in bits. Such words as 'chain' or 'train' do not describe it fitly as it presents itself…
— William James
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Wrath to come implies both the futurity and perpetuity of this wrath.... Yea, it is not only certainly future, but when it comes it will…
— John Flavel
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Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by insects. Almost every…
— Henry David Thoreau
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If one wants to get a boat ride, one must be near the river.
— Anchee Min
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Sannyas means dropping the fight with the river, going with the river, allowing the river to take you, learning the art of let-go. Those two…
— Rajneesh
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Be in relaxation a few moments. It can be any kind of situations - swimming in the river, relax with the river, or sunning on…
— Rajneesh
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I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.
— Zhuangzi
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We must kill them in war, just because they live beyond the river. If they lived on this side, we would be called murderers.
— Blaise Pascal
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You would know the secret of death. But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heath of life? The owl whose…
— Khalil Gibran
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Always a chancer, always lucky, he'd fall into a river and come out dry, with fish in his pockets.
— Cecelia Ahern
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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
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Be as the still mountain; Move like the great river.
— Laozi
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Did you know that there are no straight lines in the universe? Life doesn't travel in perfectly straight lines. It moves more like a winding…
— T. Harv Eker
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Science should leave off making pronouncements: the river of knowledge has too often turned back on itself.
— James Jeans
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You do not really care for God's mercy or His comfort either, so long as you live in any sin. And it is well that…
— Alexander Whyte
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The proof given by Wright, that non-adaptive differentiation will occur in small populations owing to "drift," or the chance fixation of some new mutation or…
— Julian Huxley
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Together, let us make this a new beginning. Let us make a commitment to care for the needy, to teach our children the values and…
— Ronald Reagan
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That man has missed something who has never left a brothel at sunrise feeling like throwing himself into the river out of pure disgust.
— Gustave Flaubert
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Always go with the river of life. Never try to go against the current, and never try to go faster than the river. Just move…
— Rajneesh
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When your heart's gratitude comes to the fore, when you become all gratitude, this gratitude is like a flow, a flow of consciousness. When your…
— Sri Chinmoy
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