Rivers Quotes

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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
What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works… — Benjamin Franklin
If one wants to get a boat ride, one must be near the river. — Anchee Min
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
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
I repeat again: the male mind is egoistic. You have to learn the way of the feminine, you have to become egoless, you have to… — Rajneesh
I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river. — Zhuangzi
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
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
We should understand well that all things are the work of the Great Spirit. We should know the Great Spirit is within all things: the… — Black Elk
Always a chancer, always lucky, he'd fall into a river and come out dry, with fish in his pockets. — Cecelia Ahern
I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers… — Theodore White
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
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
Science should leave off making pronouncements: the river of knowledge has too often turned back on itself. — James Jeans
When the aggregate amount of solid matter transported by rivers in a given number of centuries from a large continent, shall be reduced to arithmetical… — Charles Lyell
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
Amid all the revolutions of the globe, the economy of Nature has been uniform, ... and her laws are the only things that have resisted… — John Playfair
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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