Rivers Quotes
1778 Rivers quotes by 1144 unique authors
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Everybody gets jolted. You, me, before we die we’ll all get nailed, lots of times. But that doesn’t mean we’ll get turned into witches. You…
— David James Duncan
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Find something useful to do with your morning,' she thought to him as she neared her chambers. 'Do something heroic in front of an audience.…
— Kristin Cashore
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He built up a situation that was far enough from the truth. It never occurred to him that Helen was to blame. He forgot the…
— E. M. Forster
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Suddenly his expression turned to alarm. He sprinted toward us. For a moment I had an absurd vision of myself on the cover of one…
— Rick Riordan
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I am going to sit here in the river. If you go home to sleep, I will sleep in front of your house. And if…
— Paulo Coelho
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It had nothing to do with gear or footwear or the backpacking fads or philosophies of any particular era or even with getting from point…
— Cheryl Strayed
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I love to watch the fine mist of the night come on, The windows and the stars illumined, one by one, The rivers of dark…
— Charles Baudelaire
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We children sat transfixed before that moon our mother had called forth from the waters. When the moon had reached its deepest silver, my sister,…
— Pat Conroy
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I should have known the power-hungry slave drivers at River's Edge would see my five days of freedom only as a challenge to be filled.
— Cate Tiernan
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They will say I smoked cigarettes and marijuana, cursed hoarse as a crow in all my languages, and loved morphine and Demerol and tequila and…
— Kate Braverman
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Why does everybody throw every troublesome thing into the river?
— Kristin Cashore
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Man shouldn’t be able to see his own face – there’s nothing more sinister. Nature gave him the gift of not being able to see…
— Fernando Pessoa
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Shamefully, all of us have wanted revenge on someone at some point for something. I've lived since before man and buffalo roamed this small planet.…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Freedom comes when you see the built-in contradiction of trying to manipulate something that is going right to begin with.... Stop trying to steer the…
— Deepak Chopra
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i have to cross the river of extreme awkwardness in order to get to the paradise on the other side.
— David Levithan
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Yesterday's gone on down the river and you can't get it back.
— Larry McMurtry
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It is," I said. "And it's not even difficult. But I need your promise on the River Styx." "What?" Dionysus cried. "You don't trust us?"…
— Rick Riordan
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Love and respect yourself and never compromise for anything. And then you will be surprised how much growth starts happening of its own accord.. as…
— Rajneesh
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I thought that love was a river, endless and deep. I thought it merely happened, washing over you like water. It was nothing to search…
— Alice Hoffman
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Hitoshi: I'll never be able to be here again. As the minutes slide by, I move on. The flow of time is something I cannot…
— Banana Yoshimoto
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