Best Shores Lines
191 Shores quotes by 161 unique authors
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Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art--- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's…
— John Keats
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O you, who in some pretty boat, Eager to listen, have been following Behind my ship, that singing sails along Turn back to look again…
— Dante Alighieri
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But to Sam the evening deepened to darkness as he stood at the Haven; and as he looked at the grey sea he saw only…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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a wild dedication of yourselves To undiscovered waters, undreamed shores.
— William Shakespeare
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Perhaps I am too tame, too domestic a magician. But how does one work up a little madness? I meet with mad people every day…
— Susanna Clarke
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This cruel age has deflected me, like a river from this course. Strayed from its familiar shores, my changeling life has flowed into a sister…
— Anna Akhmatova
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I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling of the Sky; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores; I…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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I am forever walking upon these shores, Betwixt the sand and the foam, The high tide will erase my food prnts, And the wind will…
— Khalil Gibran
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The words that reverberate for us at the confines of this long adventure of rebellion are not formulas for optimism, for which we have no…
— Albert Camus
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An island can be dreadful for someone from outside. Everything is complete, and everyone has his obstinate, sure and self-sufficient place. Within their shores, everything…
— Tove Jansson
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You renounce your friendship even in the hour of our need ' he said. 'Yet you were glad indeed to receive our aid when you…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic…
— Carl Sagan
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Have you ever been approached by a grim-looking man, carrying a naked sword with a blade about ten miles long in his hand, in the…
— Jim Butcher
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In the summer I stretch out on the shore And think of you. Had I told the sea What I felt for you, It would…
— Nizar Qabbani
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I missed him, of course, but sometimes close friendships have a tidal beat that pulls you towards different shores though the ocean that connects you…
— Russell Brand
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Beneath the stars the lake lay dark and sombre," Stead wrote, "but on its shores gleamed and glowed in golden radiance the ivory city, beautiful…
— Erik Larson
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And as we leave Donne and Walton on the shores of Metahemeralism, we wave a fond farewell to those famous chums of yore.
— Donna Tartt
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Once, lovers on faraway shores sat by candlelight and dipped ink to parchment, writing words that could not be erased. They took an evening to…
— Mitch Albom
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PIPPIN: I didn't think it would end this way. GANDALF: End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Little soul, gentle and drifting, guest and companion of my body, now you will dwell below in pallid places, stark and bare; there you will…
— Marguerite Yourcenar
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I thought I loved him when he went away; I love him now in another degree: he is more my own. [ . . .…
— Charlotte Bronte
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What I do know is that if we are born again, I will meet you in another life, and if there is a river, you…
— Cassandra Clare
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I told you before, Jem, that you would not leave me. And you are still with me. When I breathe, I will think of you,…
— Cassandra Clare
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The commerce of intellect loves distant shores. The small retail dealer trades only with his neighbor; when the great merchant trades he links the four…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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One of the most persistent images in American urbanism is that of the proverbial city on a hill, as first envisioned on these shores by…
— Martin Filler
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