Stream Quotes
639 quotes by 512 authors
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He who was Shri Rama, whose stream of love flowed with resistless might even to the Chandala (the outcaste); Oh, who ever was engaged in…
— Swami Vivekananda
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The same stream of life that runs through the world runs through my veins night and day.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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I agree that it is not just the extremists who harbor bad thoughts or engage in bad acts, but they are usually the source of…
— Joichi Ito
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Give the best you have received from the past to the best that you may come to know in the future. Accept life daily not…
— Sid Lovett
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The here, the now, and the individual, have always been the special concern of the saint, the artist, the poet, and-from time immemorial- the woman.…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up.
— P.D. James
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Jesus is the purest among the mighty, and the mightiest among the pure, who, with his pierced hand has raised empires from their foundations, turned…
— Jean Paul
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The stream sings a subdued music, a scarcely audible lilt, faint and fluid syllables not quite said. It slips away into its future, where it…
— John Daniel
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It's hard to see a river all at once, especially in the mountains. Down on the plains, rivers run in their course as straightforward as…
— Lynn Culbreath Noel
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The life in us is like the water in the river. It may rise this year higher than man has ever known it, and flood…
— Henry David Thoreau
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You think I love flattery (says Dr. Johnson), and so I do; but a little too much always disgusts me: that fellow Richardson, on the…
— Samuel Johnson
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Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A muddy little stream, a village grown unfamiliar with time and trees. I turn around and retrace my way up Main Street and park and…
— Wallace Stegner
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When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling of thoughts in a rather small stream of vortex,…
— Barbara Amiel
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When a women speaks her truth, fires up her intention and feeling, stays tight with the instinctive nature, she is singing, she is living in…
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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Because I don’t work with an outline, writing a story is like crossing a stream, now I’m on this rock, now I’m on this rock,…
— Ann Beattie
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Cultivate an ever continuous power of observation. Wherever you are, be always ready to make slight notes of postures, groups and incidents. Store up in…
— John Singer Sargent
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Beavers bred in captivity, inhabiting a concrete pool, will, if given the timber, fatuously go through all the motions of damming an ancestral stream.
— Evelyn Waugh
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Now the stream of our common consciousness seems to be obliterating its own banks, losing its central direction and purpose, flooding the lowlands, disconnecting and…
— Robert M. Pirsig
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...she felt, with her hand on the nursery door, that community of feeling with other people which emotion gives as if the walls of partition…
— Virginia Woolf
Who Wrote These Stream Quotes
512 authors contributed a total of 639 Stream Quotes, led by these top contributors: