Stream Quotes

639 quotes by 512 authors

Sometimes by a woodland stream he watched the water rush over the pebbled bed, its tiny modulations of bounce and flow. A woman's body was… — Salman Rushdie
A person cannot coast along in old destructive habits year after year and accept whatever comes along. A person must stand up on her own… — Garrison Keillor
The man who lies asleep will never waken fame, and his desire and all his life drift past him like a dream, and the traces… — Dante Alighieri
Bright beads of red are rising through the ink, Hearts-blood bubbles smearing out into the black stream — Sylvia Plath
Through my blue fingers, pink grains are falling, haphazard, random, a disorganized stream of silicone that seems pregnant with the possibility of every conceivable shapeâ€¦… — Alan Moore
So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one's days. One may be preoccupied with shopping and income tax returns and chance conversations, but… — Graham Greene
It is easy to be religious when religion is in fashion; but it is an evidence of strong faith and resolution to swim against a… — Matthew Henry
I'm too drunk to recall much of what I've said. Which, come to think of it, is probably just as well, judging by the way… — Iain Banks
Brooding, she changed the pool into the sea, and made the minnows into sharks and whales, and cast vast clouds over this tiny world by… — Virginia Woolf
But the truth, he knows, is otherwise. His pleasure in living has been snuffed out. Like a leaf on a stream, like a puffball on… — J M Coetzee
My thoughts went round and round and it occurred to me that if I ever wrote a novel it would be of the 'stream of… — Barbara Pym
The Master Speed No speed of wind or water rushing by but you have speed far greater. You can climb back up a stream of… — Robert Frost
Think of the sound you make when you let go after holding your breath for a very, very long time. Think of the gladdest sound… — Gary D. Schmidt
Whether it is good or evil, whether life in itself is pain or pleasure, whether it is uncertain-that it may perhaps be this is not… — Hermann Hesse
We are one of many appearances of the thing called Life; we are not its perfect image, for it has no perfect image except Life,… — Loren Eiseley
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high, where knowledge is free. Where the world has not been broken up into… — Rabindranath Tagore
He was weary of himself, of cold ideas and brain dreams. Life a poem? Not when you went about forever poetizing about your own life… — Jens Peter Jacobsen
Being the Stream Meditation is not just a rest or retreat from the turmoil of the stream or the impurity of the world. It is… — Gary Snyder
There are moments we return to, now and always. Family is like water - it has a memory of what it once filled, always trying… — Colum McCann
Divorce lawyers stoke anger and fear in their clients, knowing that as long as the conflicts remain unresolved the revenue stream will keep flowing. — Craig Ferguson

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