Stream Quotes
639 quotes by 512 authors
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Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or…
— John Milton
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A living body is not a fixed thing but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool: the shape alone is stable, for the…
— Alan Watts
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Action is the stream, and contemplation is the spring.
— Thomas Merton
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Sweet Memory! wafted by thy gentle gale, Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail.
— Samuel Rogers
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You would measure time the measureless and the immeasurable. You would adjust your conduct and even direct the course of your spirit according to hours…
— Khalil Gibran
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They say you forget your troubles on a trout stream, but that's not quite it. What happens is that you begin to see where your…
— John Gierach
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Only dead fish swim with the stream all of the time....
— Linda Ellerbee
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We can hold back neither the coming of the flowers nor the downward rush of the stream; sooner or later, everything comes to its fruition.
— Li Ching-Yuen
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And when the stream Which overflowed the soul was passed away, A consciousness remained that it had left Deposited upon the silent shore Of memory…
— William Wordsworth
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The law changes and flows like water, and . . . the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent.
— Shana Alexander
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Trade and money, which go together in a stream of energy, inevitably wash away the enclosing walls of a society of status.
— Isabel Paterson
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A laser is a weak source of energy. A laser takes [only] a few watts of energy and focuses them in a coherent stream of…
— Al Ries
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By replacing fear of the unknown with curiosity we open ourselves up to an infinite stream of possibility. We can let fear rule our lives…
— Alan Watts
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If it feels like your life has become a nasty, brackish puddle of water, never forget that you do possess the power to transform it…
— Russell Simmons
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Every one of us can blame somebody for something that has happened in our lives. But don't waste your time. What we need most is…
— Charles R. Swindoll
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If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.
— St. Jerome
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I think that will be a lot of fun for audiences to get the same stream of consciousness that was going through my head at…
— Roland Joffe
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No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Why shouldn't it be that way for the rest of us? Why not just go with it? Just walk the dog and send the tweets…
— Joshua Ferris
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The regenerate man's desires are rectified; they are set on God himself, and the things above... Before, he saw no beauty in Christ, for which…
— Thomas Boston
Who Wrote These Stream Quotes
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