Streams Quotes

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I shall attempt to prove two things: first, that the actions and dispositions of mankind are the offspring of circumstances and events, and not of… — William Godwin
Life is endless, not punctuated by nights, days, months and years - for all are one, in the eternal stream... — Sathya Sai Baba
The proper education of the young does not consist in stuffing their heads with a mass of words, sentences, and ideas dragged together out of… — John Amos Comenius
Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams The blue Mediterranean, where he lay, Lull'd by the coil of his crystalline streams Beside a pumice… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Who o'er the herd would wish to reign, Fantastic, fickle, fierce, and vain! Vain as the leaf upon the stream, And fickle as a changeful… — Walter Scott
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
Knowing that conscious decisions and personal memory are much too small a place to live, every human being streams at night into the loving nowhere,… — Unknown Author
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
Of all that is most beauteous, imaged there In happier beauty; more pellucid streams, An ampler ether, a diviner air, And fields invested with purpureal… — William Wordsworth
Action is the stream, and contemplation is the spring. — Thomas Merton
Sweet Memory! wafted by thy gentle gale, Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail. — Samuel Rogers
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
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
Only dead fish swim with the stream all of the time.... — Linda Ellerbee
Children are our crop, our fields, our earth. They are birds let loose into darkness. They are errors renewed. Still, they are the only source… — James Salter
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
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
The law changes and flows like water, and . . . the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent. — Shana Alexander
Trade and money, which go together in a stream of energy, inevitably wash away the enclosing walls of a society of status. — Isabel Paterson
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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