Streams Quotes
765 quotes by 585 authors
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As rivers, the nearer they come to the ocean whither they tend, the more they increase their waters, and speed their streams; so will grace…
— John Owen
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If we are forced, at every hour, to watch or listen to horrible events, this constant stream of ghastly impressions will deprive even the most…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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If you love a person, by and by the person becomes the door to the whole. But one has to start with the person, with…
— Rajneesh
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The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole…
— Zhuangzi
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The wolf always charges the lamb with muddying the stream.
— Elihu Root
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The oil industry is a stunning example of how science, technology, and mass production can divert an entire group of companies from their main task.…
— Theodore Levitt
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Our evenings are farewells. Our parties are testaments. So that the secret stream of suffering. May warm the cold of life.
— Boris Pasternak
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Persistence prevails, like a stream that is temporarily blocked by boulders and then collects force enough to overflow onward.
— Vernon Howard
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They smoke cigarettes professionally. The smoke is inhaled very sharply and the teeth are bared.Then the head turns to give you a profile and the…
— Jeffrey Bernard
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Contented saturnine human figures, a dozen or so of them, sitting around a large long table...Perfect equality is to be the rule; no rising or…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Instead of 'watching the thinker,' you can also create a gap in the mind stream simply by directing the focus of your attention into the…
— Eckhart Tolle
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The Buddha described his teaching as "going against the stream." The unflinching light of mindful awareness reveals the extent to which we are tossed along…
— Stephen Batchelor
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If there is anything I have learned about men and women, it is that there is a deeper spirit of altruism than is ever evident.…
— Albert Schweitzer
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Do not wish to jump immediately from the streams to the sea, because one has to go through easier things to the more difficult.
— Thomas Aquinas
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Pity! The southerly trees have shed their leaves. Nobody comes to appreciate the mountain's beauty. Tomorrow I too will float away. My reflection gone from…
— Cheng Man-ch'ing
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Don't get hung up on a snag in the stream, my dear. Snags alone are not so dangerous-it's the debris that clings to them that…
— Anne Monroe
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Happiness consists in activity. It is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.
— John Mason Good
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The white light streams down to be broken up by those human prisms into all the colors of the rainbow. Take your own color in…
— Charles R. Brown
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Based upon the pictures, I concluded that about 60 percent of all college classes in the United States are held outside, underneath a tree, usually…
— Ernest L. Boyer
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We do not live in a time when knowledge can be extended along a pathway smooth and free from obstacles, as at the time of…
— Heinrich Burkhardt
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