Streams Quotes
765 quotes by 570 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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All things pass in time. We are far less significant than we imagine ourselves to be. All that we are, all that we have wrought,…
— Jim Butcher
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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
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Like fanning through a deck of cards, my mind flashes on the thousand chances, trivial to profound, that converged to re-create this place. Any arbitrary…
— Frances Mayes
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Past one o’clock. You must have gone to bed. The Milky Way streams silver through the night. I’m in no hurry; with lightning telegrams I…
— Vladimir Mayakovsky
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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
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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
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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
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Streams may spring from one source and yet some may be clear and some be foul.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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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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If thou speakest not I will fill my heart with thy silence and endure it. I will keep still and wait like the night with…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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It was odd, she thought, how if one was alone, one leant to inanimate things; trees, streams, flowers; felt they expressed one; felt they became…
— Virginia Woolf
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It was true what Jim said, this wasn’t the end but the beginning. But the wars would end one day and Jim would come then,…
— Jamie O'Neill
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Of four infernal rivers that disgorge/ Into the burning Lake their baleful streams;/Abhorred Styx the flood of deadly hate,/Sad Acheron of sorrow, black and deep;/Cocytus,…
— John Milton
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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious. Judaism teaches us…
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Have you ever stood where a stream spills into a river? The two become one. They laugh over the stones together, twist through the sharp…
— Catherine Anderson
Who Wrote These Streams Quotes
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