Swells Quotes

56 quotes by 50 authors

Laws gain their authority from actual possession and custom: it is perilous to go back to their origins; laws, like our rivers, get greater and… — Michel de Montaigne
I get really bad plane bloat. Your body and your face and everything swells. I could never get rid of it. It stays with you. — Rebecca Romijn
Man is the only animal that when you pat him on the head, his head swells up. — Charles R. Swindoll
Life is as the sea, art a ship in which man conquers life's crushing formlessness, reducing it to a course, a series of swells, tides… — Ralph Ellison
Sometimes the feeling that life is great just swells up inside you and fills you with joy. — Jackie Gleason
The rustle of the leaves in summer's hush When wandering breezes touch them, and the sigh That filters through the forest, or the gush That… — John Gardiner Calkins Brainard
What I have left is from my native spring; I've still a heart that swells, in scorn of fate, And lifts me to my banks. — John Dryden
Thus one memory follows another until the waves dash together over our heads, and a deep sigh swells the breast, which warns us that we… — Max Muller
Swells, Marina? we ocean, depths, Marina? we sky! — Rainer Maria Rilke
Nature knows that people are a tide that swells and in time will ebb, and all their works dissolve ... As for us: We must… — Robinson Jeffers
All the black leather she needs is the E-Z boy recliner where her love is parked with one of his hands wrapped around a remote,… — Daphne Gottlieb
Everybody's born with some different thing at the core of their existence. And that thing, whatever it is, becomes like a heat source that runs… — Haruki Murakami
There's no guarantee that justice will win out or that a noble sacrifice will make any difference. But when it does, there's something that still… — Brent Weeks
Here is the time for the sayable, here is its home. Speak and attest. More than ever the things we can live with are falling… — Rainer Maria Rilke
It struck him that in moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy, but always against oneâ€™s own body... On the battlefield,… — George Orwell
...the Magnificent Seven consisted of one swimmer of color, a representative from each extreme of the educational spectrum, a muscle man, a giant, a chameleon,… — Chris Crutcher
Downstairs, Grandad's warning Barron about something. His voice swells, and I catch the words, "In my day we were feared. Now we're just afraid. — Holly Black
And perhaps beyond those shrouded swells another man did walk with another child on the dead gray sands. Slept but a sea apart on another… — Cormac McCarthy
The to Cathal was battered and only one wagon wide, with swells of hard earth where mud had frozen during cold ad rainy seasons. Enna… — Shannon Hale
What swells inside me is a love so boundless, I am the sunrise and sunset. I am Liberty Bell in the Cascades. I am Beihai… — Justina Chen

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