Swells Quotes

56 Swells quotes by 50 unique authors

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 one’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
He rocked in the swells, floating like the first germ of life adrift on the earth's cooling seas, formless macule of plasm trapped in a… — Cormac McCarthy
And leaning out the window, enjoying the day above the varying volume of the entire city, only one thought swells my soul – the intimate… — Fernando Pessoa
He took comfort in the neon signs, the wild strands of jazz creeping out of clubs whenever happy swells of people pushed through the doors… — Libba Bray
And in me too the wave rises. It swells; it arches its back. I am aware once more of a new desire, something rising beneath… — Virginia Woolf
It was one of those dreams that invade the space between seconds, proving sleep has its own physics- where time shrinks and swells, lifetimes unspool… — Laini Taylor
Moon and Sea You are the moon, dear love, and I the sea: The tide of hope swells high within my breast, And hides the… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
This is the most profound spiritual truth I know: that even when we're most sure that love can't conquer all, it seems to anyway. It… — Anne Lamott
Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see… — Woodrow Wilson
My grief lies all within, And these external manners of lament Are merely shadows to the unseen grief That swells with silence in the tortured… — William Shakespeare
This is the most profound spiritual truth I know: that even when we're most sure that love can't conquer all, it seems to anyway. It… — Unkown

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