Waters Quotes

695 Waters quotes by 507 unique authors

Gaps don't/just happen./There is a/generative element/inside them,/a welling motion/ as when cold/waters shoulder/up through/warmer oceans./And where gaps/choose to widen,/coordinates warp,/even in places/constant since/the oldest maps. — Kay Ryan
And I thought, eight years ago, when I began carefully charting the progress of American Gods, nervously dipping my toes into the waters of blogging,… — Neil Gaiman
When young lips have drunk deep of the bitter waters of hate, suspicion and despair, all the love in the world will not wholly take… — Rudyard Kipling
Society, as we have constituted it, will have no place for me, has none to offer; but Nature, whose sweet rains fall on unjust and… — Oscar Wilde
I was not sure where I was going, and I could not see what I would do when I got [there]. But you saw further… — Thomas Merton
She was truly a beautiful girl. I could feel a small polished stone sinking through the darkest waters of my heart. All those deep convoluted… — Haruki Murakami
One June evening, when the orchards were pink-blossomed again, when the frogs were singing silverly sweet in the marshes about the head of the Lake… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
America was different. America was a river, roarng along, unmindful of the past. I could wade into this river, let my sins drown to the… — Khaled Hosseini
The essential is never to arrive anywhere, never to be anywhere. The essential is to go on squirming forever at the edge of the line,… — Samuel Beckett
Woman is Godâ€™s supreme creation. Only after the earth had been formed, after the day had been separated from the night, after the waters had… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. The moments that used to define… — Mitch Albom
To course across more kindly waters now my talent's little vessel lifts her sails, leaving behind herself a sea so cruel; and what I sing… — Dante Alighieri
A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
How can we be alive and not wonder about the stories we knit together this place we call the world? Without stories our universe is… — Douglas Coupland
Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art--- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's… — John Keats
In a world beyond this one, that river goes on singing sweetly, enchanting us with what we want to hear, shaping what we need to… — Libba Bray
This is how great intellectual breakthroughs usually happen in practice. It is rarely the isolated genius having a eureka moment alone in the lab. Nor… — Steven Johnson
I wonder," she said. "Does this castle have a moat?" A group of servants were busy emptying the privy buckets into the moat when they… — John Flanagan
See, that was the problem in relationships when emotion began muddying the waters. It was as if (Lexie) expected him to do or say exactly… — Nicholas Sparks
The great trains howling from track to track all night. The taut and telegraphic murmur of ten thousand city wires, drawn most cruelly against a… — Nelson Algren

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