Wave Quotes
1462 quotes by 1065 authors
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Life has a way of testing our anchors and tempting us to drift. Nevertheless, if our anchors are correctly placed in the rock of our…
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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Given the realities of the U.S. criminal justice system, the prosecution may be unable to salvage this case. But just because that system fails victims…
— Jaclyn Friedman
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The sickness rolled through me in great waves. After each wave it would fade away and leave me limp as a wet leaf and shivering…
— Sylvia Plath
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And that, I think, was the handle--that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense;…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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The anarch knows the rules. He has studied them as a historian and goes along with them as a contemporary. Wherever possible, he plays his…
— Ernst Junger
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We watch'd her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro.
— Thomas Hood
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Well, very long ago, on the spot where the Wild Wood waves now, before ever it had planted itself and grown up to what it…
— Kenneth Grahame
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When you ride the wave, the thrill is so exhilarating that you forget everything else. You live in the moment where nothing else matters, so…
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
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Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping…
— John Milton
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The President, in talking about freedom and democracy, is sparking a wave of very positive democratic sentiment that might help us override both Islamic fundamentalism…
— Bill Richardson
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Shakespeare was an intellectual ocean, whose waves touched all the shores of thought; within which were all the tides and waves of destiny and will;…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not…
— Nikola Tesla
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Religion is simply an ideal. It is an ideal force that tends to free the human being from material bonds. I do not believe that…
— Nikola Tesla
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My wireless transmitter does not use Hertzian waves, which are a grievous myth, but sound waves in the aether...
— Nikola Tesla
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My parents came to the United States in the early years of this century as part of a wave of Russian Jewish immigrants seeking freedom…
— Daniel Nathans
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The smell of the sea, of kelp and fish and bitter moving water, rose stronger in my nostrils. It flooded my consciousness like an ancestral…
— Ross Macdonald
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I enjoy the independence of single-handling a boat. I like controlling the elements, making the wind and the waves and the water work for me.
— Gerry Schwartz
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...I liken feedback to the effect of when you go surfing; you can get pummeled by a wave, but if you balance the forces right,…
— Jorma Kaukonen
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...I think of improvising as composing - fo me it's all about playing melodies. When I improvise, there's not a lot of real thinking going…
— Robben Ford
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... Aqualung was a difficult and very tense album to record... while I was playing the solo, Jimmy Page walked into the control room and…
— Unknown Author
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