Wave Quotes
1462 quotes by 1065 authors
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The sweet air coming into your house on a fine day, from water etched with waves as formal as the scales on a fish.
— Marianne Moore
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Look at it! It's a once in a lifetime opportunity, man! Let me go out there and let me get one wave, just one wave…
— Patrick Swayze
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Whales in mid-ocean, suspended in the waves of the sea great heaven of whales in the waters, old hierarchies. And enormous mother whales lie dreaming…
— D. H. Lawrence
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My half-baked reading of history is that we continue to go through these waves of entrepreneurial explosion followed by merger mania and consolidation. Out of…
— Tom Peters
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After half an hour the drug hit me like a sensuous tidal wave. I turned into a tactile temptress and wanted to stroke the whole…
— Boy George
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We, like the Mother of the World, become the compassionate presence that can hold, with tenderness, the rising and passing waves of suffering.
— Tara Brach
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The unstable estimates of men crowd to him whose mind is filled with a truth, as the heaped waves of the Atlantic follow the moon.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity.
— George Eliot
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A mother's love is like a fortress, And we seek protection there, When the waves of tribulation, Seem to drown us in despair.
— Helen Steiner Rice
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Consider the ebb and flow of the tide. When waves come to strike the shore, they crest and fall, creating a sound. Your breath should…
— Morihei Ueshiba
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To know the mechanics of the wave, is to know the entire secret of Nature.
— Walter Russell
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In the wave lies the secret of creation.
— Walter Russell
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A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pygmy-body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity; Pleas'd…
— John Dryden
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As evening approached, I came down from the heights of the island, and I liked then to go and sit on the shingle in some…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Within a bony labrinthean cave, Reached by the pulse of the aerial wave, This sibyl, sweet, and Mystic Sense is found, Muse, that presides o'er…
— Abraham Coles
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The longest wave is quickly lost in the sea.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The Long March The Red Army is not afraid of hardship on the march, the long march. Ten thousand waters and a thousand mountains are…
— Mao Zedong
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Myriad laughter of the ocean waves.
— Aeschylus
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Initially, the horrific images of September 11th triggered an enormous wave of solidarity.
— Ulrich Beck
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Beloved, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there; From joy the holy branches start, And all the trembling flowers they bear.…
— William Butler Yeats
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