Wave Quotes
1462 quotes by 1065 authors
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O grant me a house by the beach of a bay, Where the waves can be surly in winter, and play With the sea-weed in…
— Andrew Lang
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It is moonlight. Alone in the silence I ascend my stairs once more, While waves remote in pale blue starlight Crash on a white sand…
— Conrad Aiken
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Want to talk third wave feminism, you could cite Ariel Levy and the idea that women have internalized male oppression. Going to spring break at…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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Though they live far from the coast, they retain a great fascination and passion for the ocean. The sound of crashing waves, the smell of…
— Christopher Paolini
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To Hope "When by my solitary hearth I sit, And hateful thoughts enwrap my soul in gloom; When no fair dreams before my 'mind's eye'…
— John Keats
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I will sleep no more but arise, You oceans that have been calm within me! how I feel you, fathomless, stirring, preparing unprecedented waves and…
— Walt Whitman
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Of four infernal rivers that disgorge/ Into the burning Lake their baleful streams;/Abhorred Styx the flood of deadly hate,/Sad Acheron of sorrow, black and deep;/Cocytus,…
— John Milton
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Nobody believes in magicians any more, nobody believes that anyone can come along and wave a wand and turn you into a frog. But if…
— Agatha Christie
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Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless. Your time…
— Chief Seattle
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Come unto these yellow sands, And then take hands. Curtsied when you have and kissed The wild waves whist, Foot is featly here and there;…
— William Shakespeare
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One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washèd it away: Again I wrote it with a second hand,…
— Edmund Spenser
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In the morning there was a big wind blowing and the waves were running high up on the beach and he was awake a long…
— Ernest Hemingway
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Across the room, she heard a loud clatter. She looked up to see that Roland ahd fallen out of his chair. The last time she'd…
— Lauren Kate
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Rohan, one of us is an unmarried man with superior mathematical abilities and no prospects for the evening. The other is a confirmed lecher in…
— Lisa Kleypas
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Where the wave of moonlight glosses The dim gray sands with light, Far off by furthest Rosses We foot it all the night, Weaving olden…
— William Butler Yeats
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It was a dream, not a nightmare, a beautiful dream I could never imagine in a thousand nods. There was a girl next to me…
— Jim Carroll
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Josh pulls me aside. "Hey, About before, I just... I wanted to say ... well, I think you're pretty special." He says, kind of stumbling…
— Elizabeth Scott
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That narrow stretch of sand knows nothing in the world better than it does the white waves that whip it , caress it , collapse…
— Ahdaf Soueif
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But to Sam the evening deepened to darkness as he stood at the Haven; and as he looked at the grey sea he saw only…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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the darkness is a cresting wave. It sweeps me up out of my body until I float among the stars, those tine bright pores on…
— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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