Wave Quotes
1462 quotes by 1065 authors
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In a world of chance is there a better and a worse? We yield to a stranger's embrace or give ourselves to the waves; for…
— J M Coetzee
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When I turned the corner, I saw Toni waving at me from the elevator. I think I've already told you how it made me feel…
— Louis Sachar
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Be a woman of Christ. Cherish your esteemed place in the sight of God. He needs you. This church needs you. The world needs you.…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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Waves of thought are stirring. In a twilight corner of her consciousness, one tiny fragment and another tiny fragment call out wordlessly to eachother, their…
— Haruki Murakami
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Sometimes maybe you should let someone you love travel great distances away from you. You shouldn’t think you needed to set out to retrieve them…
— Deb Caletti
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But grief still has to be worked through. It is like walking through water. Sometimes there are little waves lapping about my feet. Sometimes there…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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Outside, the ocean was crashing, waves hitting sand, then pulling back to sea. I thought of everything being washed away, again and again. We make…
— Sarah Dessen
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Why does life carry some people on the crest of the wave while others drown beneath the water?
— Michelle Moran
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There’s no winning arguments with your parents, so why get all pumped up over them? It is way better to dive down and get out…
— Wendelin Van Draanen
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Now he realized the truth: that sacrifice was no purchase of freedom. It was like a great elective office, it was like an inheritance of…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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This self now as I leant over the gate looking down over fields rolling in waves of colour beneath me made no answer. He threw…
— Virginia Woolf
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I keep my eyes on the sea, waiting to be rocketed into it on a wave of fire. I'll be ready for it to happen…
— Tina Fey
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And when I wake up it's wonderful, like I've been carried quietly onto a calm, peaceful shore, and the dream, and its meaning, has broken…
— Lauren Oliver
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The desperation was coming off you in waves. You were all but begging to dance with me. I am doing you a favor.
— Amanda Hocking
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Mimi was massaging Salander's back and neck. She had been kneading intently for 20 minutes while Salander mainly enjoyed herself and uttered an occasional groan…
— Steig Larsson
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I learned not to fear infinity, The far field, the windy cliffs of forever, The dying of time in the white light of tomorrow, The…
— Theodore Roethke
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You can't stop your heart from loving, really -- it's like standing out there in the ocean yelling at the waves to stop.
— Sue Monk Kidd
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The harmony that holds the stars on their courses and the flesh on our bones resonates through all creation. Every sound contains its echo. Before…
— Morgan Llywelyn
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It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. But is it not…
— Carl Sagan
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All the books of the world full of thoughts and poems are nothing in comparison to a minute of sobbing, when feeling surges in waves,…
— Hermann Hesse
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