Wave Quotes

1462 Wave quotes by 1065 unique authors

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and… — Henry David Thoreau
Yes, here I am returning, the woman who bore herself to the bottom and back. Who wanted to swim like dolphins, leaping waves and diving.… — Sue Monk Kidd
No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds. — Hermann Hesse
love is thicker than forget more thinner than recall more seldom than a wave is wet more frequent than to fail it is most mad… — E E Cummings
I sometimes think that perhaps our minds are too weak to grasp joy or sorrow except in small things...In the big things joy and sorrow… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Sometimes love is a surprise, an instant of recognition, a sudden gift at a sudden moment that makes everything different from then on. Some people… — Deb Caletti
That’s the thing with the young these days, isn’t it? They watch too many happy endings. Everything has to be wrapped up, with a smile… — Nick Hornby
Willows whiten, aspens quiver, little breezes dusk and shiver, thro' the wave that runs forever by the island in the river, flowing down to Camelot.… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
A small rock holds back a great wave. — Homer
Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave 'til it gets to shore. You need more help than you know. — Unknown Author
History is a wave that moves through time slightly faster than we do. — Kim Stanley Robinson
Sometimes I long for a convent cell, with the sublime wisdom of centuries set out on bookshelves all along the wall and a view across… — Etty Hillesum
For the good are always the merry, / Save by an evil chance,/ And the merry love the fiddle,/ And the merry love to dance:… — William Butler Yeats
This wasn't the sea of the inexorable horizon and smashing waves, not the sea of distance and violence, but the sea of the etenally leveling… — Denis Johnson
The world of science lives fairly comfortably with paradox. We know that light is a wave, and also that light is a particle. The discoveries… — Madeleine L'Engle
See the mountains kiss high Heaven And the waves clasp one another; No sister-flower would be forgiven If it disdained its brother; And the sunlight… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
The last light, in the last window, went out. Only the unstoppable machine of the sea still tears away at the silence with the cyclical… — Alessandro Baricco
No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form. — Henry Ward Beecher
The beach has a language of its own, with its undulating ribbons of silt, the imponderable hieroglyphs of bird tracks. The receding waves catch on… — Franny Billingsley
Some dangers are so spectacular and so much beyond normal experience that the mind refuses to accept them as real, and watches the approach of… — Arthur C. Clarke
It was as if when I looked into his eyes I was standing alone on the edge of the world...on a windswept ocean beach. There… — Anne Rice
It was a day as different from other days as dogs are from cats and both of them from chrysanthemums or tidal waves or scarlet… — John Steinbeck
Good advice is a wise man's friend, of course; but sometimes it just flies on past, and all you can do is wave. — Leif Enger
As the surface of the seashore rocks were pitted by by the waves and gathered limpets that further disguised what lay beneath, so time made… — William Trevor
They tell us that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself,but I don't believe that." he said. Then, a moment later, he… — Haruki Murakami

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