Wave Quotes

1462 Wave quotes by 1065 unique authors

What she really loved was to hang over the edge and watch the bow of the ship slice through the waves. She loved it especially… — Kristin Cashore
I don't want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a sluggish wave. Whatever… — Margaret Atwood
I have had my dance with Folly, nor do I shirk the blame; I have sipped the so-called Wine of Life and paid the price… — Eugene O'Neill
Twice in her life she had mistaken something else for it; it was like seeing somebody in the street who you think is a friend,… — Nancy Mitford
Just like a sunbeam can't separate itself from the sun, and a wave can't separate itself from the ocean, we can't separate ourselves from one… — Marianne Williamson
The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the… — Rabindranath Tagore
For this is the truth about our soul, he thought, who fish-like inhabits deep seas and plies among obscurities threading her way between the boles… — Virginia Woolf
The world is holy. We are holy. All life is holy. Daily prayers are delivered on the lips of breaking waves, the whisperings of grasses,… — Terry Tempest Williams
I sit watching the brown oceanic waves of dry country rising into the foothills and I weep monotonously, seasickly. Life is not like the dim… — Alice Munro
There was the same dazzling red glare. The sea gasped for air with each shallow, stifled wave that broke on the sand. ...with every blade… — Albert Camus
As each wave of technology is released. It must be accompanied by a demand for new skills, new language. Consumers must constantly update their ways… — Richard Kadrey
I am alone on this road strewn with bones and bordered by ruins! Angels have their brothers, and demons have their infernal companions. Yet I… — Gustave Flaubert
I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to… — Gustave Flaubert
Life has loveliness to sell, All beautiful and splendid things, Blue waves whitened on a cliff, Soaring fire that sways and sings, And children's faces… — Sara Teasdale
Time is more complex near the sea than in any other place, for in addition to the circling of the sun and the turning of… — John Steinbeck
Emotional discomfort, when accepted, rises, crests and falls in a series of waves. Each wave washes a part of us away and deposits treasures we… — Martha Beck
It isn't by getting out of the world that we become enlightened, but by getting into the world…by getting so tuned in that we can… — Ken Kesey
Dawn came and matters were worse for it. Because now, emerging from the darkness, I could see, what before I had only felt, the great… — Yann Martel
Time's passage through the memory is like molten glass that can be opaque or crystalize at any given moment at will: a thousand days are… — Gloria Naylor
Love? Be it man. Be it woman. It must be a wave you want to glide in on, give your body to it, give your… — Anne Sexton
She would never leave her mark on Mammy's heart the way her brothers had, because Mammy's heart was like a pallid beach where Laila's footprints… — Khaled Hosseini
She bent her finger and then straightened it. The mystery was in the instant before it moved, the dividing moment between not moving and moving,… — Ian Mcewan
I'm on the verge of tears by the time we arrive at Pastels since I'm positive we won't get seated but the table is good,… — Bret Easton Ellis
Many more people could ride out the storm-tossed waves in their economic lives if they had their year's supply of food…and were debt-free. Today we… — Thomas S. Monson
It's calm under the waves in the blue of my oblivion. — Fiona Apple

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