Wave Quotes
1462 Wave quotes by 1065 unique authors
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Outside the trees dragged their leaves like nets through the depths of the air; the sound of water was in the room and through the…
— Virginia Woolf
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Two human beings anchored to one another are like two ships shaken by waves; their carcases collide with one another and creak.
— Andre Maurois
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Never did tombs look so ghastly white. Never did cypress, or yew, or juniper so seem the embodiment of funeral gloom. Never did tree or…
— Bram Stoker
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I knew something as I watched: almost everyone was saying goodbye to me. I was becoming one of the many little-girl-losts. They would go back…
— Alice Sebold
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....he began to speak to me, not in the jocular way of visitors to the menagerie but rather as one speaks to the wind or…
— Daniel Quinn
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Things break all the time. Day breaks, waves break, voices break. Promises break. Hearts break.
— Jodi Picoult
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The waves of pain that had only lapped at me before now reared high up and washed over my head, pulling me under. I did…
— Stephenie Meyer
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We got off at the next exit, quietly, and, switching drivers, we walked in front of the car. We met and I held him, my…
— John Green
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Now what is history? It is the centuries of systematic explorations of the riddle of death, with a view to overcoming death. That’s why people…
— Jon Krakauer
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Thou saw'st the locked lovers when leaping from their flaming ship; heart to heart they sank beneath the exulting wave; true to each other, when…
— Herman Melville
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One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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Let it crumble! Let the rocks revile me and flowers wilt at my coming. Your whole universe is not enough to prove me wrong. You…
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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Now this is very profound, what rhythm is, and goes far deeper than words. A sight, an emotion, creates this wave in the mind, long…
— Virginia Woolf
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Stop it." Isabelle tapped a booted foot in the shallow water at the lake's edge. "Both of you. In fact, all three of you. If…
— Cassandra Clare
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History says, Don’t hope On this side of the grave, But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up,…
— Seamus Heaney
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Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words. But on the other hand…
— Virginia Woolf
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I'm so alive. As I stand facing the beauty of the never-ending Pacific Ocean, a late afternoon breeze blows down from the hills behind. As…
— Dave Pelzer
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No lake so still but it has its wave. No circle so perfect but that it has its blur. I would change things for you…
— Confucius
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I wish we could spend July by the sea, browning ourselves and feeling water-weighted hair flow behind us from a dive. I wish our gravest…
— Zelda Fitzgerald
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I never saw a moor, I never saw the sea; Yet know I how the heather looks, And what a wave must be. I never…
— Emily Dickinson
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This is insane," I said blankly. "I'm the instrument of an all-powerful primordial deity's wave of chaos and destruction." "That's kind of extreme" said Dante…
— Richelle Mead
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She wanted to tell him so mach, on the tarmac, the day he left. The world is run by brutal men and the surest proof…
— Colum McCann
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Hello toes," I say. They're good toes. I like that they're long and slender and not the slightest bit stubby. I wiggle them, ten unstubby…
— Lauren Myracle
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But God is the God of the waves and the billows, and they are still His when they come over us; and again and again…
— Amy Carmichael
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Me, I always wanted frost power.” “Frost power?” “Yeah.” Seth gestured dramatically toward my coffee table. “If we’re talking superhero abilities. If I had frost…
— Richelle Mead
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