Wave Quotes
1462 Wave quotes by 1065 unique authors
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There are two kinds of people,’ she’d said. ‘Those who coast through life like ducks in a row, following one after the other, and those…
— Gena Showalter
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Mother's life flowed radiant. Flourescent-tipped waves on incoming tides.
— Maya Angelou
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Sorrow comes in great waves...but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us. And we know that if it is…
— Henry James
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A successful song comes to sing itself inside the listener. It is cellular and seismic, a wave coalescing in the mind and in the flesh.…
— Kevin Brockmeier
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There are many ways to drown, only the most obvious wave their arms as they're going under.
— Nick Flynn
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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
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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
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No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
— Hermann Hesse
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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A small rock holds back a great wave.
— Homer
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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
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History is a wave that moves through time slightly faster than we do.
— Kim Stanley Robinson
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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
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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
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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
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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
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