Waves Quotes

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It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another. — Lucretius
If you want to know how much I love and care for you, count the waves. — Kenneth Koch
One may conceive light to spread successively, by spherical waves. — Christiaan Huygens
If we all knew each morning that there was going to be another morning, and on and on and on, we's tend not to notice… — Madeleine L'Engle
If you throw a stone in a pond... the waves which strike against the shores are thrown back towards the spot where the stone struck;… — Leonardo da Vinci
Moreover it is becoming the Britons, whether scientific or unscientific, who boast at all fitting occasions of their aptitude to rule the waves, should know… — Edward Forbes
The birds looked upon me as nothing but a man, quite a trifling creature without wings-and they would have nothing to do with me. Were… — Rabindranath Tagore
Midsummer Night was roasting hot. The shore, of red granite, glowed with the heat; the dark blood of the earth seemed to be rising from… — Yevgeny Zamyatin
It's quiet. No cars. No birds. Nothing.' 'No radio waves,' said the Doctor. 'Not even Radio Four.' 'You can hear radio waves?' 'Of course not.… — Neil Gaiman
Radio astronomers study radio waves from space using sensitive antennas and receivers, which give them precise information about what an astronomical object is and where… — Honor Harger
We are slowed down sound and light waves, a walking bundle of frequencies tuned into the cosmos. We are souls dressed up in sacred biochemical… — Albert Einstein
A man's liberal and conservative phases seem to follow each other in a succession of waves from the time he is born. Children are radicals.… — Elwyn Brooks White
If our greatest fear is to sink away alone and unremembered, the brutality that time will inflict upon each of us will always run stronger… — Miguel Syjuco
One's mind and the earth are in a constant state of erosion, mental rivers wear away abstract banks, brain waves undermine cliffs of thought, ideas… — Robert Smithson
I feel as though I have lived many lives, experienced the heights and depths of each and like the waves of the ocean, never known… — Leni Riefenstahl
The name Alaska is probably an abbreviation of Unalaska, derived from the original Aleut word agunalaksh, which means "the shores where the sea breaks its… — Corey Ford
Prayer cleanses from sin, drives away temptations, stamps out persecutions, comforts the fainthearted, gives new strength to the courageous, brings travellers safely home, calms the… — Tertullian
But I looked out at the waves far below the bluff. They looked violent, erupting against the cliff. I watched them rising - up, up,… — Jaimal Yogis
Thereâ€™s always going to be ups and downs in life and it doesnâ€™t mean you shouldnâ€™t feel the pain. Pain is good. It makes you… — Deryck Whibley
The sun does not shine for a few trees, and flowers, but for the wide world's joy. The lonely pine on the mountain-top waves its… — Henry Ward Beecher

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