Waves Quotes

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Ever since viewing screens entered the home, many observers have worried that they put our brains into a stupor. An early strain of research claimed… — Hanna Rosin
An ocean traveler has even more vividly the impression that the ocean is made of waves than that it is made of water. — Arthur Eddington
Thinking about something is like picking up a stone when taking a walk, either while skipping rocks on the beach, for example, or looking for… — Daniel Handler
...she took her hand and raised her brush. For a moment it stayed trembling in a painful but exciting ecstacy in the air. Where to… — Virginia Woolf
The sound of distant breakers made her heart ache with melancholy. She was in the mood when the sea has a saddening effect upon the… — Baroness Orczy
The powerful wind swept his hair away from his face; he leaned his chest into the wind, as if he stood on the deck of… — John Irving
We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves. — Marquis de Sade
He continued on, on to the glacier, towards the dawn, from ridge to ridge, in deep, new-fallen snow, paying no heed to the storms that… — HalldÃ³r Laxness
Then take me disappearin' through the smoke rings of my mind, Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves, The haunted, frightened… — Bob Dylan
Are not the mountains, waves, and skies as much a part of me, as I of them? — Lord Byron
A human being creates complexity by writing a novel on the surface of paper; a weather system creates complexity by writing waves on the surface… — Douglas Preston
In this republican country, amid the fluctuating waves of our social life, somebody is always at the drowning-point. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
This is the awe-inspiring universe of magic: There are no atoms, only waves and motions all around. Here, you discard all belief in barriers to… — Frank Herbert
There are two kinds of people,â€™ sheâ€™d said. â€˜Those who coast through life like ducks in a row, following one after the other, and those… — Gena Showalter
Mother's life flowed radiant. Flourescent-tipped waves on incoming tides. — Maya Angelou
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
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
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
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
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

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