Waves Quotes

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We clear the harbor and the wind catches her sails and my beautiful ship leans over ever so gracefully, and her elegant bow cuts cleanly… — L.A. Meyer
Talent is its own expectation, Jim: you either live up to it or it waves a hankie, receding forever. — David Foster Wallace
And I will now rock the brown basin from side to side so that my ships may ride the waves. Some will founder. Some will… — Virginia Woolf
It struck me then how much the past - not just the past but history and family - was like the ocean tide. It was… — Aimee Friedman
Picture a tall, dark figure, surrounded by cornfields... NO, YOU CAN'T RIDE A CAT. WHO EVER HEARD OF THE DEATH OF RATS RIDING A CAT?… — Terry Pratchett
They gave themselves up to the stars the way swimmers can surrender to the waves, and the stars took them without resistance. — Mark Helprin
Let death find us as we are building up our matchstick protests against its waves. — Alain de Botton
He was visited on a lunar basis by these great unspecific waves of horniness, whereby all women within a certain age group and figure envelope… — Thomas Pynchon
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
Two human beings anchored to one another are like two ships shaken by waves; their carcases collide with one another and creak. — Andre Maurois
....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
Things break all the time. Day breaks, waves break, voices break. Promises break. Hearts break. — Jodi Picoult
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
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
Now what is history? It is the centuries of systematic explorations of the riddle of death, with a view to overcoming death. Thatâ€™s why people… — Jon Krakauer
One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation. — Elizabeth Gilbert
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
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
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
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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