Waves Quotes
879 quotes by 687 authors
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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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Remember, this thing is small. It's not like the wolfships. It'll ride over the waves, not crash through them. So we're safe as houses." He…
— John Flanagan
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...What is more like love than the ocean? You can play in it, drown in it...it can be clear and bright enough to hurt your…
— Deb Caletti
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Yea, and if some god shall wreck me in the wine-dark deep, even so I will endure… For already have I suffered full much, and…
— Homer
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O grant me a house by the beach of a bay, Where the waves can be surly in winter, and play With the sea-weed in…
— Andrew Lang
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It is moonlight. Alone in the silence I ascend my stairs once more, While waves remote in pale blue starlight Crash on a white sand…
— Conrad Aiken
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Though they live far from the coast, they retain a great fascination and passion for the ocean. The sound of crashing waves, the smell of…
— Christopher Paolini
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I will sleep no more but arise, You oceans that have been calm within me! how I feel you, fathomless, stirring, preparing unprecedented waves and…
— Walt Whitman
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Of four infernal rivers that disgorge/ Into the burning Lake their baleful streams;/Abhorred Styx the flood of deadly hate,/Sad Acheron of sorrow, black and deep;/Cocytus,…
— John Milton
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Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless. Your time…
— Chief Seattle
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Come unto these yellow sands, And then take hands. Curtsied when you have and kissed The wild waves whist, Foot is featly here and there;…
— William Shakespeare
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One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washèd it away: Again I wrote it with a second hand,…
— Edmund Spenser
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In the morning there was a big wind blowing and the waves were running high up on the beach and he was awake a long…
— Ernest Hemingway
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It was a dream, not a nightmare, a beautiful dream I could never imagine in a thousand nods. There was a girl next to me…
— Jim Carroll
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Josh pulls me aside. "Hey, About before, I just... I wanted to say ... well, I think you're pretty special." He says, kind of stumbling…
— Elizabeth Scott
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That narrow stretch of sand knows nothing in the world better than it does the white waves that whip it , caress it , collapse…
— Ahdaf Soueif
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But to Sam the evening deepened to darkness as he stood at the Haven; and as he looked at the grey sea he saw only…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Listening (had there been any one to listen) from the upper rooms of the empty house only gigantic chaos streaked with lightning could have been…
— Virginia Woolf
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And so they parted, she to the east, and he to the west. The test they had agreed upon, however, was utterly unnecessary. They should…
— Haruki Murakami
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Four people wheel out a huge wedding cake from a side room. Most of the guests back up, making way for this rarity, this dazzling…
— Suzanne Collins
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