Waves Quotes
879 quotes by 671 authors
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The smell of the sea swept over the wall and in through the empty window-hole, wide and wild with a million intoxicating secrets. I don't…
— Tana French
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We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Not merely hope, but any burdensome yearning: ambition, hatred, love (especially love) - how rarely do our emotions meet the object they seem to deserve?…
— Julian Barnes
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There was Layla in the fullness of her lips, Lulu in the thick waves of her hair, Lu Xin in the intensity of her hazel…
— Lauren Kate
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You'll never be just anything. A tsunami can never be just a wave (...) Waves are banal. Tsunamis reshape the Earth
— Karen Marie Moning
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She threw back her head with a laugh that made her chins ripple like little waves.
— Edith Wharton
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My duchess,†James stated, his eyes sweeping the crowd with the air of a man who has ruled the waves. “She is not a swan,…
— Eloisa James
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I GO DOWN TO THE SHORE I go down to the shore in the morning and depending on the hour the waves are rolling in…
— Mary Oliver
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There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the cliffs, where love was more…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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He was soon borne away by the waves and lost in darkness and distance.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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He sits next to me, careful to avoid my hair that's splayed out around my head like blood. A bullet to the forehead, boom, blond…
— Lauren DeStefano
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I think you're the sort of person who finds money on the ground and waves it in the air and asks if anyone has lost…
— Gayle Forman
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Life cannot be cut off quickly. One cannot be dead until the things he changed are dead. His effect is the only evidence of his…
— John Steinbeck
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He is spent. His mind is mercury again, its brief surge of humanity melting into an oily residue on its surface, and he no longer…
— Isaac Marion
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A wave is never found alone, but is mingled with the other waves.
— Leonardo da Vinci
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She felt so old, so worn out, so far away from the best moments of her life that she even yearned for those that she…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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If so, then it was also here where I came to know I can survive what hurts. I believed in my capacity to stand back…
— Terry Tempest Williams
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so that the monotonous fall of the waves on the beach, which for the most part beat a measured and soothing tattoo to her thoughts…
— Virginia Woolf
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I stalk certain words... I catch them in mid-flight, as they buzz past, I trap them, clean them, peel them, I set myself in front…
— Pablo Neruda
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I'm moving and not moving at all. I'm like the moon underneath the waves that ever go on rolling and rocking. It is not, "I…
— Bruce Lee
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