Lakes Quotes - Page 4

• The greatest efforts in sports came when the mind is as still as a glass lake.

  Timothy Gallwey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• Who could be so lucky? Who comes to a lake for water and sees the reflection of moon.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Reflection

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• Perfect sincerity and transparency make a great part of beauty, as in dewdrops, lakes, and diamonds.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Perfect, Sincerity, Transparency

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2018, Delphi Classics

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• We have nearly complete misunderstanding between people of different faiths in Lake Wobegon, and that's probably one reason why we get along so very well. It's when you are trying to convince another person to think the same way that you do that there is friction and trouble between people. But when you feel that the other person is dumber than dirt, too dumb for words - why waste your breath - you get along pretty well. There's no bond between people that's quite so strong as when people each feel slightly superior towards the other one.

  Garrison Keillor

  Strong, Thinking, People

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• Drop guilt! - because to be guilty is to live in hell. Not being guilty, you will have the freshness of dewdrops in the early morning sun, you will have the freshness of lotus petals in the lake, you will have the freshness of the stars in the night. Once guilt disappears you will have a totally different kind of life, luminous and radiant. You will have a dance to your feet and your heart will be singing a thousand and one songs.

  Rajneesh

  Song, Morning, Stars

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• I left Montana in Spring of 1866, for Utah, arriving at Salt Lake city during the summer.

  Calamity Jane

  Summer, Spring, Utah

  Calamity Jane (2013). “The Life And Adventures Of Calamity Jane: A Short Memoir”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• The lake at Neverland is right in the very front, and you just want to dive in.

  Rick Dees

  Want, Neverland, Fronts

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• I am personally saddened and stunned by the tragic events that took place in Red Lake.

  Collin Peterson

  Events, Red, Tragic

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• We don't tend to ask where a lake comes from. It lies before us, contained and complete, tantalizing in its depth but not its origin. A river is a different kind of mystery, a mystery of distance and becoming, a mystery of source. Touch its fluent body and you touch far places. You touch a story that must end somewhere but cannot stop telling itself, a story that is always just beginning.

  John Daniel

  Distance, Lying, Rivers

  John Daniel (2009). “The Far Corner: Northwestern Views on Land, Life, and Literature”, p.67, Counterpoint

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• O trees of life, O when are you wintering?We are not unified. We have no instinctslike those of migratory birds. Useless, and late,we force ourselves, suddenly, onto the wind,and fall down to an indifferent lake.We realise flowering and fading together.And somewhere lions still roam. Never knowing,as long as they have their splendour, of any weakness.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Fall, Wind, Knowing

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• Literature is a vast forest and the masterpieces are the lakes, the towering trees or strange trees, the lovely, eloquent flowers, the hidden caves, but a forest is also made up of ordinary trees, patches of grass, puddles, clinging vines, mushrooms, and little wildflowers.

  Roberto Bolano

  Flower, Mushrooms, Tree

  "2666: A Novel". Book by Roberto Bolaño, 2008.

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• Music is an ocean, but the repertory is hardly even a lake; it is a pond.

  Aldous Huxley

  Ocean, Ponds, Music Is

  "TIME" Magazine, December 1957.

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• I recognized everything, the waterfall and the lakes, the trees and paths. But they had forgotten me. That was bitter and I cried a lot. One should never return to sacred places.

  Marianne Fredriksson

  Tree, Sacred, Waterfalls

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• Indeed, if I understand this global-warming business correctly, the danger is that the waters will rise and drown the whole of Massachusetts, New York City, Long Island, the California coast and a few big cities on the Great Lakes - in other words, every Democratic enclave will be wiped out leaving only the solid Republican heartland. Politically speaking, for conservatives there's no downside to global warming.

  Mark Steyn

  New York, Business, California

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• When my wife drives, there's always trouble. The other day she took the car. She came home. She told me, There's water in the carburetor. I asked her, Where's the car? She said, In a lake.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Home, Water, Wife

  Rodney Dangerfield (2009). “It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs”, p.28, Zondervan

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• I like night fishing, even though there is a molecule of terror in it. Maybe it is that tiny bit of terror that I relish, that going mano a mano with another predator in the dark. I know it is not entirely civilized, but there is nothing to compare with the sizzle of fear except, perhaps, the rush of being feared. Either condition confirms you are alive.

  Paul G. Quinnett

  Dark, Night, Sea

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• Although our love is waning, let us stand by the lone border of the lake once more, together in that hour of gentleness. When the poor tired child, passion, falls asleep.

  William Butler Yeats

  Love, Children, Fall

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• In a painting no one complains that the subject is posed, but everybody complains about what looks posed in a photograph. Except, I've found that if I go very close in to the face, then the posed expression no longer exists. The face becomes a landscape of the lakes of the eyes and the hills of the nose and the valley of the cleft of the chin.

  John Loengard

  Eye, Expression, Landscape

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• I know the struggle from the inside out and I would never be so bold as to call myself a writer. I think that is what other people call you. But I consider myself a member of a community in Salt Lake City, in Utah, in the American West, in this country. And writing is what I do. That is the tool out of which I can express my love.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Country, Struggle, Writing

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

  "Atlantic Game Fishing". Book by S. Kip Farrington. Introduction to the book, 1937.

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• One little leak becomes a lake, Says the tiny voice in my earpiece

  Thom Yorke

  Voice, Littles, Tiny

  Song: And It Rained All Night, Album: The Eraser, 2006

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• My best fishing-memory is about some fish that I never caught.

  George Orwell

  Memories, Sea, Fishing

  George Orwell (1969). “Coming Up for Air”, p.93, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The world is not a solid continent of facts sprinkled by a few lakes of uncertainties, but a vast ocean of uncertainties speckled by a few islands of calibrated and stabilized forms

  Bruno Latour

  Ocean, Islands, World

  Bruno Latour (2005). “Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory”, p.245, Oxford University Press

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• When I come to a new city is I combine: I say, well, it's like Barcelona and Edinburgh, though I can't imagine what that would be. But Toronto, the last few times I've been here, what always comes up is Chicago and West Berlin. It's a big, sprawling city beside a lake, of a certain age and a certain architectural complexity. But the high-end retail core looks more like West Germany than the Magnificent Mile. Yonge Street is like K-Damm. There's an excess of surface marble and bronze: it's Germanic and as pretentious as pretentious can be.

  William Gibson

  West Germany, Cities, Age

  Source: craphound.com

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• We are America's Great Lakes people, her freshwater people, not an oceanic but a continental people. Whenever I swim in an ocean, I feel as though I am swimming in chicken soup.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Ocean, Swimming, America

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “A Man Without a Country”, p.12, A&C Black

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