Ponds Quotes - Page 7

• When the mind is turbulent, uncontrolled and restless, it is like a pond of water that is filled with mud. Therefore when we look within ourselves, all we perceive is the mud of our material conceptions of life. But when the mind is still through discipline, and through yoga, it is like a pond that has no waves and no turbulence. Then we can perceive through that crystal clear water the eternal nature of our soul.

  Radhanath Swami

  Yoga, Discipline, Water

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• It is not wise for a man who can get seasick in a rowboat on a mill-pond to attack a Japanese dinner just after a seventeen days voyage across the Pacific.

  John Fox, Jr.

  Wise, Men, Dinner

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• I have raised beds, perennial beds, cut flower beds. I have an island on a pond that's just covered in peonies. I have an herb garden, tons of vegetables, raspberries. I have everything. I'm a green guy.

  Steve Zahn

  Flower, Cutting, Garden

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• Empty the pond to get the fish.

  Robert Bresson

  Empty, Fishes

  Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.44, New York Review of Books

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• The surface of the pond was green with fallen leaves. "How could you have been happy there? I know what you thought, but Valentine was a terrible father. He killed your pets, lied to you, and I know he hit you- don't even try to pretend he didn't." A flicker of a smile ghosted across Jace's face. "Only on alternate Thursdays.

  Cassandra Clare

  Father, Valentine, Pet

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.457, Simon and Schuster

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• Izzy," said Jace, as they neared the pond, and she jumped up and spun around. Her smile was dazzling. "Jace!" She flew at him and hugged him. Now that was the way sisters were supposed to act, Clary thought. Not all stiff and weird and peculiar, but happy and loving. Watching Jace hug Isabelle, she tried to school her features into a happy and loving expression. "Are you all right?" Simon asked, with some concern. "Your eyes are crossing." "I'm fine." Clary abandoned the attempt. "Are you sure? You looked sort of… contorted.

  Cassandra Clare

  School, Eye, Expression

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.547, Simon and Schuster

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• And it is clear to Evan, now: the difference between what is and what has been done; the present and the past. He sees that what he does and who he is isn't based on the past unless he wants it to be... No. That is the past, which has been seen differently through many different eyes and has become hazy and unclear, like a pond when stirred with a stick. Only the present moment is clear and free from prejudice.

  Garth Stein

  Eye, Past, Differences

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• Interesting thing, these fellows never seem to get the idea of perspective-' The Bursar thought, or received the thought: that's because perspective is a lie. If I know a pond is round then why should I draw it oval? I will draw it round because round is true. Why should my brush lie to you just because my eye lies to me?

  Terry Pratchett

  Lying, Eye, Ideas

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• I am no more lonely than the loon in the pond that laughs so loud, or than Walden Pond itself. What company has that lonely lake,I pray?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Lonely, Lakes, Laughing

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.89, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I have tried being surreal, but my frogs hop right back into their realistic ponds.

  Mason Cooley

  Frogs, Realistic, Hops

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• One may decide that the nipple most nearly resembles a newly ripened raspberry (never, be it noted, the plonk of water on a pond at the commencement of a drizzle, a simple bladder nozzle built on the suction principal gum bubble, mole, or birth ward, bumpy metal button, or the painful red eruption of a swelling), but does one care to see his breakfast fruit as a sweetened milky bowl of snipped nips? no.

  William H. Gass

  Simple, Water, Eruption

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• But once you throw a stone, there are ripples in the pond, even if you remove the rock.

  Jodi Picoult

  Rocks, Stones, Ripple

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.425, Simon and Schuster

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• I had become so quiet and so small in the grass by the pond that I was barely noticeable, hardly there... I sat there watching their living room shining out of the dark beside the pond. It looked like a fairy tale functioning happily in the post-World War II gothic of America before television crippled the imagination of America and turned people indoors and away from living out their own fantasies with dignity... Anyway, I just kept getting smaller and smaller beside the pond, more and more unnoticed in the darkening summer grass until I disappeared into the 32 years that have passed since then.

  Richard Brautigan

  Summer, War, Dark

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• Every morning I walk like this around the pond, thinking: if the doors of my heart ever close, I am as good as dead.

  Mary Oliver

  Morning, Heart, Thinking

  Mary Oliver (1986). “Dream Work”, p.68, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• River Song? Amy Pond? Hardly weak women. It's the exact opposite. You could accuse me of having a fetish for powerful, sexy women who like cheating people. That would be fair.

  Steven Moffat

  Sexy, Cheating, Song

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• Their oldest child, James, had spoken laughingly about Will's unrelenting fear of ducks and his continual battle to keep them out of the pond at the family home in Yorkshire.

  Cassandra Clare

  Children, Home, Ducks

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.1432, Simon and Schuster

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• A thousand people drowned in floods in China are news: a solitary child drowned in a pond is tragedy.

  Josephine Tey

  Children, People, Tragedy

  Josephine Tey (2013). “The Daughter of Time”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• In Switzerland, on a high mountain, not far from Lucerne, there is a lake they call Pilate's Pond, which the Devil has fixed upon as one of the chief residences of his evil spirits.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Humor, Lakes

  Martin Luther (1862). “The Life of Luther Written by Himself”, p.321

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• God was something I did not understand the way kids who went to church did. They said God was a man in the sky with white hair and a beard like Santa. This seemed strange to me. When I thought of God, I imagined only mist over the pond, a sliver of moon in a dark sky, scatterings of stars, birdsong.

  Melissa Coleman

  Stars, Kids, Dark

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• Every sentence he manages to utter scatters its component parts like pond water from a verb chasing its own tail.

  Clive James

  Water, Verbs, Tails

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• In order to create, we draw from our inner well. This inner well, an artistic reservoir, is ideally like a well stocked fish pond... If we don't give some attention to upkeep, our well is apt to become depleted, stagnant, or blocked... As artists, we must learn to be self nourishing. We must become alert enough to consciously replenish our creative resources as we draw on them - to re-stock the trout pond, so to speak.

  Julia Cameron

  Creativity, Artist, Self

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• To a frog that's never left his pond, the ocean seems like a gamble. Look what he's giving up: security, mastery of his world, recognition! The ocean frog just shakes his head. "I can't explain where I live, but someday I'll take you there."

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Giving Up, Ocean

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.245, Penguin UK

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• With watercolour, you can pick up the atmosphere, the temperature, the sound of snow shifting through the trees or over the ice of a small pond or against a windowpane. Watercolour perfectly expresses the free side of my nature.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Ice, Snow, Tree

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• I wonder
  if there are any catfish
  in this pond? It seems like
  a perfect place for them.

  Richard Brautigan

  Perfect, Wonder, Catfish

  Richard Brautigan (1989). “Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar”, p.239, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I like being a big fish in a small pond. I'm not interested in a huge audience because it brings headaches.

  Nick Lowe

  Big Fish, Headache, Bigs

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