Lakes Quotes - Page 39

• In Lake Placid we have Bible studies and it's awesome to be able to share your struggles as an athlete and as a Christian with others Christian athletes. That's one of the coolest things about sports ministry. We can share these common experiences with other Christians. Having Lolo as a teammate, for example, has been great.

  Elana Meyers

  Sports, Christian, Struggle

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I seem to be inside a kind of artificial environment. Almost like a... a simulacrum of Reiden Lake.

  Christa Faust

  Kind, Environment, Simulacrum

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• Methinks some creeds in vestries and churches do forget the hunter wrapped in furs by the Great Slave Lake, and that the Esquimauxsledges are drawn by dogs, and in the twilight of the northern night the hunter does not give over to follow the seal and walrus on the ice. They are of sick and diseased imaginations who would toll the world's knell so soon. Cannot these sedentary sects do better than prepare the shrouds and write the epitaphs of those other busy living men? The practical faith of all men belies the preacher's consolation.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dog, Twilight, Writing

  Henry David Thoreau (1906). “The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: Journal, ed. by B. Torrey, 1837-1846, 1850-Nov. 3, 1861”

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• If I have all the tears that are shed on Broadway by guys in love, I will have enough salt water to start an opposition ocean to the Atlantic and Pacific, with enough left over to run the Great Salt Lake out of business. But I wish to say I never shed any of these tears personally, because I am never in love, and furthermore, barring a bad break, I never expect to be in love, for the way I look at it love is strictly the old phedinkus, and I tell the little guy as much.

  Damon Runyon

  Running, Ocean, Love Is

  Damon Runyon (2008). “Guys and Dolls and Other Writings”, p.216, Penguin

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• Most mystics do not want to read religious wisdom; they want to be it. A postcard of a beautiful lake is not a beautiful lake, and Sufis may be defined as those who dance in the lake.

  Huston Smith

  Beautiful, Religious, May

  Huston Smith, Jeffery Paine (2012). “The Huston Smith Reader”, p.93, Univ of California Press

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• Sometimes you must leave everything and refresh yourself in the silence of a misty lake! Every such refreshment will give you an opportunity to make a long jump on the way to your target!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Opportunity, Long, Giving

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• Stupid speaks loudly; he makes noise like pigs! Wise man speaks calmly; he makes sound like quiet lakes!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Wise, Stupid, Men

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• The beauty of a house by the lake side in the middle of wilderness can best be appreciated not by those who permanently live in the house but by the travellers passing by!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Passing By, House, Sides

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• Those waters which leave the main stream either cannot reach the sea and disappear in inland or find a better place, a beautiful lake.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Beautiful, Sea, Water

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• Wise man is a lake full with fishes; clever man is a fisherman who often visits this lake!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Wise, Clever, Men

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• Your culture is your limit; if you can't go beyond it, you will remain as a frog of your little lake!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Culture, Littles, Frogs

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• I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself. If you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul. .I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, . and still stand at the edge of the lake and shout . . . "Yes." .I want to know if you can get up . weary and bruised to the bone and do what needs to be done. .I want to know what sustains you . when all else falls away.

  Oriah Dreamer

  Betrayal, Fall, Soul

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• It was useless to try to corner a man who told stories. It was like trying to drink all the water in a lake to get at a bright pebble on the bottom of it.

  Frederick Schiller Faust

  Men, Water, Trying

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• The mind is like a lake lashed into waves. Make the water of the lake clear and calm.

  Swami Prabhavananda

  Water, Mind, Calm

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• I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

  John Donne

  Death, Exercise, Swimming

  John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne: Sermons. Letters. Poems”, p.321

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• I have sat by night beside a cold lake And touched things smoother than moonlight on still water, But the moon on this cloud sea is not human, And here is no shore, no intimacy, Only the start of space, the road to suns.

  F. R. Scott

  Moon, Night, Clouds

  1945 'Trans Canada'.

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• My birthplace was California, but I couldn't forget Armenia, so what is one's country? Is it land of the earth, in a specific place? Rivers there? Lakes? The sky there? The way the moon comes up there? And the sun? Is one's country the trees, the vineyards, the grass, the birds, the rocks, the hills and summer and winter? Is it the animal rhythm of the living there? The huts and houses, the streets of cities, the tables and chairs, and the drinking of tea and talking? Is it the peach ripening in summer heat on the bough? Is it the dead in the earth there?

  William Saroyan

  Summer, Country, Drinking

  "Antranik and the Spirit of Armenia" by William Saroyan, 1936.

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• I wonder how, among the Fremont, mothers and daughters shared their world. Did they walk side by side along the lake edge? What stories did they tell while weaving strips of bulrush into baskets? How did daughters bury their mothers and exercise their grief? What were the secret rituals of women? I feel certain they must have been tied to birds.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Daughter, Mother, Grief

  Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place”, p.184, Vintage

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• You cannot dance an arabesque in 'Swan Lake' and 'Nutcracker' the same way.

  Natalia Makarova

  Swans, Nutcrackers, Way

  "Natalia Makarova, Kennedy Center honoree". Interview with Allan Ulrich, www.sfgate.com. December 5, 2012.

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• If there are greater activities in Vesuvius or Pelee, then the southern coast of California and the areas between Salt Lake and the southern portions of Nevada, we may expect, within the three months following same, inundation by the earthquakes. But these are to be more in the Southern than the Northern Hemisphere.

  Edgar Cayce

  Earthquakes, California, Southern

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• I guess I remembered clearest of all the early mornings, when the lake was cool and motionless, remembered how the bedroom smelled of the lumber it was made of and of the wet woods whose scent entered through the screen.

  E. B. White

  Morning, Scent, Woods

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• It was the silent time before dawn, along the shores of what had been one of the most beautiful lakes in southern Africa.

  James A. Michener

  Beautiful, Southern, Dawn

  James A. Michener (2014). “The Covenant: A Novel”, p.27, Dial Press

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• The crumbling castle, looming among the mists, exhaled the season, and every cold stone breathed it out. The tortured trees by the dark lake burned and dripped, their leaves snatched by the wind were whirled in wild circles through the towers. The clouds mouldered as they lay coiled, or shifted themselves uneasily upon the stone skyfield, sending up wreathes that drifted through the turrets and swarmed up hidden walls.

  Mervyn Peake

  Wall, Dark, Clouds

  Mervyn Peake (2007). “Titus Groan”, p.161, The Overlook Press

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• I should never make anything of a fisherman. I had not got sufficient imagination

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Rivers, Sea, Fishing

  Jerome K. Jerome (2014). “Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.293, Diderot Publishing

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• There's a double beauty whenever a swan
  Swims on a lake with her double thereon.

  Thomas Hood

  Swans, Swim, Swan Lake

  Thomas Hood (1861). “Poems ... Thirteenth edition”, p.159

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