Wave Quotes - Page 10

• Take no revenge that you have not pondered beneath a starry sky, or on a canyon overlook, or to the lapping of waves and the mewing of a distant gull.

  Robert Breault

  Revenge, Anger, Sky

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• Wave after wave has brought to our shores beautiful and mysterious treasures from unknown worlds: figurines, animals, fetishes, masks, ceremonial or useful objects. They are called Primitive for want of a better name...What could never have been written is there, all the dreams and anguishes of man. The hunger for food and sex and security, the terrors of night and death, the thirst for life and the hope for survival.

  Dominique de Menil

  Beautiful, Dream, Sex

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• My spine healed incorrectly. There were long periods when I'd be perfectly all right, and then there were many other times when I wasn't, when my back would give out and throw me down to the floor amid waves of nauseating pain.

  Dick York

  Pain, Long, Giving

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• Fame, on its best day, is kind of like a friendly wave from a stranger by the side of the road. And when it's not so good, it's like a long walk home, all alone, with nobody in when you get there.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Home, Long Walks, Friendly

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• And from a poise at this station the plane may swoop down, at great disadvantage if close to the back of the wave, at various slopes and directions till it cuts into the air that is being raised by the face of the following wave, which again enables it to resume its velocity.

  Lawrence Hargrave

  Cutting, Air, May

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• I work in waves, because I'm impatient. Because of a certain physicality, of lack of breath from standing. It has to be done and I do take liberties I wouldn't have taken before.

  Cy Twombly

  Taken, Liberty, Done

  "I work in waves". Interview with Nicholas Serota, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2008.

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• The sea calm is the Absolute; the same sea in waves is Divine Mother.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mother, Sea, Calm

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3124, Manonmani Publishers

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• A tough but nervous, tenacious but restless race [the Yankees]; materially ambitious, yet prone to introspection, and subject to waves of religious emotion. . . . A race whose typical member is eternally torn between a passion for righteousness and a desire to get on in the world.

  Samuel Eliot Morison

  Religious, Passion, Yankees

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• Saying Good-bye to the God of Disease (2) Thousands of willow branches in a spring wind. Six hundred million of China, land of the gods, and exemplary like the emperors Shun and Yao. A scarlet rain of peach blossoms turned into waves and emerald mountains into bridges. Summits touch the sky. We dig with silver shovels and iron arms shake the earth and the Three Rivers. God of plagues, where are you going? We burn paper boats and bright candles to light his way to heaven.

  Mao Zedong

  Spring, Rain, Land

  Zedong Mao (2008). “The Poems of Mao Zedong”, p.91, Univ of California Press

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• As far as the radio waves part of the spectrum, we can do these adequately from the ground because the atmosphere is basically transparent to our radio waves.

  Claude Nicollier

  Radio Waves, Atmosphere, Spectrum

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• Every wave of passion restrained is a balance in your favor. It is therefore good policy not to return anger for anger, as with all true morality.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Anger, Passion, Balance

  Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.162, Vivekananda Kendra

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• About every two minutes a new wave of planes would be over. The motors seemed to grind rather than roar, and to have an angry pulsation like a bee buzzing in blind fury.

  Ernie Pyle

  Two, Bees, Would Be

  Ernie Pyle, David Nichols (1987). “Ernie's war: the best of Ernie Pyle's World War II dispatches”, Touchstone

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• Claim the possibility of a miraculous shift toward global transformation, allow the thought to move through you like a wave of energy, then emerge ready for the task of doing your part to make it happen.

  Marianne Williamson

  Moving, Energy, Tasks

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Jan 12, 2013

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• Movement is my medium and my metaphor. I know that if a wave of energy is allowed to complete itself, it yields a whole new wave, and in fact that is all I really know. Riding these waves means joining the cosmic dance that, as Dante says, 'moves the sun and the other stars.'

  Gabrielle Roth

  Stars, Moving, Mean

  Gabrielle Roth (2011). “Maps to Ecstasy: The Healing Power of Movement”, p.207, New World Library

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• Change is like to surfing. You can't just paddle into life, stand still and expect to stay on top of your board. The waves of change will knock you off and drag you under. Some people even think changes are fun! You are where you are because you want to be there. If you want to be somewhere else, you'll need to change.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Fun, Thinking, Somewhere Else

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• Commit whatever grieves thee into the gracious hands of Him who never leaves thee, who heav'n and earth commands. Who points the clouds their courses, Whom winds and waves obey, He will direct thy footsteps and find for thee a way.

  Paul Gerhardt

  Grieving, Clouds, Hands

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• Music is going to break the way because music is in a spiritual thing of its own. It's like the waves of the ocean. You can't just cut out the perfect wave and take it home with you.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Music, Spiritual, Ocean

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• The heat is searing and superb. The paddocks surrounding the town are bleached blond. The distant ring-barked gums, mile after mile, wriggle in the heat-waves, and seem to melt like the bristles of a melting hairbrush. The hills turn powder-blue and gauzy. Mirages resembling pools of mica and shallows of crystal water appear at the far ends of streets and roads. Punctually at eleven every burning morning, the cicadas begin to drill the air, to drill themselves also, ceaselessly and relentlessly, to death in one short day after seven long years underground.

  Hal Porter

  Morning, Nature, Air

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• If you try to grasp Zen in movement, it goes into stillness. If you try to grasp Zen in stillness, it goes into movement. It is like a fish hidden in a spring, drumming up waves and dancing independently.

  Linji Yixuan

  Spring, Dancing, Trying

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• My first idea of movement, of the dance, certainly came from the rhythm of the wave.

  Isadora Duncan

  Ideas, Movement, Firsts

  Isadora Duncan (1972). “My Life”, Liveright Publishing Corporation

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• Pools of sorrow. Waves of joy.

  John Lennon

  Joy, Sorrow, Pool

  "Song: "Across the Universe"". "Let It Be", 1970.

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• There is a scene in the movie where Astrid and Hiccup fly on Toothless's back toward the island of Berk. The animation is intensely real, from the waves on the sea to wisps of wind blowing in the characters' hair. The feeling I get watching that scene is why I fly - just for that feeling.

  Craig Ferguson

  Real, Character, Islands

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• Don't worry about the situation of the world. You must be very happy, very very happy! Only through happiness and waves of bliss you will be able to help your country and the entire world in an automatic manner. You will remain ever invincible when you don't allow anything to obscure
  your happiness.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Country, Worry, World

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• A leader is the wave pushed ahead by the ship.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Leader, Ships

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• Only mediocrities rise to the top in a system that won't tolerate wave making.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Mediocrity, Tolerate

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