Wave Quotes - Page 37

• A great wave of humiliation and shame swept over me. Shame that I belonged to a race that could be so dealt with; and shame for my country, that it, the great example of democracy to the world, should be the only civilized, if not the only state on earth, where a human being would be burned alive.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Country, Race, Lynching

  James Weldon Johnson, Sondra K. Wilson (1995). “The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson: Social, political, and literary essays”, p.352, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• A surfer is poised on a wave on his board, cutting quickly to the left. He'll always be there, in that moment. He's never left it. He had no birth, he didn't go to school, he didn't purchase the board; none of those things ever were.

  Frederick Lenz

  School, Buddhism, Cutting

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• I just love being on the ocean and being creative on the waves and the feeling you get when you're surfing. All around it's beautiful and fun.

  Bethany Hamilton

  Beautiful, Fun, Ocean

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I've never stopped loving the game since day one. If it were a job to me it would be very hard for me to get up in the morning. And why leave something that you can never come back to? Realistically, whether you accept it or not, you only get one wave in this journey. Run at it as hard as you can.

  Ray Lewis

  Running, Morning, Jobs

  Interview with Dean Stattmann, deanstattmann.wordpress.com. June 12, 2011.

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• My favorite thing [about surfing] is being creative on waves; it's like an art form. You can do whatever you want on that wave if you work hard at it and just have fun out there.

  Bethany Hamilton

  Art, Fun, Hard Work

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• Surfing is very special and unique. It's really hard to explain unless you've tried it. It's being out in the ocean in the sun, the water on your skin, and the adrenalin rush when you catch a wave. You have to be creative so it's like an art form in a way.

  Bethany Hamilton

  Art, Ocean, Unique

  Source: www.lasplash.com

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• We are the bird's eggs. Bird's eggs, flowers, butterflies, rabbits, cows, sheep, we are caterpillars; we are leaves of ivy and springs of wildflower. We are women. We rise from the wave. We are gazelle and doe, elephant and whale, lilies and roses and peach, we are air, we are flame, we are oyster and pearl, we are girls. We are woman and nature. And he says he cannot hear us speak. But we hear.

  Susan Griffin

  Girl, Spring, Flower

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• Misha's importance and distinctiveness are beginning to be noticed, there's beginning to be some kind of rip-tide here that will soon become a wave of recognition for a book that the world is beginning to catch up to... We weren't ready before. We'd better be ready now. Because it's the 21st century, any minute now, and that means that Misha's time has come. In more ways than one.

  John Shirley

  Rip, Book, Mean

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• From wearable sensors to video game treatments, everyone seems to be looking to technology as the next wave of innovation for mental health care.

  Thomas R. Insel

  Technology, Games, Innovation

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• There's a whole journalistic-industrial complex dedicated to keeping newsprint, TV screens and radio waves clean of destabilizing scoops damaging to corporations or the state.

  Alexander Cockburn

  Radio Waves, Corporations, Tvs

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• Malibu: With sounds of waves crashing, and the ocean at the doorstep, you feel like you are hours away from civilization. And with L.A. traffic, YOU ARE.

  Jennifer Harrison

  Ocean, Civilization, Sound

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• Don't let us rejoice in punishment, even when the hand of God alone inflicts it. The best of us are but poor wretches, just saved from shipwreck. Can we feel anything but awe and pity when we see a fellow-passenger swallowed by the waves?

  George Eliot

  Punishment, Hands, Pity

  George Eliot (1869). “Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.311

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• Ecstasy, I think, is a soul's response to the waves holiness makes as it nears.

  Annie Dillard

  Thinking, Soul, Holiness

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• There's no way to move without making waves.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Moving, Way

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• A life without an objective is much like a ship at sea with no port in mind. It drifts with the waves or storms, or with the whim of the captain. They are tempted to ask, amidst the battles of life, "Is the struggle worth-while?" That attitude lessens the joy of living. They who say that there is no purpose in life are not unhappy, but become dangerous to themselves and others, for they have no safe guide for their actions. Indeed, life has not objective save physical satisfactions, it is empty and valueless.

  John Andreas Widtsoe

  Attitude, Struggle, Sea

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• Music waves eternal wands,--
  Enchantress of the souls of mortals!

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Music, Soul, Enchantress

  Edmund Clarence Stedman (1869). “The Blameless Prince: And Other Poems”, p.122

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• Hope is a delusion; no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow.

  Victor Hugo

  Hands, Honor, Shadow

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• remember to recognize the small successes that you will have. Don't let the brightness of that big goal blind you to what happens on the way toward the goal. Meet one wave at a time and enjoy what progress you make. I want you please not to be taken up in the undertow of pessimism.

  Lucille Ball

  Success, Taken, Goal

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• What is harder than stone?
  What more soft than water?
  Nevertheless hard though the rock be, it is hollowed by the wave.

  Ovid

  Rocks, Water, Stones

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• And one cold starry night / Whatever your belief / The phoenix will take flight / Over the seas of grief / To sing her thrilling song / To stars and waves and sky / For neither old nor young / The phoenix does not die.

  May Sarton

  Song, Stars, Grief

  "The Phoenix Again" l. 17 (1988)

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• Sixty years of Western nations excusing and accommodating the lack of freedom in the Middle East did nothing to make us safe because in the long run stability cannot be purchased at the expense of liberty. ... The global wave of democracy has barely reached the Arab states. For too long, many people in that region have been victims and subjects. They deserve to be active citizens.

  George W. Bush

  Running, Years, Democracies Have

  National Endowment for Democracy Address on the Middle East, delivered 6 November 2003, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Washington, D.C.

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• The wretch that fears to drown, will break through flames;
  Or, in his dread of flames, will plunge in waves.
  When eagles are in view, the screaming doves
  Will cower beneath the feet of man for safety.

  Colley Cibber

  Fear, Men, Feet

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• A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Sea, Shapes, Form

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas Allsop (1836). “Letters, conversations, and recollections of S. T. Coleridge: in two volumes”, p.127

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• In a troubled state we must do as in foul weather upon a river, not think to cut directly through, for the boat may be filled with water; but rise and fall as the waves do, and give way as much as we conveniently can.

  John Selden

  Fall, Cutting, Thinking

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• Love is bigger than any tidal wave or fear.

  Bethany Hamilton

  Love Is, Surfer, Bigger

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