Wave Quotes - Page 6

• Darkness comes in waves...tell me, why invite it to stay?

  Eddie Vedder

  Darkness, Invites

  FaceBook post by Eddie Vedder from Jan 07, 2015

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• It is easy to look at these waves, accomplishing so little and to think that no matter what efforts we put forth in our lives, all we're really doing is rearranging the sand grains in a beach that in essence never changes.

  Neal Stephenson

  Beach, Thinking, Essence

  "Quicksilver". Book by Neal Stephenson, 2003.

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• Quality tends to fan out like waves.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Quality, Fans, Zen Motorcycle Maintenance

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

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• Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Moving, Water, Self Reliance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.175, Harvard University Press

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• Beauty is momentary in the mind -- The fitful tracing of a portal; But in the flesh it is immortal. The body dies; the body's beauty lives. So evenings die, in their green going, A wave, interminably flowing.

  Wallace Stevens

  Life, Beauty, Mind

  Harmonium (1923) "Peter Quince at the Clavier" pt. 4

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• I pray for my nation, South Africa. As Jesus stood in the boat and commanded the storms to be calm, I stand in the midst of the storm in my nation, South Africa and I command the storm, wind and waves to be calm, in the name of Jesus! I speak calmness to my nation, South Africa, in the name of Jesus!

  T. B. Joshua

  Jesus, Wind, Names

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• Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom. If everybody else is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going in exactly the opposite direction. But be prepared for a lot of folks to wave you down and tell you you're headed the wrong way. I guess in all my years, what I heard more often than anything was: a town of less than 50,000 population cannot support a discount store for very long.

  Sam Walton

  Years, Opposites, Long

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• The body of poetry is nothing but energy, waves, rhythm.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Energy, Body, Rhythm

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• For still the new transcends the old In signs and tokens manifold; Slaves rise up men; the olive waves, With roots deep set in battle graves!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Men, Roots, Battle

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.153

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• Expect neither reward nor beatitude. Return noble waves for ignoble.

  Jean Cocteau

  Noble, Rewards, Return

  "Diary of an Unknown". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1988.

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• Once I learned to swim, I learned that there were waves.

  Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz

  Swim

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• I'm probably never happier than when I'm by myself in the water. What I've worked and sacrificed for is not to be on stage playing music but to surf in some secluded place. It's a grounding element. Waves don't care who you are.

  Eddie Vedder

  Water, Playing Music, Elements

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• The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Moving, Water

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• Music is the vapor of art. It is to poetry what reverie is to thought, what fluid is to solid, what the ocean of clouds is to the ocean of waves.

  Victor Hugo

  Music, Art, Ocean

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• Like waves, our feelings may continue by repeating themselves, by intermittent rushes; but no emotion any more than a wave can long retain its own individual form.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Long, Feelings, May

  Henry Ward Beecher (1897). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”

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• A mighty wind of resolution sets in strong upon him and freshens the whole atmosphere of his soul, sweeping down before it the light flakes of difficulty, till they vanish like snow upon the sea. He is imprisoned no more in a small compartment of time, but belongs to an eternity which is now and here. The isolation of his separate spirit passes away; and with the countless multitude of souls akin to God, he is but a wave of his unbounded deep. He is at one with Heaven, and hath found the secret place of the Almighty.

  James Martineau

  Strong, Light, Secret Places

  James Martineau (1843). “Endeavours After the Christian Life: Discourses”, p.260

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• All the world over it is true that a double-minded man is unstable in all his ways, like a wave on the streamlet, tossed hither and thither with every eddy of its tide. A determinate purpose in life and a steady adhesion to it through all disadvantages, are indispensable conditions of success.

  William Morley Punshon

  Men, Double Minded, Tides

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• Unless you call attention to your presence who will know you're there? Even a country has to weave and wave a flag as proof of its existence.

  Rod McKuen

  Country, Attention, Flags

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• The sand swallows burst out of their scupper holes in the bluffs and out over the transparent drown of the water, back again to the white, to the brown, to the black, from moving to stock-still sand waves and water-worked woods and roots that hugged and twisted in the sun.

  Saul Bellow

  Moving, Roots, White

  Saul Bellow (1984). “The Adventures of Augie March”

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• Kino heard the little splash of morning waves on the beach. It was very good -- Kino closed his eyes again to listen to his music.

  John Steinbeck

  Beach, Morning, Eye

  John Steinbeck (2009). “The Short Novels of John Steinbeck: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.465, Penguin

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• Whales in mid-ocean, suspended in the waves of the sea great heaven of whales in the waters, old hierarchies. And enormous mother whales lie dreaming suckling their whale-tender young and dreaming with strange whale eyes wide open in the waters of the beginning and the end.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Mother, Dream, Lying

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6844, Delphi Classics

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• My half-baked reading of history is that we continue to go through these waves of entrepreneurial explosion followed by merger mania and consolidation. Out of that come big sluggish companies that eventually collapse under the weight of what they've created, and are killed off by the next wave of entrepreneurs.

  Tom Peters

  Business, Reading, Entrepreneur

  "The Peters Principles: An Interview with Tom Peters". Interview with Virginia Postrel, reason.com. October 1997.

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