Wave Quotes - Page 7

• The unstable estimates of men crowd to him whose mind is filled with a truth, as the heaped waves of the Atlantic follow the moon.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Moon, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.103, Harvard University Press

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• What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity.

  George Eliot

  Time, Opportunity, Men

  George Eliot (1860). “Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.45

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• A mother's love is like a fortress, And we seek protection there, When the waves of tribulation, Seem to drown us in despair.

  Helen Steiner Rice

  Family, Mother, Love Is

  Helen Steiner Rice, Virginia J. Ruehlmann (1999). “Gifts of Love”, Fleming H Revell Company

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• Consider the ebb and flow of the tide. When waves come to strike the shore, they crest and fall, creating a sound. Your breath should follow the same pattern, absorbing the entire universe in your belly with each inhalation. Know that we all have access to four treasures: the energy of the sun and moon, the breath of heaven, the breath of earth, and the ebb and flow of the tide.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Fall, Moon, Ebb And Flow

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.29, Shambhala Publications

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• To know the mechanics of the wave, is to know the entire secret of Nature.

  Walter Russell

  Secret, Mechanic, Knows

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• In the wave lies the secret of creation.

  Walter Russell

  Lying, Secret, Creation

  Walter Russell (1947). “The Secret of Light”, p.8, Рипол Классик

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• A fiery soul, which working out its way,
  Fretted the pygmy-body to decay:
  And o'er-informed the tenement of clay.
  A daring pilot in extremity;
  Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high
  He sought the storms...

  John Dryden

  Work Out, Soul, Storm

  John Dryden, “Absalom And Achitophel”

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• As evening approached, I came down from the heights of the island, and I liked then to go and sit on the shingle in some secluded spot by the lake; there the noise of the waves and the movement of the water, taking hold of my senses and driving all other agitation from my soul, would plunge me into delicious reverie in which night often stole upon me unawares.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Night, Lakes, Islands

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• Within a bony labrinthean cave, Reached by the pulse of the aerial wave, This sibyl, sweet, and Mystic Sense is found, Muse, that presides o'er all the Powers of Sound.

  Abraham Coles

  Sweet, Loss, Pulse

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• The longest wave is quickly lost in the sea.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sea, Losing, Lost

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Plato, or the philosopher”, p.21, Editora Dracaena

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• The Long March The Red Army is not afraid of hardship on the march, the long march. Ten thousand waters and a thousand mountains are nothing. The Five Sierras meander like small waves, the summits of Wumeng pour on the plain like balls of clay. Cliffs under clouds are warm and washed below by the River Gold Sand. Iron chains are cold, reaching over the Tatu River. The far snows of Minshan only make us happy and when the army pushes through, we all laugh. October 1935

  Mao Zedong

  Happiness, Laughter, Army

  Zedong Mao (2008). “The Poems of Mao Zedong”, p.63, Univ of California Press

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• Myriad laughter of the ocean waves.

  Aeschylus

  Laughter, Ocean, Ocean Wave

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• Initially, the horrific images of September 11th triggered an enormous wave of solidarity.

  Ulrich Beck

  September 11, Enormous, Solidarity

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• The moon upon the ocean
  is swept around in motion
  but without ever knowing
  the reason for its flowing
  in motion on the ocean
  the moon still keeps on moving
  the waves still keep on waving
  and I still keep on going

  Enya

  Song, Moving, Ocean

  Song: Anywhere Is

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• O' beautiful for spacious skies
  But now those skies are threatening
  They're beating plowshares into swords
  For this tired old man that we elected king
  Armchair warriors often fail
  And we've been poisoned by these fairy tales
  The lawyers clean up all details
  Since daddy had to lie
  But I know a place where we can go
  And wash away this sin
  We'll sit and watch the clouds roll by
  And the tall grass wave in the wind
  Just lay your head back on the ground
  And let your hair spill all around me
  Offer up your best defence
  But this is the end
  This is the end of the innocence

  Don Henley

  Beautiful, Song, Kings

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• Well you wave your hand and they scatter like crows
  They have nothing that will ever capture your heart
  They're just thorns without the rose
  Be careful of them in the dark
  Oh, if I was the one you chose to be your only one
  Oh baby can't you hear me now, can't you hear me now
  Will I see you tonight on a downtown train
  Every night it's just the same, you leave me lonely now

  Tom Waits

  Song, Baby, Lonely

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• Beloved, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there; From joy the holy branches start, And all the trembling flowers they bear. The changing colours of its fruit Have dowered the stars with metry light; The surety of its hidden root Has planted quiet in the night; The shaking of its leafy head Has given the waves their melody, And made my lips and music wed, Murmuring a wizard song for thee.

  William Butler Yeats

  Song, Stars, Flower

  William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.431, Hayes Barton Press

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• As the days go on toward July, the earth becomes dry and all the flowers begin to thirst for moisture. Then from the hillside, some warm, still evening, the sweet rain-song of the robin echoes clear, and next day we wake up to a dim morning; soft flecks of cloud bar the sun's way, fleecy vapors steal across the sky, the southwest wind blows lightly, rippling the water into little waves that murmur melodiously as they kiss the shore.

  Celia Thaxter

  Summer, Sweet, Song

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• The rocks are where they are- and this is their will. The rivers flow- and this is their will. The birds fly- this is their will. Human beings talk- this is their will. The seasons change, heaven sends down rain or snow, the earth occasionally shakes, the waves roll, the stars shine- each of them follows its own will. To be is to will and so is to become.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Stars, Rain, Rocks

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• Days, when the ball of our vision
  Had eagles that flew unabashed to sun;
  When the graps on the bow was decision,
  And arrow and hand and eye were one;
  When the Pleasures, like waves to a swimmer,
  Came heaving for rapture ahead! -
  Invoke them, they dwindle, they glimmer
  As lights over mounds of the dead.

  George Meredith

  Eye, Light, Eagles

  George Meredith (1910). “The Works of George Meredith”

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• The calm man is not the man who is dull. You must not mistake Sattva for dullness or laziness. The calm man is the one who has control over the mind waves. Activity is the manifestation of inferior strength, calmness, of the superior.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mistake, Men, Mind

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature”, p.68, Advaita Ashrama

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• A wave in the ocean is a wave, only in so far as it is bound by name and form.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Ocean, Names, Form

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3732, Manonmani Publishers

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• The wave is the same thing as the water, the effect is the cause in another form

  Swami Vivekananda

  Water, Causes, Form

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Jnana Yoga (Part II): The Yoga of Knowledge (Art of Living)”, p.45, editionNEXT.com

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• Love is bigger than any tidal wave or fear.

  Bethany Hamilton

  Love Is, Surfer, Bigger

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• Do not wave stick when trying to catch dog.

  Earl Derr Biggers

  Dog, Trying, Sticks

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