Floats Quotes - Page 16

• The rose petal floats on water. The kingfisher flashes above the pond. Life and beauty swirl in the midst of death.

  Robert Jordan

  Water, Rose, Ponds

  Robert Jordan (2016). “The Wheel of Time: Books 1–4”, p.419, Macmillan

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• I see nothing. We may sink and settle on the waves. The sea will drum in my ears. The white petals will be darkened with sea water. They will float for a moment and then sink. Rolling over the waves will shoulder me under. Everything falls in a tremendous shower, dissolving me.

  Virginia Woolf

  Fall, Sea, White

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.152, Virginia Woolf

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• And yet ... But what if ... I want to do something impossible. Something astounding and unheard of. I want to scrub the moss off the Space Shuttle and fly Julie to the moon and colonise it, or float a capsized cruise ship to some distant island where no one will protest us, or just harness the magic that brings me into the brains of the Living and use it to bring Julie into mine, because it's warm in here, it's quiet and lovely, and in here we aren't an absurd juxtaposition, we are perfect.

  Isaac Marion

  Moon, Islands, Space

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• The night is full of stories. They float up like miasmas, as though the dead leave their dreams in the earth where you bury them, only to have them rise to meet you in sleep. Mostly the scenes are familiar, but sometimes everything is strange, the people unknown.

  Tim Winton

  Dream, Art, Sleep

  Tim Winton (2011). “In the Winter Dark”, p.73, Pan Macmillan

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• If he thinks he floats off the floor, and if I simultaneously think I see him do it, then the thing happens.

  George Orwell

  Thinking, Happens, Ifs

  George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.210, Arcturus Publishing

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• Bold prayers honor God, and God honors bold prayers. God isn't offended by your biggest dreams or boldest prayers-he is offended by Anything Less. If your prayers aren't impossible to You, they are insulting to God- why? Because they don't require divine intervention. But ask God to part the Red Sea or make the sun stand still or float an iron axhead and God is moved to Omnipotent action

  Mark Batterson

  Dream, Prayer, Sea

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• A woman, even a married woman, cannot float without proper escort. It is simply not done.

  Gail Carriger

  Done, Married, Married Women

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• I may be smelly and I may be old, Rough in my pebbles, reedy in my pools, But where my fish float by I bless their swimming, And I like the people to bathe in me especially women.

  Stevie Smith

  Swimming, People, Fish Tanks

  Stevie Smith (2015). “Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith”, p.311, Faber & Faber

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• This is a book about Heaven. I know it now. It floats among us like a cloud and is the realest thing we know and the least to be captured, the least to be possessed by anybody for himself. It is like a grain of mustard seed, which you cannot see among the crumbs of earth where it lies. It is like the reflection of the trees on the water.

  Wendell Berry

  Lying, Book, Reflection

  Wendell Berry (2000). “Jayber Crow: A Novel”, Counterpoint LLC

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• man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer

  Otto von Bismarck

  Men, Events, Currents

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• It's funny how when you're little, you miss all the little lies. They float right past you, but you don't wonder about them much. For a long time, you think this is just something adults still do after being kids - pretend.

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Lying, Believe, Kids

  "Misty".

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• the power of philosophy floats through my head.. light like a feather, heavy as lead.

  Bob Marley

  Philosophy, Light, Rasta

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• I cried a river of tears but he was too heavy to float on them. So I dragged him with me these years across an ocean.

  August Wilson

  Ocean, Years, Rivers

  August Wilson (1997). “Seven Guitars”, p.80, Penguin

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• I should have mixed something stronger than Coke floats.

  Rachel Vincent

  Should Have, Stronger, Coke

  Rachel Vincent (2013). “Soul Screamers Volume Three: If I Die\Never to Sleep\Before I Wake”, p.227, Harlequin

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• Ah, broken is the golden bowl! the spirit flown forever! Let the bell toll!-a saintly soul floats on the Stygian river; And, Guy de Vere, hast thou no tear?-weep now or nevermore!

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Rivers, Broken, Guy

  Edgar Allan Poe (2016). “The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.1035, Xist Publishing

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• To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

  Alan Watts

  Inspirational, Trust, Faith

  "The Essence of Alan Watts". Book by Alan Watts, 1977.

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• If you look at national economies today, for example, the American economy, the European economy, the Indians, the Chinese, we're all tied together. If one of them sinks, the rest are going to sink with them and if one floats, the rest are lifted up. I find that very interesting.

  Frans de Waal

  Economy Today, Interesting, Chinese

  "Frans de Waal on Politics, Fairness, and Human Nature". Interview with Eric Michael Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 14, 2011.

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• Writing poetry is a state of free float.

  Margaret Atwood

  Writing, Poetry, States

  Margaret Atwood (2006). “Waltzing Again: New and Selected Conversations with Margaret Atwood”

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• I enjoy art, architecture, museums, churches and temples; anything that gives me insight into the history and soul of the place I'm in. I can also be a beach bum - I like to laze in the shade of a palm tree with a good book or float in a warm sea at sundown.

  Cherie Lunghi

  Beach, Art, Book

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• In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.

  Earl Warren

  Sea, Law, Ethics

  Speech at the Louis Marshall Award Dinner of the Jewish Theological Seminary, Americana Hotel, New York City, November 11, 1962.

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• In streams of light I clearly saw The dust you seldom see, Out of which the Nameless makes A Name for one like me... All busy in the sunlight The flecks did float and dance, And I was tumbled up with them In formless circumstance.

  Leonard Cohen

  Light, Dust, Names

  Leonard Cohen (2008). “Book of Longing”, p.54, McClelland & Stewart

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• There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Sight, Feelings, Mind

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.31, University of Illinois Press

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• How sweet the morning air is! See how that one little cloud floats like a pink feather from some gigantic flamingo. Now the red rim of the sun pushes itself over the London cloud-bank. It shines on a good many folk, but on none, I dare bet, who are on a stranger errand than you and I. How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Sweet, Nature, Morning

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.121, Race Point Publishing

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• There is something about talking in the night, with the shreds of sleep around your ears, with the silences between one remark and another, the town dark and dreaming beyond your own walls. It draws the truth out of you, straight from its little dark pool down there, where usually you guard it so careful, and wave your hands over it and hum and haw to protect people's feelings, to protect your own . . . You can bring out the jaggedest feelings - if you are my wife and know how to state them calm - into the night quiet. They will float there for consideration, harming no one.

  Margo Lanagan

  Dream, Wall, Sleep

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• So, when on one side you hoist in Locke's head, you go over that way; but now, on the other side, hoist in Kant's and you come back again; but in very poor plight. Thus, some minds for ever keep trimming boat. Oh, ye foolish! throw all these thunder-heads overboard, and then you will float light and right.

  Herman Melville

  Light, Mind, Way

  Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, G. Thomas Tanselle, Hershel Parker (1988). “Moby Dick, Or The Whale: Volume 6, Scholarly Edition”, p.327, Northwestern University Press

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