Ripple Quotes - Page 4

• Oh, good gigantic smile o' the brown old earth, This autumn morning! How he sets his bones To bask i' the sun, and thrusts out knees and feet. From the ripple to run over in its mirth

  Robert Browning

  Running, Morning, Autumn

  Robert Browning (1830). “An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry”, p.207

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• Speak not, move not, but listen, the sky is full of gold. No ripple on the river, no stir in field or fold, All gleams but naught doth glisten, but the far-off unseen sea. Forget days past, heart broken, put all memory by! No grief on the green hillside, no pity in the sky, Joy that may not be spoken fills mead and flower and tree.

  William Morris

  Memories, Flower, Moving

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• You want to be the pebble in the pond that creates the ripples for change.

  Tim Cook

  Ponds, Want, Pebbles

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• ...no-one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away... The span of someone's life, they say, is only the core of their actual existence.

  Terry Pratchett

  World, Causes, Existence

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• We live in a world so utterly infused with digitality that it makes even the slightest action ripple across the collection of data bases we call the web.

  DJ Spooky

  Data, World, Action

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• What did a few ripples in the flesh matter when, all too soon, now or later, that flesh would be making its return journey to dust?

  Gail Godwin

  Journey, Dust, Would Be

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• I can make choices that make me happy, and it will ripple and benefit my kids, my husband, and my physical health. That's hard for women to own; we're not taught to do that.

  Michelle Obama

  Husband, Kids, Choices

  "Michelle Obama's Rules for Staying Healthy and Happy". Interview with Liz Vaccariello, www.prevention.com. November 3, 2011.

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• If you don't invest in the woman, empower her, give her the things she needs to lift her family up, you're just not going to make the progress that you want to make. But if you put her at the centre, you can change a lot for that family, and it has ripple effects through the economy.

  Melinda Gates

  Giving, Empowering, Progress

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Drop a word in the ocean of meaning and concentric ripples form. To define a single word means to try to catch those ripples. No one’s hands are fast enough.

  Robert Bringhurst

  Ocean, Mean, Hands

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• It's amazing what storms your face can hide, what terrible wrecks can writhe and heave beneath, without one ripple on the surface.

  Jenny Valentine

  Life, Storm, Wrecks

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• Time is rhythm: the insect rhythm of a warm humid night, brain ripple, breathing, the drum in my temple—these are our faithful timekeepers; and reason corrects the feverish beat.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Night, Breathing, Faithful

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1969). “Ada: or, Ardor, a family chronicle”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• It is now very clear that techniques of machine-human interfacing, pharmacology of the synthetic variety, all kinds of manipulative techniques, all kinds of data storage, imaging and retrieval techniques - all of this is coalescing toward the potential of a truly demonic or angelic kind of self-imaging of our culture... And the people who are on the demonic side are fully aware of this and hurrying full-tilt forward with their plans to capture everyone as a 100% believing consumer inside some kind of a beige furnished fascism that won't even raise a ripple.

  Terence McKenna

  Believe, Self, Data

  "Non-Ordinary States of Reality Through Vision Plants". Book by Terence McKenna, 1988.

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• In the aftermath of the recent wave action in the Indian Ocean, even the archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williamson [sic], proved himself a latter-day Voltairean by whimpering that he could see how this might shake belief in a friendly creator. Williamson is of course a notorious fool, who does an almost perfect imitation of a bleating and frightened sheep, but even so, one is forced to rub one's eyes in astonishment. Is it possible that a grown man could live so long and still have his personal composure, not to mention his lifetime job description, upset by a large ripple of seawater?

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Jobs, Ocean

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• What is wrong with enjoying yourself? What is wrong in being happy? If there is anything wrong it is always in your unhappiness, because an unhappy person creates ripples of unhappiness all around him. Be happy!

  Rajneesh

  Happiness, Unhappy Person, Enjoy

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• Doing good holds the power to transform us on the inside, and then ripple out in ever-expanding circles that positively impact the world at large.

  Shari Arison

  Impact, Circles, World

  "Activate Your Goodness" by Shari Arison, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 4, 2013.

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• Words are substance strange. Speak one and the air ripples into another's ears. Write one and the eye laps it up. But the sense transmutes, and the spoken word winds through the ear's labyrinth into a sense that is no longer the nerve's realm. The written word unfolds behind the eye into the world, world's image, and the imagination sees as the eye cannot see-thoughtfully.

  Dan Beachy-Quick

  Writing, Eye, Air

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• Sorry means you feel the pulse of other people's pain as well as your own, and saying it means you take a share of it. And so it binds us together, makes us trodden and sodden as one another. Sorry is a lot of things. It's a hole refilled. A debt repaid. Sorry is the wake of misdeed. It's the crippling ripple of consequence. Sorry is sadness, just as knowing is sadness. Sorry is sometimes self-pity. But Sorry, really, is not about you. It's theirs to take or leave.

  Craig Silvey

  Sorry, Pain, Sadness

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• I am thinking of the onion again. . . . Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples.

  Erica Jong

  Thinking, Self, Vegetables

  Erica Jong (1991). “Becoming light: poems, new and selected”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Big Data allows us to see patterns we have never seen before. This will clearly show us interdependence and connections that will lead to a new way of looking at everything. It will let us see the ‘real-time’ cause and effect of our actions. What we buy, eat, donate, and throw away will be visual in a real-time map to see the ripple effect of our actions. That could only lead to mores-conscious behavior.

  Tiffany Shlain

  Real, Data, Connections

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• When the environment makes gender salient, there is a ripple effect on the mind. We start to think of ourselves in terms of our gender, and stereotypes and social expectations become more prominent in the mind. This can change self-perception, alter interests, debilitate or enhance ability, and trigger unintentional discrimination. In other words, the social context influences who you are, how you think and what you do.

  Cordelia Fine

  Thinking, Self, Expectations

  Cordelia Fine (2005). “Delusions of Gender: The Real Science Behind Sex Differences”, p.16, Icon Books Ltd

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• Spring scarce had greener fields to show than these Of mid September; through the still warm noon The rivulets ripple forth a gladder tune Than ever in the summer; from the trees Dusk-green, and murmuring inward melodies, No leaf drops yet; only our evenings swoon In pallid skies more suddenly, and the moon Finds motionless white mists out on the leas.

  Edward Dowden

  Summer, Spring, Moon

  Edward Dowden (1877). “Poems”

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• It is my hope that everyone's valiant efforts will have a ripple effect that will carry us forth into a fairer future. 'The arc of the moral universe is long,' said Martin Luther King Jr., 'but it bends toward justice.' And because I have been witness to so many people who lent their support to this good cause, I am lifted up by them -- lifted up so high that I can see the end of that arc.

  Prince Gomolvilas

  Kings, Justice, Long

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• We need to take action to develop compassion, to create inner peace within ourselves and to share that inner peace with our family and friends. Peace and warm-heartednes s can then spread through the community just as ripples radiate out across the water when you drop a pebble into a pond

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Change, Family

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• The 7 Principles for Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desires 1. You are a ripple in the fabric of the cosmos 2. Through the mirror of relationships you discover your nonlocal self 3. Master your inner dialogue 4. Your intent weaves the tapestry of the universe 5. Harness your emotional turbulence 6. Celebrate the dance of the cosmos 7. Access the conspiracy of improbabilities Living synchrodestiny & spontaneous fulfillment of desires.

  Deepak Chopra

  Life, Emotional, Mirrors

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• To become more conscious is the greatest gift anyone can give to the world; moreover, in a ripple effect, the gift comes back to its source.

  David Hawkins

  Giving, World, Ripple Effect

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