Streams Quotes - Page 27

• To play chess on a truly high level requires a constant stream of exact, informed decisions, made in real time and under pressure from your opponent. What's more, it requires a synthesis of some very different virtues, all of which are necessary to good decisions: calculatioñ, creativity and a desire for results. If you ask a Grandmaster, an artist and a computer scientist what makes a good chess player, you'll get a glimpse of these different strengths in action.

  Garry Kasparov

  Real, Creativity, Player

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.11, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Creeping with awe to the verge, I peered down into a large rent which had been made from bank to bank of the broad Zambezi, and saw that a stream of a thousand yards broad leaped down a hundred feet [30 m] and then became suddenly compressed into a space of fifteen to twenty yards.

  David Livingstone

  Feet, Space, Twenties

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• Love rays us round as glory swathes a star, And, from the mystic touch of lips and palms, Streams rosy warmth!

  Gerald Massey

  Love, Stars, Rays

  Gerald Massey (1861). “The Poetical Works of Gerald Massey”, p.394

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• And while blood's the only language that your deaf old ears can hear And still you will not answer with that message coming clear Does it mean there's no more ripples in your tired old glory stream And the buzzards own the carcass of your dream?

  Harry Chapin

  Dream, Tired, Mean

  Song: There Only Was One Choice, Album: Dance Band on the Titanic, 1977

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• A series of powers are at work within the great stream of Expressionism who have no outward similarity to one another but a common direction of thrust, namely the intention to give expression to things of the psyche [Seelisches] through form alone.

  Max Ernst

  Expression, Giving, Common

  Review of 'Rhenish Expressionists', Bonn, 1913.

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• The church of the elect, which is partly militant on earth, and partly triumphant in heaven, resembles a city built on both sides of a river. There is but the stream of death between grace and glory. Death, to God's people, is but a ferry-boat.

  Augustus Toplady

  Cities, Rivers, People

  Augustus Toplady (1825). “The works of Augustus M. Toplady”, p.274

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• Anarchism is really a synonym for socialism. The anarchist is primarily a socialist whose aim is to abolish the exploitation of man by man. Anarchism is only one of the streams of socialist thought, that stream whose main components are concern for liberty and haste to abolish the State.

  Daniel Guerin

  Men, Liberty, Haste

  Daniel Guérin (1970). “Anarchism; from theory to practice”, Monthly Review Pr

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• The beauty that men seek is half a dream-- Where'er we wander, yet it lies afar; It touches with its wand a setting star, It stirs the ripple of an ebbing stream. And though we run beyond the dawning gleam, Or kneel to worship at an altar bright, We may not know the soul of its delight, Or more than marvel at its palest beam.

  Kenneth Rand

  Beauty, Running, Dream

  Kenneth Rand (1914). “The Rainbow Chaser: And Other Poems ...”

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• Before we go there and set up greenhouses, dance clubs, and falafel stands, let's make sure that, in some subtle form that could be harmed by the human hubbub, life does not already exist there. If not, then by all means build cities, plant forests and fill lakes and streams with trout -- bring life to Mars and Mars to life. We'll then be the Martians we've been dreaming about for all these years.

  David Grinspoon

  Dream, Mean, Lakes

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• Reincarnation, at least as I conceive it, does not nullify what we know about evolution and genetics. It suggests, however, that there may be two streams of evolution -- the biological one and a personal one -- and that during terrestrial lives these streams may interact.

  Ian Stevenson

  Two, Doe, May

  Ian Stevenson, M.D. (2000). “Children Who Remember Previous Lives: A Question of Reincarnation, rev. ed.”, p.12, McFarland

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• Everybody's seen a stream or a wood they knew replaced by a strip mall.

  Tom Scholz

  Shopping, Woods, Malls

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• But then to part! to part when Time Has wreathed his tireless wing with flowers, And spread the richness of a clime Of fairy o'er this land of ours; When glistening leaves and shaded streams In the soft light of Autumn lay, And, like the music of our dreams, The viewless breezes seemed to stray 'T was bitter then to rend the heart With the sad thought that we must part; And, like some low and mournful spell, To whisper but one word farewell!

  Benjamin

  Dream, Flower, Farewell

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• Pure and undimmed, thy angel smile Is mirrored on my dreams, Like evening's sunset-girded isle Upon her shadowed streams: And o'er my thoughts thy vision floats, Like melody of spring-bird, notes; When the blue halcyon gently laves His plumage in the flashing waves.

  Benjamin

  Dream, Spring, Sunset

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• Life is also busy transporting and overturning the soils of earth, the stones, and the minerals. The miles-long drifts of sea kelp that float along our coasts may carry hundreds of tons of volcanic boulders held in their roots. I have followed these streams of life over 300 km, and seen them strand on granite beaches, throwing their boulders up on a 9,000 year old pile of basalt, all the hundreds of tons of which were carried there by kelp.

  Bill Mollison

  Beach, Years, Sea

  "Permaculture: A Designers' Manual". Book by Bill Mollison, 1988.

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• The stream in my hometown Calgary is the oil and gas industry - that's the talk you hear on the street.

  Gary Kovacs

  Oil, Hometown, Calgary

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• The data stream has been corrupted, return to first principles.

  Terence McKenna

  Data, Principles, Firsts

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• The fisherman has a harmless, preoccupied look; he is a kind of vagrant, that nothing fears. He blends himself with the trees and the shadows. All his approaches are gentle and indirect. He times himself to the meandering, soliloquizing stream; he addresses himself to it as a lover to his mistress; he woos it and stays with it till he knows its hidden secrets. Where it deepens his purpose deepens; where it is shallow he is indifferent. He knows how to interpret its every glance and dimple; its beauty haunts him for days.

  John Burroughs

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

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• A feller's glad to be a friend, Out fishin'. A helpin' hand he'll always lend, Out fishin' The brotherhood of rod and line An' sky an' stream is always fine; Men come real close to God's design, Out fishin'. A feller isn't plotting schemes, Out fishin'. He's only busy with his dreams, Out fishin' His livery is a coat of tan; His creed, to do the best he can; A feller's always mostly man Out fishin'.

  Edgar Guest

  Dream, Real, Men

  Edgar Albert Guest, “Out Fishin'”

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• From high Meonia's rocky shores I came, Of poor decsent, Acoetes is my name, My sire was measly born: no oxen ploughed, His fruitful fields, nor in his pastures lowed, His whole estate within the waters lay' With lines and hooks he caught the finny prey; His art was all his livelehood, which he Thus with his dying lips bequeathed to me: In streams, my boy, and rivers take thy chance; There swims', said he, Thy whole inheritance.

  Ovid

  Art, Boys, Sea

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• The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish Cut with her golden oars the silver stream And greedily devour the treacherous bait.

  William Shakespeare

  Cutting, Lakes, Sea

  William Shakespeare (1823). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings”, p.127

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• Our plenteous streams a various race supply, The bright-eyed perch with fins of Tyrian dye, The silver eel, in shining volumes roll'd, The yellow carp, in scales bedropp'd with gold, Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains, And pikes, the tyrants of the wat'ry plains.

  Alexander Pope

  Yellow, Lakes, Race

  Alexander Pope (2008). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Volume I: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.128, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It's so silly isn't it? how we grown men take up trout angling not simply to pursue trout but to find some place, some special place, where we feel at ease. a place to belong. Forces, not forms, persist: energy is spent and endures; time does not tick, it flows. God loves a man that smells of trout water and mountain meadows. Which way's heaven, you suppose? Follow the trail and keep close to the stream.

  Carey Mulligan

  Silly, Men, Sea

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• After all these years, I still feel like a boy when I'm on a stream

  Jimmy Carter

  Boys, Fishing, Rivers

  Jimmy Carter (1994). “An Outdoor Journal: Adventures and Reflections”, p.74, University of Arkansas Press

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• As President, I was able to save with the stroke of the pen a hundred million acres of wilderness area in Alaska. This is the kind of thing that is is gratifying to a President, but to be on a solitary stream with good friends, with a fly rod in your hand, and to have a successfull or even an unsuccessful day-they're all successful-is an even greater delight.

  Jimmy Carter

  Successful, Good Friend, Hands

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• We waded so gently and reverently, or we pulled together so smoothly, that the fishes of thought were not scared from the stream, nor feared any angler on the bank, but came and went grandly, like the clouds which came and went on the western sky, and the mother-o'-pearl flocks which sometimes form and dissolve there.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mother, Sea, Fishing

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden (Diversion Classics)”, p.258, Diversion Books

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