Wave Quotes - Page 31

• Down the blue night the unending columns press
  In noiseless tumult, break and wave and flow

  Rupert Brooke

  Night, Clouds, Blue

  Rupert Brooke (2010). “Collected Poems”, p.113, The Oleander Press

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• I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.

  Jean Cocteau

  Veins, Language

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• Robin [Williams] was a world treasure. As we mourn his tragic death, we must remember him for the great waves of laughter that he was able to illicit from us, how his humor and insights - though they came from a place of pain and uncertainty - connected us and reminded us of how flawed and fragile...how human we are. How we are capable of moments of inspired transcendence and others of unspeakable despair.

  Glenn Close

  Leadership, Wisdom, Pain

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• It may be that a second wave of the sexual revolution might at last accomplish its aim of freeing half the race from its immemorial subordination--and in the process bring us all a great deal closer to humanity. It may be that we shall even be able to retire sex from the harsh realities of politics, but not until we have created a world we can bear out of the desert we inhabit.

  Kate Millett

  Sex, Women, Reality

  Kate Millett (2016). “Sexual Politics”, p.363, Columbia University Press

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• You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this, or the like of this. I wish to live ever as to derive my satisfactions and inspirations from the commonest events, everyday phenomena, so that what my senses hourly perceive, my daily walk, the conversation of my neighbors, may inspire me, and I may dream of no heaven but that which lies about me.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dream, Lying, Inspiration

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• What is Americanism? Every one has a different answer. Some people say it is never to submit to the dictation of a King. Others say Americanism is the pride of liberty and the defence of an insult to the flag with their gore. When some half-developed person tramples on that flag, we should be ready to pour out the blood of the nation, they say. But do we not sit in silence when that flag waves over living conditions which should be an insult to all patriotism?

  Anna Howard Shaw

  Kings, War, Pride

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• The sensation of colour cannot be accounted for by the physicist's objective picture of light-waves.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Light, Color, Physicist

  "Mind and Matter". Book by Erwin Schrodinger, 1958.

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• Journalists say my music is "blue wave," or "dreamy," or "jangly-slacker jewel," and none of it really makes sense to me.

  Mac DeMarco

  Blue, Jewels, Music Is

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Music is sound. It's a wave. It's going out and coming back, and it's bouncing off.

  Liz Phair

  Sound, Going Out, Coming Back

  Source: collider.com

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• When in public poetry should take off its clothes and wave to the nearest person in sight; it should be seen in the company of thieves and lovers rather than that of journalists and publishers.

  Brian Patten

  Sight, Clothes, Poetry

  Brian Patten (2007). “Selected Poems”, ePenguin

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• Let me repeat: Observe a particle as a wave, and it is a wave. Observe it as matter, and it is matter. ... Thus it is our point of view, the way we look at reality that makes reality the way it is.

  Joachim-Ernst Berendt

  Reality, Views, Matter

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• Wave bye-bye to your cash cow, 'cause it's leaving the pasture.

  Jimmy McGill

  Past, Bye, Leaving

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• Anakana Schofield is part of a new wave of wonderful Irish fiction-international in scope and electrically alive.

  Colum McCann

  Fiction, Alive, Wonderful

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• I never wanted to be a public figure. I feel that I always have to dampen down people's expectations. They expect me to be an oracle, wave a magic wand, sprinkle some slow, sparkly dust on them, to make everything all right.

  Carl Honore

  Dust, People, Expectations

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• The forest waves, the morning breaks,
  The pastures sleep, ripple the lakes,
  Leaves twinkle, flowers like persons be
  And life pulsates in rock or tree.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Nature, Morning

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.59, Рипол Классик

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• Nature avenges herself speedily on the hard pedantry that would chain her waves. She is no literalist. Every thing must be taken genially, and we must be at the top of our condition, to understand any thing rightly.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Taken, Knowledge

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1588, Delphi Classics

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• There's keen delight in what we have:
  The rattle of pebbles on the shore
  Under the receding wave.

  William Butler Yeats

  Heritage, Delight, Pebbles

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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• Great Powers of falling wave and wind and windy fire,
  With your harmonious choir
  Encircle her I love and sing her into peace,
  That my old care may cease.

  William Butler Yeats

  Fall, Compassion, Fire

  William Butler Yeats (2001). “The Major Works”, p.34

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• When disaster waves, I try not to wave back.

  Mason Cooley

  Trying, Disaster

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• The whole is always more, is more capable of a much greater variety of wave states, than the combination of its parts. ... In this very radical sense, quantum physics supports the doctrine that the whole is more than the combination of its parts.

  Hermann Weyl

  Support, Doctrine, Physics

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• The best thing about time passing is the privilege of running out of it, of watching the wave of mortality break over me and everyone I know.

  Sarah Manguso

  Running, Privilege, Time Passing

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• A seashell should be the crest of England, not only because it represents a power built on the waves, but also the hard finish ofthe men. The Englishman is finished like a cowry or a murex.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, England, He Man

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.212

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• Ride your emotions as the shallop rides the waves; don't get upset among them. There are people who enjoy getting swamped emotionally, just as, incredibly, there are people who enjoy getting drunk.

  Mary Hunter Austin

  People, Drunk, Upset

  Mary Hunter Austin, Maxwell Aley (1925). “Everyman's genius”

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• In retirement, the passage of time seems accelerated. Nothing warns us of its flight. It is a wave which never murmurs, because there is no obstacle to its flow.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Retirement, Flow, Obstacles

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• You have come from God, you are a spark of His Glory; you are a wave of that Ocean of Bliss; you will get peace only when you again merge in Him.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Ocean, Sparks, Bliss

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Nov 23, 2016

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