Waves Quotes
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Over this country, when the giant Eagle flings the shadow of his wing, the land is darkened. So compact is it that the wing covers all its extent in one pause of the flight. The sea breaks on the pale line of the shore; to the Eagle's proud glance waves run in to the foot of the hills that are like rocks planted in green water.
hugh walpole— Rogue Herries (1930), first lines.
The waves belong to the Ganges, not the Ganges to the waves. A man cannot realize God unless he gets rid of all such egotistic ideas as "I am such an important man" or "I am so and so". Level the mound of "I" to the ground by dissolving it with tears of devotion.
ramakrishna— p. 385 (The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (1942))
As the moon's fair image quaketh in the raging waves of ocean. Whilst she, in the vault of heaven, moves with silent peaceful motion.
Heinrich Heine— Heinrich Heine, Book of Songs, New Spring, Prologue, No. 23.
Then, cleaving the grass, gazelles appear (The gentler dolphins of kindlier waves).
— Thomas Sturge Moore, "The Gazelles", line 13; from The Centaur's Booty (London: Duckworth, 1903) p. ix.
Every time I stand before a beautiful beach, its waves seem to whisper to me: If you choose the simple things and find joy in nature's simple treasures, life and living need not be so hard.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us! But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us!
Samuel Taylor Coleridge— 1831Table Talk (published1835), entry for18 Dec.
Many-maned scud-thumper, tub of male whales, maker of worn wood, shrub- ruster, sky-mocker, rave! portly pusher of waves, wind-slave.
John Hoyer Updike— 1960 Telephone Poles and Other Poems,'Winter Ocean'.
Thought and beauty, like a hurricane or waves, should not know conventional, delimited forms.
Anton Chekhov— The Letter
The waves belong to the Ganges, not the Ganges to the waves. A man cannot realize God unless he gets rid of all such egotistic ideas as "I am such an important man" or "I am so and so". Level the mound of "I" to the ground by dissolving it with tears of devotion.
— Ramakrishna, as quoted in The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (1942) as translated by Swami Nikhilananda, p. 385
[He] made himself the rock against which crashed the successive waves of dissent.
— 1988 Of Secretary of State Dean Rusk during theVietnamWar. Waging Peace andWar.
We shall not meet again: over the waveOur ways divide, and yours is straight and endless –But mine is short and crooked to the grave:Yet what of these dark crowds, amid whose flowI battle like a rock, aloof and friendless –Are not their generations, vague and endless,The waves, the strides, the feet on which I go?
roy campbell— "Tristan da Cunha," lines 97-103
What are the wild waves saying,Sister, the whole day long,That ever amid our playingI hear but their low, lone song?
joseph edwards carpenter— What are the wild Waves saying?, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
Edward Gibbon— Vol. 1, Chap. 68. Compare: "On dit que Dieu est toujours pour les gros bataillons" (translated: "It is said that God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions"), Voltaire, Letter to M. le Riche. 1770; "J'ai toujours vu Dieu du coté des gros bataillons (translated: "I have always noticed that God is on the side of the heaviest battalions"), De la Ferté to Anne of Austria.
A few years hence and he will be beneath the sod; but those cliffs will stand, as now, facing the ocean, incessantly lashed by its waves, yet unshaken, immovable; and other eyes will gaze on them for their brief day of life, and then they, too, will close.
henry parry liddon— P. 384. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
The water is calm and still below,For the winds and waves are absent there,And the sands are bright as the stars that glowIn the motionless fields of upper air.
james gates percival— The coral Grove, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
A daring pilot in extremity;Pleas'd with the danger, when the waves went highHe sought the storms.
john dryden— John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel (1681), Part I, line 159.
That man’s best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature’s infinite perfection, matters not much; but that he should make himself an imitation, this is the fact which Nature moans over, and deprecates beseechingly. Be spontaneous, be truthful, be free, and thus be individuals! is the song she sings through warbling birds, and whispering pines, and roaring waves, and screeching winds.
lydia maria child— Source: Letters from New York,vol. 1, letter 38.
Storms, thunders, waves! Howl, crash, and bellow till ye get your fill; Ye sometimes rest; men never can be still But in their graves.
— "Daily Trials" in Companion Poets (1871).
Strangers have crossed the sound, but not the sound of the dark oarsmen Or the golden-haired sons of kings, Strangers whose thought is not formed to the cadence of waves, Rhythm of the sickle, oar and milking pail
kathleen raine— Poem The Ancient Speech
In the same manner the voice executes its movements in concentric circles; but while in the case of water the circles move horizontally on a plane surface, the voice not only proceeds horizontally, but also ascends vertically by regular stages. Therefore, as in the case of the waves formed in the water, so it is in the case of the voice: the first wave, when there is no obstruction to interrupt it, does not break up the second or the following waves, but they all reach the ears of the lowest and highest spectators without an echo.
vitruvius— Chapter IV, Sec. 7
Look up! the wide extended plain Is billowy with its ripened grain, And on the summer winds are rolled Its waves of emerald and gold.
— William Henry Burleigh, The Harvest Call, Stanza 5: Quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), Lemma "Agriculture" p. 18-19.
Stretched in front of a bay of Sicily lies an islet over against wavebeat Plemyrium; they of old called it Ortygia. Hither Alpheus the river of Elis, so rumour runs, hath cloven a secret passage beneath the sea, and now through thy well-head, Arethusa, mingles with the Sicilian waves.
— Virgil, Æneid, book III
The breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rock-bound coast, And the woods against a stormy sky, Their giant branches toss'd.
felicia hemans— Felicia Hemans, The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England (1826).
In 1925, the world view of physics was a model of a great machine composed of separable interacting material particles. During the next few years, Schrodinger and Heisenberg and their followers created a universe based on super imposed inseparable waves of probability amplitudes. This new view would be entirely consistent with the Vedantic concept of All in One.
— Erwin Schrödinger in Schrödinger: Life and Thought (1989) Walter J. Moore eds.
Every man who becomes heartily and understandingly a channel of the Divine benef1cence, is enriched through every league of his life. Perennial satisfaction springs around and within him with perennial verdure. Flowers of gratitude and gladness bloom all along his pathway, and the melodious gurgle of the blessings he bears is echoed back by the melodious waves of the recipient stream.
— Josiah Gilbert Holland, p. 26. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
The breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rock-bound coast; And the woods, against a stormy sky, Their giant branches tost.
felicia hemans— Felicia Hemans, Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers.
The waves Of the mysterious death-river moaned; The tramp, the shout, the fearful thunder-roar Of red-breathed cannon, and the wailing cry Of myriad victims, filled the air.
— George D. Prentice, Lookout Mountain, line 16.
The solution of the difficulty is that the two mental pictures which experiment lead us to form - the one of the particles, the other of the waves - are both incomplete and have only the validity of analogies which are accurate only in limiting cases.
— Werner Heisenberg (1949), in The Physical Principles of the Quantum Theory
