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  • The road to democracy may be winding and is like a river taking many curves, but eventually the river will reach the ocean.

    Ocean   Curves   Rivers  
    BBC Interview, news.bbc.co.uk. March 30, 2004.
  • A mountaine and a river are good neighbours.

    George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.328
  • The meditative angler is not exempt from sensational periods. There are times when all the uncertainty of his chosen pursuit seems to condense itself into one big chance, and stand out before him like a salmon on the top wave of a rapid. He sees his luck hangs by a single strand of gut, and he cannot tell whether it will hold or break. This is the thrilling moment and he never forgets it.

    Sea   Fishing   Rivers  
    Henry Van Dyke (2015). “Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things”, p.23, Read Books Ltd
  • And that's how we measure out our real respect for people—by the degree of feeling they can register, the voltage of life they can carry and tolerate—and enjoy. End of sermon. As Buddha says: live like a mighty river. And as the old Greeks said: live as though all your ancestors were living again through you.

    Real   Rivers   People  
  • As one grows older, the sense of separateness is slowly reduced. Old people do not live on an ego level. Their concerns are not about their individuality but about the river of life, the family, the community, the nation, people, animals, nature, life. They can die easily if they are assured that life will continue positively, for they feel part of the river again, and soon they will be part of the ocean. When they are very old, they no longer belong to our time and space, but to all time and all space.

    Ocean   Animal   Space  
  • I first saw the site for Disneyland back in 1953, In those days it was all flat land - no rivers, no mountains, no castles or rocket ships - just orange groves, and a few acres of walnut trees.

    Life   Land   Rivers  
  • But now the giant heads of Plato and Socrates, each with an expression of penetrating wisdom carved on his white features, surveyed the river and the melon beds beyond.

  • Every great quotation carries the power to shape the world like a river.

    Rivers   World   Shapes  
  • The rivers of Grace cannot flow uphill, up the steep cliff of the proud man's heart.

    Heart   Men   Rivers  
  • The first river you paddle runs through the rest of your life. It bubbles up in pools and eddies to remind you who you are.

  • Between the banks of pain and pleasure the river of life flows. It is only when the mind refuses to flow with life, and gets stuck at the banks, that it becomes a problem.

    Pain   Rivers   Mind  
  • All is connected ... no one thing can change by itself.

  • I have transported many, thousands; and to all of them, my river has been nothing but an obstacle on their travels. They travelled to seek money and business, and for weddings, and on pilgrimages, and the river was obstructing their path, and the ferryman's job was to get them quickly across that obstacle. But for some among thousands, a few, four or five, the river has stopped being an obstacle, they have heard its voice, they have listened to it, and the river has become sacred to them, as it has become sacred to me.

    Jobs   Voice   Rivers  
  • Sometimes there's just no way to hold back the river.

    Rivers   Way   Sometimes  
    Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco
  • I am haunted by waters.

    "A River Runs Through It" (1976)
  • Btw Pink Floyd album out in October is called 'The Endless River.' Based on 1994 sessions is Rick Wright's swansong and very beautiful.

    Twitter post from Jul 05, 2014
  • I can only tell where I feel most at home, which is in the erosional landscape of the red rock desert of southern Utah, where the Colorado River cuts through sandstone and the geologic history of the Earth is exposed: our home in Castle Valley.

    Home   Cutting   Rocks  
    Source: therumpus.net
  • The life of every river sings its own song, but in most the song is long marred by the discords of misuse.

    Song   Rivers   Long  
    Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.184, Library of America
  • What do you think? Who are these people who have depicted heaven as a playboy Club - who are these people? Starved, poor, who have missed their life - they are projecting their desires in heaven. In heaven there are rivers of wine... who are these people who are imagining rivers of wine? They must have missed here. And there are wish-fulfilling trees. You sit underneath them, desire, and the moment you desire, immediately it is fulfilled.

    Wine   Thinking   Rivers  
  • A dream is like a river ever changing as it flows and a dreamer's just a vessel that must follow where it goes.

    Dream   Rivers   Flow  
  • You and I can turn and look at the silent river and wait. We know the current is there, hidden; and there are comings and goings from miles away that hold the stillness exactly before us. What the river says, that is what I say.

    William Stafford (1977). “Stories that could be true: new and collected poems”, HarperCollins Publishers
  • I can find no words for what I feel. My consciousness is withdrawn into itself; I hear my heart beating, and my life passing. It seems to me that I have become a statue on the banks of the river of time, that I am the spectator of some mystery, and shall issue from it old, or no longer capable of age.

    Heart   Rivers   Issues  
    "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel". Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, translated by Mary Augusta Ward, 1882.
  • The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.

    Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1948-1949 : Choiceless awareness”, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company
  • How it pours, pours, pours, In a never-ending sheet! How it drives beneath the doors! How it soaks the passer's feet! How it rattles on the shutter! How it rumples up the lawn! How 'twill sigh, and moan, and mutter, From darkness until dawn.

    Rain   Doors   Rivers  
    Rossiter Johnson (1902). “Morning Lights and Evening Shadows”
  • I had the fortunate experience to play with people from different schools of music. Sam Rivers is from the fundamentalist school of music.

    School   Rivers   Play  
  • I was working with mud and photographs and thread, eyelashes, carrots and acetone... I was throwing radios off buildings and... remember floating styrofoam commas down the Milwaukee River.

    William Wegman, Frédéric Paul, Fonds régional d'art contemporain Limousin (1993). “William Wegman, l'oeuvre photographique”, Frac Limousin
  • Coyotes have the gift of seldom being seen; they keep to the edge of vision and beyond, loping in and out of cover on the plains and highlands. And at night, when the whole world belongs to them, they parley at the river with the dogs, their higher, sharper voices full of authority and rebuke. They are an old council of clowns, and they are listened to.

    Dog   Night   Voice  
  • When you speak to a man or a woman about money, they will use water visualizations. For men, it typically is a river. Money comes in; money goes out. The level rises; the level sinks. For women, when you talk about money, to her... it's a pond. It's a set amount. She husbands it, and it typically goes in one direction... which is down.

    "Sallie Krawcheck of Ellevest and the Gender Investing Gap". Interview With Denver Frederick, www.denver-frederick.com. August 18, 2016.
  • Love without trust is a river without water.

    Love   Family   Rivers  
  • It turns out - this is a metaphor out of [Charles] Dickens - that the raw sewage emptied into the Anacostia comes from the Federal Triangle. I have a sewer map, and on it you can see the pipe from which congressional wastes empty into the river that then flows through the black neighborhoods of Washington, D.C. It is very expensive to do anything about the river, but somebody's working on it.

    Rivers   Black   Maps  
    "Robert Hass" by Sarah Pollock, www.motherjones.com. March/April 1997.
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