A Quotes
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“A watch is the most essential part of a lecture.”
Source: Willa Cather in person: interviews, speeches, and letters
“A Watch May Stop One Day, But Time Doesn’t Rest Even For A Nanosecond”.”
“A watch worn by a particle of light would not tick at all. Light realizes the dreams of Ponce de Leon and the cosmetics industry: it doesn't age.”
“A watched child never learns.”
“A watched phone never buzzed”
Source: Good For You
“A watched pot never boils, but if I took my eyes from these negative thoughts for a second they would spill over the edges of my lips, and boil the beautiful moment alive as we lived it.”
Source: Life Knocks
“A watched supper dish never fills!”
“A watchful eye must be kept on ourselves lest while we are building ideal monuments of Renown and Bliss here we neglect to have our names enrolled in the Annals of Heaven.”
Source: Papers
“A watchful eye must never judge what it does not understand”
“A water snake glided smoothly up the pool, twisting its periscope head from side to side; and it swam the length of the pool and came to the legs of a motionless heron that stood in the shadows. A silent head and beak lanced down and plucked it out by the head, and the beak swallowed the little snake while its tail waved frantically.”
“A watered down gospel is no gospel at all”
“A waterfall cannot be silent, just as the wisdom! When they speak, the voice of power speaks!”
“A watermelon that breaks open by itself tastes better than one cut with a knife.”
“A WATERY BLISS
As busy as an ice cream freezer,
On a Sunday getting hotter,
Happy is the honey eater-
The busy ocean otter,
Floating alongside Teter,
On a sea full of water.”
Source: Uninhibited From Lust To Love
“A wave can kill you. Or you can ride it. It's sometimes more dangerous to shy away. You can't live your life in fear. You have to be prepared to get on your board and stand on your feet. If you are in the barrel of a wave you have to ignore the fear. You have to be in that moment. You have to carve on through. You get scared, and the next thing you know you are off your board and smashing your head on a rock. I'm never going to live in fear.”
Source: How to Stop Time
“A wave formed, swelling around Ariel's body. It lifted her up higher and higher- or maybe she herself was growing: it was hard to tell. She held the trident aloft. Storm clouds raced to her from all directions like a lost school of cichlid babies flicking to their father's mouth for protection. Lightning coursed through the sky and danced between the trident's tines.
Ariel sang a song of rage.
Notes rose and fell discordantly, her voice screeching at times like a banshee from the far north.
She sang, and the wind sang with her. It whipped her hair out of its braids and pulled tresses into tentacles that billowed around her head. She sang of the unfairness of Eric's fate and her own, of her father's torture as a polyp, even of Scuttle's mortal life, slowly but visibly slipping away.
Mostly she sang about Ursula.
She sang about everyone whose lives had been touched and destroyed by evil like coral being killed and bleached, like dead spots in the ocean from algae blooms, like scale rot. She sang about what she would do to anyone who threatened those she loved and protected.
And then, with her final note, she made a quick thrust as if to throw the trident toward the boats in the bay, pulling it back at the last moment.
A clap louder than thunder echoed across the ocean. A wave even larger than the one she rode roared up from the depths of the open sea. It smashed through and around her, leaving her hair and body white with foam. She grinned fiercely at the power of the moment. The tsunami continued on, making straight for Tirulia.
But... despite her rage... underneath it all the queen was still Ariel. Her momentary urge to destroy everything came and went like a single flash of summer lightning.”
Source: Part of Your World
“A wave hit Tess. A wave that had formed early this morning and waited patiently as she competed before it crashed back down on her now.”
Source: Lithium & Let's Plays
“A wave in the ocean is a wave, only in so far as it is bound by name and form.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“A wave is never found alone, but is mingled with as many other waves as there are uneven places in the object where the said wave is produced.”
“A wave isn't like a skate ramp or mountain; everything's moving around, and you have to time how to move along with it. That's easier with a slow wave.”
“A wave of blood goes up to my head, my stomach shrinks together, as if something dangerous has just missed hitting me. It's as if I've been caught stealing, or telling a lie; or as if I've heard other people talking about me, saying bad things about me, behind my back. There's the same flush of shame, of guilt and terror, and of cold disgust with myself. But I don't know where these feelings have come from, what I've done.”
Source: Cat's Eye
“A wave of chronically ill and slow-healing survivors is an inevitability we can and must prepare ourselves for.
Darkness and confusion have characterized much of the past month, and certainly define the experience of being sick with coronavirus — I can tell you that firsthand. Let’s not let misinformation and isolation define how we heal.”
“A wave of dizziness washed over them as their vision blurred, the world around them twisting into a kaleidoscope of colors. The trees swayed, leaves rustling in a symphony that only they could hear, a ballad to their intertwined fate. An ancient power stirred within them, a force that whispered of destinies woven together, of a future where wolf and witch would stand as one, protectors of a balance only they understood. Their eyes, no longer solely Declan's or Elara's, held a mesmerizing depth. Light caught the swirling pigments, illuminating fleeting sparks of turquoise within the brown and flashes of amber in the blue-green. They were windows to a shared soul, a fusion of personalities, where Declan's grounded warmth tempered Elara's restless spirit, and her vibrant energy sparked within his steady gaze. A silent story unfolded in their depths, one of merging destinies and intertwined lives, a captivating tapestry woven from their individual hues like a celestial galaxy in space, with both colors entwined.”
Source: Under The Blood Moon
“A wave of guilt crashes into the newly sharpened edges of my soul.”
Source: Georgia Rolling: Drug Smuggling, Organized Crime, and one good man's struggle to save his family
“A wave of hurt broke over Francie and left her weak when it was passed. Another wave came, broke and receded. She found her way down to the cellar of her house and sat in the darkest corner on a heap of burlap sacks and waited while the hurt waves swept over her. As each wave spent itself and a new one gathered, she trembled. Tensely she sat there waiting for them to stop. If they didn't stop, she'd have to die--she'd have to die.”
Source: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“A wave of possessiveness came over him, almost frightening in its
intensity. Mine. The thought of another man looking at her was almost
enough to make him change his mind about leaving.”
Source: Highland Outlaw
“A wave of saudade swept over me as I realized home never existed at all. The concept of home felt far from my reach, and I felt sick with longing.”
Source: The Desert Warrior
“A wave of Time hangs motionless on this particular shore.
I notice a tree, arsenical grey in the light, or the slow
Wheel of the stars, the Great Bear glittering colder than snow,
And remember there was something else I was hoping for.”
Source: Selected poems
“A wave of weariness took him. How could life be so unrelentingly ugly?”
Source: The Complete Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy
“A wave on top of the ocean is still the ocean; it is still made of the same substance. Although it seems to be differentiated, it is still the ocean. It cannot move or change course from the entirety of the ocean, nor can it reorder the ocean so that it can do something that the rest of the water is not doing.”
Source: Consciousness: The Potentiality of All Existence: Exploring reality and belief as a subjective experience
“A wave. Raw. Sadness washes over me as I'm dismissed. I don't move, I look at the screen. I want to run to you, crawl up inside you back into your womb. Rewrite a history where this time you'd love me normally. Shiny and new.”
Source: Good Me, Bad Me
“A wave rocked her and he grabbed for her, pulling her against him. His warm, wet skin brushed against hers, and then his arms were around her, his mouth on hers as he tangled his legs with hers.
Kat lost herself in his kiss, in his mouth, in his touch, as the ocean waves gently rocked them and the sky paled into twilight. A rogue wave dropped over them, driving them underwater - and apart. Kat kicked her way to the surface, coughing on the salt water.
Max came up looking as surprised by the kiss as the wave that had almost drowned them. "I didn't mean for that to happen. But you looked so damned... kissable.”
Source: Lucky Shot
“A way a lone a last a loved a long the riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)
“A way always reveals itself; what is meant to be will unfold in its own time. Trust the process—what is meant for you will come.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“A way foolishness has of revenging itself is to excommunicate the world.”
Source: The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings
“A way has to be found to enable everyone to benefit from the fruits of the earth, and not simply to close the gap between the affluent and those who must be satisfied with the crumbs falling from the table, but above all to satisfy the demands of justice, fairness and respect for every human being.”
“A Way is needed which contains a concept of Absolute Existence that includes both the Light and the Dark, and Life and Death. If, for instance, Christianity might see Lucifer as the complement and not the enemy, it might take a valuable step on the road to becoming more holistic and respectful of the human reality. If the Divine cannot partake of the Shadow, it cannot be the Divine, for the Divine cannot truly nourish humanity if it only feeds one pole of the human being.”
Source: The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis
“A way of certifying experience, taking photographs is also a way of refusing it - by limiting experience to a search for the photogenic, by converting experience into an image, a souvenir. Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.”
Source: On photography
“A way of describing performances that I admire is that there is an absence of careerism. It's a clumsy way of describing it but it sort of does it for me.”
“A way of honoring another Martian is always to assume he can solve his problem unless he is asking for help.”
Source: Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus
“A way of life can be shared among individuals of different ages, status, and social activity. It can yield intense relations not resembling those that are institutionalized. It seems to me that a way of life can yield a culture and an ethics. To be "gay," I think, is not to identify with the psychological traits and the visible masks of the homosexual but to try and define and develop a way of life.”
“A way of life that ever more rapidly depletes the power of the Earth to sustain it and piles up ever more insoluble problems for each succeeding generation can only be called violent.”
“A way of life that keeps saying 'Around the next corner, above the next step,' works against the natural order of things and makes it so difficult to be happy and good.”
“A way of life which excludes the realm of the unknown and the mysterious is simply not in harmony with life itself.”
“A way of looking at you that told you she was listening, that she understood all you were saying, and all you weren't.”
Source: The Kate Morton Collection: The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden
“A way of seeing is also a way of not seeing.”
“A way of spreading the dharma is just telling people, sharing with them your experiences. Never push it, never be a missionary. Be completely selfless; realize you're only an instrument of eternity.”
“A way of using words to say things which could not possibly be said in any other way, things which in a sense do not exist till they are born … in poetry.”
“A way to guarantee a man does not come inside you is to tell him he can come on your face.”
“A way to turbocharge your efforts and make the grid work for you is making others use it through inspiration or thought provocation. If you can deliver "magical" things without the need to cheat and still explain things, this should reduce potential users' fear and help spread benefits.”
Source: Beyond the Fringe: My Experience with Extended Intelligence