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“The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.”

People Ifs Way Facts Moving Willing Rivers Sells Profit Complaining Making Money Polish

Author:Ian MacKaye

“Poetry is a river; many voices travel in it; poem after poem moves along in the exciting crests and falls of the river waves. None is timeless; each arrives in an historical context; almost everything, in the end, passes. But the desire to make a poem, and the world's willingness to receive it--indeed the world's need of it--these never pass.”

World Needs Ends Moving Desire Poetry Fall Voice Rivers Exciting Historical Wave Poetry Is Willingness Timeless Historical Context

Book:A Poetry Handbook

Source: A Poetry Handbook

“The true self is always in motion like music, a river of life, changing, moving, failing, suffering, learning, shining.”

Self Moving Suffering Failing Rivers Shining Life Changing True Self

Book:If You Want to Write

Source: If You Want to Write

“I keep some portion of my early gleam; Brokenly bright, like moonbeams on a river, It lights my life, a far illusive dream, Moves as I move, and leads me on forever.”

Dream Light Moving Forever Rivers Portions Leading Me Gleam Moonbeams

Author:John Townsend Trowbridge

“The soul of the river had entered my soul, And the gathered power of my soul was moving So swiftly, it seemed to be at rest Under cities of cloud and under Spheres of silver and changing worlds Until I saw a flash of trumpets Above the battlements over Time!”

World Soul Moving Cities Saws Rivers Clouds My Soul Changing The World Silver Spheres Flash Trumpets

Book:Spoon River Anthology: Literary Touchstone Classic

Source: Spoon River Anthology: Literary Touchstone Classic

“Living at a beach, near a river mouth, taught him the impotence of impatience at events moving at nature's pace.”

Moving Sea Events Taught Mouths Rivers Fishes Boat Beach Lakes Fishing Pace Impatience Impotence

Author:Tony Bishop

“Fly fishing is the most beautiful way of trying to catch a fish; not the most efficient, just as ballet is the most beautiful way of moving the body between between two points, not the most direct. Fly fishing is to fishing as ballet is to walking.”

Way Trying Two Body Beautiful Moving Sea Walking Rivers Direct Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Ballet Efficient Fly Fishing

Author:Howell Raines

“Allowing the fly to sink to the fish's level, the angler makes a retrieve. The fly comes directly at the fish, which suddenly sees its approach. As the small fly get nearer, the fish moves forward to strike, but the tiny fly doesn't flee at the sight of the predator. Instead it continues to come directly toward the fish. Suddenly the fish realizes intuitively that something is wrong(its never happened before), so it flees until it can assess the situation. An opportunity for the angler has been lost.”

Has Beens Moving Opportunity Lost Realizing Levels Situation Happened Sea Approach Rivers Sight Fishes Strikes Tiny Moving Forward Boat Lakes Fishing Allowing Predator Anglers

Author:Lefty Kreh

“And the fact that Emmett Till, a young black man, could be found floating down the river in Mississippi, as, indeed, many had been done over the years, this set in concrete the determination of people to move forward.”

People Men Years Done Facts Moving Young Found Black Determination Rivers Moving Forward Concrete Floating Mississippi Lynching Emmett Till

Author:Fred Shuttlesworth

“... not only is life put in new patterns from the air, but it is somehow arrested, frozen into form. (The leaping hare is caught in a marble panel.) A glaze is put over life. There is no flaw, no crack in the surface; a still reservoir, no ripple on its face. Looking down from the air that morning, I felt that stillness rested like a light over the earth. The waterfalls seemed frozen solid; the tops of the trees were still; the river hardly stirred, a serpent gently moving under its shimmering skin.”

“Rivers are roads that move and carry us whither we wish to go. [Fr., Les rivieres sont des chemins qui marchant et qui portent ou l'on veut aller.]”

Moving Wish Rivers Portents

Author:Blaise Pascal

“Fire on anything that moves on the river.”

Moving Fire Rivers

Author:Kingoro Hashimoto

“A river finds its course with sureness, pushing aside whatever surface matter lies in its way, and as it gathers volume and resulting strength, nothing can withstand its progress. It carves canyons, moves great boulders, erodes the soil, moving insistently onward in its surging need to reach its final goal - the ocean.”

Way Needs Matter Moving Lying Courses Goal Progress Ocean Rivers Finals Surface Soil Pushing Volume Canyons Erode Boulders

Author:Laura Gilpin

“There are many things worth telling that are not quite narrative. And eternity itself possesses no beginning, middle or end. Fossils, arrowheads, castle ruins, empty crosses: from the Parthenon to the Bo Tree to a grown man's or woman's old stuffed bear, what moves us about many objects is not what remains but what has vanished. There comes a time, thanks to rivers, when a few beautiful old teeth are all that remain of the two-hundred-foot spires of life we call trees. There comes a river, whose current is time, that does a similar sculpting in the mind.”

“Time is different for a tree than for a man. Sun and soil and water, these are the things a weirwood understands, not days and years and centuries. For men, time is a river. We are trapped in its flow, hurtling from past to present, always in the same direction. The lives of trees are different. They root and grow and die in one place, and that river does not move them. The oak is the acorn, the acorn is the oak.”

Source: George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons

“Isn't it strange how life won't flow, like a river, but moves in jumps, as if it were held back by locks that are opened now and then to let it jump forwards in a kind of flood?”

Ifs Kind Moving Strange Flow Rivers Now And Then Flood Locks

Book:Clear light of day

Source: Clear light of day