Best wind & wave Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Self-realization doesn't imply loss, gain, even transition; it's only a settling. The separate sounds on the beach, the birds, the waves, the wind. They all come together again, they blend, they harmonize.”

Self Together Sound Loss Wind Bird Gains Wave Self Realization Realization Beach Settling Transition Hinduism Together Again

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.”

Watches Struggle Sea Wind Wave Pleasant Shore Total War Dashing

Author:Lucretius

“Bursts as a wave that from the clouds impends, And swell'd with tempests on the ship descends; White are the decks with foam; the winds aloud Howl o'er the masts, and sing through every shroud: Pale, trembling, tir'd, the sailors freeze with fears; And instant death on every wave appears.”

White Wind Clouds Wave Ships Instant Pale Sailor Freeze Trembling Deck Tempest Howl Foam Shrouds Masts Storm Clouds

Book:The Iliad of Homer. Translated by A. Pope. A new edition. Adorned with plates

Source: The Iliad of Homer. Translated by A. Pope. A new edition. Adorned with plates

“Why does pouring Oil on the Sea make it Clear and Calm? Is it that the winds, slipping the smooth oil, have no force, nor cause any waves?”

Doe Force Causes Clear Sea Wind Calm Wave Oil Smooth Pouring Slipping Navigation

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)

“Nor fire, nor rocks, can stop our furious minds, Nor waves, nor winds.”

Mind Fire Rocks Wind Wave Furious

Book:Emblems, Divine and Moral: The School of the Heart ; And, Hieroglyphics of the Life of Man

Source: Emblems, Divine and Moral: The School of the Heart ; And, Hieroglyphics of the Life of Man

“Wherever waves can roll, and winds can blow.”

Wind Wave Blow

Book:The poetical works of Charles Churchill, with notes by W. Tooke. with a memoir by J.L. Hannay

Source: The poetical works of Charles Churchill, with notes by W. Tooke. with a memoir by J.L. Hannay

“Fortune has often been blamed for her blindness; but fortune is not so blind as men are. Those who look into practical life will find that fortune is usually on the side of the industrious, as the winds and waves are on the side of the best navigators.”

Men Looks Sides Wind Blind Fortune Wave Practicals Blindness Industrious Practical Life Navigators

Book:Self-help; with illustrations of character and conduct

Source: Self-help; with illustrations of character and conduct

“And the winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.”

“The immortal mind, superior to his fate, amid the outrage of external things, firm as the solid base of this great world, rests on his own foundation. Blow, ye winds! Ye waves! ye thunders! roll your tempests on! Shake, ye old pillars of the marble sky! Till at its orbs and all its worlds of fire be loosen'd from their seats; yet still serene, the unconquer'd mind looks down upon the wreck; and ever stronger as the storms advance, firm through the closing ruin holds is way, when nature calls him to the destin'd goal.”

World Way Mind Looks Stills Goal Fire Fate Sky Wind Stronger Foundation Wave Blow Storm Superiors Ruins Firm Seats Shakes Immortal Thunder Closing Wrecks Marble Outrage Pillars Serene Tempest Orbs

Author:Mark Akenside

“Across the narrow beach we flit, One little sand-piper and I; And fast I gather, bit by bit, The scattered drift-wood, bleached and dry, The wild waves reach their hands for it, The wild wind raves, the tide runs high, As up and down the beach we flit, One little sand-piper and I.”

Littles Hands Running Bits Wind Wave Woods Beach Dry Sand Tides Up And Down Pipers Rave

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“Oh, my soul! why art thou so often disquieted within thee? How is it that thou hast so little faith? Wilt thou never learn that Jesus has even the least of His little boats always under His watchful eye, and all the winds and the waves obey Him?”

Littles Art Soul Eye Jesus Wind Wave Boat My Soul Thee Little Faith

Author:Theodore L. Cuyler

“It is true what Rimbaud said; If you think a book is strong enough, try it at the ocean, in the wind, at the waves. If the book can resist the ocean, then it exists. Otherwise, throw it away.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Said Book Enough Strong Wind Ocean Wave Strong Enough

Author:Klaus Kinski

“The peach-bud glows, the wild bee hums, and wind-flowers wave in graceful gladness.”

Wind Flower Spring Wave Bees Bud Gladness Peaches

Author:Lucy Larcom

“God's miracles are to be found in nature itself; the wind and waves, the wood that becomes a tree - all of these are explained biologically, but behind them is the hand of God.”

Hands Found Nature Behinds Tree Wind Miracle Wave Woods Hands Of God

Author:Ronald Reagan

“Tranquillity consisteth in a steadiness of the mind; and how can that vessel that is beaten upon by contrary waves and winds, and tottereth to either part, be said to keep a steady course? Resolution is the only mother of security.”

Mind Said Mother Courses Security Wind Quiet Wave Contrary Resolution Steady Beaten Vessel Tranquillity Steadiness

Book:Works

Source: Works

“The future is a fog that is still hanging out over the sea, a boat that floats home or does not. The trade winds blow me, and I do not know where the land is; the waves fold over each other; they are in love with themselves; sleeping in their own skin; and I float over them and I do not know about tomorrow.”

Knows Doe Stills Home Sleep Sea Land Wind Tomorrow Future Skins Trade Wave Blow Boat Hanging Out Fog Floats Folds Sleeping In

Book:Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters

Source: Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters

“The wind breathes not, and the wave Walks softly as above a grave.”

Walks Wind Wave Breathe Graves

Book:Festus: a poem

Source: Festus: a poem

“However constant the visitations of sickness and bereavement, the fall of the year is most thickly strewn with the fall of human life. Everywhere the spirit of some sad power seems to direct the time; it hides from us the blue heavens, it makes the green wave turbid; it walks through the fields, and lays the damp ungathered harvest low; it cries out in the night wind and the shrill hail; it steals the summer bloom from the infant cheek; it makes old age shiver to the heart; it goes to the churchyard, and chooses many a grave.”

Source: Endeavors After the Christian Life: Discourses

“He ploughs the waves, sows the sand, and hopes to gather the wind in a net, who places his hopes on the heart of a woman. [It., Ne l'onde solca, e ne l'arena semina, E'l vago vento spera in rete acogliere Chi sue speranze fonda in cor di femina.]”

Heart Women Wind Wave Sand Arena

Author:Jacopo Sannazaro

“What we discover is it was not the waves or the birds or the wind that were standing out and being separate from existence; it was we who were standing out and being separate from existence.”

Suffering Existence Wind Buddhism Bird Standing Wave Standing Out

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I pray for my nation, South Africa. As Jesus stood in the boat and commanded the storms to be calm, I stand in the midst of the storm in my nation, South Africa and I command the storm, wind and waves to be calm, in the name of Jesus! I speak calmness to my nation, South Africa, in the name of Jesus!”

Jesus Names Speak Nations Wind Praying South Calm Wave Storm Command Boat Midst South Africa Patriot Calmness I Pray

Author:T. B. Joshua

“I supply my own angels and demons. I exist on a stony beach, which lowers itself in waves toward a protective ocean. A dog barks; a child cries; the day sinks and becomes night. You can never scare me. No human being will be able to scare me ever again. I have a prayer that I repeat to myself in absolute stillness: May a wind come to stir up the ocean and the stifling twilight. May a bird come from water out there and explode the silence with its call.”

Source: Images: my life in film

“All is going on as it was wont. The waves are hoarse with repetition of their mystery; the dust lies piled upon the shore; the sea-birds soar and hover; the winds and clouds go forth upon their trackless flight; the white arms beckon, in the moonlight, to the invisible country far away.”

Source: Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail and for Export

“A mighty wind of resolution sets in strong upon him and freshens the whole atmosphere of his soul, sweeping down before it the light flakes of difficulty, till they vanish like snow upon the sea. He is imprisoned no more in a small compartment of time, but belongs to an eternity which is now and here. The isolation of his separate spirit passes away; and with the countless multitude of souls akin to God, he is but a wave of his unbounded deep. He is at one with Heaven, and hath found the secret place of the Almighty.”

Source: Endeavours after the Christian life: discourses

“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.”

May Care Fall Compassion Fire Wind Wave Cease Harmonious Great Power Choir Windy Old Car

Book:The Major Works

Source: The Major Works

“The best thing is to go from nature's God dawn to nature; and if you once get to nature's God, and believe Him, and love Him, it is surprising how easy it is to hear music in the waves, and songs in the wild whisperings of the winds; to see God everywhere in the stones, in the rocks, in the rippling brooks, and hear Him everywhere, in the lowing of cattle, in the rolling of thunder, and in the fury of tempests. Get Christ first, put Him in the right place, and you will find Him to be the wisdom of God in your own experience.”

Ifs Firsts Believe Song Easy Christ Nature Rocks Wind Stones And Love Wave Best Things Dawn Surprising Rolling Thunder Fury Right Place Brooks Whispering Cattle Tempest

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“It can be helpful to remember that the enlightened mind and the ordinary mind are two sides of the same coin. The mind is like the sea, which can be rough on the surface, with mountainous waves stirred up by ferocious wind, but calm and peaceful at the bottom. Sometimes we can catch sight of this peaceful mind even in times of trouble. These glimpses of peace show us that we may have more inner resources to draw upon than we had realized. With skill and patience, we can learn how to be in touch with our peaceful selves.”

“England, so long mistress of the sea, Where winds and waves confess her sovereignty, Her ancient triumphs yet on high shall bear And reign the sovereign of the conquered air.”

Long Air Sea Wind Bears England Ancient Wave Triumph Aviation Sovereign Reign Sovereignty Mistress Airpower

Author:Thomas Gray

“I can tell that the Greater Yellowstone from the Tetons, to the Lamar Valley where wolves howl and grizzlies roam, acts as my spine, my range of memory that ties me to landscape of Other. And that the ocean from the rocky coast of Maine, to the Florida everglades, to the looming cliffs at Big Sur, sustain me, remind me we are nothing without salt water, wind, and waves.”

I Can Bigs Water Memories Greater Wind Ocean Wave Landscape Range Ties Valleys Salt Florida Coast Cliffs Spine Howl Maine Looming Grizzlies Salt Water Yellowstone Everglades Big Sur

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave, The moon, their mistress, had expir'd before; The winds were wither'd in the stagnant air, And the clouds perish'd; Darkness had no need Of aid from them-She was the Universe.”

Needs Universe Darkness Air Wind Moon Clouds Wave Aids Graves Tides Mistress Stagnant

Author:Lord Byron

“Breathe soft, ye winds! ye waves, in silence sleep!”

Peace Sleep Silence Wind Wave Breathe

Book:The Poetical works

Source: The Poetical works

“Small minds just like light winds can never create giant waves.”

Mind Light Wind Wave Giants Small Minds

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“There should be intensive research of all forms of clean energy - sun power, wind power, water power including wave power. In some places thermal energy is available. I stayed on a ranch which, with solar panels and two windmills, provided its own energy.”

Should Two Form Energy Water Sun Wind Research Clean Including Wave Available Clean Energy Windmills Solar Panels Wind Power Thermal Water Power

Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“When I went to school, it was right after the '60s and before this general wave of practical purposefulness had set in.... The idealistic wind of the '60s was still at our backs, though, and most of the people I know who are my age have that engrained in them forever.”

People Knows Stills Age School Forever Wind Wave Practicals Idealistic Purposefulness

Author:Steve Jobs

“Wind is the heart of the wave, the spoon of the sea and the angry bull of the ships. Without wind, there is no ardour, no agitation!”

Heart Sea Wind Angry Wave Ships Bulls Spoons Agitation

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“The movement of the waves, of winds, of the earth is ever in the same lasting harmony. We do not stand on the beach and inquire of the ocean what was its movement of the past and what will be its movement of the future. We realize that the movement peculiar to its nature is eternal to its nature. The dancer of the future will be one whose body and soul have grown so harmoniously together that the natural language of that soul will have become the movement of the body.”

Soul Body Earth Together Past Language Realizing Natural Movement Wind Ocean Eternal Harmony Wave Beach Dancer Lasting Peculiar

Author:Isadora Duncan

“The legislator is like the navigator of a ship on the high seas. He can steer the vessel on which he sails, but he cannot alter its construction, raise the wind, or stop the waves from swelling beneath his feet.”

Sea Feet Wind Raises Wave Ships Construction Sail Vessel Steers Legislators Swelling High Seas Navigators

Author:Alexis de Tocqueville

“Winter near the shore is cold. The wind kicks up a salty mist and elephant seals come to shore to trumpet and rut and birth their pups. Retired people put sweaters on their lap dogs and drag them down the street on retractable leashes in a nightly parade of doggy humiliation. Surfers don their wetsuits against the chill of storm waves and white sharks adjust their diets to include shrink-wrapped dude-snacks on fiberglass crackers.”

“Like a fierce wind roaring high up in the bare branches of trees, a wave of passion came over me, aimless but surging . . . I suppose it's lust, but it's awful and holy like thunder and lightning and the wind.”

Passion Tree Wind Holy Wave Lust Awful Branches Fierce Lightning Thunder Roaring Thunder And Lightning Bare Branches

Book:A Life of One's Own

Source: A Life of One's Own

“I know how to dance with the wind, I can use its power by sailing this way, then that way, and again this way, till finally I get to you. With rowing, you're working primarily with your arms and shoulders. But with sailing, you're making bigger use of the wind and the waves.”

Knows Way I Can Use Know How Wind Arms Bigger Wave Shoulders Sailing Rowing

Author:Jeff Bridges

“Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind.”

Political Written Judging Wind Constitution Wave Sand Patriotic Prohibition

Author:Hugo Black

“As far as I am concerned I wish to be out on the high seas. I wish to take my chances with wind, and wave, and star. And I had rather go down in the glory and grandeur of the storm, than rot in any orthodox harbor.”

Wish Stars Chance Sea Wind Glory Concerned Wave Storm Orthodox Harbors Grandeur High Seas

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“The powerful wind swept his hair away from his face; he leaned his chest into the wind, as if he stood on the deck of a ship heading into the wind, slicing through the waves of an ocean he’d not yet seen.”

Ifs Faces Powerful Wind Hair Ocean Wave Ships Chests Headings Deck

Author:John Irving

“For this is the truth about our soul, he thought, who fish-like inhabits deep seas and plies among obscurities threading her way between the boles of giant weeds, over sun-flickered spaces and on and on into gloom, cold, deep, inscrutable; suddenly she shoots to the surface and sports on the wind-wrinkled waves; that is, has a positive need to brush, scrape, kindle herself, gossiping.”

Way Needs Soul Sports Space Sun Sea Wind Cold Wave Fishes Surface Giants Weed Brushes Obscurity Gloom Kindles Inscrutable Deep Sea Plies

Book:Mrs Dalloway

Source: Mrs Dalloway

“I spent uncounted hours sitting at the bow looking at the water and the sky, studying each wave, different from the last, seeing how it caught the light, the air, the wind; watching patterns, the sweep of it all, and letting it take me. The sea.”

Different Light Lasts Water Hours Study Seeing Air Sea Sky Wind Ocean Sitting Wave Patterns Caught Take Me Bows Sea Water Sea And Sky Ocean Wave Sea Air

Book:Caught by the Sea: My Life on Boats

Source: Caught by the Sea: My Life on Boats

“We clear the harbor and the wind catches her sails and my beautiful ship leans over ever so gracefully, and her elegant bow cuts cleanly into the increasing chop of the waves. I take a deep breath and my chest expands and my heart starts thumping so strongly I fear the others might see it beat through the cloth of my jacket. I face the wind and my lips peel back from my teeth in a grin of pure joy.”

“....he began to speak to me, not in the jocular way of visitors to the menagerie but rather as one speaks to the wind or to the waves crashing on a beach, uttering that which must be said but which must not be heard by anyone.”

Way Said Speak Heard Wind Wave Beach Visitors Menagerie

Book:Ishmael: A Novel

Source: Ishmael: A Novel

“It is moonlight. Alone in the silence I ascend my stairs once more, While waves remote in pale blue starlight Crash on a white sand shore. It is moonlight. The garden is silent. I stand in my room alone. Across my wall, from the far-off moon, A rain of fire is thrown. There are houses hanging above the stars, And stars hung under the sea, And a wind from the long blue vault of time Waves my curtains for me. I wait in the dark once more, swung between space and space: Before the mirror I lift my hands And face my remembered face.”

Source: The Charnel Rose. Senlin: Biography and Other Poems

“In the morning there was a big wind blowing and the waves were running high up on the beach and he was awake a long time before he remembered that his heart was broken.”

Heart Long Bigs Running Morning Wind Broken Long Time Wave Beach Remembered Awake Wind Blowing

Book:The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

Source: The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

“Listening (had there been any one to listen) from the upper rooms of the empty house only gigantic chaos streaked with lightning could have been heard tumbling and tossing, as the winds and waves disported themselves like the amorphous bulks of leviathans whose brows are pierced by no light of reason, and mounted one on top of another, and lunged and plunged in the darkness or the daylight (for night and day, month and year ran shapelessly together) in idiot games, until it seemed as if the universe were battling and tumbling, in brute confusion and wanton lust aimlessly by itself.”

Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

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