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Quotes About Waves

It was as foolish as the fact that in the days of the ancients the ocean blindly splashed on the shore for twenty-four hours a day, without interruption or use. The millions of kilogram meters of energy which were hidden in the waves were used only for the stimulation of sweethearts! We obtained electricity from the amorous whisper of the waves!
~ Zamyatin E.I.
The sun had already turned the blue-black asphalt into soft, bubbly patches and heat rose in waves that seemed to breathe.
~ Deborah Smith
Your surfing can get better on every turn, on every wave you catch. Learn to read the ocean better. A big part of my success has been wave knowledge.
~ Kelly Slater
Life comes at us in waves. We can't predict or control those waves, but we can learn to surf
~ Dan Millman
I find it obscene that countries have fallen apart and people are now organized on the basis of the order of their molecules and the waves they emit. I
~ Jeff Vandermeer
And for the Keeper, waves splashed, trees swayed, stones protected knowledge, and wind waited for orders.
~ Jeffrey Overstreet
Malibu: With sounds of waves crashing, and the ocean at the doorstep, you feel like you are hours away from civilization. And with L.A. traffic, YOU ARE.
~ Jennifer Harrison
the rocks around this bay are simply dreadful!' George and
~ Enid Blyton
He's a bad man, sent with sorrow and shame wherever he goes, and I know it just as I know the long dead roll of the waves and the white creeping mist--like a dirty thief--which makes me cry out at sea 'All hands to reef! Quick! All hands to reef!'
~ AMELIA E. BARR
I have to at least get a couple weekends in where I can just be on Santa Monica beach or Malibu and just ride the waves.
~ Jake T. Austin
I think you could find some waves on the west side of Denmark, but I never tried it.
~ Lars Mikkelsen
highway curled breathtakingly close to the cliff edges above the Pacific, its cresting cobalt waves pummeling the rocks while embracing the beaches below. The view soothed
~ Rick Mofina
Competitive advantage, he reasoned, could best be thought of in waves, with the job of the strategist being to seize strategic initiative by launching ever-new
~ Rita Gunther McGrath
The evening darkens over After a day so bright, The windcapt waves discover That wild will be the night.
~ Robert Bridges
Rand calmed himself, finding peace, turning to Tam. He remembered, from his old memories, something from a book. The key to leadership is in the rippling waves. You could not find stillness on a body of water if there was turmoil underneath. Likewise, you could not find peace and focus in a group unless the leader himself had peace within.
~ Robert Jordan
The key to leadership is in the rippling waves.
~ Robert Jordan
To the ocean. That sounds right. Where the waves roll in slowly and there's always a roar and you can't fall anywhere. You're already there.
~ Robert M. Pirsig
to keep himself amused, starts to look for options of Quality, and secretly pursues these options, just for their own sake, thus making an art out of what he is doing, he's likely to discover that he becomes a much more interesting person and much less of an object to the people around him because his Quality decisions change him too. And not only the job and him, but others too because the Quality tends to fan out like waves.
~ Robert M. Pirsig
Investment cycles come in waves, as do ocean waves. They also change with the seasons.
~ Robert T. Kiyosaki
Just as experienced surfers learn not to fight the waves or currents, sophisticated investors go with the trends, changing strategies when appropriate, or standing on the sideline if things are too choppy.
~ Robert T. Kiyosaki
Surfers learn to respect the change in the power of the waves and water with each change of season.
~ Robert T. Kiyosaki
There was a blue, waiting sea at the end and an old grey house fronting the sunset, so close to the purring waves that in storms their spray dashed over its very doorstep...a wise old house that knew many things, as Pat always felt. Mother's old home and therefore to be loved, whether one could love the people in it or not.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Rebecca Dew was waving it.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Do you hear how the sand sings?
~ Laura Esquivel