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Quotes About Wave

A woman's vows I write upon the wave.
~ Sophocles
I thank God and His Son, Jesus Christ, for the Restoration and its power to propel a magnificent wave of truth and righteousness across the earth.
~ Russell M. Nelson
Life is a wave of love for a lover, a gift for a giver, a drama for an actor, and a canvas for a painter.
~ Debasish Mridha
Sometimes, when you walk by the home of the girl you love, you can see her standing by the window... She waves at you, and you wave back... But it's her grandmother.
~ Charles M. Schulz
Marina sighs. "Love's a tidal wave," she says. "Because it sweeps you off your feet?" I ask. "No. Because it sucks you under and you drown.
~ Jodi Picoult
Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, which states that the electron is a particle but a particle that can be described in terms of waves.
~ Bill Bryson
the strange behavior of the electron. The principal problem they faced was that the electron sometimes behaved like a particle and sometimes like a wave.
~ Bill Bryson
History says, don't hope On this side of the grave. But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of Justice can rise up. And hope and history rhyme.
~ Bob Woodward
In a single wave of meaning the triumphant purity of being.
~ Boris Pasternak
In years of affliction, in times Of unthinkable daily life, She was thrown to him from the bottom By the wave of destiny.
~ Boris Pasternak
The sun will diminish it soon enough: Each wave-tip glitters like a knife.
~ Sylvia Plath
Old men ought to be explorers Here and there does not matter We must be still and still moving Into another intensity For a further union, a deeper communion Through the dark cold and the empty desolation, The wave cry, the wind cry, the vast waters Of the petrel and the porpoise.
~ T.S. Eliot
Love is like going snorkeling... You go along looking at pretty fish and cool plants until a wave rolls you over a coral reef... then the sharks come.
~ Julie Wright
The river and its waves are one surf: where is the difference between the river and its waves? When the wave rises, it is the water; and when it falls, it is the same water again. Tell me, Sir, where is the distinction? Because it has been named as wave, shall it no longer be considered as water? Within the Supreme Brahma, the worlds are being told like beads: Look upon that rosary with the eyes of wisdom.
~ Kabir
gluttony. Six weeks I have been at sea, and every wave looking just like the one before, in wet procession.
~ Francis Spufford
Averages might mean something to bureaucrats and engineers, but the sea had no truck with statistics: it was a succession of unpredictable circumstances and extremes. A particular stretch of water might have an average wave height of ten metres, but if you were hit by a one-off thirty-metre monster that statistically didn't exist, the average would be of precious little comfort: you would die.
~ Frank Schätzing
The frontier is the outer edge of the wave—the meeting-point between savagery and civilization… the line of most rapid and effective Americanization. The wilderness masters the colonist.
~ Frederick Jackson Turner
Mizzy gave me a little wave, but otherwise completely abandoned me as I was pulled through the crowd. To the dancing. I guess that's what you'd call it. It looked like everyone had insects in their shirts and were trying really hard to get them out. I'd seen dancing in movies, and it had looked a lot more ... coordinated than this.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Ya Ru's father had drowned in the big political tidal wave that Mao had set in motion.
~ Henning Mankell
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The hawk is aerial brother of the wave which he sails over and surveys, those his perfect air-inflated wings answering to the elemental unfledged pinions of the sea.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The past came back to her in one of those rushing waves of emotion by which persons of sensibility are visited at odd hours.
~ Henry James
Every great wave of popular passion that rolls up on the prairies is dashed to spray when it strikes the hard rocks of Manhattan.
~ Henry Louis Mencken
Every thought has the power to spread its effects on other minds as a wave can spread all over the ocean.
~ Debasish Mridha