Wave Quotes - Page 5
Man marks the earth with ruin - his control stops with the shore.
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage canto 4, st. 179 (1818)
Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
Thomas Moore (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Moore (Illustrated)”, p.348, Delphi Classics
Repetition is not failure. Ask the waves, ask the leaves, ask the wind.
Mark Nepo (2012). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want By Being Present in the Life You Have”, Hachette UK
Lisa Scottoline (2010). “Look Again”, p.218, Macmillan
The sensation of colour cannot be accounted for by the physicist's objective picture of light-waves.
"Mind and Matter". Book by Erwin Schrodinger, 1958.
Thought and beauty, like a hurricane or waves, should not know conventional, delimited forms.
"The Letter". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1887.
Thomas Hood (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood (Illustrated)”, p.313, Delphi Classics
You can't push a wave onto the shore any faster than the ocean brings it in.
Susan Strasberg (1980). “Bittersweet”, Putnam Publishing Group
Walk out backwards if you must go, but please don't wave good-bye.
Song: Walk Out Backwards, 1997