Beautiful Lakes Quotes

#1. It was the silent time before dawn, along the shores of what had been one of the most beautiful lakes in southern Africa.

James A. Michener

#2. Beautiful roads must be walked; beautiful lakes must be swam; beautiful mountains must be climbed! Beautiful realities must not just be watched, they must be lived!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#3. Do not always run away from the darkness! Remember the beautiful lakes which are hidden inside the dark caves! In the least expected places, there exist the most beautiful treasures!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#4. They were dancing around the fountain, arm in arm, in an old Dutch dance, their cheeks touching, their hands entwined. They had no music; they hummed. And there was no reason for them to be dancing that Peter Lake could see, except that it was an exceptionally beautiful night.

Mark Helprin

#5. Our hearts may have broken in Nebraska but in Colorado they split open along the fractures, crumble to pieces, blow away. The peaks and green valleys, the lakes set at the foot of mountains like offerings. Beautiful and doomed and thus terrible.

Ron Currie Jr.

#6. It is probably better to realize that the probability concept is in a sense subjective, that it is always based on uncertain knowledge, and that its quantitative evaluation is subject to change as we obtain more information.

Richard Feynman

#7. Although traditional weapons killed far more people in the Great War, poison gas gave a new nightmare edge to the fighting.

Deborah Blum

#8. For example, in my district there are visitors from all over the world who are drawn to our beautiful beaches, recreational lakes, habitat wildlife preserves and golf courses.

Mark Foley

#9. Success is the consequence of courage, commitment, and competence. You cannot seek a consequence - it has to be created. - Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

Anisha Motwani

#10. Sadan was so...beautiful. There seemed no other word for him, even if he had proved to be an ass and deserved to die in lakes of his own blood.

J.C. Owens

#11. They sat close to each other, and he told her a story about her eyes. They were beautiful dark lakes in which her thoughts swam about like mermaids. And her forehead was a snowy mountain, grand and shining. These were lovely stories.

Hans Christian Andersen

#12. During his interviews, he was unable to find essential answers to his ultimate questions: 1. What is man? 2. How should man live?

Nathan Bellow

#13. Successfully completing a lesser purpose doesn't feel good very good for very long, because it is simply preparation for advancing toward a greater embodiment of your deeper purpose.

David Deida

#14. Scientists have reaped rich rewards, they have sat high in government councils and have been blinded by the attractiveness of public life-all this because they happen to have been good killers.

Frank Press

#15. I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.

Stendhal

#16. On the periscope ... What a beautiful view. Cloud cover over Florida - three to four tenths near the eastern coast. Obscured up to Hatteras ... I can see [lake] Okeechobee. Identify Andros Island. Identify the reefs.

Alan Shepard

#17. I don't for the life of me understand how anybody could contemplate the results of the 2000 election in the US and say that electoral politics doesn't matter any more, and that Ralph Nader was right when he said there is no difference between the two parties.

Todd Gitlin

#18. Those waters which leave the main stream either cannot reach the sea and disappear in inland or find a better place, a beautiful lake.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#19. God does arithmetic.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

#20. She pushed Adam firmly back, once and for all, and turned to face the demon, the crescent moon of the scythe's blade circling over her head as a vane signals a change in the weather.
The wind was finally blowing her way.

Erin Kellison

#21. The world has enough beautiful mountains and meadows, spectacular skies and serene lakes. It has enough lush forests, flowered fields and sandy beaches. It has plenty of stars and the promise of a new sunrise and sunset every day. What the world needs more of is people to appreciate and enjoy it.

Michael Josephson

#22. I love Salt Lake City. well. It's beautiful with all the great outdoors around you.

Peter Sagal

#23. Captain Shotover: How much does your soul eat?
Ellie: Oh, a lot. It eats music and pictures and books and mountains and lakes and beautiful things to wear and nice people to be with.

George Bernard Shaw

#24. Most mystics do not want to read religious wisdom; they want to be it. A postcard of a beautiful lake is not a beautiful lake, and Sufis may be defined as those who dance in the lake.

Huston Smith