Distant Waves Quotes

#1. Suddenly I was cocooned in silent,blissful darkness,with only the whisper of distant waves to remind me where I was.

Ransom Riggs

#2. Maybe all the events of the last few months had occured for just one reason - to bring Thad and me together. Perhaps our being here on the Titanic wasn't pre-destination, but rather, destiny.

Suzanne Weyn

#3. I've loved Eleanor as long as you've been alive but it's wrong of me to dismiss your feelings for her simply because they're younger than mine.

Tiffany Reisz

#4. Evening had fallen. A rim of the young moon cleft the pale waste of sky line, the rim of a silver hoop embedded in grey sand: and the tide was flowing in fast to the land with a low whisper of her waves, islanding a few last figures in distant pools.

James Joyce

#5. I think a lot of people truly underestimate how much planning is involved in a teacher's work cycle.

Dana Goldstein

#6. I still believe that capitalism is too harsh and I believe that, even within that, there is a lot of satisfaction and beauty if you happen to be one of the lucky ones, although that doesn't eradicate the reality of the suffering. It's all true at once, kind of humming and sublime.

George Saunders

#7. If our cover breaks in here, we're toast. Worse that toast, we're the crappy crumbs of carbon left at the bottom of a toster oven that I haven't cleaned out in three months.

Michael R. Underwood

#8. What is it about someone genuine that makes other people want to crucify him in some tiny-seeming way? Someone has probably written the reason down in a book. But no one takes any notice, if we do know.

Elizabeth Harrower

#9. I love Prince, thought he was super dope.

Deon Cole

#10. I could hear only the slight murmur of the city, faint and rhythmic as the breaking of waves on a distant shore. The statues glistened in the moonlight, and in the early morning hours the wind sometimes wafted the spicy aroma of vegetables from the near-by Halles.

Anonymous

#11. Out of the depths of my happy heart wells a great tide of love and prayer for this priceless treasure that is confided to my lifelong keeping. You cannot see its waves as they flow toward you, darling, but in these lines you will hear ... the distant beating of its surf.

Mark Twain

#12. BRAZILIFICATION:The widening gulf between the rich and the poor and the accompanying disappearance of the middle classes.

Douglas Coupland

#13. It seemed to me that man himself was like a half-emptied bottle of pale ale, which Time had drunk so far, yet stoppled tight for a while, and drifting about in the ocean of circumstances, but destined ere-long to mingle with the surrounding waves, or be spilled amid the sands of a distant shore.

Henry David Thoreau

#14. Take no revenge that you have not pondered beneath a starry sky, or on a canyon overlook, or to the lapping of waves and the mewing of a distant gull.

Robert Breault

#15. You can look at my palm and see the storm coming. Read the book of my life and see I've overcome it.

Mary J. Blige

#16. Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.

Jim Morrison

#17. If you catch a tiger by its tail all you have caught is a tail. And nothing else.

Angel Propps

#18. The last light, in the last window, went out. Only the unstoppable machine of the sea still tears away at the silence with the cyclical explosion of nocturnal waves, distant memories of sleepwalking storms and the shipwrecks of dream.

Alessandro Baricco

#19. No person or group ever conforms completely to a type.

Timothy Keller