Huge Waves Quotes

#1. People travel to wonder
at the height of the mountains,
at the huge waves of the seas,
at the long course of the rivers,
at the vast compass of the ocean,
at the circular motion of the stars,
and yet they pass by themselves
without wondering.

Augustine Of Hippo

#2. If those who wrote and ratified the 14th Amendment had imagined laws restricting immigration - and had anticipated huge waves of illegal immigration - is it reasonable to presume they would have wanted to provide the reward of citizenship to the children of the violators of those laws? Surely not.

George Will

#3. Huge waves that would frighten an ordinary swimmer produce a tremendous thrill for the surfer who has ridden them.

Oswald Chambers

#4. The world is ruled by letting things take their course. It cannot be ruled by interfering.

Laozi

#5. The first planet that Cooper and his crew visit is Miller's. The most impressive things about this planet are the extreme slowing of time there, gigantic water waves, and huge tidal gravity. All three are related, and arise from the planet's closeness to Gargantua.

Kip S. Thorne

#6. I'm the national champion of Jamaica now, I go into the Olympics like this.

Yohan Blake

#7. Heya, newbie! Newbie? I squinted. Not quite sure how to take that.

Alyson Noel

#8. California has a beautiful coastline. It can be a rough coastline. The waves are huge. The rocks are steep. Same thing in Vancouver. It has a beautiful coastline. It's dramatic.

Jennifer Granholm

#9. I owe my father everything.

Robert Carlyle

#10. Fear brings out the best in some people and the worst in others. It's a test of character, for individuals and nations.

David Ignatius

#11. An artist, as much as a writer or composer, needed themes, needed ideas.

Hanya Yanagihara

#12. Once we understand that what happens beyond our control may be just what we need, we see that acceptance of reality can be our way of participating in our own evolution.

David Richo

#13. There is something inside me, some selfish beast of a subtle thing that doesn't like truth at all because it carries responsibility.

Donald Miller

#14. Don't bore the public with mysterious designs,

Bob Noorda

#15. I am camp. Lots of gay men can't cope with their campness. They are in denial about it.

Graham Norton

#16. There are days when I think there really is some huge great tapestry of a plan out there and we're all woven into it - this fabulous, complex pattern of life and death, full of recurring motifs and waves of color, and we're each one tiny thread in the weave.

Jane Johnson

#17. When the storms of life strike, it's what happens in you that will determine what happens to you.

Jerry Savelle

#18. A full moon sprinkled the black ocean with diamonds, and she could imagine fairies dancing in the silver foam that laced the huge, dark waves.

Patricia Hagan

#19. I was surrounded by ripples and cascades of Light, rising and falling all around me, like immense waves in the middle of a huge ocean. I was a tiny girl-child, newborn.

Cristael Ann Bengtson

#20. Every great decision creates ripples. Like a huge boulder dropping in a lake. The ripples merge and rebound off the banks in unforseeable ways. The heavier the decision, the larger the waves, the more uncertain the consequences.

Sylvester McCoy

#21. The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is intermediate.

Aristotle.

#22. It was [Hugh's] omnipresent fear that some woman might be foisted on him who would turn out to be an adventuress and would blackmail him. This preoccupation made it almost impossible for him to engage a secretary.

Anthony Powell

#23. Country is not what you heard on the Grammys.

Crystal Gayle

#24. Love swamped her. It always seemed to come in huge, unexpected waves that left her flailing helplessly.

J.D. Robb