Quotes About Rivulets

#1. She dove, plunging fully beneath the surface and came up again in tears. Rivulets ran from her face, and the sun ignited them each, transforming them, even amid her sorrow, into gilded runnels set with a diamond shine.

A.S. Peterson

#2. Relish the fresh landscape of my wound, break rushes and delicate rivulets, drink blood poured on honeyed thigh.

Federico Garcia Lorca

#3. Pain. I seem to have an affection, a kind of sweettooth for it. Bolts of lightning, little rivulets of thunder.
And I the eye of the storm.

Toni Morrison

#4. Even the early droplets of selfish decisions suggest a direction. Then the little inflecting rivulets come, merging into small brooks and soon into larger streams; finally one is swept along by a vast river which flows into the "gulf of misery and endless wo" (Hel. 5:12).

Neal A. Maxwell

#5. Moments cast rivulets,
Others eyes see.
Faith awaits,
From a once dormant state,
Inside you, inside me.

Kari L. Greenaway

#6. The stars of midnight shall be dear
To her; and she shall lean her ear
In many a secret place
Where rivulets dance their wayward round,
And beauty born of murmuring sound
Shall pass into her face.

William Wordsworth

#7. My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.

Mel Brooks

#8. Peer over the edge
Can you see me?
Rivulets flow from your eyes
Paint runs from your mouth
Like a waterfall
And your lungs crystalize

Owl City

#9. I know ladies don't sweat, but something was running down my face in great rivulets.

Rhys Bowen

#10. True, (Jefferson's) rational religion ran in rivulets outside the American mainstream, but heterodoxy is faith of a different form and, like orthodoxy, should be recognized for what it is: a way of being religious.

Stephen R. Prothero

#11. Heady rivulets
Unlike the swollen river
Will crack and blacken

Martha Robach

#12. Therefore a man should examine for himself the great piles of superimposed strata, and watch the rivulets bringing down mud, and the waves wearing away the sea-cliffs, in order to comprehend something about the duration of past time, the monuments of which we see all around us.

Charles Darwin

#13. See yonder fire! It is the moon slow rising o'er the eastern hill. It glimmers on the forest tips, and through the dewy foliage drips In little rivulets of light, and makes the heart in love with night.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#14. Now to rivulets from the mountains Point the rods of fortune-tellers; Youth perpetual dwells in fountains, Not in flasks, and casks, and cellars.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#15. Harshness vanished. A sudden softness has replaced the meadows' wintry grey. Little rivulets of water changed their singing accents. Tendernesses, hesitantly, reach toward the earth from space, and country lanes are showing these unexpected subtle risings that find expression in the empty trees.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#16. There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds, the whisper of groves, and the murmur of rivulets.

Samuel Johnson

#17. Sweet is every sound, Sweeter thy voice, but every sound is sweet; Myriads of rivulets hurrying thro' the lawn, The moans of doves in immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#18. I think it's good politics to beat up on big companies and rich people.

Sam Wyly

#19. It's not at all a bad idea for scientific questions to be chosen because a democratic deliberation would identify them as important for people's lives.

Philip Kitcher

#20. He heard the Baymen tell of war, but they never said it could be harnessed, its head held down, and made to run in place.

Mark Helprin

#21. Ef you want peace, the thing you've gut to du
Is jes' to show you're up to fightin', tu.

James Russell Lowell

#22. Neither our oceans nor our radar nor our fighters can keep us intact through another major war.

Philip Morrison

#23. My soundless feet shall fly among the runners
Through the red thunders of a Zeppelin raid,
My still voice cheer the Anti-Aircraft gunners,
The fires shall glare - but I shall cast no shade.

Stella Benson

#24. By 2020, Pakistan could have a fissile material stockpile sufficient to produce more than 200 nuclear weapons.

Anonymous

#25. It doesn't matter if you're human, or a shape shifter, women always get the bad end of the bargain.

Mari Arden

#26. The Universe will kick you out of your nest so you can fly.

James Arthur Ray