Top 100 The Wave Quotes
#2. You have not heard the last of me, Sorceress Perenelle," he sobbed. "You will never escape alive!" Fighting the wave of exhaustion that washed over her, Perenelle turned back to the ladder and pulled herself upward. "That's what everyone says," she murmured. "But I'm still alive,
Michael Scott
#3. Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
Ovid
#4. Don't fight the waves. Dive under, bob up, or catch the curl and ride the wave. The ocean is stronger than you; you might as well be a matchstick in comparison. But if you yield to the waves, they carry you, their power becomes you. ~ Elizabeth Cunningham
Kytka Hilmar-Jezek
#5. Hide me, I cry,
protect me, for I am the youngest, the most naked of you all.
Jinny rides like a gull on the wave ... but I ... am broken into
separate pieces; I am no longer one.
Virginia Woolf
#7. The basic rules of life would indicate that it can't last forever, and we'll fall off of the wave and have to climb onto another, but I don't think about it too much. We just keep moving.
Stevie Jackson
#8. Breath is life. You are not the pebble washed to shore by the wave, but the fish that swims in the wave. Breathe in to fill, to draw in the light. Slow," he told her, "with awareness. Breathe out to empty. And pause, hold in that space between. Now in to fill.
J.D. Robb
#9. The wave function of this situation is going to collapse quite soon.
Philip Pullman
#10. Unless you paddle for the wave, you'll never know if you could catch it. But once you do ... Ride it as long as you can. Love as long as you can.
Abigail Spencer
#11. Let me be the wave. And if I cannot be the wave, let me be the rupture at the bottom. Let me be that terrible first rift in the dark.]
Lauren Groff
#13. When I started surfing, you'd hear this neat rumbling sound when you took off and go for the drop, and when the wave is lipping up over the top of you, it makes this hissing sound.
Dick Dale
#14. You absolutely feel, as a black actress, that you've got to ride the wave because there's just so few roles. I hate to play that card, but it's the truth. There's not a lot of roles.
Viola Davis
#15. Jose was one of those guys on a surfboard who can stay longer on the wave than anyone else.
Alex Ferguson
#16. The dividing line between the wave or particle nature of matter and radiation is the moment "Now." As this moment steadily advances through time it coagulates a wavy future into a particle past.
William Lawrence Bragg
#17. It was an election year and there was reason for concern over the turn of events. The country was waking up. The wave of discontent that was stirring the people was beginning to strike at the heart of that oligarchic society.
Isabel Allende
#18. The wave is born, and all it sees are other waves and feels these other waves are separate. But things are not as they seem. The wave is simply the ocean in specific expression. Once the life of the wave is over, it goes back to being the ocean. It was always the ocean.
Jeff Krasno
#19. Stock prices aren't real things. They're just froth on a wave. The wave is the only real thing, which investors forget when they're watching the ticket slither by.
Jane Bryant Quinn
#20. Now that we've entered the wave of extinction let's sing while we still can ... Quick, climb onto my back and cry wreck it wreck it like a frog in the grip of ecstatic amplexus
Lucia Perillo
#21. In some units it may suppress the motor discharge altogether, in some it may merely slow the motor discharge thus lessening the wave frequency of the contraction and so the tension.
Charles Scott Sherrington
#22. The wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the liberation of the diverse energies of free nations and free men.
John F. Kennedy
#23. The wave can live the life of a wave, but it can also do better. It can live every moment of its life deeply touching its nature of no-birth and no-death, that is, its nature as water.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#24. I didn't think that wave was going to offer a ton, ... But the wave just held form, and I was able to get a lot out of it.
Kelly Slater
#25. 300 million people turned into jelly by The Wave and Rupert Murdoch wasn't one of them. There is no god.
John Birmingham
#26. Then some one said, "We will return no more";
And all at once they sang, "Our island home
Is far beyond the wave; we will no longer roam.
Alfred Tennyson
#27. 'bye. Great knowing you. Fun peeing next to you in the wave pool that one time...?
Lauren Strasnick
#28. I've dropped my pebble in the ocean, and hopefully; throughout the course of the day; millions of others will drop theirs in too. No single one of us knows which pebble causes the wave to crest, but each of us, quite rightly, believes that it might be ours; an act of faith.
Michael J. Fox
#29. It was one of the realities of publishing: what was truly new often languished in the warehouse nearly unasked-for. One of the tricks of publishing was catching the wave of public taste at the right moment.
Jonathan Galassi
#30. The physical reality is assumed to be the wave function of the whole universe itself.
Hugh Jackman
#31. Life is a wave in the ocean of time. It touches the heart of the universe like a beautiful rhyme. We are riding the wave as spirits rhyme.
Debasish Mridha
#32. Time is the wave upon the shore. It takes some things away, but it brings other things.
Amy Neftzger
#33. I always thought that 'Good things happen to those who do the wave' No wonder I've been so confused
Cassandra Clare
#34. The wave is the signature of every experience of life. By understanding the nature of waves and their characteristics, and applying that understanding to our lives, we can navigate life with a little more grace.
Jeffrey R. Anderson
#35. Sometimes, you have to ride the wave, Kit-Cat, and see what beach it lands on. Could be warm and sunny there.
Dakota Cassidy
#36. The wave is the same as the ocean, though it is not the whole ocean. So each wave of creation is a part of the eternal Ocean of Spirit. The Ocean can exist without the waves, but the waves cannot exist without the Ocean.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#37. A leader is the wave pushed ahead by the ship.
Leo Tolstoy
#38. So many hearts broke the day Elsa was born. Shattered with such force by the wave that the shards of the glass were dispersed all around the world. Improbable catastrophes produce improbable things in people, improbable sorrow and improbable heroism.
Fredrik Backman
#39. you are ever again the wave sweeping through all things RAINER MARIA RILKE, BOOK OF HOURS
Ram Dass
#40. The wave hits. It doesn't even slow. Hungries slam full-tilt into the mesh and into the concrete stanchions that support it. It leans inwards, groans and creaks, but seems to be holding. The front ranks of walking corpses are treading water. But
M.R. Carey
#41. I'm talking to myself in two different personas now. I'm reaching for a full-throttle meltdown and why not? Why stop halfway? Why not just go for it, jump on and ride the wave?
C.K. Kelly Martin
#42. No, we always had something to do because I did all the wave runners and jet skis and boats approaching the atolls and stuff like that, so you could do that without showing the actual atoll or the set that you're going towards, but detailing all those guys racing towards it.
David R. Ellis
#43. If [one] could eliminate this kind of uncertainty ... [one] would eliminate most of the stressors of the world, and maybe, too, the wave of despair that was gathering in [her] chest. She'd been feeling this, this black rip, this loud tear, within her.
Dave Eggers
#44. It condemned The Wave as a dangerous and mindless movement that suppressed freedom of speech and thought and ran against everything the country was founded on.
Todd Strasser
#45. Spangling the wave with lights as vain As pleasures in the vale of pain, That dazzle as they fade.
Walter Scott
#46. There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you.
Norman Mailer
#47. If computers are the wave of the future, displays are the surfboards.
Ted Nelson
#49. In you is the illusion of each day. You arrive like the dew to the cupped flowers. You undermine the horizon with your absence. Eternally in flight like the wave.
Pablo Neruda
#50. Wind is the heart of the wave, the spoon of the sea and the angry bull of the ships. Without wind, there is no ardour, no agitation!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#51. The wave is ignorant of the true nature of the sea: how can the temporal comprehend the eternal?
Saib Tabrizi
#52. Lightnin' Hopkins was something of a fixture on the Houston coffee house scene so we were witness to eccentric blues brilliance close up. Then, believe it or not, along came the wave of the English cats like John Mayall, Eric Clapton and the Stones embracing the great American art form - the blues.
Billy Gibbons
#53. Take everything as it comes; the wave passes, deal with the next one.
Tom Thomson
#54. I gave my children the kind of dreams they could live by, but dreams are like oceans, Mr. McGill. If they're worth a damn they're bigger than the dreamer, and sometimes, when the one dreaming wants to be as big as what they imagine, the wave pulls'em down.
Walter Mosley
#55. The way is open, ride the wave of success again today. You can't lose.
Sereda Aleta Dailey
#56. I'm like a surfer right now. I'm just surfing the wave. Except that I can't swim, so I'm on the board trying to hold on tight.
Shaggy
#57. And from a poise at this station the plane may swoop down, at great disadvantage if close to the back of the wave, at various slopes and directions till it cuts into the air that is being raised by the face of the following wave, which again enables it to resume its velocity.
Lawrence Hargrave
#58. Women's words are as light as the doomed leaves whirling in autumn, Easily swept by the wind, easily drowned by the wave.
Ovid
#59. Sometimes you catch the wave. Sometimes the wave catches you.
Michael Grant
#60. The eternal principle, which never was born, never will die: it is in all things: it is in you now. You are the wave on the face of the ocean. When the wave is gone, is the water gone? Has anything happened? Nothing has happened. It is a play, a game, a dance.
Joseph Campbell
#61. My timing in life has been extraordinary. I've ridden the crest of the wave of the women's movement.
Susan Sullivan
#62. The R&D department can't get them to work but because the timing is wrong. Inventing is a lot like surfing: you have to anticipate and catch the wave at just the right moment.
Ray Kurzweil
#63. Geryon shrugged, which was very weird since he had three sets of shoulders. It looked like he was doing the wave all by himself. 'I work for anyone with gold, young lady. I'm a businessman.
Rick Riordan
#64. When I got on stage, I would have a rush of adrenaline; everybody gets it. Normally after the first night it becomes more controllable, and as long as I could ride the wave, I was still in charge.
Samantha Bond
#65. The wave of insurrection passed, leaving little change in the condition of the working class. Inertia in the scales of history weighs more heavily than change. Four hundred years were to elapse before the descendants of the Maillotins seized the Bastille.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#66. Which are you drinking? The water or the wave?
John Fowles
#67. The wave of the future is on the local level. Don't waste your heart and mind trying to pull down what is already destroying itself. But come into where you're almost below the radar and reorganize life. We want communities where we live and work and fight for the future.
Joanna Macy
#68. When people in stadiums do the Wave, it's the group-mind collective organism spontaneously organizing itself to express an emotion, pass time, and reflect the joy of seeing the rhythms of many as one, a visual rhyming or music in which everyone senses where the motion is going.
Jerry Saltz
#69. He is not a great man. None of us are great men. We are just caught in the wave of history.
Dave Malloy
#70. We watch'd her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro.
Thomas Hood
#71. You can FEEL the wave of emotion online when something is about to go viral, good or bad. A scientist I met once mathematically compared internet behavior to swarm behavior seen in starlings or locusts.
Felicia Day
#73. Everyone who has changed the course of human history, every last one was able to do so only because he was ready for his destiny. That's true of Moses and the Buddha, Napoleon and Bismarck. The wave that carries us, the star that guides us - we cannot choose it.
Hermann Hesse
#74. No philosopher who was really philosophical could think anything except that, in that central sea, the wave of the world had risen to its highest, seeming to touch the stars. But the wave was already stooping; for it was only the wave of the world. That
G.K. Chesterton
#75. When I started, there weren't that many kids doing it in the city, but the in the wave after me there were a lot of them and they actually never spoke to each other.
Eric San
#76. It was if The Wave had taken on a life of its own and now he and his students were literally riding it.
Todd Strasser
#77. In a moment I might be under the wave swallowing seawater and small jellyfish, but right now I am an ancient princess of Hawaii, I am a bikini model, I am a goddess before the crest of a monster billow.
Wilma Johnson
#78. There aren't that many policy changes you can do, so I'd say you ride the wave and hope that maybe some of the external events help you.
Brad Carson
#79. Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.
Albert Schweitzer
#80. But excessive grief is like a storm at sea, where the frail bark is tossed from the depths to the top of the wave.
Alexandre Dumas
#81. We are the light that needs no lifting,
as long as our flames burn we are interwoven.
A whisper within the heart is sufficient,
to perpetuate the wave that we began together,
beyond the fabric of the time we yet rest upon
Tom Althouse
#82. My first idea of movement, of the dance, certainly came from the rhythm of the wave.
Isadora Duncan
#83. The floss-silk manes tossed up like the crest of a breaking wave ... Light ran and glittered on them. They were obedient ... you would have sworn ... as the white horses of the wave crests are to pull of the moon.
Mary Stewart
#84. The best thing about time passing is the privilege of running out of it, of watching the wave of mortality break over me and everyone I know,
Sarah Manguso
#86. Like the wave of a magic wand, knowing the mythic heritage of a place can re-enchant the landscape.
Linda Foubister
#87. The more people I meet, the more I'm realizing how rare it is to find someone who lets you be yourself. Who never tries to hold you back, but watches you ride out the wave of intensity and see where it takes you.
Katie Kacvinsky
#88. I'm very versatile and there's nothing I really regret in my life. I'm excited with who I am and I'm just going to keep riding the wave.
Rick Ross
#89. It's kind of pathetic actually that we are all sitting here talking about Forth. It is not the wave of the future. It's never been the wave of the future. It's not within our power to make it the wave of the future.
Charles H. Moore
#90. As wave is driven by wave
And each, pursued, pursues the wave ahead,
So time flies on and follows, flies, and follows,
Always, for ever and new. What was before
Is left behind; what never was is now;
And every passing moment is renewed.
Ovid
#91. To know the mechanics of the wave, is to know the entire secret of Nature.
Walter Russell
#92. The discontinuous 'reduction of the wave packets' which cannot be derived from Schroedinger's equation is ... a consequence of the transition from the possible to the actual.
Werner Heisenberg
#93. Pain and guilt can't be taken away with the wave of a magic wand. They're the things that we carry with us, they're the things that make us what we are. If we lose them, we lose ourselves. I don't want my pain taken away, I need my pain!
William Shatner
#94. The wave paused, and then drew out again, sighing like a sleeper whose breath comes and goes unconsciously.
Virginia Woolf
#96. If you want to know everything about the market, go to the beach. Push and pull your hands with the waves. Some are bigger waves, some are smaller. But if you try to push the wave out when it's coming in, it'll never happen. The market is always right.
Ed Seykota
#97. The hawk is aerial brother of the wave which he sails over and surveys, those his perfect air-inflated wings answering to the elemental unfledged pinions of the sea.
Henry David Thoreau
#98. A wave has a right to live her life as a wave, but she must also learn to live her life as water because she is not only a wave. She is also water. And water lives without the fear carried by the wave.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#99. In what a forge and what a heat were shaped the anchors of thy hope! Fear not each sudden sound and shock; 'Tis of the wave and not the rock.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
