Raymond Sokolov Quotes

Only the river is free, always changing but always the same.

Raymond Sokolov

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• As a mighty river which when properly harnessed by dams and canals, creates a vast reservoir of water, prevents famine and provides abundant power for industry; so also the mind, when controlled, provides a reservoir of peace and generates abundant energy for the human uplift.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Mind
  • Power
  • Energy

• I journeyed to London, to the timekept City, Where the River flows, with foreign flotations. There I was told: we have too many churches, And too few chop-houses.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • House
  • City
  • River

• A Seer's moon, a Siren's tears, Nineteen Mortal, Wayward fears, Incubus graves and Caster rivers, The Final Page the End delivers.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Moon
  • Tears
  • Rivers

• I wanted to find a place to hide from all of it, where the nightmares and the rivers and reality couldn't find me. For me, that place was always inside a book.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Book
  • Reality
  • Rivers

• The path of least resistance makes all rivers, and some men, crooked.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Men
  • Path
  • Resistance

• The habit of taking the line of least resistance makes all rivers and some men crooked.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Men
  • Habit
  • Resistance

• Ambition will take you And ride you too far and Conservatism bring you to boredom once more Sit down by the river And watch the stream flow Recall all the dreams That you once used to know The things you've forgotten That took you away To pastures not greener but meaner.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Dream
  • Ambition
  • River

• The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Time
  • Tears
  • River

• Boundaries don't protect rivers, people do.

  

  Aristotle
  • People
  • Boundaries
  • Rivers

• I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Love
  • Reality
  • Romantic

• You see how when rivers are swollen in winter those trees that yield to the flood retain their branches, but those that offer resistance perish, trunk and all.

  

  Sophocles
  • Resistance
  • Rivers
  • Branches

• The river route is certainly preferable, as it affords good grazing and an abundance of water.

  

  William Whipple
  • Water
  • Abundance
  • Rivers

• I knew the whistle of each of the river boats on the Tennessee.

  

  William Christopher Handy
  • Boat
  • Rivers
  • Tennessee

• Learn this from the waters: in mountain clefts and chasms, loud gush the streamlets, but great rivers flow silently.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Learn
  • Rivers
  • Chasms

• the mighty main sea is the begetter of clouds and winds and rivers.

  

  Anaximenes of Miletus
  • Water
  • Sea
  • Wind

• The rivers of Grace cannot flow uphill, up the steep cliff of the proud man's heart.

  

  Bernard of Clairvaux
  • Heart
  • Proud
  • Grace

• Look for where the sky is brightest along the horizon. That reflects the nearest river. Strike out for a river and you will find habitation.

  

  Eudora Welty
  • Water
  • Looks
  • Sky

• By any reasonable standard, Riverside Drive would be considered the best street in New York. Where else, after all, are there such views-not of a narrow river, as there is across town, but of one of the noblest rivers in the United States.

  

  Paul Goldberger
  • States
  • Streets
  • Standards

• Many of us harbor hidden low self-esteem. We deem everything and everyone more important that ourselves and think that meeting their needs is more important than meeting our own. But if you run out of gas, everyone riding with you will be left stranded.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Important

• It's part of my job to maintain the emotional reality and the naturalism even when the atmosphere is contrived.

  

  Michel Gondry
  • Reality
  • Emotional
  • Atmosphere

• I'm retired, man. I'm loving it. Just being a bum. I kind of like it.

  

  Kirby Puckett
  • Man
  • Retired
  • Bum

• Though violence is not lawful, when it is offered in self-defense or for the defense of the defenseless, it is an act of bravery far better than cowardly submission. The latter befits neither man nor woman. Under violence, there are many stages and varieties of bravery. Every man must judge this for himself. No other person can or has the right.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Violence
  • Judge
  • Self-Defense

• A picture is what it is and I've never noticed that it helps to talk about them, or answer specific questions about them, much less volunteer information in words. It wouldn't make any sense to explain them. Kind of diminishes them. People always want to know when something was taken, where it was taken, and, God knows, why it was taken. It gets really ridiculous. I mean, they're right there, whatever they are.

  

  William Eggleston
  • People
  • Mean
  • Taken

• Only the river is free, always changing but always the same.

  

  Raymond Sokolov
  • Rivers