Arthur Gordon Webster Quotes

Then I walked away, and I did not look back. I had written my troubles on the sand. The tide was coming in.

Arthur Gordon Webster

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• Even these stars, which seem so numerous, are as sand, as dust - or less than dust - in the enormity of the space in which there is nothing.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Space
  • Stars
  • Sand

• I really don't have anything urgent to say, and I think you shouldn't write unless you have something urgent to say. Sometimes that troubles me, and sometimes I don't really care.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Me
  • Care
  • Write

• Here's all I know about Dubai: It's one of those somewhere-over-there places where they make sand.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Know
  • Sand
  • Dubai

• Dylan, myself and my father were in a two hour movie called The Sand Kings, which started off the Outer Limits series. It was sort of the two hour pilot movie.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Movie
  • Father
  • Myself

• To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Life
  • Time
  • High

• Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Up
  • Time
  • Motivational

• And to stick our head in the sand and pretend that we are somehow safer if we do not know or to pretend we are somehow safer if we limit our options seems to me not only foolish but actually dangerous.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Me
  • Limit
  • Sand

• Enclosed by a sand berm four miles around and 160 feet high, the Baghdad Nuclear Research Facility entombs what remains of reactors bombed by Israel in 1981 and the United States in 1991. It has stored industrial and medical wastes, along with spent reactor fuel.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • High
  • Research
  • Medical

• A rising tide doesn't raise people who don't have a boat. We have to build the boat for them. We have to give them the basic infrastructure to rise with the tide.

  

  Rahul Gandhi
  • People
  • Boat
  • Tide

• Movies are written in sand: applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.

  

  D. W. Griffith
  • Today
  • Tomorrow
  • Sand

• When Russians were having troubles, the Space Shuttle supported the Space Station Mir bringing up much needed supplies and replacements, critical spares, really. That they were able to keep their space station going for much longer than they would have without us. So, I think that shows the value of international cooperation.

  

  Leroy Chiao
  • Up
  • Space
  • Value

• Troubles are like babies - they only grow by nursing.

  

  Douglas Jerrold
  • Like
  • Troubles
  • Babies

• The Troubles are a pigmentation in our lives here, a constant irritation that detracts from real life. But life has to do with something else as well, and it's the other things which are the more permanent and real.

  

  Brian Friel
  • Troubles
  • Real Life
  • Irritation

• Troubles loom up big when they're ahead, And joys seem always sweeter when they're past.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Troubles
  • Ahead
  • Loom

• When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end.

  

  Aristotle
  • End
  • Poor
  • State

• Well, there is a tide also in the affair of getting up in the morning, and its flood-point is the precise instant when you recover consciousness. At that moment every one, I believe, has moral courage to leap violently out of bed; but let that moment pass, and you sink supinely back, if not to sleep, at least into a desperate condition of unconquerable lethargy.

  

  R. M. Ballantyne
  • Morning
  • Affair
  • Tide

• We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away.

  

  Augustus
  • Write
  • Waves
  • Sand

• In war you see your own troubles; those of the enemy you cannot see. You must show confidence.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • War
  • Confidence
  • Troubles

• The devil, the originator of sorrowful anxieties and restless troubles, flees before the sound of music almost as much as before the Word of God....Music is a gift and grace of God, not an invention of men. Thus it drives out the devil and makes people cheerful. Then one forgets all wrath, impurity, and other devices.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Music
  • Troubles
  • Word Of God

• At PETA, we often say that the issue of how animals are treated isn't just about them; it's about us, how we behave.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Say
  • Animals
  • Often

• The grey nurse resumed her knitting as Peter Walsh, on the hot seat beside her, began snoring. In her grey dress, moving her hands indefatigably yet quietly, she seemed like the champion of the rights of sleepers, like one of those spectral presences which rise in twilight in woods made of sky and branches. The solitary traveler, haunter of lanes, disturber of ferns, and devastator of hemlock plants, looking up, suddenly sees the giant figure at the end of the ride.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Moving
  • Champion
  • Twilight

• If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?

  

  Scott Adams
  • People
  • Funny
  • Kind

• Then I walked away, and I did not look back. I had written my troubles on the sand. The tide was coming in.

  

  Arthur Gordon Webster
  • Troubles
  • Sand
  • Tide