Wave Quotes

• But God!Who could live like this , anyway, with the kind of guesswork that was enough to make a person crazy, just sailing along, taking bumps here and there, no course navigated whatsoever, with any big wave capable of just tipping and sinking you entirely. IT was madness, stipidity, and- (then I saw him)

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Kind
  • Crazy
  • Enough

• What happens from about 1954 to the late 1980s, is that we see a huge wave of optimism that school desegregation is going to be the way to improve educational outcomes for poor children of color. And we see a consensus build on the left and in the center that this is going to be a transformative education movement like none other we've seen in American history.

  

  Dana Goldstein
  • Children
  • School
  • Poor

• 'Duck Dynasty' is a ridiculous show, and long may it wave. America and democracy will endure. They've seen a lot worse.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Long
  • Democracy
  • Ridiculous

• I don't follow waves or trends or emotions.

  

  will.i.am
  • Emotion
  • Wave
  • Trends

• I started playing around with local rock band swith the alto. And then, in a nutshell, somebody fell ill one night, the lead singer of one of the bands, and they knew I could sing, so they asked me if I would stand in. And I quite enjoyed it, actually, I must say, at 14. It was a real trip to have girls wave at you and smile and everything just because you opened your mouth and sang.

  

  David Bowie
  • Real
  • Night
  • Girl

• I don't wave a flag for anything. I'm a musician.

  

  Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
  • Musician
  • Wave
  • Flag

• Intense fear comes in waves; the body can't stand it for long at a time.

  

  Thomas Harris
  • Long
  • Body
  • Intense

• "They tell us that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself, but I don't believe that." he said. Then, a moment later, he added: "Oh, the fear is there, all right. It comes to us in many different forms, at different times, and overwhelms us. But the most frightening thing we can do at such times is to turn our backs on it, to close our eyes. For then we take the most precious thing inside us and surrender it to something else. In my case, that something was the wave."

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Fear
  • Eyes
  • Surrender

• 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
  • Trying
  • Beach
  • Bigger

• 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
  • Life
  • Night
  • Breathing

• We battled to get in this spot, and we've got to feel proud about what we've accomplished, ... We just want to keep it going right now; we just need to keep riding that wave.

  

  Nick Swisher
  • Proud
  • Wave
  • Keep Going

• Rumor and gossip, like sound itself, appear to travel by wave-effect, sheer preposterosity being no barrier.

  

  Shana Alexander
  • Sound
  • Gossip
  • Barriers

• 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
  • Immigration
  • Wave
  • Citizenship

• History says, Don’t hope On this side of the grave, But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme

  

  Seamus Heaney
  • Justice
  • Lifetime
  • Rhyme

• Understand that the body is merely the foam of a wave, the shadow of a shadow.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Understand
  • Shadow
  • Wave

• There's a huge wave of anti-establishment feeling. There's an enormous amount of anger. And it's collapsing governments and political movements across the world right now.

  

  Tony Blair
  • World
  • Political
  • Feelings

• OK, Houston we copy that. We'll be a wave off for today.

  

  Eileen Collins
  • Wave
  • Copy
  • Houston

• I didn't want to feel such love for someone else. I still wanted to be the object of that tidal wave.

  

  Michelle Huneven
  • Feels
  • Stills
  • Objects

• I've seen the Rhine with younger wave, O'er every obstacle to rave. I see the Rhine in his native wild Is still a mighty mountain child.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Child
  • Mountain
  • Wave

• He reached out and pushed some hair behind her ears. The gesture was tender, but it hit her with an unexpected force, like when you're in the ocean and a wave hits you. It's so soft and coll that it surprised you that it has such strength.

  

  Sarah Addison Allen
  • Ocean
  • Behinds
  • Ears

• The older I get, the more obvious it is that you're not really in control of your life, you're a part of a larger wave, no matter who you are.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Life
  • Control
  • Wave

• Now hoppin'-john was F. Jasmine's very favorite food. She had always warned them to wave a plate of rice and peas before her nose when she was in her coffin, to make certain there was no mistake; for if a breath of life was left in her, she would sit up and eat, but if she smelled the hopping-john, and did not stir, then they could just nail down the coffin and be certain she was truly dead.

  

  Carson McCullers
  • Mistake
  • Wave
  • Culinary

• I thank God and His Son, Jesus Christ, for the Restoration and its power to propel a magnificent wave of truth and righteousness across the earth.

  

  Russell M. Nelson
  • Earth
  • Christ
  • Righteousness

• There is good evidence that last year's European heat wave was influenced by global warming. It resulted in 26,000 premature deaths and cost $13.5bn.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Energy
  • Environment
  • Wave

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