Best 238 quotes in «wave quotes» category

It's the nature of the mind to drift away. The mind is like the Pacific Ocean, it waves. And mindfulness has been shown to drop underneath the waves. If you drop underneath the agitation in the mind, into your breath deep enough calmness, gentle undulations.

It really felt like a tidal wave of bias washed over our country and we're still soaked in it.

It struck me then how much the past - not just the past but history and family - was like the ocean tide. It was always the same ocean, but the waves made it fresh and new each time.

It occurred to me that I was unhappy. And it didn’t feel so very terrible. No urgency, nothing. I could slip out of my life on a slow wave like this—it didn’t matter. I don’t have to be happy. All I have to do is hold on to something and wait.

It's calm under the waves in the blue of my oblivion.

I've surfed once in the gulf. I wouldn't really call it surfing. It was like an ex-boyfriend pushing me into the waves or something. That was my limited experience.

I was proud of the waves I had made, but wondered how many boats I was supposed to rock.

I work in waves, because I'm impatient. Because of a certain physicality, of lack of breath from standing. It has to be done and I do take liberties I wouldn't have taken before.

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend.

Let death find us as we are building up our matchstick protests against its waves.

Journalists say my music is "blue wave," or "dreamy," or "jangly-slacker jewel," and none of it really makes sense to me.

Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.

Marina sighs. "Love's a tidal wave," she says. "Because it sweeps you off your feet?" I ask. "No. Because it sucks you under and you drown.

Long on the wave reflected lustres of play.

Mark Grotjahn's large new paintings abound with torrents of ropy impasto, laid down in thickets, cascading waves, and bundles that swell, braid around, or overlap one another.

Loneliness comes suddenly like waves and recedes just as fast. That continues on forever. It’s the same for you. It’s the same for everyone.

Love is a wave building to a crescendo. Ride if you will, ride it with me.

Mother's life flowed radiant. Flourescent-tipped waves on incoming tides.

Music is sound. It's a wave. It's going out and coming back, and it's bouncing off.

My Zombie apocalypse plan is simple but effective; I fully intend to die in the very first wave.

My mum always says work goes in waves: you have a good spell and then it dips.

My spine healed incorrectly. There were long periods when I'd be perfectly all right, and then there were many other times when I wasn't, when my back would give out and throw me down to the floor amid waves of nauseating pain.

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

New wave disco was coming to the fore then, and we were at a different point entirely. I like to listen to dance music, but I don't think I'm primarily a dance music writer.

New York's not exactly antiseptic. It could be clean and less dangerous, and not horrible, not under a tidal wave of tourists.

Our Muslim friends must learn from previous waves of immigration.

No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.

Now it's time for India to steer ourselves, ride the waves and decide on our direction, destination and speed.

Of course, East Germans had children, they fell in love, and the grass was green and the wind was blowing. It's 40 years. It's a generation. There was a big wave of nostalgia, we call it "Eastalgia," where they said it was not always bad.

Nicolas Sarkozy said he could see a wave rising. For once he was right. The wave's coming; it's high, its strong, and it's going to smack him in the face.

No doubt there is a Scandinavian wave. I guess everybody is just surfing their wave until it breaks and hoping it won't be too soon.

No one revolution up to now has brought all that was expected of it by the masses. Hence the inevitability of a certain disillusionment, of a lowering of the activity of the vanguard, and consequently, of the growing importance of the rearguard. [Joseph] Stalin's faction has raised itself on the wave of reaction against the October revolution.

Photons are accurately and legitimately described as waves and particles at the same time. They are genuine wavicles.

Pools of sorrow. Waves of joy.

Spangling the wave with lights as vain As pleasures in the vale of pain, That dazzle as they fade.

Second-wave feminists didn't look for an overthrow of patriarchy. Instead, they analyzed what they were up against and fought it in all of its varied manifestations.

She was a blonde nearly young American woman of such dynamism that the tideless waves struggled to get farther up the beach.

Since the beginning of time, women have had to fight for what they deserve. I'm proud to be a part of a wave of strong women on TV!

Stand up for what you believe in even if it causes waves.

Thank God for a few free waves.

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.

Sunset in the ethereal waves: I cannot tell if the day is ending, or the world, or if the secret of secrets is inside me again.

Take everything as it comes; the wave passes, deal with the next one.

Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave?

The combat deepens. On, ye brave, Who rush to glory or the grave! Wave, Munich! all thy banners wave, And charge with all thy chivalry!

The giant wave of the science has no mercy; when this colossal wave comes, it will sweep away anything untrue!

The Democratic lawmakers are still trying to figure out how to capitalize on this new wave of leftist anger, if you want to call it that.

The desperation was coming off you in waves. You were all but begging to dance with me. I am doing you a favor.

The handover of power to [Dmitry] Medvedev was rather painless, everybody thought that the waves would calm automatically. By now, it's quite clear that [Vladimir] Putin doesn't want to relinquish the levers of power.

The government cannot do everything all at once. It can't wave a magic wand and meet everyone's demands simultaneously.