Quotes with stream

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  • J. G. Ballard Our lives today are not conducted in linear terms. They are much more quantified; a stream of random events is taking place.
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • William Cowper Some men make gain a fountain whence proceeds
    A stream of liberal and heroic deeds;
    Charity 244
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • George Eliot The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Bayard Taylor The Prophet's words were true; The mouth of Ali is the golden door Of Wisdom. When his friends to Ali bore These words, he smiled and said: And should they ask The same until my dying day, the task Were easy; for the stream from Wisdom's well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • George Brandes The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.
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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo There is in each of us a stream of tendency, whether you choose to call it philosophy or not, which gives coherence and direction to thought and action. Judges cannot escape that current any more than other mortals.
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • James Russell Lowell They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Woody Guthrie This land is your land, this land is my land, from California to the New York Island. From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream's waters. This land was made for you and me.
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  • Abraham Cowley Through the soft ways of heaven, and air, and sea, Which open all their pores to thee, Like a clear river thou dost glide, And with they living stream through the close channel slide.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Bertrand Russell To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Bryan Procter Touch us gently, Time! Let us glide adown thy stream, Gently, - as we sometimes glide Through a quiet dream!
    Bryan Procter
    English poet (1787 - 1874)
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  • Bernard Malamud Usually when he forgot words he would wait for them to seep back into consciousness like fish drawn up to the hungry surface of a stream. He would remember the initial letter of the forgotten word or sense sounds in it; soon the word reappeared in an illumination.
    Bernard Malamud
    American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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  • Bill Clinton We need a steady stream of cash. The American people have been uncommonly generous.
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Pedro Calderón de la Barca What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?
    Pedro Calderón de la Barca
    Spanish playwright (1600 - 1681)
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  • Barbara Amiel When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling of thoughts in a rather small stream of vortex, I am urged to not be ashamed of recycling.
    Barbara Amiel
    British journalist, writer, and socialite (1940 - )
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  • Barbara Block White sharks and tuna travel for thousands of miles before returning to the same hot spot just as salmon do when they return to the same stream. These journeys are the marine equivalent of wildebeest migrations that take place on the Serengeti plain in Africa.
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