666 Quotes About Rivers

  • Author Katie Aselton
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    Everyone grows and changes. It's not even to say that you become a better person than you were, but you're morphing. This whole thing is just a weird river that we're on.

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  • Author Ken Auletta
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    The entertainment industry as a whole has given more thought to the pollution of rivers than it has to the pollution of minds.

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  • Author Laurie Halse Anderson
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    I look at my homely sketch. It doesn't need anything. Even through the river in my eyes I can see that. It isn't perfect and that makes it just right.

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  • Author Lord Acton
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    The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.

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  • Author Marcus Aurelius
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    Keep in mind how fast things pass by and are gone - those that are now, and those to come. Existence flows past us like a river; the "what" is in constant flux, the "why" has a thousand variations. Nothing is stable, not even what's right here. The infinity of past and future gapes before us - a chasm whose depths we cannot see.

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  • Author Margaret Atwood
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    You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer, an almost physical nerve, the kind you need to walk a log across a river.

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  • Author Marcus Aurelius
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    Time is a kind of river, an irresistible flood sweeping up men and events and carrying them headlong, one after the other, to the great sea of being.

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