Quotes of: Rivers Keyword

People are always complaining that life's not fair, but that simply isn't true. Life is extraordinarily fair. It's just not centered on you.

A River Worth Riding

Men like to create unnecessary organizations and give them impressive or mysterious names; this usually ends in increased confusion, and should therefore be ignored.

A River in the Sky

Why is a man with a knife after your blood? Who sent him? I would like to write the fellow a letter of thanks!

A River in the Sky

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Go and get your things,' he said. 'Dreams mean work.

By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

In time you shall see Fate approach you In the shape of your own image in the mirror.

Spoon River Anthology

In the history of mankind, no single person yet has learned to swim by having the strokes explained. At some point, they dive in.

Where the River Ends

Love can flow like the river, fly with the bird, sing with the crickets at night. It is in the energy of the river, the flight of the bird, the song from the cricket. There is nowhere where love is not.

Janet G. Nestor

The river of time may fork into rivers, in which case you have a parallel reality and so then you can become a time traveler and not have to worry about causing a time paradox.

Michio Kaku

[after the hovercraft makes a crash landing in the hanger of Serenity. Simon runs to his sister] Dr. Simon Tam: River? River Tam: I swallowed a bug.

Serenity

[after speaking with Nicholson and Saito, neither of whom will relent] Major Clipton: Are they both mad? Or am I going mad? Or is it the sun?

The Bridge on the River Kwai

Commander Shears: I'm getting worse, you know. Sometimes I think I'm Admiral Halsey.

The Bridge on the River Kwai

Earth, mountains, rivers, hidden in this nothingness. In this nothingness, earth, mountains, rivers revealed. Spring flowers, winter snows. There's no being or non-being, nor denial itself.

Love

If a dog offers to help you across the river, don't ask if he is suffering from the mange.

Arabian

It is no good going to the river just wanting to catch a fish; you have to take a net as well.

Chinese

You can make a mule cross the river but you cant make him drink the water.

Creole

I'm not trying to be the next Joan Rivers.

Isaac Mizrahi

If you have escaped the jaws of the crocodile while bathing in the river, you will surely meet a leopard on the way.

African

This was the kiss I had waited for so long - a kiss born by the river of our childhood, when we didn't yet know what love meant. A kiss that had been suspended in the air as we grew, that had traveled in the world in the souvenir of a medal, and that...

By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Dr. Simon Tam: But I think when they triggered you, it somehow brought this up. This memory. River Tam: It isn't mine. The memory, it isn't mine. And I shouldn't have to carry it. It isn't mine. Don't make me sleep again. Dr. Simon Tam: I won't. I wo...

Serenity

We see them oiling their weapons to kill the gryphon they think is hiding in our hen coop. And we cannot help laughing.

A River Dies of Thirst: journals