Wave Quotes

The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea. (Vladimir Nabokov)
To judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave. View quote
Elvis Presley
There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum. View quote
Arthur C. Clarke
White collar conservative flashin down the street, pointing that plastic finger at me, they all assume my kind will drop and die, but I'm gonna wave my freak flag high. View quote
Jimi Hendrix
Initially, the horrific images of September 11th triggered an enormous wave of solidarity. View quote
Ulrich Beck
There is no greater importance in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you. View quote
Norman Mailer
The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it. View quote
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form? View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack. View quote
Russell Crowe
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. (Henry David Thoreau)
Build me straight, O worthy Master Staunch and strong, a goodly vessel, That shall laugh at all disaster, And with wave and whirlwind wrestle. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back? View quote
Steven Wright
I refuse to be held responsible for bringing back a wave of pasty-faced people into the world. View quote
Brian Molko
There is no doubt that the new wave (of attacks) in Palestine will wipe off this stigma (Israel) from the face of the Islamic world, ... The World without Zionism. View quote
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles. View quote
John Tyndall
When I play on my fiddle in Dooney Folk dance like a wave of the sea. View quote
William Butler Yeats
I never saw a moor, I never saw the sea Yet know I how the heather looks, And what a wave must be. I never spoke with God, Nor visited in heaven Yet certain am I of the spot As if the chart were given. View quote
Emily Dickinson
Now, since the time of Newton there had been a debate about whether light was a wave---that is, a traveling disturbance in some background medium---or a particle, which travels regardless of the presence of a background medium. The observation of Maxwell that electromagnetic waves must exist and that their speed was identical to that of light ended the debate: light was an electromagnetic wave. View quote
Lawrence M. Krauss
I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being. (Martha Graham)
Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me. View quote
Albert Schweitzer
Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again. View quote
Ovid
Spangling the wave with lights as vain As pleasures in the vale of pain, That dazzle as they fade. View quote
Walter Scott
Do not wave stick when trying to catch dog. View quote
Earl Derr Biggers