Stream Quotes

Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish. (Ovid)
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. View quote
George Eliot
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity. View quote
Georg Brandes
A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Touch us gently, Time! Let us glide adown thy stream, Gently, - as we sometimes glide Through a quiet dream! View quote
Bryan Procter
Character develops itself in the stream of life. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. If you keep your eyes open as you travel around, you realize we are destroying this planet. View quote
Yvon Chouinard
To his credit, Obama didn't just come to Washington to be someone. Like Reagan, he came to Washington to do something -- to introduce a powerful social democratic stream into America's deeply and historically individualist polity. View quote
Charles Krauthammer
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
The ethical debates are like stones in a stream. The water runs around them. You haven't seen any biological technologies held up for one week by any of these debates. (Ray Kurzweil)
Like a long-legged fly upon the stream His mind moves upon silence. View quote
William Butler Yeats
You cannot step twice into the same stream. For as you are stepping in, other waters are ever flowing on to you. View quote
Heraclitus
Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream. View quote
Malcolm Muggeridge
I adore art... when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear. View quote
Giuseppe Verdi
Iceland, though it lies so far to the north that it is partly within the Arctic Circle, is, like Norway, Scotland, and Ireland, affected by the Gulf Stream, so that considerable portions of it are quite habitable. View quote
Harry Johnston
Who o'er the herd would wish to reign, Fantastic, fickle, fierce, and vain Vain as the leaf upon the stream, And fickle as a changeful dream Fantastic as a woman's mood, And fierce as Frenzy's fever'd blood. Thou many-headed monster thing, Oh who would wish to be thy king. View quote
Walter Scott
The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if it can be called a system, has been to glide away unconcernedly on the stream of life, trusting to the wind wherever it led. View quote
Giacomo Casanova
There are moments we return to, now and always. Family is like water - it has a memory of what it once filled, always trying to get back to the original stream. View quote
Colum McCann
Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. It is not the effort nor the failure tires. The waste remains, the waste remains and kills. View quote
William Empson
As the future is never known with certainty, the evaluation of the prospective benefits requires the formation of expectations. An acceptable house, partner or job, then, is one that offers an expected stream of future benefit that has a value in excess of the option to continue to search for an even better alternative. (Dale T. Mortensen)
The wolf always charges the lamb with muddying the stream. View quote
Elihu Root
I know that when the world surrenders, pallid, to repose, the murmur of a tranquil stream through the deep silence flows. View quote
José Martí
The last peculiarity of consciousness to which attention is to be drawn in this first rough description of its stream is that it is always interested more in one part of its object than in another, and welcomes and rejects, or chooses, all the while it thinks. View quote
William James
As we take, in fact, a general view of the wonderful stream of our consciousness, what strikes us first is this different pace of its parts. Like a bird's life, it seems to be made of an alternation of flights and perchings. View quote
William James