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«There is a saying that life is a river and it will take you to where ever you want to go. But reality, if you fell into a river, would you think that? No. You would try to swim to shore.»
Author: Alicia Figgs | Keywords: River Went, shore, swim
«The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.»
Author: Cyril Connolly | About: Success | Keywords: calm, farther, in harmony, shore, wash, wave
«The dominant and most deep-dyed trait of the journalist is his timorousness. Where the novelist fearlessly plunges into the water of self-exposure, the journalist stands trembling on the shore in his beach robe. The journalist confines himself to the clean, gentlemanly work of exposing the grieves and shames of others.»
«Some people spend their entire lives reading but never get beyond reading the words on the page, they don't understand that the words are merely stepping stones placed across a fast-flowing river, and the reason they're there is so that we can reach the farther shore, it's the other side that matters.»
«The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. From it we have learned most of what we know. Recently, we have waded a little out to sea, enough to dampen our toes or, at most, wet our ankles. The water seems inviting. The ocean calls. So»
«The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.»
«Then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink»
Author: John Keats (Poet) | About: Fame, Love | Keywords: fame, nothingness, shore, sink, wide
«The land of self-interest groans from shore to shore, / For fear that plenty should attain the poor.»
«There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.»
Author: Stephen Wright (Actor, Writer) | About: Fishing | Keywords: Fine Line, fishing, idiot, shore
«Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever, One foot in sea, and one on shore, To one thing constant never; Then sigh not so, But let them go, And be you blithe and bonny»

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