Stream Quotes - page 2

As the brain-changes are continuous, so do all these consciousnesses melt into each other like dissolving views. Properly they are but one protracted consciousness, one unbroken stream. (William James)
Shakespeare is a good raft whereon to float securely down the stream of time; fasten yourself to that and your immortality is safe. View quote
George Henry Lewes
Our native susceptibilities and acquired tastes determine which of the many qualities in an object shall most impress us, and be most clearly recalled. One man remembers the combustible properties of a substance, which to another is memorable for its polarising property; to one man a stream is so much water-power, to another a rendezvous for lovers. View quote
George Henry Lewes
Time is but the stream I go afishin in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Your dreamers may dream it The shadow of a dream, Your sages may deem it A bubble on the stream; Yet our kingdom draweth nigher With each dawn and every day, Through the earthquake and the fire Love will find out the way. View quote
Alfred Noyes
Our lives today are not conducted in linear terms. They are much more quantified; a stream of random events is taking place. View quote
J. G. Ballard
A series of powers are at work within the great stream of Expressionism who have no outward similarity to one another but a common direction of thrust, namely the intention to give expression to things of the psyche [Seelisches] through form alone. View quote
Max Ernst
Politics is a subordinate matter; its form of appearance constantly changes depending on the needs of the masses, the same way cocottes adjust to the needs of men by transforming and masking themselves. Because of that it is not fundamental. That is about what endures, what is unique, what is in the stream of illusions – what is eliminated from the workings of the shadows. View quote
Max Beckmann
So different, this man And this woman: A stream flowing In a field. View quote
William Carlos Williams
The one stream of poetry which is continually flowing is slang. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
Next to the ministry I know of no more noble profession than the law. The object aimed at is justice, equal and exact, and if it does not reach that end at once it is because the stream is diverted by selfishness or checked by ignorance. Its principles ennoble and its practice elevates. (William Jennings Bryan)
Each state of the human mind has some parable in the physical creation by which it is shadowed forth; nor is it only artists and poets, but even the most abstract thinkers that have drawn from this source. Lively activity we name fire; time is a stream that rolls on, sweeping all before it; eternity is a circle; a mystery is hid in midnight gloom, and truth dwells in the sun. Nay, I begin to believe that even the future destiny of the human race is prefigured in the dark oracular utterances of bodily creation. View quote
Friedrich Schiller
Below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel - below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel, there flows With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep, The central stream of what we feel indeed. View quote
Matthew Arnold
Ambition will take you And ride you too far and Conservatism bring you to boredom once more Sit down by the river And watch the stream flow Recall all the dreams That you once used to know The things you've forgotten That took you away To pastures not greener but meaner. View quote
Van Morrison
Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music ... an obscene looting of a cultural expression. View quote
Ralph Ellison
Then there is the further question of what is the relationship of thinking to reality. As careful attention shows, thought itself is in an actual process of movement. That is to say, one can feel a sense of flow in the stream of consciousness not dissimilar to the sense of flow in the movement of matter in general. May not thought itself thus be a part of reality as a whole? But then, what could it mean for one part of reality to 'know' another, and to what extent would this be possible? View quote
David Bohm
Sri Yukteswar used to poke gentle fun at the commonly inadequate conceptions of renunciation. 'A beggar cannot renounce wealth,' Master would say. 'If a man laments: 'My business has failed; my wife has left me; I will renounce all and enter a monastery,' to what worldly sacrifice is he referring? He did not renounce wealth and love; they renounced him!' Saints like Gandhi, on the other hand, have made not only tangible material sacrifices, but also the more difficult renunciation of selfish motive and private goal, merging their inmost being in the stream of humanity as a whole. View quote
Paramahansa Yogananda
To ancient Chinese fancy, the Milky Way was a luminous river, - the River of Heaven, - the Silver Stream. View quote
Lafcadio Hearn
Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast, The rapids are near, and the daylight 's past. View quote
Thomas Moore
As long as I breathe I hope. As long as I breathe I shall fight for the future, that radiant future, in which man, strong and beautiful, will become master of the drifting stream of his history and will direct it towards the boundless horizons of beauty, joy and happiness! View quote
Leon Trotsky
One family--we dwell in Him, One church above, beneath, Though now divided by the stream, The narrow stream of death. (Charles Wesley)
I, with other Americans, have perhaps unduly resented the stream of criticism of American life... more particularly have I resented the sneers at Main Street. For I have known that in the cottages that lay behind the street rested the strength of our national character. View quote
Herbert Hoover
The world comes to us in an endless stream of puzzle pieces that we would like to think all fit together somehow, but that in fact never do. View quote
Robert M. Pirsig
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance. View quote
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one. View quote
Bertolt Brecht