#flow

Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air. ↗

— Georges Bernanos

#flowers #give #individually #like #little

The river flows at its own sweet will, but the flood is bound in the two banks. If it were not thus bound, its freedom would be wasted. ↗

— Vinoba Bhave

#bound #flood #flows #freedom #own

In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace. ↗

— Aberjhani

#famous-poets #famous-quotes #famous-quotes-from-classic-books #flowers #global-village

He’sh mad?’ ‘Sort of mad. But mad with lots of money.’ ‘Ah, then he can’t be mad. I’ve been around; if a man hash lotsh of money he’sh just ecshentric. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#rincewind #twoflower #money

I think acting is about forgetting yourself in order to give the best of yourself. It's passing through you more than you're creating it. You're not the flower, but the vase which holds the flower. ↗

— Juliette Binoche

#acting #best #creating #flower #forgetting

We don't need flowery words about inequality to tell us that, and we don't need a party that has led while poverty and hunger rose to record levels to give us lectures about suffering. ↗

— Artur Davis

#flowery #give #hunger #inequality #lectures

I don't like painting flowers in my music. I like painting guts and pain. ↗

— Jonathan Davis

#guts #i #like #music #pain

Madam Speaker, it is time to halt illegal entry into this country. It is time to halt the flow of illegal drugs and weapons into this great Nation, and it is time to secure our borders. ↗

— Marsha Blackburn

#country #entry #flow #great #great nation

The mare set off for home with the speed of a swallow, and going as smoothly and silently. I never had dreamed of such a motion, fluent and graceful, and ambient, soft as the breeze flitting over the flowers, but swift as the summer lightening. ↗

— Richard Blackmore

#breeze #dreamed #flitting #flowers #fluent

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not. ↗

— John Dewey

#color #does #flower #fruitless #just