#wave

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#circular #compass #courses #go #heights

And in me too the wave rises. It swells; it arches its back. I am aware once more of a new desire, something rising beneath me like the proud horse whose rider first spurs and then pulls him back. What enemy do we now perceive advancing against us, you whom I ride now, as we stand pawing this stretch of pavement? It is death. Death is the enemy. It is death against whom I ride with my spear couched and my hair flying back like a young man's, like Percival's, when he galloped in India. I strike spurs into my horse. Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death! ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#the-waves #death

Surfing isn't really in my blood. It's hard to catch a big wave in Billingham. ↗

— Jamie Bell

#blood #catch #hard #really #surfing

The electroencephalogram represents a continuous curve with continuous oscillations in which... one can distinguish larger first order waves with an average duration of 90 milliseconds and smaller second order waves of an average duration of 35 milliseconds. ↗

— Hans Berger

#continuous #curve #distinguish #duration #first

I have never wavered from my intention to advance the cause of diversity in new and more effective ways. ↗

— Jeb Bush

#cause #diversity #effective #i #intention

There aren't that many policy changes you can do, so I'd say you ride the wave and hope that maybe some of the external events help you. ↗

— Brad Carson

#events #external #help #hope #i

The wave of new productive enterprises would provide opportunities to remedy the unjust distribution of environmental hazards among economic classes and racial and ethnic communities. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#classes #communities #distribution #economic #enterprises

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. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#calm #each #existence #farther #harmony

The next wave of the Web is going to be user-generated content. ↗

— John Doerr

#going #next #wave #web

You know what else I've learnt? That it's all right not to ride the crest of the wave. Every time a wave comes along I retreat, and I haven't come to any harm yet. ↗

— Jennifer Ehle

#any #come #comes #crest #else