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«Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind.»
«It's very dangerous to wave to people you don't know because what if they don't have hands? They'll think you're cocky.»
Author: Mitch Hedberg (Comedian) | Keywords: cocky, wave
«There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.»
«I never saw a moor, I never saw the sea; Yet know I how the heather looks, And what a wave must be. I never spoke with God, Nor visited in Heaven; Yet certain am I of the spot, As if a chart were given.»
«I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of a miracle.»
«It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.»
«No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher | Keywords: No Wave, retain, wave
«Sabrina fair, / Listen where thou art sitting/ Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, / In twisted braids of lilies knitting / The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair.»
«So when the sun in bed, / Curtained with cloudy red, / Pillows his chin upon an orient wave.»
«Sound trumpets! Let our bloody colours wave! And either victory, or else a grave.»

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