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A little guilt has made more than a few men live better than they would have done - trying to even the scales before they cross the river. — Conn Iggulden

They had then got to a bridge over the river, where — Aesop

I project a definite innocence. A lot of that is just the way I grew up. — River Phoenix

Virtue dwells at the head of a river, to which we cannot get but by rowing against the stream. — Owen Feltham

But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!" (5:24). — Anonymous

I need to take a sacred pause, as if I were a sun warmed rock in the center of a rushing river. — Dawna Markova

You had to be willing to fight in order for a love story to last a life time. — Cristina Marrero

The mountains were gone, replaced by a lush green vale. A river flowed out of the mountains, twisting in great curves through the vale until it — John Gwynne

A mind sourced in Spirit is a river of immeasurable power and life-giving goodness. — James R. Swartz

A snail will never take a plunge in a river to find refreshment; I am refreshed wherever I am located for my source is Elshaddai... — Bayode Ojo

A river cannot boast to a sea. — Matshona Dhliwayo

A river of words flowed between us. — Ernest Cline

The essential function of feelings is to provide feedback and pass through us organically like water flows in a river. — Deborah Sandella

The river taught us how to listen with a silent heart, with a waiting open soul ... — Hermann Hesse

She had not remembered then what she remembers now, a memory like something buried in river silt that finally works free and rises to the surface ... — Ron Rash

Time, as a river, hath brought down to us what is more light and superficial, while things more solid and substantial have been immersed. — Joseph Glanvill

If you look at the Nile on a map of Egypt, you don't think it has moved very much, but the river is very violent and has moved over time. — Sarah Parcak

Our love was a river, always changing under the mercy of nature's elements, but we continued to flow, even when we trickled. — Shannon A. Thompson

What pretty bright trout there are in this bold rock creek! It would full be called a river in England, and so it is! — Thaddeus Norris

Addiction is not just for bad people or scumbags
it's a universal disease. — River Phoenix

What? It was a good word. Like a rock in a river, sticking up to let you land on it, so you could make your way across the flow. — Patricia A. McKillip

The morning sun in New Orleans felt like it was trying to make a point, convincing the old world to believe something new. — Hunter Murphy

Him I delight in accepts joy as joy;
He is richened by sorrow as a river by its bends — Stephen Spender

Here beneath the towering pines, by the river blue
Farragut will ever stand, alma mater true — Bruce A. Sarte

If one wants to get a boat ride, one must be near the river. — Anchee Min

When your heart overfloweth broad and full like the river, a blessing and a danger to the lowlanders: there is the origin of your virtue. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent. — Baron De Montesquieu

It seethes and seethes, a river of darkness, putting forth lilies and snakes — D.H. Lawrence

To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together. — Barry Lopez

That's what life is, a continual state of journey. You are a river passing downstream. — Jon Foreman

The Yellow River causes a hundred calamities but enriches all it touches — Jiang Rong

Trash talk ... Washington floats on a river of aspersion. — David Brooks

Birds sat on the telegraph wires that spanned the river as the black notes sit on a staff of music. — Rebecca West

A river, though, has so many things to say that it is hard to know what it says to each of us. — Norman Maclean

The course of a river is almost always disapproved of by the source. — Jean Cocteau

A desert's a stupid place to put a river. — Paolo Bacigalupi

It may be a Mountain or a Tree, a River or a Bee ... learn to enjoy the little things in Life.-RVM — R.v.m.

Let there be sleep after death...Let me not be lonely for her. Let my desire be as ashes, my heart as a stone lost in a dark river. — Christine Monson

When a capitalist looks at the river, all they can think about is, "How can I pollute this river and destroy it and make money from it?" — Ian Svenonius

Statistics always remind me of fellow who drowned in a river where the average depth was only three feet. — Woody Hayes

Time is a kind of river, an irresistible flood sweeping up men and events and carrying them headlong, one after the other, to the great sea of being. — Marcus Aurelius

If you have to fall, fall like a dry leaf, follow the wind, drop on the river; you will meet the ocean and your life will never ne the same. — Marcus L. Lukusa

We've all got troubles. We all make mistakes. But let's not take a little river turn it into lake. — Jennifer Love Hewitt

Music is a hobby, because I'm not making any money out of it, but I put just as much conviction into that as I do into my acting. — River Phoenix

A river without banks is a large puddle. — Ken Blanchard

There's a boy across the river with an ass like a peach; alas I was no swimmer and lost my Clementine. — William S. Burroughs

To insist on a spiritual practice that served you in the past is to carry the raft on your back after you have crossed the river. — Gautama Buddha

To trace the history of a river ... is to trace the history of the soul, the history of the mind descending and arising in the body. — Gretel Ehrlich

A dream is like a river ever changing as it flows and a dreamer's just a vessel that must follow where it goes. — Garth Brooks

Those who are victorious plan effectively and change decisively. They are like a great river that maintains its course but adjusts its flow. — Sun Tzu

When you are in a common boat, cross the river peacefully together. — Hillary Rodham Clinton

Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea. — Mikhail Lermontov

Photography is like a river with a thousand streams that never converge. — Massimo Vitali

A river or stream is a cycle of energy from sun to plants to insects to fish. It is a continuum broken only by humans. — Aldo Leopold

Been in the river, haven't you?"
Aedan nodded.
"A sad day for everyone downstream," she said — Jonathan Renshaw

I grew up in Oregon, where as a teenager I worked with my grandfather Axel on his i shing boat at the mouth of the Columbia River. — Karl Marlantes

There's a storm inside of us. I've heard many team guys speak of this. A burning. A river. A drive. — Marcus Luttrell

There's something very enticing about an empty bench under a tree. And if it's facing a river, that's the bench for me. — Joyce Rachelle

Love is an ocean,
kindness is a river,
and compassion is a stream. — Matshona Dhliwayo

She cried so hard her tears formed a river, and tears of grief always run into the river Styx. — Janette Rallison

If someone hurts you, cry a river, then build a bridge and get over it. Unknown — Joyce Meyer

We are on the Colorado ... that means something more to me than thoughts of electrical power or a harnessed river. — Barry Goldwater

The city of Cork - the urban center, where all the shops and bars and everything are - is actually an island, a river island. — John Jeremiah Sullivan

Denial isn't just a river in Egypt. — C.L. Parker

I should have known the power-hungry slave drivers at River's Edge would see my five days of freedom only as a challenge to be filled. — Cate Tiernan

Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on. — River Phoenix

By perceiving ourselves as part of the river, we take responsibility for the river as a whole. — Vaclav Havel

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy. — Rumi

Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal. — Alan Paton

A conventional crime story is simple - it's just a corpse in the river or something, and a detective with an alcohol problem. — David Lagercrantz

God is a great underground river that no one can dam up and no one can stop. — Meister Eckhart

I woke up, a bag of bones. Literally. They had gathered up my bones and put them in a bag and thrown the bag into a river. — Derek Landy

Muddy Waters he play in the river Joan Rivers she play in the mud Swami guru play in a big salad bowl Counting lettuce and chewing his cud — Tom Robbins

Cassivelaunus had prepared the river for Caesar, by planting it full of stakes (and had, no doubt, put up a notice-board). — Jerome K. Jerome

Your sad eyes are a river the locals know not to swim — Tyler Gonlag

The power of the river is to flow wildly! The power of the lake is to think calmly! Wise man both flows like a river and thinks like a lake! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Before the gate
my walking stick's made a river of melting snow — Kobayashi Issa

It felt like a war between two endless things, between a bottomless chasm and a running river. — Naomi Novik

When a good change is flowing towards you, don't stand like the river stones before it! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Fill your heart with truth so that the wisdom of Christ will flow fluently from you like a living river moving into the seeking hearts of the thirsty. — Calvin W. Allison

A calm ocean is safer than a raging river. — Matshona Dhliwayo

There is a river whose streams make glad the city of Love. Along that river is the tree of heaven. — David Paul Kirkpatrick

When I first came to New York, I was so bored. My friends were like, 'Do a blog. It's the hip thing to do for male models.' — River Viiperi

A frozen river is not a dry one, it's just a still river on the surface but is still moving, and so am my winter writing. — Willie Nelson

I like it when things crescendo to a huge moment like 'Hold Back the River.' — James Bay

Everybody's got a river inside," he said. "Always something under the surface. — John Ritter

But I will not tell you how long or short the way will be; only that it lies across a river. But do not fear that, for I am the great Bridge Builder. — C.S. Lewis

I'm a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia's tap water. — Gore Vidal

Star salt (the stars' reflection in a river) Sun cradle (the sea) Lemon kiss (everyone knew exactly what this meant!) Family anchor (the dinner table) — Nina George

It's not what we take with us
It's what we leave behind
Like a river singing
It wont let us sleep at night. — Mick Bose

in truth man is polluted river. one must be a sea to receive a polluted river without becoming defiled. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Not every man or woman sailing down the river will be a figure of force or significance. Some are merely in the boat with all of us. — Guy Gavriel Kay

Once upon a time, I thought denial was a river in Egypt. It's actually the attitude of the Abbott government. — Bill Shorten

Evening came, a paw, to the gray hut by the river. — William Stafford

An undisturbed river is as perfect as we will ever know, every refractive slide of cold water a glimpse of eternity. — Thomas McGuane

There was a trout. — Ernest Hemingway,

Preserving a river or a creek can bring a lot of revenue. — Jim Fowler

Trying to hold onto "how it was" will only create suffering and disappointment, because life is a river and everything changes. — Jack Kornfield

Music is a whole oasis in my head. The creation process is so personal and fulfilling. — River Phoenix

Down to the river itself, the water so smooth that the stars and lights blended on its dark surface like a living ribbon of eternity. The — Sarah J. Maas