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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

As he stared down at River's lips, swollen from his kisses, there was no question she would be his. The fire within her matched his. — Donna Grant

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

Every King, like the river, is evident by his currents — Dora Okeyo

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

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

Don't burn bridges. You'll be surprised how many times you have to cross the same river. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

She floats upon the river of his thoughts. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

Let us cross the river to the other side and rest beneath the shade of the trees.
[Stonwall Jackson just before passing into eternity in 1863.] — Thomas Jackson

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

They also live
Who swerve and vanish in the river. — Archibald MacLeish

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

And in the summer the river didn't run at all above ground. — John Steinbeck

The river of life divides into two branches: being and formulating. — Anais Nin

The point of going somewhere like the Napo River in Ecuador is not to see the most spectacular anything. It is simply to see what is there. — Annie Dillard

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

Reason and faith are both banks of the same river. — Domenico Cieri

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

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

I can't on my own change the regime in South Africa or teach the Palestinians to learn to live with the Israelies, but I can start with me. — River Phoenix

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

Public work does not cut into personal creativity. They are streams from the same river but with different destinations. — Grace Cavalieri

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

Today, the first & last of every Tree/ Speaks to humankind. Come to me, here beside the River. — Maya Angelou

Love is the crocodile in the river of desire. — Bhartrihari

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

The Okavango Delta is an astonishing sight: the great Okavango River, rather than flow towards the sea, flows inland, into the sands of the Kalahari. — Alexander McCall Smith

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

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

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

Oh, that river of wishes, the slippery crocodile dream of it, how it might have carried my body down through all the glittering sand bars to the sea. — Barbara Kingsolver

The anecdote was funny, but as my father gazed across the river at the university of his youth, his Russian life was in his eyes. — Paullina Simons

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

Do you know the moment I laid my eyes on you, I felt the wind knock out of me, like someone just gut-punched me. I — River Savage

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

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

I wondered then why children played so in the river, but adults ceased to see it with the same eyes. Why couldn't we embrace such simple joys? — John Shors

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

That was the river, this is the sea. — Mike Scott

Sometimes I float along the river
For its surface I am bound
And there are times stones done fill my pockets
And it's into this river I drown — T.J. Klune

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

So what that the world is beautiful this morning? Enough of this wonder of nature crap. It almost killed me. — Sandra Gail Lambert

When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, the last river poisoned, only then will we realize that one cannot eat money. — Native American Saying

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

The river Trent is lovely, I know because I have walked on it for 18 years. — Brian Clough

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

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

I'll never reach my destination, If I never try, So I will sail my vessel, 'Til the river runs dry. — Garth Brooks

I love the Park. I like to walk on the East River, too, up at Gracie Square, but Central Park is my favorite part of the city. — Brooke Astor

Everywhere I go is the river. I'm following it or it's following me. I know, suddenly, what I must do.
Meredith — Gillian Flynn

If there is no room in the river,
swim to the ocean. — Matshona Dhliwayo

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 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

What I love most about rivers is you can't step in the same river twice. The water's always changing, always flowing. — Pocahontas

Wherever the intention of each might lie, we are together being carried along at the same speed down the same river of time. — Haruki Murakami

The only river i would like to be drown is the river filled with the blood of Jesus. — Michael Bassey Johnson

The river runs wide and passive in sunlit stretches, then fast and bawdy with whitewater rapids. — Jennifer Egan

If you were to be lost in the river, Jonas, your memories would not be lost with you. Memories are forever. — Lois Lowry

I was born in Naples but my mother is from Rome , therefore some water from the Tiber river runs for sure in my veins. — Augusto De Luca

So our lives glide on: the river ends we don't know where, and the sea begins, and then there is no more jumping ashore. — George Eliot

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

He heard the voice that had called to him in dreams, had saved him from the sands and from following his brother into the river. — V.S. Carnes

Love is the river of life in the world. — Henry Ward Beecher

The warrior of light plunges unhesitatingly into the river of passions always flowing through his life. — Paulo Coelho

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

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

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read President Can't Swim. — Lyndon B. Johnson

The river was so blue it seemed to be breathing. — Brian Morton

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

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

Alcohol is the river we sit on the banks of, contemplating. Sometimes we watch ourselves float past, sometimes we watch ourselves sink. — Nick Flynn

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

It's in an inland sea that the river of my life ended. — Fernando Pessoa

The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course. — Henri Bergson

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

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

River is time in water; as it came, still so it flows, yet never is the same. — Barten Holyday

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

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

You do know that the West Bank means the West Bank of the Jordan River, don't you? — James Martin

I swear it by the River Styx, — Josephine Angelini

There was a trout. — Ernest Hemingway,

The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise ... — Mark Twain

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

Said the river: imagine everything you can imagine, then keep on going. — Mary Oliver

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

The headlong stream is termed violent
But the river bed hemming it in
Is termed violent by no one. — Bertolt Brecht

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

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

My whole life seemed to spill out into the river, swirling away from me, everything I had ever been or ever wanted to be. — Tim O'Brien

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

You've never seen Manhattan 'til you've flown right up the East River. It's beautiful. — Cory Lidle