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What we would like to do is change the world...by crying out unceasingly for the rights of the workers, of the poor, of the destitute. We can throw our pebble in the pond and be confident that its ever widening circle will reach around the world.
Dorothy Day
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Your actions is like a raindrop; it falls into the pond making ripples and then its over.
Sarah Dessen
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To defend his purity, Saint Francis of Assisi rolled in the snow, Saint Benedict threw himself into a thorn bush, and Saint Bernard plunged into an icy pond... You - what have you done?
Josemaria Escriva
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You never knew about people, like you never knew how deep a pond was because all you saw was the top.
Terry Pratchett
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All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
Claude Monet
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Looking at the pond, all I could think was that it is an incredivle thing, how a whole world can rise from what seems like nothing at all.
Sarah Dessen
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Gorgeous, amazing things come into our lives when we are paying attention: mangoes, grandnieces, Bach, ponds. This happens more often when we have as little expectation as possible. If you say, "Well, that's pretty much what I thought I'd see," you are in trouble. At that point you have to ask yourself why you are even here. [...] Astonishing material and revelation appear in our lives all the time. Let it be. Unto us, so much is given. We just have to be open for business.
Anne Lamott
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I like to sit on the front porch of an old cabin I built in the woods and just listen to the birds; I like to fish in the pond and I always throw the fish back.
Johnny Cash
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You want to be the pebble in the pond that creates the ripples for change.
Tim Cook
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What I want to bring out is how a pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. And each one of our thoughts, words and deeds is like that.
Dorothy Day
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After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.
Arthur Golden
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A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.
Saul Bellow
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Swim out of your little pond.
Rumi
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Frog in a little pond can be much happier than fish in a vast ocean!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
15.
You throw a stone into a deep pond. Splash. The sound is big, and it reverberates throughout the surrounding area. What comes out of the pond after that? All we can do is stare at the pond, holding our breath.
Haruki Murakami
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Be an electric eel in a goldfish pond!
Sark
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And strangely enoughthe only emotion I ever feel, is what the beaver must feel, as he bears each stick to his hidden construction, which creates the tranquil pond and gives the mallards somewhere to paddle, and the pair of swans a place to conceal their young
Billy Collins
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There's nothing wrong with being happy somewhere, even if it's the little pond you grew up in, as long as you are in fact comfortable vs. bored.
Carolyn Hax
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Are you nervous about no longer being a big fish in a small pond?
Lisi Harrison
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I am no more lonely than the loon on the pond that laughs so loud.
Ursula K. Le Guin
24.
In England, David and I are big fish in a small pond. But in L.A., we are tiny, tiny, tiny fish in a big pond.
Victoria Beckham
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I like being a big fish in a small pond. I'm not interested in a huge audience because it brings headaches.
Nick Lowe
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[On Jane Austen:] To believe her limited in range because she was harmonious in method is as sensible as to imagine that when the Atlantic Ocean is as smooth as a mill-pond it shrinks to the size of a mill-pond.
Rebecca West
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If you are looking for a whale you cannot search for a whale in a pond. You must go to deep waters.
Prashant Iyengar
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Pond scum stinks. And so do the Obama administration's enormous, taxpayer-funded 'investments' in politically connected biofuel companies.
Michelle Malkin
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While some men believe in the infinite, some ponds will be thought to be bottomless.
Henry David Thoreau
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What is life unless you're having a good time? I don't really have a plan; I just try to dip my toes in different ponds.
Douglas Booth
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It's a poor frog that doesn't praise his own pond! - Donnie McClurkin
Donnie McClurkin
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Large, centralized organizations foster alienation like stagnant ponds breed algae.
Ricardo Semler
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Like a stone thrown into a pond, a good deed can create ripples that extend far beyond the initial splash.
Jeanne Phillips
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Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
Matsuo Basho
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A society should never become like a pond with stagnant water, without movement. That's the most important thing.
Mikhail Gorbachev
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Amy Pond is, er...I've sort of fallen in love with Amy Pond.
Matt Smith
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I mean, the death in the late eighties and early nineties really shook out a lot of hacks. The pond just sort of dried up for a lot of really bad comedians.
Patton Oswalt
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Fish say, they have their Stream and Pond; But is there anything Beyond?
Rupert Brooke
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Today I saw a guy who looked like me in a funhouse mirror. He looked at me like, Hey, that's how I look reflected in the pond!
Dana Gould
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The old pond, ah! A frog jumps in: The water's sound.
Matsuo Basho
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Knowledge can be like the skin on the surface of the water in a pond, or it can go all the way down to the mud. It can be the tiny tip of the iceberg or the whole hundred percent.
Siobhan Dowd
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The senator's actions in the hours and days after emerging from that pond tell us something ugly about Kennedy the man. That he got away with it tell us something ugly about American public life.
Mark Steyn
45.
Breaking the silence
Of an ancient pond,
A frog jumped into water -
A deep resonance.
Matsuo Basho
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Doing stand-up is like running across a frozen pond with the ice breaking behind you. I love it because it's dangerous.
Steven Wright
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Each portion of matter may be conceived of as a garden full of plants, and as a pond full of fishes. But each branch of the plant, each member of the animal, each drop of its humors, is also such a garden or such a pond.
Gottfried Leibniz
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You cannot eat every tadpole and frog in the pond, but you can eat the biggest and ugliest one, and that will be enough, at least for the time being.
Brian Tracy
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The rose petal floats on water. The kingfisher flashes above the pond. Life and beauty swirl in the midst of death.
Robert Jordan
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Oh, well. Everyone else has suave, cosmopolitan sheep: why not us? The Millers at Hepple have a ewe that’s been to Kelso three times, and they’ve never been farther than Ford in their lives.” Kate peered absently into the farm pond, and clucked again. “Thoughtless creatures. They’ve forgotten the fish.
Dorothy Dunnett