“Ripples on a pond cannot touch a bird hovering above it.”
John C. Wright (1961) American novelist and technical writer
Source: Titans of Chaos (2007), Chapter 18, “Dream Storm” Section 14 (p. 250)
“Your actions is like a raindrop; it falls into the pond making ripples and then its over…”
— Sarah Dessen, book The Truth About Forever
Source: The Truth About Forever
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Dorothy Day (1897–1980) Social activist
As quoted in Women on War : Essential Voices for the Nuclear Age (1988), by Daniela Gioseffi, p. 103
Variant: A pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. Each one of our thoughts, words and deeds is like that. No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There's too much work to do.
As quoted in Singing the Living Tradition (1993) by the Unitarian Universalist Association, p. 560
Context: 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. Going to jail for distributing leaflets advocating war tax refusal causes a ripple of thought, of conscience among us all. And of remembrance too. …. There may be ever improving standards of living in the U. S., with every worker eventually owning his own home and driving his own car; but our modern economy is based on preparation for war. … The absolutist begins a work, others take it up and try to spread it. Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.
“Thoughts aren’t personal. They just appear, like raindrops. Would you argue with a raindrop?”
Byron Katie (1942) American spiritual writer
Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)
Richard Feynman book QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
Source: QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter (1985), p. 14
“The fox often offers the duck its pond.”
Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer
Two Rivers saying
(15 October 1993)
“Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.”
Graham Greene (1904–1991) English writer, playwright and literary critic
Independent (London, April 4, 1991)
“Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is:
What if my leaves are falling like its own!”
Percy Bysshe Shelley book Ode to the West Wind
St. V
Ode to the West Wind (1819)
Context: Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is:
What if my leaves are falling like its own!
The tumult of thy mighty harmonies
Will take from both a deep, autumnal tone,
Sweet though in sadness. Be thou, Spirit fierce,
My spirit! Be thou me, impetuous one!