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  • Myriad laughter of the ocean waves. -- Aeschylus
  • In times of need, God can come to you in a myriad of disguises. -- Wayne Dyer
  • You don't work on something for six years and be blind to the myriad of other approaches. -- Ken Burns
  • I've etched out who I am through myriad haircut attempts, outfit attempts, beauty attempts, diet attempts. It's been an evolution. -- Jamie Lee Curtis
  • We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life's pilgrimage. -- Michael Shermer
  • The myriad of serious health risks resulting from poor diet include high cholesterol, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke, and even sleep apnea. -- Jane Velez-Mitchell
  • To get a human through a life, lives of broken bones, knock-me-over-with-a-feather susceptibility to myriad viruses, and whatever else might befall someone will cost money. -- Henry Rollins
  • In all its myriad manifestations, the language of anti-Semitism through the ages is a dictionary of non-sequiturs and antonyms, a thesaurus of illogic and inconsistency. -- Paul Johnson
  • The truth is that our way of celebrating the Christmas season does spring from myriad cultures and sources, from St. Nicholas to Coca-Cola advertising campaigns. -- Richard Roeper
  • Of all the myriad ways we define love, there is perhaps none more honest and powerful than this: Great love is rooted in great partnership. -- Sarah MacLean
  • Social technology gives leaders a vital new platform with which to connect their companies to the myriad stakeholders who have an interest in their well being. -- Simon Mainwaring
  • I don't like going where I've already been. Life is a myriad of territories to discover. I don't want to waste time with what I already know. -- Jeanne Moreau
  • Public employee unions, in their defense, say politicians have unfairly made them into simplistic bogeymen, responsible for problems that have myriad causes. Not all government workers receive generous pensions, they note. -- Charles Duhigg
  • That's what the internet is: it's like bombarding your eyeballs with these myriad blinking colour lights. It's like trying to watch a movie on your phone in the middle of Times Square. -- Michel Gondry
  • A marriage is a solemn affair. The tempest of emotions and the myriad of arrangements are giddying, and when one is faced with these, clothing seems to be the last of one's priorities. -- Daphne Guinness
  • It is true the orator may make a myriad replica of his own passion out of those who listen to him. But that does not prove he is right or they are not fools. -- George William Russell
  • In China, national priorities are established by the Government and then funded by the state; in India, priorities emerge from seemingly endless discussions and arguments amongst myriad interests, and funds have to be found where they might. -- Shashi Tharoor
  • The bearing, rearing, feeding and educating of children; the running of a house with its thousand details; human relationships with their myriad pulls - women's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
  • With most of the songs and music that I've composed, irrespective of the myriad videos made, I was always careful not to overly define the experience, leaving room for people to internalize things for themselves, making their experience more integral. -- Serj Tankian
  • A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance. -- Alanis Morissette
  • She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges of mind beyond our present mind and above these she saw the splendors of the spirit. -- Sri Aurobindo
  • Acceptance does not mean that you placidly acquiesce to the myriad injustices that are all around you. In fact, that you are incensed about these injustices is the very reason you need to try your level best to 'right' these 'wrongs.' -- Srikumar Rao
  • More-radical scholars insist that an inherent clash exists between science and our long-held conceptions about consciousness and moral agency: if you accept that our brains are a myriad of smaller components, you must reject such notions as character, praise, blame, and free will. -- Paul Bloom
  • To me, the appeal of opera lies in the fact that a myriad of singers and instruments, each possessed of different qualities of voice and sound, against the backdrop of a grand stage and beautiful costumes, come together in one complete and impressive drama. -- Junichiro Koizumi
  • When I taught writing classes to psychiatric patients, I met people whose stories of manic highs and immobilizing lows appeared to be textbook descriptions of classic bipolar disorder. I met other patients who had been diagnosed with myriad disorders. No doctor seemed to agree about what they actually suffered from. -- Siri Hustvedt
  • Running fills the cup that has to pour out for others. Running feeds the soul that has a responsibility to nourish. Running sets the anchor that limits the drift of the day. Running clears the mind that has a myriad of challenges to solve. Running tends to the self so that selfishness can subside. -- Kristin Armstrong
  • New York musicians rarely have the time for idle chat and conversation after a gig. Despite popular assumption of our scintillating after-hours, that illusion is overtaken by the constant hustle to juggle a part-time or full-time job, a myriad of errands, a second or third gig of the day, and perhaps a child or two somewhere. -- Kat Edmonson
  • Love covers a myriad of plausibility structures. -- Carol Plum Ucci
  • In a myriad of ways you tell one truth. -- Dejan Stojanovic
  • This loss of self contributes to illness in its myriad forms. -- Sidney Jourard
  • Every second that you're filming, you have a myriad of choices to make. -- Anne Makepeace
  • It's nice to know that [God] can destroy us in a myriad of ways. -- Jon Stewart
  • The Way begets one; one begets two; two begets three; three begets the myriad creatures. -- Laozi
  • The thorn of death falls from heaven, and its myriad forms leave us no room to move. -- Kobo Abe
  • Mastering the lawless science of our law,- that codeless myriad of precedent, that wilderness of single instances. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Break open A cherry tree And there are no flowers; But the spring breeze Brings forth myriad blossoms. -- Ikkyu
  • Jazz fans love Miles and I love him for a myriad of reasons, but the overviews are always too simplistic. -- Branford Marsalis
  • Implacable I, the implacable Sea; Implacable most when most I smile serene- Pleased, not appeased, by myriad wrecks in me. -- Herman Melville
  • The myriad things are complete in us. There is no greater joy than to reflect on ourselves and become sincere. -- Mencius
  • Let's face it: pop music in its myriad permutations will always be sexually presumptuous, racially controversial and, frequently, politically charged. -- Dan Hill
  • Silence has a myriad of meanings. In the theater, silence is an absence of words, but never an absence of meaning. -- Sanford Meisner
  • Any master skill in practice is about comprehending myriad elements and fitting them together in inspired ways that satisfy the objective. -- Marian Deegan
  • That you carry yourself forward and experience the myriad things is delusion. That the myriad things come forward and experience themselves is awakening -- Dogen
  • I'm doing now with cornets exactly what I used to do with trilobites: measuring, analyzing and cataloging the myriad gradations of their forms. -- Niles Eldredge
  • The universe must be full of voices, calling from star to star in a myriad tongues. One day we shall join that cosmic conversation. -- Arthur C. Clarke
  • O Nature, gracious mother of us all, Within thy bosom myriad secrets lie Which thou surrenderest to the patient eye That seeks and waits. -- Margaret Junkin Preston
  • The more time we spend interconnected via a myriad of devices, the less time we have left to develop true friendships in the real world. -- Alex Morritt
  • Man's health and well-being depends upon, among many things, the proper functioning of the myriad proteins that participate in the intricate synergisms of living systems. -- Stanford Moore
  • A modern economy is marked by the feasibility of endogenous change: Modernization brings myriad arrangements from expanded property rights to company law and financial institutions. -- Edmund Phelps
  • And see the peaceful trees extend their myriad leaves in leisured dance- they bear the weight of sky and cloud upon the fountain of their veins. -- Kathleen Raine
  • Love is never blind; it sees with ucute clarity. A closed mind, wounded heart, and a bitter disposition surely cannot perceive love's myriad ways of communicating. -- T.F. Hodge
  • To a mathematician the eleventh means only a single unit: to the bushman who cannot count further than his ten fingers it is an incalculable myriad. -- George Bernard Shaw
  • Anger and depression are not diseases or dysfunctions or anomalies; they are perfectly rational responses to the myriad avoidable disappointments that begin in a thoroughly irrational hope. -- Shalom Auslander
  • The waves Of the mysterious death-river moaned; The tramp, the shout, the fearful thunder-roar Of red-breathed cannon, and the wailing cry Of myriad victims, filled the air. -- George D. Prentice
  • All faith is false, all faith is true. Truth is the shattered mirror strown in myriad bits, while each believes his little bit the whole to own. -- Richard Francis Burton
  • The healing of the world is in its nameless saints. Each separate star seems nothing, but a myriad scattered stars break up the night and make it beautiful. -- Bayard Taylor
  • NASA's myriad failures are in many ways the natural consequence of a catastrophic combination of bureaucracy, monopoly, and a calcifying aversion to the kind of risk necessary for innovation. -- Burt Rutan
  • But every human path leads on to God; He holds a myriad finer threads than gold, And strong as holy wishes, drawing us With delicate tension upward to Himself. -- Edmund Clarence Stedman
  • It is the great inspector, with a myriad eyes, who never sleeps, and whose daily reports are submitted, not to a functionary or department, but to the whole people. -- William Thomas Stead
  • When I write, I'm constantly putting myself in the position of someone else as I write using myriad voices; I think that's a life skill all people should learn. -- Joanne Harris
  • God split himself into a myriad parts that he might have friends. This may not be true, but it sounds good, and is no sillier than any other theology. -- Robert A. Heinlein
  • Beyond this world there are myriad worlds, thousands of inter-dimensional planes with different types of beings going through other cycles of existence. Beyond all beings is something that is eternal. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
  • As for men, those myriad little detached ponds with their own swarming corpuscular life, what were they but a way that water has of going about beyond the reach of rivers? -- Loren Eiseley
  • Highest good is like water. Because water excels in benefiting the myriad creatures without contending with them and settles where none would like to be, it comes closest to the way. -- Laozi
  • He was following the Earth through its days, drifting with the rhythms of its myriad pulses, seeping through the webs of its life, swelling with its tides, turning with its weight. -- Douglas Adams
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  • The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure. -- Oscar Wilde
  • Why should I hate someone on the basis of their religion, when I can take a little time to get to know them and hate them for a myriad of real reasons. -- Dennis Miller
  • You can live in the world and have all the myriad experiences that life has to offer and yoke your awareness field to the planes of light, and eventually to nirvana itself. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
  • All Nature is linked together by invisible bonds and every organic creature, however low, however feeble, however dependent, is necessary to the well-being of some other among the myriad forms of life. -- George Perkins Marsh
  • The stage is not only a world apart, it is a myriad of worlds, and in those worlds a man can have anything he fancies, if only he believes in what he sees. -- Kathe Koja
  • So much of politics is about the daily grind of political business: the people to see, the myriad different facets of government, the remorseless agenda of this part of the media or that. -- Tony Blair
  • For a President not to have confidence in, not to be prepared to listen to the myriad of intelligence agencies from defense intelligence, to the CIA, etcetera, is absolutely mindless. It's just mindless. -- Joe Biden
  • William Stillman continues his fascinating exploration of the myriad connections between autism and human personality. The Soul of Autism makes a strong case for why we should embrace rather than fear the differences between us. -- Dean Hamer
  • Product of a myriad various minds and contending tongues, compact of obscure and minute association, a language has its own abundant and often recondite laws, in the habitual and summary recognition of which scholarship consists. -- Walter Pater
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