A Quote by Kate Chopin

There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.

Kate Chopin

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Kate Chopin
American - Author
February 8, 1850 - August 22, 1904

To serve the cause of water adequately... We must get to know it in its true being. And how do we do this? Why, by treating it in the very way exemplified by its own behavior; that is, whenever we encounter it, we wash the tablet of our souls clean of all other impressions in order to allow the being of water to make its imprint on us.

Theodor Schwenk

Some people can touch your life for a brief moment but will leave an imprint for a lifetime.

Lisa Williams

We are all the subjects of impressions, and some of use seek to convey the impressions to others. In the art of communicating impressions lies the power of generalizing without losing that logical connection of parts to the whole which satisfies the mind.

Camille Pissarro

Carry an oar when you drive. Three times I've ended up in water.

Phyllis Diller

If you look at me, basically my whole entire life I've been around water. So when you look at a stat like, "If you leave the faucet running for two minutes while you brush your teeth you waste four gallons of water," to me that's mind-blowing. There are so many people that don't even have access to clean water, and people leave their faucets running. For me it was something that fit with things that I believe in.

Michael Phelps

Baccarat is a game whereby the croupier gathers in money with a flexible sculling oar, then rakes it home. If I could have borrowed his oar I would have stayed.

Mark Twain

In man's brain the impressions from outside are not merely registered; they produce concepts and ideas. They are the imprint of the external world upon the human brain.

Victor Frederick Weisskopf

The old aphorisms are basically sound. First impressions are lasting.

Jessie Redmon Fauset

We leave a stain, we leave a trail, we leave our imprint. Impurity, cruelty, abuse, error, excrement, semen - there’s no other way to be here. Nothing to do with disobedience. Nothing to do with grace or salvation or redemption. It’s in everyone. Indwelling. Inherent. Defining. The stain that is there before its mark.

Philip Roth

A producer is a saboteur who tries to infiltrate the passivity of viewers and to create impressions that are lasting.

Bill Moyers

I think legacies are most meaningful with the impressions that a person can leave on a group of people.

Maya Moore

I think people get satisfaction from living for a cause that's greater than themselves. They want to leave an imprint. By writing books, I'm trying to do that in a modest way.

Daniel H. Pink

Life is like a film screen: pictures come, make an impression, go, and then make a place for new pictures with new impressions which obscure the previous ones. Some of those old pictures fade, but the impressions they leave will never pass away. Such an impression is the image of Hein Sietsma -- a joyful Christian who loved life so much but was still willing to give it to the great, good, and holy cause.

Diet Eman

A straight oar looks bent in the water. It matters not merely that we see a thing, but how we see it.

Michel de Montaigne

Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.