Stagnant Water Quotes

• Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen Of stagnant waters.

  William Wordsworth

  Water, England, Needs

  "London, 1802" l. 1 (1807)

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• Just as iron rusts from disuse, and stagnant water putrefies, or when cold turns to ice, so our intellect wastes unless it is kept in use.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.246, OUP Oxford

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• If you ever feel comfortable in what you're producing, you've lost. You're not alive, that's it, it's stagnant water.

  Kate Tempest

  Water, Alive, Lost

  Source: www.clashmusic.com

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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

  Water, Important, Ponds

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Teachers who are not actively involved in the learning process themselves, force their students to drink from stagnant water

  Jean-Baptiste de La Salle

  Leadership, Sports, Teacher

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• If you withdraw into yourself, you run the risk of becoming egocentric. And stagnant water becomes putrid.

  Pope Francis

  Running, Happy Life, Water

  "Pope Francis’s ten secrets to happiness". www.washingtonpost.com. August 1, 2014.

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• In History, stagnant waters, whether they be the stagnant waters of custom or those of despotism, harbour no life; life is dependent on the ripples created by a few eccentric individuals. In homage to that life & vitality, the community has to brave certain perils and must countenance a measure of heresy. One must live dangerously if one wants to live at all.

  Herbert Read

  Peace, Ubuntu, Water

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• A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Motivational, Happy, Death

  Codice Trivulziano 281

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• Anyone who tries to imprison love will cut off the spring that feeds it, and the trapped water will grow stagnant and rank.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Spring, Cutting

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• As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Codice Trivulziano 281

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• The individual who cultivates grievances, and who is perpetually exacting explanations of his assumed wrongs, can only be ignored, and left to the education of time and of development.... One does not argue or contend with the foul miasma that settles over stagnant water; one leaves it and climbs to a higher region, where the air is pure and the sunshine fair.

  Lilian Whiting

  Education, Time, Sunshine

  Lilian Whiting (1896). “The World Beautiful”

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• Realize that everything connects to everything else.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Karma, Wisdom, Realizing

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• Accumulated wealth is saved by spending just as incoming fresh water is saved by letting out stagnant water.

  Chanakya

  Wisdom, Water, Wealth

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• The hardest thing about being an outcast isn't the love you don't receive. It's the love you long to give that nobody wants. After a while, it backs up into your system like stagnant water and turns toxic, poisoning your spirit. When this happens, you don't have many choices available. You can become a bitter loner who goes through life being pissed off at the world; you can fester with rage until one day you murder your classmates. Or, you can find another outlet for your love, where it will be appreciated and maybe even returned.

  Jodee Blanco

  Love You, Long, Giving

  Jodee Blanco (2010). “Please Stop Laughing at Me: One Woman's Inspirational True Story”, p.139, Adams Media

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• Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

  Laozi

  Strong, Power, Water

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• You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Fear, Understanding

  Leonardo Da Vinci (1938). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”

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• As with mosquitoes, horseflies, and most bloodsucking parasites, Kenneth Starr was spawned in stagnant water.

  James Carville

  Water, Mosquitoes, Parasites

  James Carville (1999). “And The Horse He Rode In On: The People v. Kenneth Starr”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• The air that people breathe in many Chinese cities has become dangerously polluted. Their food supply is subject to constant contamination scandals. Now it appears that not merely stagnant ponds but the water people draw from deep underground is already tainted.

  James Fallows

  Air, Cities, People

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• I go to bed, and I wait for sleep as a man might wait for the executioner. I wait for its coming with dread, and my heart beats and my legs tremble, while my whole body shivers beneath the warmth of the bedclothes, until the moment when I suddenly fall asleep, as a man throws himself into a pool of stagnant water in order to drown. I do not feel this perfidious sleep coming over me as I used to, but a sleep which is close to me and watching me, which is going to seize me by the head, to close my eyes and annihilate me.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Fall, Sleep, Eye

  Edgar Allan Poe, Frank Richard Stockton, H.O. Lovecraft, Guy de Maupassant, Franz Kafka (2017). “13 Short Scary Stories: Masterpieces of the greatest writers”, p.176, LeBooks Editora

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• As the sun's rays will irradiate even the murky pool, and make its stagnant waters to shine like silver, so doth God's goodness and tender mercy, towards the greatest sinner, and the blackest heart, make his own image visible there!

  Hosea Ballou

  Heart, Water, Shining

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• There is something about a home aquarium which sets my teeth on edge the moment I see it. Why anyone would want to live with a small container of stagnant water populated by a half-dead guppy is beyond me.

  S. J. Perelman

  Home, Aquariums, Water

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