Water Quotes - Page 4

• Water can flow, or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Empty Mind, Meditation

  "Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey". Documentary, Action, Biography, 2000.

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• A little water clears us of this deed.

  William Shakespeare

  Lady Macbeth, Deeds, Littles

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 2, l. 68

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• One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half full or half empty?" So I drank the water. No more problem.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Glasses

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• The sewer is the conscience of the city.

  Victor Hugo

  Cities, Sewers, Conscience

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.857, Wordsworth Editions

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• Anyone who can solve the problems of water will be worthy of two Nobel prizes - one for peace and one for science.

  John F. Kennedy

  Two, Problem, Nobel

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• God is the color of water. Water doesn't have a color.

  James McBride

  God, Color, Religion

  James McBride (2012). “The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother”, p.39, A&C Black

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• Meditation and water are wedded for ever.

  Herman Melville

  Meditation, Reverie, Absent Minded

  Herman Melville (2002). “Moby-Dick: A Picture Voyage : an Abridged and Illustrated Edition of the Original Classic”, p.13, Spinner Publications

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• Water is also one of the four elements, the most beautiful of God's creations. It is both wet and cold, heavy, and with a tendency to descend, and flows with great readiness. It is this the Holy Scripture has in view when it says, "And the darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters." Water, then, is the most beautiful element and rich in usefulness, and purifies from all filth, and not only from the filth of the body but from that of the soul, if it should have received the grace of the Spirit.

  John of Damascus

  Beautiful, Should Have, Four Elements

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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, Way

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• They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming.

  Hermann Hesse

  Voice, Siddhartha, Unity

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.82, Om Books International

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• We must act now to make sure fresh water is available to everyone, no matter where they live. The consequences of doing nothing will be even more catastrophic.

  Penelope Cruz

  Matter, Doing Nothing, Available

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• The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

  Lucretius

  Perseverance, Fall, Literature

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• Water is one of the most basic of all needs - we cannot live for more than a few days without it. And yet, most people take water for granted. We waste water needlessly and don't realize that clean water is a very limited resource. More than 1 billion people around the world have no access to safe, clean drinking water, and over 2.5 billion do not have adequate sanitation service. Over 2 million people die each year because of unsafe water - and most of them are children!

  Robert Alan Aurthur

  Children, Drinking, Years

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• How beautiful the water is! To me 'tis wondrous fair-- No spot can ever lonely be If water sparkle there; It hath a thousand tongues of mirth, Of grandeur, or delight, And every heart is gladder made When water greets the sight.

  Elizabeth Oakes Smith

  Beautiful, Lonely, Heart

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• Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down in a dale, and leaves you there by a pool in the stream. There is magic in it. Let the most absent-minded of men be plunged in his deepest reveries--stand that man on his legs, set his feet a-going, and he will infallibly lead you to water, if water there be in all that region. Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied with a metaphysical professor. Yes, as every one knows, meditation and water are wedded for ever.

  Herman Melville

  Rain, Men, Rivers

  Herman Melville (2015). “Annotated Moby Dick or, the Whale with English Grammar Exercises: by Herman Melville (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.5, Powell Publications, LLC

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• I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.

  Emily Bronte

  Love, Life, Dream

  Emily Bronte, Annabella Bloom (2010). “Wuthering Heights: The Wild and Wanton Edition”, p.128, Adams Media

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• To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

  Alan Watts

  Inspirational, Trust, Faith

  "The Essence of Alan Watts". Book by Alan Watts, 1977.

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• Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.

  Norman Maclean

  Running, Fishing, Rivers

  "A River Runs Through It" (1976)

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• You can't cross a sea by merely staring into the water.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational Life, Greatness, Sea

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• To trace the history of a river . . . is to trace the history of the soul, the history of the mind descending and arising in the body.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Rain, Rivers, Soul

  Gretel Ehrlich (1992). “Islands, the universe, home”, Penguin Group USA

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• Life originated in the sea, and about eighty percent of it is still there.

  Isaac Asimov

  Rain, Sea, Rivers

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• We must begin thinking like a river if we are to leave a legacy of beauty and life for future generations.

  David R. Brower

  Nature, Thinking, Water Of Life

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• The Gospel is like water; no man invented it, yet no man can live without it.

  Reinhard Bonnke

  Bible, Christian, Live Life

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• For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It's always our self we find in the sea.

  e. e. cummings

  Inspirational, Beach, Ocean

  E. E. Cummings, “Maggie And Milly And Molly And May”

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• We need a global approach to this from all sides. We need to educate people, we need the scientists to create new technologies, we need the engineers to create the networks, we need every human being to be aware of how precious water is and save it. Everybody has to be involved in a very firm and assertive way.

  Isabel Allende

  Technology, People, Environmental

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