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• When Christ at Cana's feast by pow'r divine, Inspir'd cold water, with the warmth of wine, See! cry'd they while, in red'ning tide, it gush'd, The bashful stream hath seen its God and blush'd.

  Aaron Hill

  Wine, Water, Red

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• Far away Tongariro! Green - white thundering Athabasca river of New Zealand! I vowed I would come again down across the Pacific to fish in the swift cold waters of this most beautiful and famous of trout streams. It is something to have striven. It is much to have kept your word.

  Zane Grey

  Beautiful, Rivers, White

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• It's cold water in the face to realize you're not nearly as special and as unusual as you might have thought when you were an alienated teenager.

  Adrian Tomine

  Teenager, Water, Special

  Interview with Nicole Rudick, believermag.com. October 1, 2007.

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• To get even near humility, even for a moment, is like a drink of cold water to a man in a desert.

  C. S. Lewis

  Humility, Men, Water

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.112, HarperCollins UK

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• One knew in advance that life in New York would not be easy‚ but there were cheap rents in cold-water lofts without heat‚ and the excitement of being here made up for those hardships. I didn't move to New York to make a fortune.

  David Byrne

  New York, Moving, Water

  "If the 1% stifles New York's creative talent, I'm out of here" by David Byrne, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2013.

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• A person can attack that bottle of vodka and drink it like it's a bottle of cold water. Two of my wife's girlfriends died from drinking. They weren't big pill-takers; they were drinkers. So it can't be so simple as to slide away, like Marilyn Monroe.

  William Eggleston

  Girlfriend, Drinking, Simple

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In a mad moment, my family and I purchased a home in Maine because it's the place in the world that my wife loves better than any other place or any other human, and so I have committed my life and what had once been my economic security that has now returned to insecurity, to a patch of painful, rocky land on the shores of horrible, cold waters to a place where people go in the summer to experience autumn because leaves start falling on August 1.

  John Hodgman

  Summer, Fall, Home

  "Bewildered Maine resident John Hodgman takes another crack at our 11 Questions". The A.V. Club Interview, www.avclub.com. September 3, 2015.

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• You can throw a bucket of cold water on Russians, and we can take it. But one shouldn't humiliate us!

  Vladimir Yakunin

  Water, Buckets, Cold

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I've made my evolutionary purpose and had children. I don't care if anybody likes me, I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to do a whole comedy show about swimming in the loathsomely cold waters of Maine.

  John Hodgman

  Children, Swimming, Water

  "Bewildered Maine resident John Hodgman takes another crack at our 11 Questions". The A.V. Club Interview, www.avclub.com. September 3, 2015.

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• When the whole discussion of "developing a national idea" hastily began in post-Soviet Russia, I tried to pour cold water on it with the objection that, after all the devastating losses we had experienced, it would be quite sufficient to have just one task: the preservation of a dying people.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Loss, Ideas, Russia

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• He shook my dozing soul and threw the cold water of reality in my face, so that life and God and heaven and hell broke into my world with glory and horror. (on CS Lewis)

  John Piper

  Reality, Water, Heaven

  John Piper (2003). “Don't Waste Your Life”, Crossway

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• He smelled cold water and cold intrepid green. Those early flowers smelled like cold water. Their fragrance was not the still perfume of high summer; it was the smell of cold, raw green.

  Paul Harding

  Summer, Spring, Flower

  Paul Harding (2011). “Tinkers”, p.60, Random House

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• Since I didn't have a spork handy, I leaned over the sink and scooped up a palmful of cold water and pressed it against my face. There had to be a better option than a violent sporking. There had to be a way to get rid of my dad.

  Devon Monk

  Dad, Water, Way

  Devon Monk (2009). “Magic in the Shadows: An Allie Beckstrom Novel”, p.13, Penguin

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• Nothing seems tiresome or painful when you are working for a Master who pays well; who rewards even a cup of cold water given for love of Him.

  Dominic Savio

  Faith, Inspiration, Water

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• Only soldiers and labouring men can appreciate how glorious it really is to lie late in bed in winter-time. When your life revolves around having to to be at work at seven o'clock in the morning you know everything about that ghastly lep up still half asleep and the rush to put your head under a tap of ice-cold water with the barbarous object of shocking yourself awake.

  Maurice Chevalier

  Morning, Lying, Winter

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• We are pain and what cures pain, both. We are the sweet cold water and the jar that pours. I want to hold you close like a lute, so that we can cry out with loving. Would you rather throw stones at a mirror? I am your mirror and here are the stones.

  Rumi

  Love, Sweet, Pain

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• ..As always, she was carrying the washing. Rudy was carrying two buckets of cold water, or as he put it, two buckets of future ice.

  Markus Zusak

  Ice, Two, Water

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.164, RH Childrens Books

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• There was something terrible, but also something sad and melancholy in this long cry uttered by the Russian infantry as they staged an attack. As it crossed the cold water, it lost its fervour. Instead of valour or gallantry, you could hear the sadness of a soul parting with everything that it loved, calling on its nearest and dearest to wake up, to lift their head from their pillows and hear for the last time the voice of a father, a husband, a son or a brother...

  Vasily Grossman

  Brother, Husband, Father

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• He pivoted, gaze following me as I crossed to the shower and turned on the cold water, so it would drown out our conversation without steaming up the room. Great," he muttered."Now they're going to think we're showering together. Maybe we can just tell them we were washing off the crawl space dirt and trying to conserve water.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Thinking, Space, Water

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• The revelation that we have everything we need in life to make us happy but simply lack the conscious awareness to appreciate it can be as refreshing as lemonade on a hot afternoon. Or it can be as startling as cold water being thrown in our face. How many of us go through our days parched and empty, thirsting after happiness, when we’re really standing knee-deep in the river of abundance?

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Rivers, Appreciate, Water

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• Restrooms at gas stations were an unpleasant and shocking surprise; I had never considered the serious drawbacks of such lazily-cleaned rooms. I was completely unable to ignore the filth, and wasted a burst of power to turn the sink, floors and porcelain toilet into sparkling, clean examples of their kind before using the facility. I felt that was a much less judgmental response than simply blowing the place off the face of the Earth, which was also a distinct temptation, especially when the storekeeper overcharged me for a bottle of cold water.

  Rachel Caine

  Water, Temptation, Example

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• One of the highest of human duties is the duty of encouragement...It is easy to laugh at men's ideals; it is easy to pour cold water on their enthusiasm; it is easy to discourage others. The world is full of discouragers. We have a Christian duty to encourage one another. Many a time a word of praise or thanks or appreciation or cheer has kept a man on his feet. Blessed is the man who speaks such a word.

  William Barclay

  Christian, Encouragement, Appreciation

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• Sylvia had given him a scalding lecture, the gist of it being that whatever a woman enjoyed wearing was feminine and anything she didn't enjoy wearing wasn't, and if he was too stubborn and old fashioned to understand that, he could go and soak his head in a bucket of cold water. He hadn't quite forgiven her yet for saying they would have to look hard to find a bucket big enough to fit his head in to, but he admired the sass behind the remark.

  Anne Bishop

  Water, Lectures, Sass

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• I am like a machine being driven to excessive rotations: the bearings are incandescing and, in a minute, melted metal will begin to drip and everything will turn to nothing. Quick: get cold water, logic. I am pouring it over myself by the bucketload but the logic sizzles on the hot bearings and dissipates elusive white steam into the air.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  White, Air, Water

  Yevgeny Zamyatin (2007). “We”, p.119, Modern Library

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• Blood transforms the warm bath water and, in it, I see weakly that this was a mistake. The razor's cut is not deep, nevertheless the blood rushes out happily in the warm water as if kin to it, the same tender substance. Rising a new person transformed with an icy sense of error I go to the sink and turn on cold water which is not friendly to blood. The cut is deeper than imagined.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Suicide, Mistake, Self Harm

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