Water Quotes - Page 14

• Think about this: If water is the blood of our planet flowing through veinous rivers, streams, and into our oceans, what does that make coral? Our heart. We simply cannot survive without our heart; therefore, it's mandatory we heal and protect our coral reefs now.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Ocean, Heart, Thinking

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• At the moment there are 1 in 8 people who have no access to clear drinking water, about a billion people worldwide, which can make you feel quite overwhelmed.

  Cate Blanchett

  Drinking, People, Overwhelmed

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• If thou canst walk on water, thou art no better than a straw. If thou canst fly in the air, thou art no better than a fly. Conquer thy heart that thou mayest become somebody.

  Aziz Ansari

  Art, Air, Conquer

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• Drinking is an art, not a sport. You make it a sport, you're dead in the water, you lose everything. It'll kill you, I tell you.

  Michael Moriarty

  Sports, Art, Drinking

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• A Dirty Shame was a crazy movie. I don't understand that movie at all. I don't get it, but I'd work with John Waters again in a heartbeat. He's just a delight.

  Selma Blair

  Crazy, Dirty, Shame

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• Politics is like air and water. And you know if there is bad politics. Everyone is polluted. Everyone is unhealthy. See the people walking on the street: how they act.

  Ai Weiwei

  Air, People, Politics

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• It takes waking prayer and working prayer and going to bed in prayer each day with increasing dedication. I must be the best person that I am able to be when I am painting. Tonight the wind is howling and the barrels are full of sky water.

  Morris Graves

  Prayer, Dedication, Wind

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• Those who never sail stormy waters are the quickest and harshest judges of bad seamanship.

  Susan Glaspell

  Judging, Criticism, Sail

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• The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water, and yet thirsty.

  Thomas Adams

  Men, Greed, Thirsty

  Thomas Adams (2013). “The Sermons of Thomas Adams: The Shakespeare of Puritan Theologians”, p.48, Cambridge University Press

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• The beauty of the landscape - where sand, water, reeds, birds, buildings, and people all somehow flowed together - has never left me.

  Zaha Hadid

  People, Bird, Together

  "I don't do nice". Interview with Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2006.

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• The Fishable Waters Act shares the same intent of the Clean Water Act by proposing to fulfill goals that have not yet been met to restore and maintain the biological integrity of the nation's waters. The intent of the bill is to enhance the Clean Water Act instead of undercutting it.

  Stephen Moyer

  Integrity, Goal, Bills

  "Bill aims to shore up Clean Water Act", www.cnn.com. April 12, 2000.

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• Bodies which contain a greater proportion of water than is necessary to balance the other elements, are speedily corrupted, and lose their virtues and properties.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Balance, Elements, Body

  Marcus VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Joseph GWILT (1826). “The Architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio in Ten Books, Translated from the Latin by J. Gwilt”, p.17

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• The sky is one whole, the water another

  Henryk Sienkiewicz

  Sky, Whole

  Henryk Sienkiewicz (1898). “Sielanka: A Forest Picture, and Other Stories”

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• The sound of water escaping from mill-dams, etc., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork.those scenes made me a painter and I am grateful.

  John Constable

  Grateful, Escaping, Sound

  Letter to John Fisher, 23 October 1821, in C. R. Leslie 'Memoirs of the Life of John Constable' (1843) ch. 5

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• The shrimp was lousy and the champagne tasted like water [at the Golden Globes

  Ian McShane

  Shrimp, Golden, Champagne

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• Always make water when you can.

  Duke of Wellington

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• You can analyze a glass of water and you're left with a lot of chemical components, but nothing you can drink.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Thinking, Glasses, Drink

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• One of the worst consequences politically would be for the majority of Democrats to vote for someone who, in the near future, would overturn well-established precedents on clean air, clean water, privacy, equal opportunity and religious liberty.

  Ralph Neas

  Religious, Opportunity, Air

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• The drive to resist compulsion is more important in wild animals than sex, food, or water... The drive for competence or to resist compulsion is a drive to avoid helplessness.

  Martin Seligman

  Sex, Animal, Important

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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, Red, Tides

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• Everything from now on will be done online - physical music media like the CD are dead in the water.

  Jan Hammer

  Media, Cds, Done

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• The single most important duty of the federal government is to protect and defend our national sovereignty. There are new and disturbing reports of American nuclear submarines passing though Canadian waters without obtaining the permission of, or even notifying, the Canadian government.

  Stephen Harper

  Government, Navy, Important

  "New Canada PM Challenges U.S. on Arctic Sovereignty", www.foxnews.com. January 26, 2006.

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• Gentle reader, I was born upon the water - not upon the salt and angry ocean, but upon the fresh and rapid-flowing river.

  Frederick Marryat

  Ocean, Rivers, Salt

  Frederick Marryat (1873). “Jacob Faithful”, p.1

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