Water Quotes - Page 15

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

  Susan Glaspell

  Judging, Criticism, Sail

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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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• 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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• The word 'pure' has never revealed an intelligent meaning to me. I can only use the word to quench an optical thirst for purity in the transparencies that evoke it - in bubbles, in a volume of water, and in the imaginary latitudes entrenched, beyond reach, at the very center of a dense crystal.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Intelligent, Use, Crystals

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

  Ian McShane

  Shrimp, Golden, Champagne

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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 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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• 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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• 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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• Oils of cinnamon and eucalyptus are as powerful against some microorganisms as conventional antibiotics, and are especially effective against flus. Sandalwood oil from Mysore, India, is not only a classic perfume oil but is also a traditional remedy for sore throats and laryngitis. Lavender oil, so often used in toilet waters and scented sachets, has a dramatic healing action on burns.

  Robert Tisserand

  Powerful, Healing, Oil

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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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• Passion is the breath we take, the water we drink to sustain ourselves. Without air and water we perish; without passion an artist will wither and blow away.

  Jack White

  Passion, Artist, Blow

  Jack White (2013). “Methods of Success: Artists fail because of unfounded fear, jealousy, insecurity, not knowing and a lack of confidence. This book will eliminate these lies from your life.”, p.139, Lulu Press, Inc

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• When you flow like water you bring all of your talents and resources to your creative work... Flow around every obstacle you encounter, including any you've erected yourself.

  Eric Maisel

  Creative, Encounters, Flow

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• When I'm approaching a water jump, with dozens of photographers waiting for me to fall in, and hundreds of spectators wondering what's going to happen next, the horse is just about the only one who doesn't know I am Royal!

  Anne, Princess Royal

  Horse, Fall, Waiting

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• What are you going to do now? I just wrapped a remake of The Poseidon Adventure .. Lady in the Water.

  Wolfgang Petersen

  Adventure, Poseidon, Remakes

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• Water is the most expressive element in nature. It responds to every mood from tranquility to turbulence.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Elements, Tranquility, Mood

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• Enabling people to make and receive phone calls during flight demonstrated the flexibility of a high-speed connectivity system. We allowed our guests to make calls to the ground while we flew over international waters.

  Christopher Peterson

  Phones, People, Phone Calls

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• When we are thirsty, we drink the white waters of the pool, the sweetness of our mournful childhood.

  Georg Trakl

  White, Childhood, Pool

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• The willow tree plays the water like a harp.

  Ramon Gomez de la Serna

  Play, Tree, Harps

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• Earlier lives drift by on silver soles, and the shadows of the damned descend into these sighing waters.

  Georg Trakl

  Shadow, Silver, Sigh

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• I dislike the word 'emerging artist.' Emerging connotes to me an alligator coming up from the water. I consider all artists to be artists, not rising, emerging, amateur, beginning, but the real thing.

  Jack White

  Real, Artist, Rising

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• Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish. The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.

  Ramakrishna

  Bird, Skins, World

  Ramakrishna, Mahendra Nath Gupta (1942). “The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna”, Ramakrishna Vivekanada Center

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