Water Quotes - Page 27

• Stop shallow water from running, it will rage; tread on a worm and it will turn.

  Robert Greene

  Running, Courage, Shallow

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• The waves belong to the water. Does the water belong to the waves?

  Ramakrishna

  Ego, Doe, Wave

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

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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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• Best fishing in troubled waters.

  John Harington

  Fishing, Troubled Waters

  "Orlando Furioso". 1591.

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• Always make water when you can.

  Duke of Wellington

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

  Ian McShane

  Shrimp, Golden, Champagne

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.

  Benjamin Rush

  Hot, Frozen, Mirth

  Benjamin Rush (1835). “Medical Inquiries and Observations Upon the Diseases of the Mind”, p.119

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• Morn on the waters, and purple and bright Bursts on the billows the flushing of light O'er the glad waves, like a child of the sun, See the tall vessel goes gallantly on.

  Thomas Kibble Hervey

  Children, Purple, Light

  Thomas Kibble Hervey (1829). “The poetical sketch-book, including a 3rd ed. of Australia”, p.8

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• Americans deserve both clean air and clean water and never one at the expense of the other.

  Carol Browner

  Air, Cleanliness, Expenses

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• The sugar industry doesn't want to see more of the agricultural areas turned into storm-water treatment areas. Ultimately they want to develop that land for houses and a shopping center.

  Charles Lee

  Land, Shopping, Agriculture

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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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• We have a right to expect that the best trained, the best educated men on the Pacific slope, the Rocky Mountains, and great plains States will take the lead in the preservation and right use of forests, in securing the right use of waters, and in seeing that our land policy is not twisted from its original purpose, but is perpetuated by amendment, by change when such change is necessary in the life of that purpose, the purpose being to turn the public domain into farms each to be the property of the man who actually tills it and makes his home in it.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Home, Men, Land

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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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• 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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• We were so poor we had no hot water. But it didn't matter because we had no bathtub to put it in anyway.

  Tom Dreesen

  Family, Hot, Matter

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• All those golden autumn days the sky was full of wings. Wings beating low over the blue water of Silver Lake, wings beating high in the blue air far above it . . . bearing them all away to the green fields in the South.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Autumn, Lakes, Green Fields

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (1953). “By the Shores of Silver Lake”

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