Water Quotes - Page 32

• Fish live in water. Men die in it.Nature is diverse, and not all tastes are the same.

  Zhuangzi

  Men, Tolerance, Taste

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• The water in the stream may have changed many times, but the reflection of the moon and the stars remains the same.

  Rumi

  Stars, Reflection, Moon

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• To an experienced Zen Buddhist, asking if one believes in Zen or one believes in the Buddha, sounds a little ludicrous, like asking if one believes in air or water. Similarly Quality is not something you believe in, Quality is something you experience.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Buddhist, Believe, Air

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• As regards the quietude of the sage, he is not quiet because quietness is said to be good. He is quiet because the multitude of things cannot disturb his quietude. When water is still, one's beard and eyelashes are reflected in it. A skilled carpenter uses it in a level to obtain a measurement. If still water is so clear, how much more are the mental faculties! The mind of the sage is the mirror of heaven and earth in which all things are reflected.

  Zhuangzi

  Eyelashes, Mirrors, Heaven

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• Natural thunder heralds the wetness of fresh water
  high clouds
  to quench the thirst of fields gone dry and parched,
  a messenger of blessed rain,
  but this was as dry as hell must be.
  My distraught perception refused
  to believe it, because of the insane
  suddenness with which it sounded, swelled and hit,
  and how casually it came
  to murder my child.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Children, Rain, Believe

  "The First Long Range Artillery Fire On Leningrad". Poem by Anna Akhmatova, 1993.

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• A rich man's body is like a premium cotton pillow, white and soft and blank. ''Ours'' is different. My father's spine was a knotted rope, the kind that women use in villages to pull water from wells; the clavicle curved around his neck in high relief, like a dog's collar; cuts and nicks and scars, like little whip marks in his flesh, ran down his chest and waist, reaching down below his hip bones into his buttocks. The story of a poor man's life is written on his body, in a sharp pen.

  Aravind Adiga

  Dog, Father, Cutting

  FaceBook post by Aravind Adiga from Nov 30, 2013

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• With their tinted windows up, the cars of the rich go like dark eggs down the roads of Delhi. Every now and then an egg will crack open a woman's hand, dazzling with gold bangles, stretches out an open window, flings an empty mineral water bottle onto the road and then the window goes up, and the egg is resealed.

  Aravind Adiga

  Dark, Hands, Eggs

  Aravind Adiga (2008). “The White Tiger”, p.81, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I don't know what it is about the shower that generates creative thoughts. Maybe it's the hot water. Maybe it's being unencumbered even by the restriction of clothing.

  Lyle Lovett

  Creative, Hot, Restriction

  "Lyle Lovett: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 23, 2012.

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• [Martin] Luther did not regard the water in baptism as common water, but as a water which had become, through the Word with its inherent divine power, a gracious water of life, a washing of regeneration. Through this divine efficacy of the Word the sacrament effects regeneration.

  Louis Berkhof

  Water Of Life, Baptism, Divine Power

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• No attempt of any kind must be made at rescuing members of ships sunk, and this includes picking up persons in the water and putting them in lifeboats, righting capsized lifeboats, and handing over food and water. Rescue runs counter to the most primitive demands of warfare for the destruction of enemy ships and crews. Be hard, remember that the enemy has no regard for women and children when he bombs German cities.

  Karl Donitz

  Running, Children, Cities

  Orders issued on September 17, 1942. "The Trial of the Germans". Book by Eugene Davidson, p. 406, 1997.

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• Life from nonlife, like wine from water, has long been considered a miracle wrought by gods or God. Now it is seen to be the near-inevitable consequence of our thermal and chemical circumstances.

  Ursula Goodenough

  Wine, Long, Miracle

  "The Sacred Depths of Nature". Book by Ursula Goodenough, 1998.

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• So the president is like, "Well, once upon a time it was Congress's job to decide whether or not we attacked countries, so let's let them decide." Which is funny, because, as we all know, if Congress were on fire, Congress could not pass the "Pour Water on Congress Act".

  Hank Green

  Country, Jobs, Fire

  YouTube Channel "vlogbrothers"/"Syria in Five Minutes", www.youtube.com. September 13, 2013.

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• Too many times we're looking for ways to get around deep waters and dangerous fires, rather than through them. Has this ever been your experience?

  James MacDonald

  Fire, Deep Water, Way

  James MacDonald (2011). “Always True: God's 5 Promises When Life Is Hard”, p.119, Moody Publishers

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• I didn't know people had that much water in them!

  Sanjaya Malakar

  People, Knows

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• The value of land must, in the future, be assessed on its yield of potable water. Those property-owners with a constant source of pure water already have an economically-valuable "product" from their land, and need look no further for a source of income.

  Bill Mollison

  Land, Yield, Income

  "Permaculture: A Designers' Manual". Book by Bill Mollison, 1988.

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• Freezing concentrates sugar (maple sugar), alcohol, and salt solutions as efficiently as heating distils water or alcohol from solutions. Open pans of maple sugar can have the surface ice removed regularly (each day) until a sugar concentrate remains. Salts in water, and alcohol in ferment liquors can be concentrated in the same way.

  Bill Mollison

  Ice, Alcohol, Each Day

  "Permaculture: A Designers' Manual". Book by Bill Mollison, 1988.

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• You cannot expect any rational thought from a religious man. He is like a rocking log in water.

  Periyar E. V. Ramasamy

  Religious, Men, Rational

  Collected works of Periyar E.V.R., p. 50, 2005.

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• I started to see human beings as little lonesome, water based, pink meat, life forms pushing air through themselves and making noises that the other little pieces of meat seemed to understand. I was thinking to myself, 'There's five billion people here but we've never been more isolated.' The only result of the aggressive individualism we pursue is that you lose sight of your compassion and we go to bed at night thinking, 'Is this all there is?' because we don't feel fulfilled.

  Devin Townsend

  Night, Thinking, Compassion

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• I had been painting Kate Moss for a long time, both before the time of her crisis and during it. I felt very strongly for her - she's a hard-working mum and it seemed as if suddenly the world turned against her. Holy water cannot help you now is painted in very warm pretty colours.

  Stella Vine

  Hard Work, Long, Moss

  "My Home: Stella Vine, Artist" by Tessa Williams-Akoto, www.independent.co.uk. November 30, 2005.

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• Coca-Cola is little more than sugar, some flavoring, and lots of (carbonated) water. It is largely indistinguishable from innumerable other brands of cola, yet people around the world seem to think that Coca-Cola is something and they are eager to ask for it by name and even to pay a premium for it.

  George Ritzer

  Thinking, Names, People

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• The air was calm and insects had not yet risen off the water, that crisp time of morning before the sun strikes, when it is still cool enough to work out solutions to sticky problems.

  April Smith

  Morning, Air, Work Out

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• Unquenchable is a worthy successor to Cadillac Desert that ably demonstrates how our most valuable resource is being squandered, ignored, and flushed away. Although it reminds us that water is indeed finite, Unquenchable clearly shows us the solutions to the greatest threat of the 21st century are limited only by politics and greed.

  Terry Tamminen

  Greed, Desert, Cadillacs

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• The real trick to producing great work isn't to find ways to eliminate the edgy, nervous feeling that you might be swimming out of your depth. Instead, it's to remember that everyone else is feeling it, too. We're all in deep water. Which is fine: it's by far the most exciting place to be.

  Oliver Burkeman

  Real, Swimming, Deep Water

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• I closed my eyes and listened to the occasional chirps of tiny birds hidden in the trees around us, the bubbling of water over rocks down below, cicadas rattling a chorus off in the distance. All sounds of the world carrying on like it always had. So much could change or be lost, and still, the rest of the world went on like it was nothing. It didn't seem wrong, but it didn't seem right either. I'd gone on today like it was nothing. I'd laughed and felt happy and forgotten for a little while that this was now a world without my brother in it.

  Jessi Kirby

  Brother, Distance, Eye

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• Climate change, demographics, water, food, energy, global health, women's empowerment - these issues are all intertwined. We cannot look at one strand in isolation. Instead, we must examine how these strands are woven together.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Issues, Empowerment, Together

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