Water Quotes - Page 34

• If the ocean was pure mind and I was a wave, I would be in terror if Itried to distinguish myself fromthe water that produced me.What is a wave without water, and what is a mind without God?

  Hugh Prather

  Ocean, Mind, Would Be

  Hugh Prather (1982). “The Quiet Answer”, Main Street Books

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• At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water

  Matsuo Basho

  Sound, Ponds, Frogs

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• Breaking the silence
  Of an ancient pond,
  A frog jumped into water -
  A deep resonance.

  Matsuo Basho

  Silence, Ponds, Frogs

  "The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches". Book by Matsuo Bashō, 1966.

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• I find that whenever I am in power, or my father was in power, somehow good things happen. The economy picks up, we have good rains, water comes, people have crops. I think the reason this happens is that we want to give love and we receive love.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Father, Rain, Thinking

  "'I never asked for power'". Interview with Rory McCarthy, www.theguardian.com. August 15, 2002.

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• Let me die a youngman's death not a clean and in-between- the-sheets, holy-water death.

  Roger McGough

  Clean, Holy, Sheets

  1967 'Let Me Die AYoungman's Death'.

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• The water won't clear up until we get the hogs out of the creek.

  Jim Hightower

  Creeks, Clear, Hog

  Bill Moyers Journal, April 30, 2010.

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• To get wealth and security by guile
  Is like one who pours water into a pot of unbaked clay.

  Thiruvalluvar

  Clay, Wealth, Pot

  "Tirukkural". Book by Thiruvalluvar, 1840.

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• Hurry not a woman's favor; neither forcer her hastily to surrender to thee. For she goeth into love as she goeth into the waters at the seashore; first a hand and then a lip goeth she in by littles. She diveth not, she leapeth not from the pier; but by gentle shocks and cries of protest she entereth slowly; yet when the waters of love encompass her, then she is supported. She swimmeth in her joy; she floateth on the tide of happiness.

  Gelett Burgess

  Love, Women, Hands

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• A boat may stay in water, but water should not stay in boat. A spiritual aspirant may live in the world, but the world should not live within him.

  Ramakrishna

  Spiritual, World, May

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• By this you may see who are the rude and barbarous Indians: For verily there is no savage nation under the cope of Heaven, that is more absurdly barbarous than the Christian World. They that go naked and drink water and live upon roots are like Adam, or Angels in comparison of us.

  Thomas Traherne

  Christian, Angel, Roots

  Thomas Traherne (2010). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.161, Cosimo, Inc.

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• As the quality of water changes with the nature of the soil;So will a man's reason vary with the quality of his friends.

  Thiruvalluvar

  Men, Quality, Soil

  "Tirukkural". Book by Thiruvalluvar, 1840.

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• The lotus' stem is as long as the depth of water,
  So men's height is just as great as their inner strength.

  Thiruvalluvar

  Men, Long, Inner Strength

  "Tirukkural". Book by Thiruvalluvar, 1840.

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• Jesu, lover of my soul, Let me to thy bosom fly, While the nearer waters roll, While the tempest still is high; Hide me,O my Saviour, hide, Till the storm of life is past; Safe into the haven guide, O receive my soul at last.

  Charles Wesley

  Past, Soul, Storm

  1740 'In Temptation', collected in Hymns and Sacred Poems.

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• Let the church come to God in the strength of a perfect weakness, in the power of a felt helplessness and a child-like confidence, and then, either she has no strength, and has no right to be, or she has a strength that is infinite. Then and thus, will she stretch out the rod over the seas of difficulty that lie before her, and the waters shall divide, and she shall pass through, and sing the song of deliverance.

  Mark Hopkins

  Song, Children, Lying

  Adam Reid, Benjamin Wood, Friedrich Schleiermacher, Henry Brewster Stanton, Laurens Perseus Hickok (1850). “Strength and beauty: A baccalaureate sermon, delivered at Williamstown, Ms. August 17, 1851”

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• The foaminess of the Falls, together with the tinge of tawny yellow in the troubled waters, only reminded me of so much unattainable soda and sherry, and made me feel thirstier than ever.

  George Augustus Henry Sala

  Fall, Yellow, Together

  1865 On seeing Niagara Falls for the first time. My Diary in America in theMidst ofWar.

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• The people of your world became so stupid and rude that my companions and I no longer enjoyed teaching them. You must surely have heard of us: we were called oracles, nymphs, spirits, fairies, household gods, lemures, larvas, lamias, sprites, water-nymphs, incubi, shades, spirits of the dead, specters and ghosts.

  Cyrano de Bergerac

  Stupid, Teaching, Nymphs

  "The Other World: Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon". Book by Cyrano de Bergerac, 1657.

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• What, concretely, is Enlightenment ?" "Seeing Reality as it is," said the Master. "Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?" "Oh, no! Most people see it as they think it is." "What's the difference?" "The difference between thinking you are drowning in a stormy sea and knowing you cannot drown because there isn't any water in sight for miles around.

  Anthony de Mello

  Reality, Thinking, Sight

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• We must look into unknown dimensions, into Nature, into that incalculable and imponderable life, whose carrier and mediator, the blood of the Earth that accompanies us steadfastly from the cradle to the grave, is water.

  Viktor Schauberger

  Blood, Accompany Us, Looks

  Viktor Schauberger, Callum Coats (2000). “The Energy Evolution – Harnessing Free Energy from Nature: Volume 4 of Renowned Environmentalist Viktor Schauberger’s Eco-Technology Series”, p.18, Gill & Macmillan Ltd

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• When women and men have approximately equal life expectancies, it seems to be because women die not only in childbirth (fewer than thought) but about equal from diseases; poor sanitation and water; inadequate healthcare; and diseases of malnutrition. In industrialized societies, early deaths are caused more by diseases triggered by stress, which breaks down the immune system. It is since stress has become the key factor that men have died so much sooner than women.

  Warren Farrell

  Stress, Men, Keys

  Warren Farrell (1994). “The myth of male power: why men are the disposable sex”

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• But come, hear my words, for truly learning causes the mind to grow. For as I said before in declaring the ends of my words: Twofold is the truth I shall speak; for at one time there grew to be the one alone out of many, and at another time it separated so that there were many out of the one; fire and water and earth and boundless height of air, and baneful Strife apart from these, balancing each of them, and Love among them, their equal in length and breadth.

  Empedocles

  Fire, Air, Mind

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• When I sit near the ocean in the morning and write my verses and breathe the salty wind which is coming from the water, I rejoice in God and I am blissful, as I was as a child.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Morning, Children, Ocean

  "Michael: a German fate in diary notes". Book by Joseph Goebbels, 1929.

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• Choke me in the shallow water before I get too deep.

  Edie Brickell

  Shallow, Choke, Too Deep

  "Song: 'What I Am'". 1988.

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• The prophet Isaiah ... points out what will be the cause of this change; for he says that hatred, quarrel, and fighting will come to an end, because men will have a true knowledge of God. "They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters which cover the sea" (Isa. xi. ver. 9) Note it.

  Maimonides

  Hurt, Fighting, Men

  "Guide for the Perplexed". Book by Maimonides, Ch.11, 1190.

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• The political controversy surrounding this Boston's Big Dig could have the effect of throwing cold water on any plans for farsighted infrastructure development around the country.

  Andrew Natsios

  Country, Boston, Political

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• Imagine a world where nothing is stable. In the West, we have three moving elements -- Air, Fire, Water -- but at least we can depend on the fourth.

  Peter Greenaway

  Moving, Fire, Air

  Peter Greenaway (1999). “Eight and a half women”, Dis Voir Editions

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