Water Quotes - Page 35

• 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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• How do you know what's really organic? Today, there's all these impurities in the water and the air. The water for the fruits and vegetables has junk in it. If you get enough vitamins and minerals out of normal food and whole grains, and you get enough proteins and exercise (that's the key) then nature builds up a tolerance to all of these things. It's survival of the fittest. You can't have everything perfect, that's impossible, but the fit survive.

  Jack LaLanne

  Exercise, Vegetables, Vitamins And Minerals

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• We as human beings do this thing where we stuff down our feelings until they find a way to manifest themselves. We try to avoid them until there's no more room and they come bubbling up like a pot of boiling-hot water that overflows. And when it does, it burns.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Feelings, Trying, Way

  Jennifer Lopez (2014). “True Love”, p.19, Penguin

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• If we can't keep our Palestinian neighbors and Muslim neighbors alive with good water and fresh air, we'll never get them to the peace table.

  Mandy Patinkin

  Air, Alive, Tables

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• I think the theatre is as essential to civilization as safe, pure water.

  Vanessa Redgrave

  Thinking, Civilization, Theatre

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• My mind spun for a second before it drifted, and in that second I knew that of all pleasures a drink of cold water when you are thirsty, liquor when you are not, sex, a cigarette after many days without one there is none of them can compare with sleep. Sleep is best.

  Roger Zelazny

  Sex, Sleep, Mind

  Roger Zelazny (2016). “This Immortal”, p.218, ibooks

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• I perceived that I was on a little round grain of rock and metal, filmed with water and with air, whirling in sunlight and darkness. And on the skin of that little grain all the swarms of men, generation by generation, had lived in labour and blindness, with intermittent joy and intermittent lucidity of spirit. And all their history, with its folk-wanderings, its empires, its philosophies, its proud sciences, its social revolutions, its increasing hunger for community, was but a flicker in one day of the lives of the stars.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Stars, Philosophy, Men

  Olaf Stapledon (1975). “To the End of Time”, Macmillan Reference USA

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• I remind myself that traveling through life as an artist requires one to distill things slowly. To be inquisitive, inventive, and patient - a lot of things get discarded along the way. It's a little like boiling sea water to get at the salt.

  James Nares

  Artist, Sea, Littles

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• It took me over a couple of months to find the right piece of transparent paper for a section near the centre, on the right side of the Garden of Nebuchadnezzar. When I did find it, it was on a bottle of my wife's toilet water.

  Harold Town

  Couple, Garden, Wife

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• The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.

  David

  Lying, Names, Shadow Of Death

  King David of Israel, “Psalm 23: The Lord Is My Shepherd”

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• And Potomac flowed calmly, scarce heaving her breast, With her low-lying billows all bright in the west, For a charm as from God lulled the waters to rest Of the fair rolling river.

  Paul Hamilton Hayne

  Lying, Rivers, Rolling

  Paul Hamilton Hayne (1970). “Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne”

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• Flat Earth theory serves well enough for a trip from the cave to the water hole and back, and a third dimension going up into the sky and down underground serves to accommodate gods and devils A lot of people still think like that, believe it or not.

  Peter J. Carroll

  Believe, Thinking, Sky

  "The Apophenion: A Chaos Magick Paradigm". Book by Peter J. Carroll, 2008.

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• The undersea world surrounding Green Island looks just like a water fairyland.

  Mehgan Heaney-Grier

  Islands, Looks, World

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• Watercolor is an alchemical medium - colors mixing with water, joining with it, being extended by it - creating new life where none had been before.

  Joseph Raffael

  Color, Creating, Mixing

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• I was never a doodler. I had never felt a drive to draw... Actually when I was a kid, I really hated art classes. My father was a kind of a Sunday painter and he liked to draw and do water colors. So, I would bring him my assignment and he would do them for me, because it was easy for him to do.

  Wade Guyton

  Art, Father, Kids

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• Reviving Spring, a toast to thy fresh lips! Thy blush is music, and e'en heaven lurks In thy thick perfumed hair that hangs about Thy flowered shoulders like enchanted rain; Thy sigh is song and thy soft breath a balm, Dispelling death -- soft loosing his cold grip, Unravelling darkness in the heart of pain, As o'er dank waters rings the laugh of dawn.

  William Batchelder Greene

  Song, Pain, Spring

  William Batchelder Greene (1888). “Cloudrifts at Twilight”

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• Who may be called a paramahamsa? He who, like a swan, can take the milk from a mixture of milk and water, leaving aside the water. He who, like an ant, can take the sugar from a mixture of sugar and sand, leaving aside the sand.

  Ramakrishna

  Swans, Leaving, Sugar

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

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• Fights over ideas are the most vicious of all. If it were merely food, or water, or shelter, we would work something out. But in the realm of ideas one can become idealistic .

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Fighting, Ideas, Shelter

  Kim Stanley Robinson (2009). “Galileo's Dream”, p.423, Spectra

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• Dieting is long-haul. Many rapid weight loss programs actually only squeeze the water out of you. Just like a wet sponge. But a good dieter maintains his or her grip on that sponge, not letting it soak up water again.

  Owen Jones

  Loss, Long, Dieting

  Owen Jones (2015). “Your Weight and You”, p.19, Owen Jones

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• A wedding is earth and water and a species of irreducible light and the flat belly of a harbor and a mango about to ripen and fall into gravity's caress and the waves subsiding and resuming their concerto in a minor key and the rush hour canceled by the stun of auspicious beginnings.

  Mark McMorris

  Fall, Keys, Light

  Mark McMorris (2003). “The Blaze of the Poui: Poems”, p.69, University of Georgia Press

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• As a great master once observed: "There are two methods of becoming god, the upright or the averse." Let the mind become as a flame or a pool of still water.

  Peter J. Carroll

  Flames, Two, Mind

  "Liber Null & Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic". Book by Peter J. Carroll, 1987.

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• Which are you drinking? The water or the wave?

  John Fowles

  Drinking, Excellence, Wave

  John Fowles (1968). “The Magus”, Pan

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• While it is all very well to distinguish happiness that is transient from that which is lasting, between ephemeral and genuine happiness, the only happiness it is meaningful to speak of when a person is dying from thirst is access to water.

  Dalai Lama

  Meaningful, Dying, Ephemeral

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• 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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