Water Quotes - Page 37

• In order to see a fish you must watch the water

  Bodhidharma

  Order, Watches, Fishes

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• Words, like tranquil waters behind a dam, can become reckless and uncontrollable torrents of destruction when released without caution and wisdom.

  William Arthur Ward

  Dams, Reckless, Destruction

  William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

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• Every organism exists as a vehicle for the ennoblement of water into consciousness.

  David Wolfe

  Consciousness, Vehicle, Organisms

  "The Importance of Water for Good Health". Interview with Kevin Gianni, www.naturalnews.com. September 06, 2008.

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• the dullard sees no eros in fine champagne; the sorcerer can fall intoxicated on a glass of water

  Hakim Bey

  Fall, Glasses, Champagne

  Hakim Bey (2003). “T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism”, p.54, Autonomedia

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• It's not reckless, because when we leap, when we dive in, when we begin, only begin, we bring our true nature to the project, we make it personal and urgent. And it's not abandon, not in the sense that we've abandoned our senses or our responsibility. In fact, abandoning the fear of fear that is holding us back is the single best way not to abandon the work, the pure execution of the work. Later, there's time to backpedal and water down. But right now, reckless please.

  Seth Godin

  Responsibility, Way, Facts

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• A lot of people who want to cook with less fat are surprised by that. You can cook vegetables in a little water in a covered pan and then throw the fat into the residual liquid to coat them.

  Sally Schneider

  Vegetables, People, Coats

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• When you like a flower, you just pluck it. But when you love a flower, you water it daily.

  Gautama Buddha

  Flower, Pluck

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• The Dunya is like the ocean and our heart is like the ship. If a ship allows the water to enter, it will sink. Just like when we allow the Dunya to enter our heart.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Ocean, Heart, Ships

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• I try to eat healthy. But sometimes, though, I eat cheeseburgers. Thats good for the soul. I make sure to balance everything out. I drink tons of water.

  Gal Gadot

  Healthy, Soul, Balance

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• I attempt to surf. Im not as good as anyone else in the water. Im more like a beached whale. I just hang out on my board. I can ride, but I get too nervous unless I go with my boyfriend or my trainer. There are too many burly men out there!

  Olesya Rulin

  Men, Whales, My Boyfriend

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• The water in L.A. tastes like bleach. I literally have to make my tea with Evian water.

  Ashley Madekwe

  Tea, Bleach, Taste

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think I have the best job in the world. Seventy-one percent of the planet is covered by water, we've explored less than five percent of the ocean, and there are so many fabulous discoveries that have yet to be made.

  Edith Widder

  Jobs, Ocean, Thinking

  PBS "NOVA", www.pbs.org. July 23, 2008.

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• We must agree on what matters: kissing in public places, bacon sandwiches, disagreement, cutting-edge fashion, literature, generosity, water, a more equitable distribution of the world's resources, movies, music, freedom of thought, beauty, love.

  Salman Rushdie

  Fashion, Cutting, Kissing

  "Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002". Book by Salman Rushdie, 2003.

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• Slater soaks into the mind as water into low and marshy places, where it becomes stagnant and offensive.

  Confucius

  Mind, Offensive, Lows

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• The early months of marriage often are times of critical tumult,--whether that of a shrimp pool or of deeper water,--which afterwards subside into cheerful peace.

  George Eliot

  Cheerful, Months, Shrimp

  George Eliot (1852). “Middlemarch”, p.230

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• There's folks 'ud hold a sieve under the pump and expect to carry away the water.

  George Eliot

  Common Sense, Pumps, Folks

  George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede”, p.345, George Eliot

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• Modern poets mix too much water with their ink.
  [Ger., Neuere Poeten thun viel Wasser in die Tinte.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Ink, Too Much, Poet

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• [Dawn] is always such a forgiving time. When that first cold, bright streak comes over the water, it's as if all our sins were pardoned; as if the sky leaned over the earth and kissed it and gave it absolution.

  Willa Cather

  Sky, Forgiving, Dawn

  Willa Cather (1938). “The Novels and Stories of Willa Cather ...”

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• Along this particular stretch of line no express had ever passed. All the trains--the few that there were--stopped at all the stations. Denis knew the names of those stations by heart. Bole, Tritton, Spavin Delawarr, Knipswich for Timpany, West Bowlby, and, finally, Camlet-on-the-Water.

  Aldous Huxley

  Book, Heart, Names

  Aldous Huxley (1922). “Crome Yellow”

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• Nor is a day lived if the dawn is left out of it, with the prospects it opens. Who speaks charmingly of nature or of mankind, like him who comes bibulous of sunrise and the fountains of waters?

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Morning, Sunrise, Dawn

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.62

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• I was born under the Blue Ridge, and under that side which is blue in the evening light, in a wild land of game and forest and rushing waters.

  Winston Churchill

  Book, Evening Light, Blue

  Winston Churchill (2012). “The Crossing”, p.6, The Floating Press

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• And that all seas are made calme and still with oile; and therefore the Divers under the water doe spirt and sprinkle it abroad with their mouthes because it dulceth and allaieth the unpleasant nature thereof, and carrieth a light with it.

  Pliny the Elder

  Light, Sea, Doe

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• The fire of true enthusiasm is like the fires of Baku, which no water can ever quench, and which burn steadily on from night to day, and year to year, because their well-spring is eternal.

  Ouida

  Spring, Night, Years

  Ouida (1870). “Held in Bondage: Or, Granville de Vigne a Tale of the Day”, p.197

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• The bread of bitterness is the food on which men grow to their fullest stature; the waters of bitterness are the debatable ford through which they reach the shores of wisdom; the ashes boldly grasped and eaten without faltering are the price that must be paid for the golden fruit of knowledge.

  Ouida

  Men, Golden, Bread

  Ouida (1875). “Chandos: A Novel”, p.466

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• I have observed, on board a steamer, how men and women easily give way to their instinct for flirtation, because water has the power of washing away our sense of responsibility, and those who on land resemble the oak in their firmness behave like floating seaweed when on the sea.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Responsibility, Men, Sea

  Rabindranath Tagore (2015). “Letters to a Friend”, p.175, Routledge

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