This Is Water Quotes
Nothing, I believe, is so full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a stagnant pool.
The anger came creeping back like the leak from a dripping water tank, the fall of each individual drop passing almost unnoticed until I realized I was soaked with the emotion.
When one, abandoning greed, feels no greed for what would merit greed, greed gets shed from him - like a drop of water from a lotus leaf.
People really feel like music is free, but will pay $6 for water. You can drink water free out of the tap and it's good water. But they're okay paying for it. It's just the mindset right now.
Genuine laughing is the vent of the soul, the nostrils of the heart, and just as necessary for health and happiness as spring water is for a trout.
It's important to not be afraid of failure and to push yourself to try things and jump in the cold water. There are incredible, beautiful opportunities out there.
For many of us, clean water is so plentiful and readily available that we rarely, if ever, pause to consider what life would be like without it.
The humble latrine, or flush toilet, reduces disease by twice as much as just putting in clean water.
You can throw a bucket of cold water on Russians, and we can take it. But one shouldn't humiliate us!
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?
We're led by denial like lambs to slaughter, serving empires of style and carbonated sugar water.
Fire hath its force abated by water, not by wind; and anger must be allayed by cold words, and not by blustering threats.
My mother once told me I was like water. Water can carve its way even through stone. And when trapped, water makes a new path.
Here in this ocean, in the midst of all this water, with the red flags on those distant buoys flapping in the sea breeze, I find myself unable to treat our house in Tokyo as anything but a dream.
When I'm not acting, I'm at the beach. I like to spend a lot of time in the water, surfing.
The gift of water, air, soap, and time allows us to heal and relieve our psyche and soul.
People, like water, will run downhill, seeking their lowest level unless something interdicts them.
Poetry is a plan for a slit in the face of a bronze fountain goat and the path of fresh drinking water.
If we think of what's up ahead, with climate change and wars over water, it's very frightening.
It is thought that potato water is unhealthy; and therefore do not boil potatoes in soup, but boil elsewhere, and add them when nearly cooked.
I went to the bathroom and threw some water on my face, combed my hair. If I could only comb that face, I thought, but I can't.
The Romans believed that what no man controls, no man can own. Justinian, writing in the sixth century AD, said that the air, flowing water, the sea and the seashore were common to all.
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.
The Thames was all gold. God it was beautiful, so fine that I began working a frenzy, following the sun and its reflections on the water.
Every sentence he manages to utter scatters its component parts like pond water from a verb chasing its own tail.
He who needs only coarse food, water and drink, and as pillow his folded arms will find happiness without further search.
He longed for the deep as she longed for the night sky and for white lilies floating on water -- although she still tried to convince herself that love alone could feed her soul.
Love can smack you like a seagull, and pour all over your feet like junkmail. You can't be ready for such a thing any more than salt water taffy gets you ready for the ocean.
He was a specialist in Feng Shui; that is to say, he was consulted as to the correct ubication and orientation of houses and temples, in relation to the spirits of wind and water.
The moon is quite a show off given the chance. The stars make a sound when they shine so bright. Water so blue and so black.
In all the events of life, we ought still to preserve our scepticism. If we believe that fire warms, or water refreshes, it is only because it costs us too much pains to think otherwise.
There's always hope. Never give up. Walk slowly and drink lots of water. It ain't a sprint.
Climate change isn't just an environmental issue; it's a technology, water, food, energy, population issue. None of this happens in a vacuum.
There is... nothing greater than touching the shore after crossing some great body of water knowing that I've done it with my own two arms and legs.