Water Quotes

I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just a form of life, another form of life.

The Enlightenment was an attempt to liberate myth and base truth claims on evidence, not just dogma. But when science threw out the church, they threw out the baby with the bath water.

Wake up,' a voice like water rippling over rocks whispered in my ear.

I’d been fighting for this relationship since the day I first saw his water eyes.

One realizes how we take water for granted and how important it is to have it in order to stay alive. Beyond the drinking of it, let's not forget the hygiene.

I love to swim, and I love being near water.

So much for playing nice.Tired, I let my eyes shut while they argued, hoping I didn’t die in the interim and make the problem moot. I wasn’t ever going to get my water. Ever.

Mother is a synonym for abandonment and death. Comparing this synonym to water, it is like poured-out water. I call it mother, the identity that I cannot identify.

All day, the colors had been those of dusk, mist moving like a water creature across the great flanks of mountains possessed of ocean shadows and depths.

Schools used to fund-raise for luxuries, like a trip to the water slides. Now, we fund-raise for things we have to have.

Access to safe water is a fundamental human need and therefore a basic human right.

If there is one area where equity is crucial and essential, I think it should be the issue of water.

It's only water," she said. "Tell that to a drowning man," Giddon said.

Katsa watched the long grass moving around them. The wind pushed it, attacked it, struck it in one place and then another. It rose and fell and rose again. It flowed, like water.

I spill water on myself all the time at nice restaurants. I've run into poles and knocked myself out.

In the water I am beautiful.

Children get smashed for hours on some strictly limited aspect of the Great Big Everything, the Universe, such as water or snow or mud or colors or rocks.

Supreme good is like water. Water greatly benefits all things, without conflict. It flows through places that people loathe. Thereby it is close to the Way.

Highest good is like water. Because water excels in benefiting the myriad creatures without contending with them and settles where none would like to be, it comes closest to the way.

The best people are like water, which benefits all things and does not compete with them. It stays in lowly places that others reject. This is why it is so similar to the Way.

The good leader carries water for his people.

Water does not force its way.

The best way to live / is to be like water / For water benefits all things / and goes against none of them.

Water benefits the ten thousand things and does not oppose them.

Who is there who can make muddy waters clear? But if allowed to remain still, it will gradually clear itself.

There is nothing softer and weaker than water, and yet there is nothing better for attacking hard and strong things.

Nothing on earth is so weak and yielding as water, but for breaking down the firm and strong it has no equal.

Obscure, like muddy waters.

The fish cannot leave the deep waters. The state's weaponry should not be displayed.

You realize that life is short and fragile; and when you are facing walls of water, you understand your own mortality can change and how quickly things could change.

Customers and contracts are like water and a sieve. The customer will find the largest hole and slide through it.

Consider the true picture. Think of myriads of tiny bubbles, very sparsely scattered, rising through a vast black sea. We rule some of the bubbles. Of the waters we know nothing.

My reaction to everything in life is when it gets a bit complicated to water it down and make it simple again.

Writing a memoir isn't particularly interesting to me. I'm not like Ellen [DeGeneres], where I can write, 'Water bottles--they're crazy!' and it's funny.

Amazing how hope lives. Without air or water, with hardly anything at all to nurture it.

Time jumps. It leaps. It pours away like water through fingers.

I am growing stronger. I am a stone being excavated by the slow passage of water; I am wood charred by a fire.

We get forwards in the world not so much by doing services, as receiving them: you take a withering twig, and put it in the ground; and then you water it, because you have planted it.

The fourth largest city in America is under water tonight and we don't know when we will see it again. We don't know how long it will take for the waters to subside.

You should make your diet one that best fits you and how you feel. Listen to your body. The most important thing is to exercise, drink lots of water, and take really good care of yourself.

I tried water polo and my horse drowned... that was a nightmare.

My Yoga practice is number one, straight physical exercises are number two, and when I can do neither, I focus on the breath. Make sure I drink enough water and get enough sleep.

Warm water rebirthing has a tendency to regress people to birth memories and prenatal states of consciousness.

He who has access to the fountain does not go to the water-pot.

The water which rises in the mountains is the blood which keeps the mountain in life.

Of the four elements water is the second in weight and the second in respect of mobility. It is never at rest until it unites with the sea.

I want people to understand and recognize that when it comes to dating, you're not as crazy as you think you are. Everyone needs love. We need it like air or water. We just don't know how to get it.

The old proverb, applied to fire and water, may with equal truth be applied to the imagination - it is a good servant, but a bad master.

Ultimately I wanted to be a pioneer swimmer, a distant descendant of Scott, Amundsen and Hillary, except that I would be an explorer of the water.

I go down to Newport and Huntington a lot. It's more crowded than where I grew up on Phillip Island, but I think it's helped me adjust to life in America - getting into the water as much as I can.