Quotes and Sayings About Water
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He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back
-- A. A. Gill -
The Holy Spirit is just as truly in us when He makes no sign as when the fountains of joy are overflowing, or the waters of peace are softly refreshing our weary and troubled heart.
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The mind is like a river. The thoughts are like the various droplets of water. We are submerged in that water. Stay on the bank and watch your mind.
-- A. G. Mohan -
I've started to look at life differently. When you're thanking God for every little you - every meal, every time you wake up, every time you take a sip of water - you can't help but be more thankful for life itself, for the unlikely and miraculous fact that you exist at all.
-- A. J. JacobsSource : A J Jacobs (2012). “The Year of Living Biblically”, p.165, Random House
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In the 18th century, James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny, and Richard Arkwright pioneered the water-propelled spinning frame which led to the mass production of cotton. This was truly revolutionary. The cotton manufacturers created a whole new class of people - the urban proletariat. The structure of society itself would never be the same.
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The Baptists' basic theology is that if you hold someone under water long enough, he'll come around to your way of thinking. It's a ritual known as 'Bobbing for Baptists.'
-- A. Whitney BrownSource : A. Whitney Brown (1991). “The Big Picture: An American Commentary”, Harper Perennial
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When Christ at Cana's feast by pow'r divine, Inspir'd cold water, with the warmth of wine, See! cry'd they while, in red'ning tide, it gush'd, The bashful stream hath seen its God and blush'd.
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If a big wave came at the wrong moment, it would sweep me off into forty-eight-degree water, where I might last twenty minutes. Drowning quickly might be better.
-- Abby SunderlandSource : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.126, Thomas Nelson Inc
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Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for the piping. And the piper.
-- Abigail Van Buren -
When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.
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I am sure it is a great mistake always to know enough to go in when it rains. One may keep snug and dry by such knowledge, but one misses a world of loveliness.
-- Adeline Knapp -
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It would be easier for the Devil to go to church and cross himself with holy water than for these people to comprehend the ideas which are accepted facts to us today.
-- Adolf Hitler -
I'm Mozart with a focus on the tide Hiding the inconsistencies of man behind water and wine
-- Aesop RockSource : Song: Water
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Politics is like air and water. And you know if there is bad politics. Everyone is polluted. Everyone is unhealthy. See the people walking on the street: how they act...
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Water’s water and that’s why it’s beautiful.
-- Al Berto -
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That's a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
-- Alan BennettSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one of the best possible contributions to a world in turmoil.
-- Alan Watts -
Of course, you can’t force your mind to be silent. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a flatiron. Water becomes clear and calm only when left alone.
-- Alan Watts -
Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
-- Alan Watts -
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As the fish doesn't know water, people are ignorant of space. Consciousness is concerned only with changing and varying details; it ignores constants-especially constant backgrounds. Thus only very exceptional people are aware of what is basic to everything.
-- Alan Watts -
Being a Scotsman, I am naturally opposed to water in its undiluted state.
-- Alastair Mackenzie -
For if I try to seize this self of which I feel sure, if I try to define and to summarize it, it is nothing but water slipping through my fingers.
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We [Raymond and Meursault] stared at each other without blinking, and everything came to a stop there between the sea, the sand, and the sun, and the double silence of the flute and the water. It was then that I realized that you could either shoot or not shoot.
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Nuclear power is one hell of a way to boil water
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Water, the Hub of Life. Water is its mater and matrix, mother and medium. Water is the most extraordinary substance! Practically all its properties are anomolous, which enabled life to use it as building material for its machinery. Life is water dancing to the tune of solids.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi -
Life is water, dancing to the tune of solids.
-- Albert Szent-GyorgyiSource : Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (2012). “The Living State: With Observations on Cancer”, p.9, Elsevier
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Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi -
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Investigations during the last few decades have brought hydrogen instead of carbon, and instead of CO2 water, the mother of all life, into the foreground.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi -
We are like a drop of water in a vast, divine ocean, distinct yet immersed in something much larger than ourselves. It’s only when we experience our connection to infinity that we’re able to dream powerfully.
-- Alberto VilloldoSource : Alberto Villoldo (2010). “Courageous Dreaming: How Shamans Dream the World Into Being”, p.7, ReadHowYouWant.com