Water Quotes
Rajendra Ojha
You are hard character of mine and I am soft character of yours. Practically saying you are like ice and I am like water. So how can Ice and water be different. If we understand their eternal characters we come to know that they are same i.e. H^2 0 (water) . Only the way of their uses are different but both have same goals.
3422 Roman Payne
She was free in her wildness. She was a wanderess, a drop of free water. She belonged to no man and to no city
4889 Roman Payne
She called herself Europa, and wandered the world from girlhood till death. She believed only in her life and in her dreams. She called herself Europa, and her god was Beauty.
4240 Norman Maclean
Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs.
I am haunted by waters.
3781 Roseville Nidea
A 21st century poet is a woman who can speak her mind and stand upright like a mountain with her convictions, but can adapt like water in an ever changing season without losing her genuine elements.
4815 Dark Jar Tin Zoo
I am in love, and the river is beginning to ice over. I’d better go drown myself before I freeze to death.
3031 Bryant McGill
The keys to health and weight-loss: stress reduction, sleep, deep breathing, clean water, complete nutrition, sunshine, walking, stretching, meditation, love, community, laughter, dreams, perseverance, purpose, humility, action.
1089 Jonathan Haidt
Love and work are to people what water and sunshine are to plants.
3188 David Rains Wallace
Land and water are not really separate things, but they are separate words, and we perceive through words.
3877 Doug Dorst
What begins at the water shall end there, and what ends there shall once more begin. Words are a gift to the dead and a warning to the living.
1231 Richie Norton
You have to dig a well before you can draw water from it.
4466 Shelley Noble
Margaux was older and wiser now and knew the waves couldn't fix what was wrong in her life, but at least they might give her some temporary respite.
1217 Nadia Scrieva
Don’t you dare come into my world and tell me what color the ocean is! It’s black. Black as midnight. Black and awful!
3232 Ann Brashares
Her vision of the world under the water represented a beautiful stillness, a version of heaven. It was the lost city of Lena, her alternate universe, the life she yearned for but didn't get to have.
1131 Nicholas Sparks
It is life, I think, to watch the water. A man can learn so many things.
4203 Kahlil Gibran
In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence.
4048 Beyoncé Knowles
I'm always happy when I'm surrounded by water, I think I'm a Mermaid or I was a mermaid.
The ocean makes me feel really small and it makes me put my whole life into perspective… it humbles you and makes you feel almost like you’ve been baptized. I feel born again when I get out of the ocean.
3514 Alysha Speer
You never really know what's coming. A small wave, or maybe a big one. All you can really do is hope that when it comes, you can surf over it, instead of drown in its monstrosity.
1596 John Lubbock
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
1398 Kelli Jae Baeli
You can bail water 24/7, and no matter how good you are at not sinking, you still have a hole in your boat.
2490 Rumi
Do not seek water, get thirst.
2629 Santosh Kalwar
Always be like a water. Float in the times of pain or dance like waves along the wind which touches its surface.
3342 Nathan Reese Maher
All is as if the world did cease to exist. The city's monuments go unseen, its past unheard, and its culture slowly fading in the dismal sea.
2009 William Shakespeare
Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell: Ding-dong
Hark! now I hear them, - Ding-dong, bell.
2755 William Shakespeare
Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia,
And therefore I forbid my tears.
4191 Christopher Hitchens
Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.
3320 Craig D. Lounsbrough
There is a deep dryness of the soul and all of the recalcitrant contrivances of man to quench his own thirst will bring not a single drop of moisture to those parched places, for God and God alone holds the water that satiates the soul.
4728 Michael Delaware
Don't you see? You created this forest! It is your imagination that has given these trees the water to grow. It is your hopes that blazed a path through it. It is your dreams that give it the magic. All of this was created from within you!
3056 Cuthbert Soup
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him participate in synchronized diving.
3940 Kresley Cole
Jackson asked, "Where'd the water come from in your house?"
"A pipe." Then he explained to Jackson, "Water travels in pipes.
2440 Laura Kreitzer
Underwater, bubbles erupted before my eyes as a swift hand snatched my arm and pulled me to the surface. I gasped for air, coughing and gagging at the amount of water I sucked into my lungs by pure shock. What was up with me and breathing in water? I needed to grow some gills or something.
4954 Richard Halliburton
Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.
1828 Enock Maregesi
Pesa ni ya muhimu kwa sababu ya mahitaji ya lazima ya wanadamu kama vile chakula, maji, malazi, elimu, usafi, mavazi, na afya, lakini ni ya maana kwa sababu ya wanawake.
1701 Carew Papritz
Let my memories of you be like water on the moon. A beautiful impossibility - but allowing me to sleep and dream of infinite beginnings rather than Othello endings.
4766 Travis J. Dahnke
When a fire rises, don't be quick to worry. Find the purpose of the fire, if it's negative, water it down, if positive, feed the flames.
3804 Annie Dillard
Geography is the key, the crucial accident of birth. A piece of protein could be a snail, a sea lion, or a systems analyst, but it had to start somewhere. This is not science; it is merely metaphor. And the landscape in which the protein "starts" shapes its end as surely as bowls shape water.
4590 Wallace J. Nichols
I wondered whether water is a mirror for our darker emotions as much as it is an engine for our happiness. Water quiets all the noise, all the distractions, and connects you to your own thoughts.
1759 Shaun Hick
There is greater clarity in the still waters of sadness, something not found in the babbling brooks of more sought after emotions.
1100 Ryan Lilly
Entrepreneurs see the "no diving" sign and back-up to get a running start.
2953 J.U. Scribe
For him, it appeared he could freeze
the moment in a memory; only for it to slip through his
hands like water.
1766 John Green
El Tulipan Holandés contemplaba la marea, que estaba subiendo.
-Ensambla, unifica, envenena, corrige, revela. Mira cómo sube y baja, y se lleva todo consigo.
+ ¿Qué es? - Le pregunté.
-Agua- me contestó el Holandés-. Bueno, y tiempo.
1630 Günter Grass
When the young woman
leans over the sky,
about to water the flowers as well as the weeds,
her white front splits open
until her milk runs.
4466 Deepti Menon
The first time Akash took Supriya to view the pool, I rose up in strident protest, and he was astonished by the way she turned her face away, her eyes filled with terror. “I am petrified of water!” she whispered, as he tried to cajole her to at least put her feet in.
1096 Chet Raymo
Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.
3127 Jared Brock
You know it’s a real salvation when Baptists use cold water.
3575 C.S. Lewis
If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even into, the thing that has them.
2252 Carlos Ruiz Zafón
You don't know what thirst is until you drink for the first time.
3116 Ikechukwu Izuakor
Water quench thirsts, food quenches hunger while sex quenches lust or love
1818 Sara Sheridan
Kissing her is like drinking salted water, he thinks. His thirst only increases.
4692 Nathan Reese Maher
Do we not each dream of dreams? Do we not dance on the notes of lost
memories? Then are we not each dreamers of tomorrow and yesterday, since dreams
play when time is askew? Are we not all adrift in the constant sea of trial and when all is done, do we not all yearn for ships to carry us home?
1183 Nathan Reese Maher
Call me crazy, but there is something terribly wrong with this city.
2647 Nathan Reese Maher
I can’t help but ask, “Do you know where you are?”
She turns to me with a foreboding glare. “Do you?
1163 Nathan Reese Maher
There is a stillness between us, a period of restlessness that ties my stomach
in a hangman’s noose. It is this same lack in noise that lives, there! in the
darkness of the grave, how it frightens me beyond all things.
3297 Nathan Reese Maher
History doesn’t start with a tall building
and a card with your name written on it, but jokes do. I think someone is taking
us for suckers and is playing a mean game.
2642 Nathan Reese Maher
She leaves my side and heads deeper into
the apartment singing, “ - if the spirit tries to hide, its temple far away… a
copper for those they ask, a diamond for those who stay.
1006 Nathan Reese Maher
That’s a stupid name! Whirly-gig is much better, I think. Who in their right
mind would point at this thing and say, ‘I’m going to fly in my Model-A1’.
People would much rather say, ‘Get in my whirly-gig’. And that’s what you
should name it.
1797 Nathan Reese Maher
I rouse Emily to our guests, as she finishes off our fifteenth snowman by setting the head atop its torso. She stands limp at my direction, pointing out the coming shadows and I cannot help but hear a muffled sigh as she decapitates her latest creation with a single push of her hand.
2518 Brian Jacques
Don't be ashamed to weep; 'tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us.
1110 Federico Chini
If the private life of the sea could ever be transposed onto paper, it would talk not about rivers or rain or glaciers or of molecules of oxygen and hydrogen, but of the millions of encounters its waters have shared with creatures of another nature.
4547 Lailah Gifty Akita
We cannot claim to love God, if we continue to live in unclean environment and pollute the waters. God gave man and woman the authority to rule every living creature and to safeguard the living resources. We have a duty to perform and responsibility to fulfil this role.
4210 Oksana Rus
Just take my hand, lead, dance with me...and I will simply follow the blueness of the water, the white waves rolling free...where the earth beneath my feet and stars make my heart whole again...in long and priceless moments of shared solitude...
3326 Sun Tzu
Water shapes its course according to the nature of the ground over which it flows; the soldier works out his victory in relation to the foe whom he is facing.
1592 Adalbert Stifter
Here for example the beautiful silver mirror of a river swells, a boy falls in, the water ripples sweetly around his locks, he sinks - and after a short while the silver mirror swells as before.
1636 David Mitchell
At dawn the waves looked like mountain ranges tipped with gold as sunbeams slanted low under burgundy clouds.
3673 Maggie Stiefvater
Ich kann spüren, dass er zu ertrinken droht, aber ich weiß nicht, was ich tun soll, um ihn aus dem Wasser zu retten.
4608 Charlotte Eriksson
Take a shower, wash off the day. Drink a glass of water. Make the room dark. Lie down and close your eyes.
Notice the silence. Notice your heart. Still beating. Still fighting. You made it, after all. You made it, another day. And you can make it one more.
You’re doing just fine.
3404 Jim George
Our physical body knows it cannot function without physical water. So, too, our spiritual life should realize that it can't function without the "living water" of Gods Word.
1487 Sun Tzu
Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions.
1932 Woody Allen
[...] I've come to the conclusion that the artist can not justify life or come up with a cogent reason as to why life is meaningful, but the artist can provide you with a cold glass of water on a hot day.
1715 Hannah Kilfoyle
The muscles behind both eyes hurt
and the skin all down the front
is swelling from the veins burst
though the circles look less sunk. Tears did fill them in though
and I did push the waves
right from my own souls windows
to water down it's grave
1476 Bill Blass
I have a firm belief in such things as, you know, the water, the Earth, the trees and sky. And I'm wondering, it is increasingly difficult to find those elements in nature, because it's nature I believe in rather than some spiritual thing.
3525 Gary Hopkins
Maintaining one’s health in today’s toxic rich environment requires proper rest, hydration, an abundant intake of nutrients, and regular internal cleansing practices
2521 Amit Kalantri
I don't waste food, water, money, time and talent.
4372 Jim George
Just as water is the only thing that can relieve thirst in the desert, the provision of God's Word is the only thing that can satisfy our spiritual thirst.
1623 Lity Munshi
no water can be touched like pain of pearl-if you touched one drop of tear
2517 Jennifer Niven
Water is peaceful. I am at rest. In the water, I am safe and pulled in where I can't get out. Everything slows down-the noise and the racing of my thoughts.
4982 David Paul Kirkpatrick
In the river swam the gleaming fish, which were meant for water, just as humankind is meant for love.
4456 Virginia Alison
There is a waterfall in every dream. Cool and crystal clear, it falls gently on the sleeper, cleansing the mind and soothing the soul.
3473 Arthur Golden
When a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.
4431 Zhuangzi
When a man does not dwell in self, then things will of themselves reveal their forms to him. His movement is like that of water, his stillness like that of a mirror, his responses like those of an echo.
2858 J.R.R. Tolkien
It is said by the Eldar that in water there lives yet the echo of the Music of the Ainur more than in any substance that is in this Earth; and many of the Children of Ilúvatar hearken still unsated to the voices of the Sea, and yet know not for what they listen.
3902 Dejan Stojanovic
To transform a grimace into a sound sounds impossible, yet it is possible to transform a vision into music, to go outside an enslaved personality, to become impersonal by transforming into sand, into water, into light.
4065 Philip Levine
… the river sliding along its banks, darker now than the sky descending a last time to scatter its diamonds into these black waters that contain the day that passed, the night to come.
- Excerpt from the poem “The Mercy
4565 Wallace Stevens
Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container.
4835 Nabil N. Jamal
When you control their water, you control the people.
2033 Mark Twain
High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.
3697 Harley King
Too often our visions of the future
are dull and impotent
like a hammer beating the water.
1994 F.T. McKinstry
In the calm, deep waters of the mind, the wolf waits.
2036 Ryan Lilly
The irony of sensory deprivation tanks is that in order to think outside the box, you must first go inside one.
2575 Virginia Woolf
It's too short,' she said, 'ever so much too short.' Never did anybody look so sad. Bitter and black, half-way down, in the darkness, in the shaft which ran from the sunlight to the depths, perhaps a tear formed; a tear fell; the waters swayed this way and that, received it, and were at rest. Never did anybody look so sad.
4264 M.A. George
Fair enough…No inhaling battery acid,” I smirk. “We can’t breathe battery
acid, can we?
4220 M.A. George
You didn’t just accidentally win my favor,” I dispute, slowly shaking my
forehead against his.
“You earned it. Now, if I can just save your life twenty or thirty more times…We might actually be able to call it even.
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