Water famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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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.
-- A. B. Simpson -
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. Jacobs -
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.
-- A. N. Wilson -
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 Brown -
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.
-- Aaron Hill -
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 Sunderland -
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.
-- Ace Frehley -
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 -
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 Rock -
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...
-- Ai Weiwei -
Water’s water and that’s why it’s beautiful.
-- Al Berto -
That's a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
-- Alan Bennett -
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 -
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.
-- Albert Camus -
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.
-- Albert Camus -
Nuclear power is one hell of a way to boil water
-- Albert Einstein -
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-Gyorgyi -
Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi -
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 Villoldo -
My favorite quote: The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: the land... In short, a land ethic changes the role of Homo sapiens from conqueror of the land-community to plain member and citizen of it. It implies respect for his fellow-members, and also respect for the community as such.
-- Aldo Leopold -
The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Did you ever feel, as though you had something inside you that was only waiting for you to give it a chance to come out? Some sort of extra power that you aren't using - you know, like all the water that goes down the falls instead of through the turbines?
-- Aldous Huxley -
One of my favorite beauty products is Vincent Longo Water Canvas creamy blush. I have it in every color and I've been using it for 5 years and that's all I put on when I leave the house. It looks so natural I just put a little bit on my cheeks to give them some color.
-- Alessandra Ambrosio -
A different image came to me a few weeks ago.The unknown thing to be known appeared to me as some stretch of earth orhard marl, resisting penetration the sea advances insensibly insilence, nothing seems to happen, nothing moves, the water is sofar off you hardly hear it yet it finally surrounds the resistantsubstance.
-- Alexander Grothendieck -
Those who do not industrialize become hewers of wood and hawkers of water
-- Alexander Hamilton -
The Death of the contemporary forms of social order ought to gladden rather than trouble the soul. Yet what is frightening is that the departing world leaves behind it not an heir, but a pregnant widow. Between the death of the one and the birth of the other, much water will flow by, a long night of chaos and desolation will pass.
-- Alexander Herzen -
The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults; as when a stream discovers the dirt at the bottom, it convinces us of the transparency and purity of the water.
-- Alexander Pope -
And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.
-- Alexander Pope -
My heart like moon-charmed waters, all unrest...
-- Alexander Smith -
The low ceiling that was water stained and boasting spiders so large she half expected Frodo and Sam to appear and fight them off.
-- Alexandra Ivy -
Avoid destructive thinking. Improper negative thoughts sink people. A ship can sail around the world many, many times, but just let enough water get into the ship and it will sink. Just so with the human mind. Let enough negative thoughts or improper thoughts get into the human mind and the person sinks just like a ship.
-- Alfred Armand Montapert -
The blood of my motherland waters a magic plant that cures all ills. That plant is art, and sometimes art needs corruption as a kind of fertilizer
-- Alfred de Musset -
Anti-alcoholics are unfortunates in the grip of water, that terrible poison, so corrosive that out of all substances it has been chosen for washing and scouring, and a drop of water added to a clear liquid like Absinthe, muddles it.
-- Alfred Jarry -
Hemorrhoids can bleed, typically after a bowel movement, producing blood-streaked stool or toilet paper, .. The blood may turn water in the toilet bowl red. However, the amount of blood is usually small, and hemorrhoids rarely lead to severe blood loss or anemia.
-- Alfred the Great -
With the growth of the world population, the global climate change and the need for a greater healthy environment, access to water resources has become a crucial condition for the realization of an equitable international order, where the needs of the peoples are effectively addressed. In this regard, the need for international cooperation, including in joint effort with relevant non-state actors, is paramount to ensure water is made available to all without discrimination. Water is a human right, an enabling right, not a mere commodity.
-- Alfred-Maurice de Zayas -
For whom all winds are quiet as the sun,/ All waters as the shore.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
Body is purified by water. Ego by tears. Intellect is purified by knowledge. And soul is purified with love.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib -
I was so mad you could have boiled a pot of water on my head.
-- Alice Childress -
I suppose that, after the passion of love, water rights have caused more trouble than anything else to the human species.
-- Alice Steinbach -
War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet.
-- Alice Walker -
The brain knows the real secret of seduction, more effective than even music and martinis. Just keep whispering, 'Gee, you are really special' to that sack of water and protein that is a body, and you can get it to do practically anything.
-- Alison Gopnik -
Water seeks its own level. Look at them. The Tigris, the Euphrates, the Mississippi, the Amazon, the Yangtze. The world's great rivers. And every one of them finds its way to the ocean.
-- Alison McGhee -
The argument holds no water at all, not even a thimbleful.
-- Allan Lichtman -
You don't have to do this, Kat." "I've been hearing that a lot lately." "He's right." "I didn't say who had said it," she countered. "You didn't have to." He looked out at the water. "You two are good together." "We're not together," Kat said automatically. "Sure you are. You just don't know it yet.
-- Ally Carter -
Flowing water is at once a picture and a music, which causes to flow at the same time from my brain, like a limpid and murmuring rivulet, sweet thoughts, charming reveries, and melancholy remembrances.
-- Alphonse Karr -
Display is like shallow water, where you can see the muddy bottom.
-- Alphonse Karr -
In the Great Deluge in the days of Noah, nearly all mankind perished, eight persons alone being saved in the Ark. In our days a deluge, not of water but of sins, continually inundates the earth, and out of this deluge very few escape. Scarcely anyone is saved.
-- Alphonsus Liguori -
You will gain more by receiving scorn peacefully than if you fasted for a week on bread and water. It is good to humble ourselves; but it is much more worthwhile to accept the humiliations that come to us from others.
-- Alphonsus Liguori -
A meringue is really nothing but a foam. And what is a foam after all, but a big collection of bubbles? And what's a bubble? It's basically a very flimsy little latticework of proteins draped with water. We add sugar to this structure, which strengthens it. But things can, and do, go wrong.
-- Alton Brown -
Brian Laws has lifted his team out of precocious waters
-- Alvin Martin -
To look good in the water you have to pick the right swimsuit. I own close to 500.
-- Amanda Beard -
With my sport, I am outside and in the water, which can be really drying and damaging to the skin, so I try to be vigilant about taking good care of it.
-- Amanda Beard -
Id go to swim practice, put my face in the water, and I didnt have to talk to anybody. Swimming was like my escape, but it was also like this huge prison because I felt like I had to swim up to peoples standards.
-- Amanda Beard -
When you mix dirt with water, the dirt doesn't get clean. The water just gets dirty.
-- Amanda Hocking -
Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty, which robs people of the freedom to satisfy hunger; or to achieve sufficient nutrition, or to obtain remedies for treatable illnesses or the opportunity to be adequatley clothed or sheltered, or to enjoy clean water or sanitary facilities.
-- Amartya Sen -
The Lord was Baptized, not to be cleansed Himself, but to cleanse the waters, so that those waters, cleansed by the flesh of Christ which knew no sin, might have the power of Baptism.
-- Ambrose -
Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Spirit he cannot enter the kingdom of God. No one is excepted, not [even] the infant.
-- Ambrose -
... these three witnesses are one, as John said: 'The water, the blood, and the Spirit' (I Jn. 5:8). One in the mystery, not in nature. The water, then, is a witness of burial, the blood is a witness of death, the Spirit is a witness of life. If, then, there be any grace in the water, it is not from the nature of water, but from the presence of the Holy Spirit.
-- Ambrose -
Salamander: Originally a reptile inhabiting fire; later, an anthropomorphous immortal, but still a pyrophile. Salamanders are now believed to be extinct, the last one of which we have an account having been seen in Carcassonne by the Abbe Belloc, who exorcised it with a bucket of holy water.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Potable, n. Suitable for drinking. Water is said to be potable; indeed, some declare it our natural beverage, although even they find it palatable only when suffering from the recurrent disorder known as thirst, for which it is a medicine.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Once I started drinking more water, my skin, hair and nails all flourished.
-- America Ferrera -
No matter how hot the water from your well, it will not cook your rice...
-- Amilcar Cabral -
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 -
A cup brimful of sweetness cannot spill even one drop of bitter water, no matter how suddenly jarred.
-- Amy Carmichael -
If a sudden jar can cause me to speak an impatient, unloving word, then I know nothing of Calvary love. For a cup brimful of sweet water cannot spill even one drop of bitter water, however suddenly jolted.
-- Amy Carmichael -
True beauty, the kind that doesn't fade or wash off, takes time. It takes incredible endurance. It is the slow drip that creates the stalactite, the shaking of the Earth that creates mountains, the constant pounding of the waves that breaks up the rocks and smooths the rough edges. And from the violence, the furor, the raging of the winds, the roaring of the waters, something better emerges, something that would have otherwise never existed.
-- Amy Harmon -
I sleep with a glass of water on the nightstand so I can see by its level if the coastal earth is trembling or if the shaking is still me.
-- Amy Hempel -
You walk off the plane in Rio, and your blood temperature goes up. The feel of the wind on your face, the water on your skin, the taste of the food, the music, the sexuality; Brazilians are very comfortable in their sexuality.
-- Amy Irving -
Underneath my stiffened gown Is the softness of a woman bathing in a marble basin, A basin in the midst of hedges grown So thick, she cannot see her lover hiding, But she guesses he is near, And the sliding of the water Seems the stroking of a dear Hand upon her.
-- Amy Lowell -
True joy of nature is when every drop of water shines like a pearl.
-- Anamika Mishra -
In water and on land, in trees, shrubs, and creepers-everywhere in the whole universe abides my Beloved. Further, all the various forms and modes of being that we behold, are they not expressions of my Beloved? For there is none save Him. He is smaller than the smallest, and greater than the greatest.
-- Anandamayi Ma -
If you've ever swum in the ocean, and you go underneath the waves, you know, you're kind of moved by the currents, but you're not being slapped around at the top of the water by the waves. And that's sort of what meditation is like.
-- Anderson Cooper -
Bathtubs, pools, water - to me, it's a very essential part of being grounded and sensual and feeling yourself.
-- Andre Balazs -
I love water - I'm an Aquarius, but that has nothing to do with it - and I've never been away from water in any place.
-- Andre Balazs -
I suppose the most daring thing I've ever done is try to water ski. And that was not successful.
-- Andre Leon Talley -
To use color well is as difficult as for a fish to pass from water to air or earth.
-- Andre Lhote -
A good espresso to me is a little bit salty; you just become used to a good taste. Anytime I go into a new place and they don't clean their machine properly or the water temperature isn't right, it tastes awful.
-- Andrew Bird -
Shame is the raincoat over the soul repelling the living water of Jesus that would otherwise establish us as the beloved of God.
-- Andrew Comiskey -
There are 10,000 local governments in the state of New York. Ten thousand! Town, village, lighting district, water district, sewer district, a special district to count the other districts in case you missed a district.
-- Andrew Cuomo -
I never go see a comic. The only one I'd ever really want to see is Don Rickles. He might be 80 years old, but he blows everyone out of the water.
-- Andrew Dice Clay -
The next few years are going to be horrendous in the UK. The last thing we need is a Somali pirate-style raid on the few wealth creators who still dare to navigate Britain's gale-force waters.
-- Andrew Lloyd Webber -
Here is the path to the higher life: down, lower down! Just as water always seeks and fills the lowest place, so the moment God finds men abased and empty, His glory and power flow in to exalt and to bless.
-- Andrew Murray -
The highest glory of the creature is in being only a vessel, to receive and enjoy and show forth the glory of God. It can do this only as it is willing to be nothing in itself, that God may be all. Water always fills first the lowest places. The lower, the emptier a man lies before God, the speedier and the fuller will be the inflow of the diving glory.
-- Andrew Murray -
The political controversy surrounding this Boston's Big Dig could have the effect of throwing cold water on any plans for farsighted infrastructure development around the country.
-- Andrew Natsios -
A person has three choices in life. You can swim against the tide and get exhausted, or you can tread water and let the tide sweep you away, or you can swim with the tide, and let it take you where it wants you to go.
-- Andrew Schneider -
I don't believe in ghosts, or fairies, or crystals, or unicorns, or a man that can walk on water, or any of that non sense, I personally rely on logic, and have for the better part of my life.
-- Andy Biersack -
No, actually I wanted to play five. I definitely wanted to try to lose that fourth set and test the waters in the fifth.
-- Andy Roddick -
I started the day with some nothin’ tea. Nothin’ tea is easy to make. First, get some hot water, then add nothin’.
-- Andy Weir
