Water Quotes - Page 106

The public easily confuses him who fishes in troubled waters with him who draws up water from the depths.

Whoever knows he is deep tries to be clear, but whoever wants to seem deep to the crowd tries to be obscure. For the crowd supposes that anything it cannot see to the bottom must be deep: it is so timid and goes so unwillingly into the water.

Water uses itself to go beyond whatever it needs to go beyond.

Taoism is the way of water. The most frequent element or symbol refered to in Lao Tzu's wrtings is the symbol of water.

Just as when water is frozen in to a form as ice and then melts - so at the time of death, there is no death. The spirit simply changes form.

The activities and effects of the Fire and Air elements in the astral sphere call forth the astral-electric fluid, and the activities and effects of the Water and Earth elements call forth the astral-magnetic fluid. The spirit-beings use these fluids to create the effects or rather the causes in our physical world. The Akasha Principle of the astral sphere maintains the harmonious equilibrium of the elements in the entire astral sphere.

Can the water in the valleys ever stop and rest? When the water finally reaches the sea, it becomes great waves.

Water is the most purifying element. It's always involved in baptisms, healings, that kind of work.

The water is calm, but the currents pull beneath the surface. Though they can’t be seen, they have the power to drag cats to their deaths.

Pushing a company agenda on social media is like throwing water balloons at a porcupine.

[The Lost world] was a learning experience. I remember we were shooting a scene in which I dive out of a boat into a river to save the kid that's in the movie. And there's no mention of a stuntman, and I was like, "No, I'll go in." Nobody questioned. I never asked if maybe there was malaria in the water. And I was wearing these tall boots.

how cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling

It's funny how cucumber water can taste so much better than pickle juice, even though they come from the same source.

My hair is always at its best in New York. I don't know what's in the water. It could be mousse.

You will find many a creature by earth, air, and water, that is more beautiful than a woman.

Men are too unstable to be just; they are crabbed because they have not passed water at the usual time, or testy because they have not been stroked or praised.

Saving the world was merely a hobby. My *vocation* has been that of inspector of desert water holes.

Nnothing tends more to the corruption of science than to suffer it to stagnate. These waters must be troubled, before they can exert their virtues.

He must be theory-mad beyond redemption who ... shall ... persist in attempting to reconcile the obstinate oils and waters of Poetry and Truth.

Whitewashing the pump won't make the water pure.

Among these treasures of our land is water-fast becoming our most valuable, most prized, most critical resource. A blessing where properly used-but it can bring devastation and ruin when left uncontrolled.

I got bath water you could soak in, things I could do with lotion.

Water polo would be much more interesting if they hadn't gotten rid of the horses.

As for the brandy, "nothing extenuate"; and the water, put nought in in malice.

The heart of a man is like deep water