Water Quotes - Page 111

My ex-wife is a water sign and I'm an earth sign. Together we made mud.

If you can get someone to laugh with you, they will be more willing to identify with you, listen to you. It parts the waters.

When you diversify your mutual funds, you are diversifying something that is already diversified. Diversifying mutual funds is like taking high octane gasoline & adding water & then adding orange juice to it.

I would've hit the water hard, but at the last second I changed into a falcon. ~Carter Kane

If all of this, all the life of a stream of water, can be nothing but a pile of atoms, how much more is possible?

Reading is a staple of life, like bread or water. Or chocolate.

But hospitality must be for service, and not for show, or it pulls down the host. The brave soul rates itself too high to value itself by the splendor of its table and draperies. It gives what it hath, and all it hath, but its own majesty can lend a better grace to bannocks and fair water than belong to city feasts.

From earliest times, water has always been acknowledged as a primary human good and an indispensable natural resource. Around the great rivers of the world, like the Mississippi, great cultures have developed, while over the course of the centuries the prosperity of countless societies has been linked to these waterways. Today, however, the great fluvial systems of every continent are exposed to serious threats, often as a result of man's activity and decisions.

And Archimedes, as he was washing, thought of a manner of computing the proportion of gold in King Hiero's crown by seeing the water flowing over the bathing-stool. He leaped up as one possessed or inspired, crying, "I have found it! Eureka!".

Carry an oar when you drive. Three times I've ended up in water.

She was transparent, like a watercolor. As if she were about to dissolve in sound, in tones not yet created.

You've got to choose your horse ahead of time. So, if you're interested in water technology, energy technology, you get to choose between the three or four companies that you have insight into. And you have to make a bet on them before they prove anything out.

Market leaders continually chart the changing waters.

If we continue on the path we're on, there simply won't be enough fresh water for everyone.

Our job is to translate the lies, deceit, and anxiety that poisons our cultural water supply into an understandable form that we can digest.

The road made wet by the water of August shines like it was cut in full moonlight

When I get in deep water, I prefer to announce that I'm in over my head.

Discontent is like ink poured into water, which fills the whole fountain full of blackness.

The entire Bible, viewed as a "divine comedy," is contained within a U-shaped story of this sort, one in which man, as explained, loses the tree and water of life at the beginning of Genesis and gets them back at the end of Revelation.

Naval dominance of European waters was the largest, longest, most complex and expensive project ever undertaken by the British state and society.

In us, there is a river of feelings, in which every drop of water is a different feeling, and each feeling relies on all the others for its existence. To observe it, we just sit on the bank of the river and identify each feeling as it surfaces, flows by, and disappears.

Seventy percent of Earth's surface is water and over 99 percent is uninhabited, so you would expect nearly all impactors to hit either the ocean or desolate regions on Earth's surface. So why do movie meteors have such good aim?

Middle class prosperity is lapidary; the flow of cash rounds and smooths a person like water does riverbed stones.

What did a person need to survive? Food. Water. Shelter. Warmth in cold weather. And something else... books.

We have a long-standing tradition in this country to follow the advice of Senator Vandenberg, which is that politics ends at the water's edge.