Water Quotes - Page 141

The water which rises in the mountains is the blood which keeps the mountain in life.

He who has access to the fountain does not go to the water-pot.

Warm water rebirthing has a tendency to regress people to birth memories and prenatal states of consciousness.

I am thinking particularly of a shower I took where the lower half of my body was under the running water and the upper half was laid out on the bath mat, eating a loaf of bread.

We really cannot see what equanimity there is in jerking a lacerated carp out of the water by the jaws, merely because it has no the power of making a noise; for we presume that the most philosophic of anglers would hardly delight in catching a shrieking fish.

You should make your diet one that best fits you and how you feel. Listen to your body. The most important thing is to exercise, drink lots of water, and take really good care of yourself.

The fourth largest city in America is under water tonight and we don`t know when we will see it again. We don`t know how long it will take for the waters to subside.

We get forwards in the world not so much by doing services, as receiving them: you take a withering twig, and put it in the ground; and then you water it, because you have planted it.

I am growing stronger. I am a stone being excavated by the slow passage of water; I am wood charred by a fire.

Time jumps. It leaps. It pours away like water through fingers.

Amazing how hope lives. Without air or water, with hardly anything at all to nurture it.

Writing a memoir isn't particularly interesting to me. I'm not like Ellen [DeGeneres], where I can write, 'Water bottles--they're crazy!' and it's funny.

It's shocking to me still, that children - just because of where they're born - are born into a life of extreme poverty and hunger. Humans, we can survive without a lot of luxuries we are lucky to live with. But the thing we need most is healthy food and clean water. Without that we can't survive and we can't thrive.

I know you can throw holy water on the vampire, but I didn't know you could throw the host." (Sheriff St. John) I had to smile. "They aren't like little holy grenades. I want the host to give to the Quinlans so they can put one at every windowsill, every doorsill." (Anita Blake)

My reaction to everything in life is when it gets a bit complicated to water it down and make it simple again.

Probably, the secret is to be less complicated. We of course love to make complications - look at the way we live. We have this tremendous amount of information, and probably it is really not so necessary. Maybe if you just drink water, you are kind to people and walk a little bit it's all done already. But we cannot resist this sophistication.

Consider the true picture. Think of myriads of tiny bubbles, very sparsely scattered, rising through a vast black sea. We rule some of the bubbles. Of the waters we know nothing.

Customers and contracts are like water and a sieve. The customer will find the largest hole and slide through it.

The fish cannot leave the deep waters. The state's weaponry should not be displayed.

Obscure, like muddy waters.

Nothing on earth is so weak and yielding as water, but for breaking down the firm and strong it has no equal.

There is nothing softer and weaker than water, and yet there is nothing better for attacking hard and strong things.

Who is there who can make muddy waters clear? But if allowed to remain still, it will gradually clear itself.

Water benefits the ten thousand things and does not oppose them.

The best people are like water, which benefits all things and does not compete with them. It stays in lowly places that others reject. This is why it is so similar to the Way.