Water Quotes - Page 36

Just as ripples radiate from the place where a stone is thrown into a pool of water, our sometime-unconscious thoughts, feelings, emotions, and beliefs create the “disturbances” in the field that become the blueprints for our lives.

I'm a bit like a sponge. When I'm not writing I absorb life like water. When I write I squeeze the sponge a little - and out comes, not water but ink.

In Liberia, our main obstacle is infrastructure: the lights, the water, the roads. Companies can't operate without those things. And even though we have commitments from our partners, it takes time to turn commitments into cash.

When a cupboard is full to overflowing and the doors are opened up, that which is within comes tumbling out and nothing can stop it. When floodgates are opened, the water rushes forth with tremendous power and force, carrying all before it. So with the

Sometimes that is why you might even stay in the bathroom for even half an hour, making that water running all over, just singing.

The need for love and intimacy is a fundamental human need, as primal as the need for food, water, and air.

As poet-philosopher Rabindranath Tagore reminds us, "We cannot cross the sea merely by staring at the water." Simplicity has power. And living on purpose comes to this: Just do it. How much simpler can we get?

You will never know God's strength until He has supported you in deep waters.

When you give in to aversion and anger, it’s as though, having decided to kill someone by throwing him into a river, you wrap your arms around his neck, jump into the water with him, and you both drown. In destroying your enemy, you destroy yourself as well.

For when the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through places without water, seeking rest; and not finding. . .

Getting information from the internet is like getting a glass of water from the Niagara Falls.

It required 85 parts by weight of oxygen and 15 parts of hydrogen to compose 100 parts of water.

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.

All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts. . . The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: the land.

Nuclear power is one hell of a way to boil water

The harder we try to catch hold of the moment, to seize a pleasant sensation..., the more elusive it becomes... It is like trying to clutch water in one's hands - the harder one grips, the faster it slips through one's fingers.

Of all the works of civilization that interfere with the natural water distribution system, irrigation has been by far the most pervasive and powerful.

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.

The best advice I can give for playing a ball out of water is - don't.

Fish play in the water birds play in the sky ordinary beings play on the earth sublime beings play in display.

I've become more like water, I'm more relaxed and I'll say, "Okay, let's just completely change it and do it that way."

I like to fill my tub up with water, then turn the shower on and act like I'm in a submarine that's been hit .

All you really need in life is some fresh water, a good hat, and a really good pair of shoes.

I ordered a soda - caffeine-free, low sodium, no artificial flavors. They brought me a glass of water.

Places matter. Their rules, their scale, their design include or exclude civil society, pedestrianism, equality, diversity (economic and otherwise), understanding of where water comes from and garbage goes, consumption or conservation. They map our lives.