Water Quotes - Page 60

Though I cannot flee from the world of corruption, I can prepare tea with water from a mountain stream and put my heart to rest

I'm quite good at water skiing. Dave Clark, from the 1960s band Dave Clark Five, taught me how to water ski in Spain one year. I can do jumps too. I used to go to a club in Heathrow, but I don't do it any more, as it's given me a bad back. I was brought up in Poole, Dorset, so I've always loved watersports.

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.

The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water, and yet thirsty.

Reasoning with a drunkard is like Going under water with a torch to seek for a drowning man.

When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery and filth.

This is the key. If you get into deep water with these substances, this is true of psilocybin as well, you don't want to clench, you don't want to assume the fetal position and stop breathing. You want to sit up straight and breathe, and sing, and sing it back, and it will step back. You can take control of your situation ... most of the time.

Time is a topological manifold. It is a surface. Events flow across it like water over land and like water flowing over land, when the land is flat, the water becomes reflective and moves slowly. When the landscape becomes disrupted, the water moves faster and chaotic attractors appear and new kinds of activity emerge and out of that new activity, there comes the new states that define the future.

Those who never sail stormy waters are the quickest and harshest judges of bad seamanship.

Water is the key to dealing with the twin challenges of poverty and growth.

It's a perfectly human instinct to want to be near water.

There's an inherent limit to the stress that any material can bear. Water has its boiling point, metals their melting points. The elements of the spirit behave the same way. Happiness can reach a pitch so great that any further happiness can't be felt. Pain, despair, humiliation, disgust, and fear are no different. Once the vessel is full, the world can't add to it.

The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.

After hitting two balls into the water- By God, I've got a good mind to jump in and make it four.

If you've never met a student from the University of Chicago, I'll describe him to you. If you give him a glass of water, he says, 'This is a glass of water. But is it a glass of water? And if it is a glass of water, why is it a glass of water?' And eventually he dies of thirst.

It doesn't bother me to talk about my private life, it doesn't bother me to talk about anything. My life is like a glass of water, transparent.

The Great Way has no gate. Clear water has no taste. The tongue has no bone. In complete stillness, a stone girl is dancing.

There's a lot of stress involved when your house is underwater.

Teachers are reservoirs from which, through the process of education, students draw the water of life.

Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.

A victim of the use of water as a beverage.

Polar bears can swim 100 miles. They aren't like us. We might be 'stranded' on an ice floe if there's no land nearby, and we had no helicopter and no jet ski. We might be in trouble, but they're polar bears, and they can live in icy cold water by design. They love it.

Ponder deep wisdom, dark or clear, Each secret fishy hope or fear. Fish say, they have their Stream and Pond; But is there anything Beyond? This life cannot be All, they swear, For how unpleasant, if it were! One may not doubt that, somehow, Good Shall come of Water and of Mud; And, sure, the reverent eye must see A Purpose in Liquidity.

Inside of us, there's a continual autumn. Our leaves fall and are blown out over the water.

If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it.