Water Quotes - Page 96

Slater soaks into the mind as water into low and marshy places, where it becomes stagnant and offensive.

The Thames was all gold. God it was beautiful, so fine that I began working a frenzy, following the sun and its reflections on the water.

Truth is what every man sees lurking at the bottom of his own soul, like the oyster shell housewives put in the kitchen kettle to collect the lime from the water. By and by each man's iridescent oyster shell of Truth becomes coated with the lime of prejudice and hearsay.

I couldn't imagine not having clean water.

Happiness is like water. We’re always trying to grab onto it, but it’s always slipping between our fingers

We do not own the freshness of the air or the sparkle of the water. How can you buy them from us?

In the shallow parts of many Swiss lakes, where there is a depth of no more than from 5 to 15 feet of water, ancient wooden piles are observed at the bottom sometimes worn down to the surface of the mud, sometimes projecting slightly above it.

In order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water before we trust it with wine.

I went to the bathroom and threw some water on my face, combed my hair. If I could only comb that face, I thought, but I can't.

Don't drink fluoridated water...Fluoride is a corrosive poison which will produce harm on a long term basis.

Remember this when you are queen,” he whispered hoarsely. “I moved the earth and the water for you.

But maybe you never really had someone, she thought now. Maybe, no matter how much you loved them, they could slip through your fingers like water, and there was nothing you could do about it.

Americans deserve both clean air and clean water and never one at the expense of the other.

Poetry is a plan for a slit in the face of a bronze fountain goat and the path of fresh drinking water.

a women is like a tea bag.it's only when she is in hot water that you realize how strong she is.

To every bushel of the powdered cement add one bushel of sand, mix them together and pass them through a sieve, then add a sufficient quantity of water to make it (by well mixing and working) about the consistency of a soft putty. It is then fit to use but should not be kept more than six or eight hours and should be thoroughly worked just before it is used.

The foundation of youth for me...lots of water, lots of laughter, lots of sex.

Ah, you've come over the water. Powerful wet stuff, ain't it?

Once you were a child. Once you knew what inquiry was for. There was a time when you asked questions because you wanted answers, and were glad when you had found them. Become a child again, even now... You have gone wrong. Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth.

'I haven't used the veto pen very often since I've been in office,' Obama told NPR. 'Now, I suspect there are going to be some times where I've got to pull that pen out. And I'm going to defend gains that we've made in healthcare; I'm going to defend gains that we've made on the environment and clean air and clean water.'

Conscience. That stuff can drive you nuts.

Trying to make bits uncopyable is like trying to make water not wet. The sooner people accept this, and build business models that take this into account, the sooner people will start making money again.

Digital files cannot be made uncopyable, any more than water can be made not wet.

What's the point of washing off your ball when teeing off on a water hole?

It is difficult to find anything more healthy to drink than good cold water, such as flows down to us from springs and snows of our mountains. This is the beverage we should drink. It should be our drink at all times.