Fluid Like Water Quotes

#1. We are fluid, like water. Nonsolid, like wind. We drip through the form we created for ourselves, find the cracks and leak out of it.

Anonymous

#2. And when a countryman says the cold freezes water, though the word freezing seems to import some action, yet truly it signifies nothing, but the effect, videlicet that water, that was before fluid, is become hard and consistent, without containing any idea of the action whereby it is done.

John Locke

#3. If you consume too much salt, it can cause water retention. When this happens, your body usually responds by raising your blood pressure to push excess fluid and salt out of your system.

Michael Greger

#4. I listen to other guitar players, yeah. It gives me new concepts and shows me where the instrument is going for the future and it is going some places. There are some musicians who are really putting out a good vibe with new theories. I try and keep up.

George Benson

#5. The soul, light as a feather, fluid as water, innocent as a child, responds to every movement of grace like a floating balloon.

Jean-Pierre De Caussade

#6. A stream cut across the grass, and tree branches flowed low to the ground, like a curtain of green fluid. The sound of the water stressed the silence. The distant cut of open sky made the place seem more hidden. Far above, on the crest of a hill, one tree caught the first rays of sunlight.

Ayn Rand

#7. I always tell people, anger is like liquid. It's fluid, it's like water. You put it in a container and it takes the shape of that container. So many people you see in prison, unleashing war on their people, they are angry, and they take their anger and put it into a violent container.

Leymah Gbowee

#8. We were so mutable, fluid with fear and desire, ideals and angles, changeable as water. I

Janet Fitch

#9. Water is fluid, soft & yielding but water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield ... what is soft is strong.

Lao-Tzu

#10. I had forgotten that time wasn't fixed like concrete but in fact was fluid as sand, or water. I had forgotten that even misery can end.

Joyce Carol Oates

#11. Be as fluid as water, do not give your enemies anything solid to atack

Robert Greene

#12. What made Manhattan Manhattan was the underground infrastructure, that engineering marvel.

Andrew Cuomo

#13. We're afloat in amniotic fluid.' 'How's that?' 'Salt water. It's chemically almost identical with the fluid surrounding an unborn baby.

Frank Herbert

#14. Earth: the things that are solid, absorbed and still.
Water: the things that are fluid, changing and unpredictable.
Wind: the things that shift, evolve and challenge.
Fire: the things that damage, devastate and distroy.
The void: the things that are present through their absence

Elif Shafak

#15. The first time I saw her - my God - it was like I'd never seen another woman in all my life. It was the way she walked that caught my eye. She moved like water: fluid, determined. Everything else blended together in a blur and all I saw was her. The only solid in all that color.

Tarryn Fisher

#16. Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong.

Lao-Tzu

#17. 1995 government shutdown from GOP underestimating Clinton.

Newt Gingrich

#18. The male ego bruises easier than an overripe apricot.

Sarah Tregay

#19. When he played, though - when he played he could liquefy your soul. He walked on water - well, his fingers did - liquid supple and fluid smooth, running, dripping, flowing.

Rabih Alameddine

#20. Lao Tsu says the way of life is water, to be fluid.

Frederick Lenz

#21. Water is poured onto the road as a guest departs, both to make the journey "as smooth and fluid as water" and to ensure their safe return.

Ayse Kulin

#22. We are like water, aren't we? We can be fluid, flexible when we have to be. But strong and destructive, too. And something else, I think to myself. Like water, we mostly follow the path of least resistance.

Wally Lamb

#23. You love the life you've lived because it is yours.

Joyce Carol Oates

#24. The water moves on, a little faster than before, yet still the great river flows. It is as fluid and unpredictable in its moods as it has ever been, but it meanders within familiar banks.

William Dalrymple

#25. I admire people who know they can't sing. There are so many people out there who can't sing, but they think they can, so they sing a lot.

Ellen DeGeneres

#26. Be fluid. Treat each project differently. Be water, man. The best style is no style. Because styles can be figured out. And when you have no style they can't figure you out.

Jay-Z

#27. No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works.

Ulysses S. Grant

#28. Any survival guide will tell you, don't buy a pair of combat boots before any disaster. They'll tear your feet up. Or water - don't bring water with you because it'll tire you out and you'll lose too much fluid. Bring a water pump.

Max Brooks

#29. IF YOUR OPPONENT strikes with fire, counter with water, becoming completely fluid and free-flowing. Water, by its nature, never collides with or breaks against anything. On the contrary, it swallows up any attack harmlessly.

Morihei Ueshiba

#30. Time can be as fluid as water, and never in the way you'd like; it slows down to a standstill when you wish you could get things over with, and rushes by in a blur when you wish things would last.

Nenia Campbell

#31. To prepare for the mountains develop mind, body, will and spirit as strong as a sword, soft as a pillow and fluid as water.

Jeffrey Rasley

#32. Water creates a neurosis in golfers. The very thought of this harmless fluid robs them of their normal powers of rational thought, turns their legs to jelly, and produces a palsy of the upper limbs.

Peter Dobereiner

#33. Wei cleared his throat and said, "Have you heard the saying 'The wise adapt themselves to circumstances, as water molds itself to the pitcher'? It seems I've been the pitcher most of my life. I've forgotten how to be fluid. It feels as if I'm finally learning now," he said.

Gail Tsukiyama

#34. The resource allocation task of top management has received too much attention when compared to the task of resource leverage.

C. K. Prahalad

#35. I hated labels anyway. People didn't fit in slots
prostitute, housewife, saint
like sorting the mail. We were so mutable, fluid with fear and desire, ideals and angles, changeable as water.

Janet Fitch