Polluted River Quotes

#1. in truth man is polluted river. one must be a sea to receive a polluted river without becoming defiled.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#2. The trouble is that when most people are apathetic ordinary people ... have to go too far, have to ruin their lives and be made an object of scorn just to get the point across. Did they really think I'd rather be camping by a polluted river than sitting in my own flat with my things about me?

Jeanette Winterson

#3. At some point, don't voters start to see all of public life as one big polluted river? And if they do, don't they stop saying things like "That's a busted tire floating by" and "That's an old shoe"?

Peggy Noonan

#4. In truth, man is a polluted river. One must be a sea to receive a polluted river without becoming defiled. I bring you the Superman! He is that sea; in him your great contempt can be submerged.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#5. Only when the last tree is cut; only when the last river is polluted; only when the last fish is caught; only then will they realize that you cannot eat money." The Cree Indians

Terry Ross

#6. I am blessed to have been born in Australia where water sports are loved and swimmers are revered.

Shane Gould

#7. Acheron is the Greek Underworld river, timelessly flowing beneath Middle World consciousness, circulating through our bloodstreams in varying states from polluted to pristine. Freud was fond of this line from Virgil's Aeneid: "If I cannot bend the gods, then I shall stir up Acheron.

Mary Trainor-Brigham

#8. The fact is that men who know nothing of decency in their own lives are only too ready to launch foul slanders against their betters and to offer them up as victims to the evil deity of popular envy.

Plutarch

#9. When you look through the window of hate, you are really looking in the Devil's mirror.

Jack Byrne

#10. I'm a werewolf, not a golden retriever. (Luke/Lucian)

Cassandra Clare

#11. Watching him, I understood for the first time how you could really live music, how you could listen to it completely and make it come alive, so that it was part of your life.

Eric Clapton

#12. What's happening on the Colorado River is happening all over the world. The water is overused, overdammed, and it's polluted in some places.

Greg MacGillivray

#13. Never judge any person by his answers or questions but by his nature of character solely.

Anuj

#14. A river of images and thoughts and feelings, dirtied and polluted so that no one could drink from it without gagging.

Barry Lyga

#15. Although the United States has made tremendous progress cleaning up its water by removing billions of pounds of pollutants and doubling the number of waterways safe for fishing and swimming, a majority of Americans live within 10 miles of a polluted lake, river, stream or coastal area.

Carol Browner

#16. The man in the water saw the eye of the man on the bridge gazing into his own through the sights of the rifle. He observed that it was a gray eye and remembered having read that gray eyes were keenest, and that all famous markmen had them. Nevertheless,

Ambrose Bierce

#17. Charity and good-nature give a sanction to the most common actions; and pride and ill-nature make our best virtues despicable.

William Wycherley

#18. The English language is like a broad river on whose bank a few patient anglers are sitting, while, higher up, the stream is being polluted by a string of refuse-barges tipping out their muck.

Cyril Connolly

#19. Gratitude and treachery are merely the two extremities of the same procession. You have seen all of it that is worth staying for when the band and the gaudy officials have gone by.

Mark Twain

#20. I hardly exaggerate. Jewish life consists of two elements: Extracting money and protesting.

Nahum Goldmann

#21. In general, comedians are attracted to vice.

Natasha Leggero

#22. He dreamed at one point in his slumbers of New York. In his dream he was walking late at night along the East Side, beside the river which had become so extravagantly polluted that new lifeforms were now emerging from it spontaneously, demanding welfare and voting rights.

Douglas Adams

#23. It is the heart that makes the critic, not the nose.

Max Muller

#24. It's so much easier and cheaper to keep the river uncontaminated in the first place than it is to clean it up again once it's been polluted.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#25. Music speaks of Platonic truth - the ideal river rather than the polluted reality, love as we dream it rather than we experience it, grief noble and uplifting rather than our distracted weeping. It is necessary to our survival and our sanity.

Pam Brown

#26. In our culture it is a woman's body which is considered important while it is a man's mind or his activities which are valued. A woman is sexy. A man is successful.

Alleen Pace Nilsen

#27. The thought of hurting him ripped me apart. Ripped me so totally, that I knew, I cared more for him than I did myself.

Samantha Young