Potable Quotes

#1. And of course you want the days to add up to something more than you came in and out of the sun and drank the potable water of your developed world

Claudia Rankine

#2. A soul which is conversant with virtue is like an ever flowing source, for it is pure and tranquil and potable and sweet and communicative (social) and rich and harmless and free from mischief.

Epictetus

#3. 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.

Ambrose Bierce

#4. Don't tell me Kinshasa, the poorest city in the poorest country in the world, a place where the average per capita income is one goat bell, two bootleg Michael Jackson cassette tapes, and three sips of potable water per year, thinks we're too poor to associate with.

Paul Beatty

#5. The value of land must, in the future, be assessed on its yield of potable water. Those property-owners with a constant source of pure water already have an economically-valuable "product" from their land, and need look no further for a source of income.

Bill Mollison

#6. O, undoubtedly yes, and very potable so, but one who deeper thinks will always bear in the baccbuccus of his mind that this downright there you are and there it is is only all in his eye. Why?

James Joyce

#7. Tobacco, divine, rare superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all panaceas, potable gold and philosopher's stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases.

Robert A. Burton

#8. Five million people die unnecessarily each year because of illness related to lack of potable water. Half of them are children under the age of five. To bring it home, think about this: one child dies from lack of clean water every twelve seconds.

Thomas M. Kostigen

#9. The world is full of opportunities - every day there's something new that you can do. For example, you could make dirty water potable. Why does anyone not have potable water? Because it's a problem that hasn't been solved yet, but it can be.

Ursula Burns

#10. Per capita availability of good, potable water is diminishing in all developed and developing countries.

Marq De Villiers

#11. The ultimate dwindling resource in the human arrangement isn't cheap oil or potable water or even common sense, but mercy.

Cheryl Strayed

#12. Do you pay regular visits to yourself? Don't argue or answer rationally. Let us die, and dying, reply.

Rumi

#13. Except for its backward compatibility with existing Wii software and accessories, we have so far failed to make propositions worthy of Wii U's position as a successor to the Wii system.

Satoru Iwata

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Alexander McCall Smith

#15. Unfortunately when I start to talk or when someone watches over my shoulders my pencil either stops or I draw meaningless lines.

E. J. Hughes

#16. People differ in their proficiency at tracing the outlines of another self, and thus their ability to love also varies. (207)

Thomas Lewis

#17. The East Germans first used biomechanics. This meant that rather than guessing about technique and form, they could apply changes to athletic performance based on science.

Bill Toomey

#18. The worst, the very worst requirement of friendship, in Eve Dallas's opinion, was sitting through an entire evening of childbirth classes.
What went on there
the sights, the sounds, the assault on all the senses
turned the blood cold.

J.D. Robb

#19. If you win, you need not have to explain ... If you lose, you should not be there to explain!

Adolf Hitler

#20. You want to know a little about a lot was

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#21. I'd thought to protect Nate from monsters, but I forgot they came in human form, too.

Karen Lynch

#22. A scholar has to know a little of everything.

Jules Verne

#23. Metadata equals surveillance; it's that simple.

Bruce Schneier

#24. A five minute call replaces the time it takes to read and reply to the original email and read and reply to their reply ... or replies. And I no longer spend 20+ minutes crafting the perfect email - no need to.

Simon Sinek