Quotes About Potable Water

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

Cheryl Strayed

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

Marq De Villiers

#3. 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

#4. 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

#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. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. Faith was intended precisely for the simple, but the quest for certainty and simplicity becomes dangerous when it leads to fanaticism and narrow-mindedness. When reason as such becomes suspect, then faith itself becomes falsified.

Pope Benedict XVI

#10. Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.

Norman Cousins

#11. Sen. Edward Kennedy knows very directly. Senator Kennedy and I talked on several occasions prior to the war that my view was that the best evidence that I had seen was that Iraq indeed had weapons of mass destruction.

David Kay

#12. This acting's serious! And I really respect those actors. It's a tough business to be able to be something you're not and be natural and convince people on camera.

Michael Strahan

#13. God gives everyone the same amount of talent. It's just up to you to korek (dig).

Yasmin Ahmad

#14. Hey, boss? (Vik)
Not now, Vik. (Syn)
Dude, listen to the metallic life form. (Vik)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#15. Yes, this Purusha consciousness must be maintained; otherwise the calm will not last. The knocks and blows that come from outside cannot disturb one, if this Purusha consciousness remains at the back.

Sri Aurobindo

#16. I was raised around music.

Scott Porter

#17. Just look at the fellow, standing there like a bloody Greek god. Do you think she chose him because of his intellect?

Lisa Kleypas

#18. Third, we could, while denouncing them both as illegal, have acquiesced in them both and thus remained neutral with both sides, although not agreeing with either as to the righteousness of their respective orders.

George William Norris

#19. Marriage is a triumph of habit over hate.

Oscar Levant

#20. It is easy to be hopeful in the day when you can see the things you wish on.

Zora Neale Hurston

#21. Nothing, absolutely nothing, enters my life that isn't caused or allowed by God and filtered first through His loving hands for the purpose of making me more like Jesus.

Robin Lee

#22. Welfare has destroyed the African-American family by telling young black women that husbands and fathers are unnecessary and obsolete. ... We have incentivized fornication rather than marriage, and it's no wonder we are now awash in the disastrous social consequences of people who rut like rabbits.

Bryan Fischer